Does the spider have a red/orange/yellow marking or hourglass on the underside of it's abdomen? Because this spider is large enough for that evident marking to be present. Otherwise I am not entirely sure it's a Widow.
There should be L.hesperus and maybe even L.variolus in Oklahoma. But the marking is quite evident in young spiderlings. L.variolus can be a single triangle or square or incomplete hourglass, L.hesperus can have a complete to nearly complete hourglass.
But some foreign species such as Africa's L.indistinctus don't have a marking on the underside of the abdomen but rather on the dorsal near the spinnerets.
Color patternation varies widely. They are related to Latrodectus but are not know to be dangerous.
I have let these guy colonize my bug room. They do an excellent job of catching most flying pests that manage to get in there as well and most pinhead and other small escaped crickets.
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