First Records of Black Widow Spider Latrodectus Walckenaer (Araneae: Theridiidae) in Oman

Ali Al-Jahdhami; Ali Al-Raeesi; Said Al-Rashdi

doi:10.12741/ebrasilis.v15.e1007

Authors

Ali Al-Jahdhami Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Water Resource, Samed Ashan, Oman https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1204-0491
Ali Al-Raeesi Sultan Qaboos University, Al Khoud, As Seeb, Oman https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5695-8160
Said Al-Rashdi National Filed Research Center, Alkhwair, Muscat, Oman https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6042-0002

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12741/ebrasilis.v15.e1007

Keywords:

Black Widow Spider, record, distribution, Arabian Peninsula, Oman

Abstract

The present communication deals with a faunistic study on two species of Latrodectus Walckenaer with medically important issues from Oman. Several specimens of Latrodectus have been collected at various localities in Sultanate of Oman. This study records two species of Latrodectus from Oman, of which Latrodectus cinctus Blackwall only from northern Oman and Latrodectus geometricus C.L. Koch from both northern and southern Oman.

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