Is This Steatoda grossa? ID Please.

[davidbarber1]

Hey All, is this Steatoda?

David

 

[jsloan]

Looks more like Latrodectus to me.

 

[John Apple]

it's a widow

 

[toolrick]

Looks like L. Geometricus.
Just a guess.

Ricardo

 

[Spider-Spazz]

More like a male widow to me.
I had one!

 

[Elleken]

I don't notice any enlarged palps on it. It could just be juvenile widow colors.

Also looks a bit large for male. I could always be wrong, but it seems that way to me.

 

[spydrhunter1]

I don't notice palps either..and colors are a little to bright for a geometricus.

 

[Moltar]

Nah, I'm pretty sure MM widows have like, no back at all (skinny butt). Don't immature widows have patterns like this? Perhaps it's an immature L. variolus or L. hesperus? (or mactans?) I get them mixed up... not really a widow guy here.

 

[Irks]

immature Lactrodectus female. When it molts again species should be more obvious.

 

[chris_vegas]

I'm sure Widowman will eventualy clear it up once and for all...but I have a very similar Juvenile Latrodectus female...I've also kept Steatoda and that's not any Steatoda I've seen...

 

[spydrhunter1]

Male hesperus

male mactans

immature mactans

immature hesperus

 

[buthus]

"sub-adult" (1 or 2 molts to go) L. hesperus female.

 

[Widowman10]

I'm sure Widowman will eventualy clear it up once and for all

man, what happened while i was gone?! geez, took like 9 posts to clear this one up :wall:

and yeah, it's a subadult female hesperus, prob 2 molts left, as buthus said.

good pics spydrhunter1. thanks.

"sub-adult" (1 or 2 molts to go) L. hesperus female.

 

[Spider-Spazz]

I don't notice any enlarged palps on it. It could just be juvenile widow colors.

Also looks a bit large for male. I could always be wrong, but it seems that way to me.

Its funny, i had him in the same cage as my female widow, and they bred. I notice the picture shows little or no palps, but I saw some, and he bred! The female made a nice egg sac too