Very rarely, it is variable by location/population, and it’s never nearly as pronounced as the hasselti. Whenever I’ve seen posts like these over the years it’s nearly always a picture of an immature female… I have seen some tiny hints of white carry into the adult stage of hesperus too, but...
I wish my site was still up too! I should get on that, sorry all...
EDIT: I believe I got it back up and working again.
DISCLAIMER: I haven't made any edits to it in many, many years :)
Google sites, and Photobucket - oh how I date myself with those...
Thanks man!
This was such a great article, I very much enjoyed reading it!! And those images, are you kidding me?!
What an incredible find, and an amazing spider. Love the notes that state it was predominantly found higher up (80+ cm), and the coloration looks quite different than the others...
a couple of thoughts to add:
1) I kept several small vials in the freezer with adult female Latros in them. Granted it was in the freezer, but everything was preserved perfectly - abdomen, color, etc. It was interesting to take them out (briefly!) every once in awhile to refresh my memory.
2)...
I have seen many different Latro species in the trade over the years. They seem to come in waves (maybe from imports?) and then disappear. I also know of a few people that keep the exotic species, but don't post or check in very regularly here. If you can snag them when they pop up, and keep...
Right on! Thx @The Snark :cigar:
I put quite a bit of work into finding those values, but I'm not sure I saved the sources or could recall exactly where I found all of them. I remember reading differing reports of values as well, so I went with the more trusted/recent studies for those values...
@Krystal Anne you're absolutely right - roughly 3 years. You could probably stretch it just a little further if you cooled them and slowed things down just a little. :)
I apologize for the image fail (it's been several years since I've updated the page and checked the image links), but there is some info here on predation of Latrodectus sp.:
https://sites.google.com/site/widowman10/predation-of-widows
I definitely have, but (as usual) there is a lot of variation. Seen everything from the typical solid hourglass to no hourglass at all. I even remember one that was really asymmetrical (left to right, not top to bottom), as if there was some sort of deformity almost. That one was unique. But you...
Could you post a few good pictures of the eggsac? That might help as hesperus and variolus have fairly different eggsacs both in shape and color.
Also: pictures of the slings might be helpful as well. Variolus differ from mactans in both patterning and color (not that I think it's a mactans...
Interesting. I have almost no experience with the Central/South American widows besides pictures and literature. I'm not sure how often mature curacaviensis retain white markings (on top of the abdomen). I know full well how variation in coloring and patterns work in Latrodectus, but the...
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