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What is the difference between the Southern and Western Black Widow?
What difference between the Southern Black Widow (Latrodectus mactans) and the Western Black Widow (Latrodectus hesperus)? I know their geographic ranges tend to be different, but I've heard of them overlapping.
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- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
A poisonous New World spider (Latrodectus mactans), the female of which produces extremely toxic venom and has a black shiny body with red markings.
[From the fact that the female eats only rarely eats the male after mating, .]
southern populations of L. hesperus may be incipient biological species. .... edges of cob webs overlapping
Source(s): net - JRRLv 51 decade ago
- Anonymous1 decade ago
The southern one speaks with a more pronounced drawl than the western. Sorry, had to, I have know idea.
- BWANALv 61 decade ago
I do not believe their territories overlap, but anything is possible.
The exact differences would have to be learned from an Arachnid taxonomist. I suggest you go to the library. That's what it's for.
Source(s): Professional Wildlife Cinematographer, Photographer, & Naturalist. Director Of Photography Special Visual Effects.
