Beautiful latrodectus (or i think its a latro)

[Vidaro]

Found this big girl under a rock with about 3 egg sacks.
I immediatly thought latro but im not sure since ive never really delt with true spiders anyone care to enlighten me?

Was found in Cyprus

Here are some picture of her.







and here is one with the eggsacks


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[Malhavoc's]

think its a steatoda. not a lactro.

 

[Rue]

It is very pretty! Whatever it is!

 

[Tarantula_Hawk]

It's an old Steatoda paykulliana female. Nice pics.

 

[Vidaro]

thnx for the replies fellows, i had my suspicions about the latro guess but thank god for ab

 

[Moltar]

They are easy to confuse if you don't know what to look for. This is the second picture I've seen in this forum this week of beautiful Steotodas from other parts of the world than the US. This can be a very beautiful genus but apparently all of the Eastern US species are basic black (brown really). Nice find!

 

[John Apple]

It's an old Steatoda paykulliana female. Nice pics.

right on man

 

[Vidaro]

yeah apparently some of the species in the genus are commonly known as "false black widows"

 

[Widowman10]

yeppers! pretty spider.

 

[buthus]

Definitely Steatoda.
Could be paykulliana ...though! I and many others tend to ID every big, colorfully marked Steatoda as that ...yet, we gotta realize that there are other species (even here in the US) that DO have red/orange/yellow markings.

 

[Pssh]

There is this one neatly patterned species that is in the Northeast:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/48950

 

[Tarantula_Hawk]

It's the only Mediterranean Steatoda species with similiar striking markings, as well as being the only species reported for Cyprus.

 

[Moltar]

There is this one neatly patterned species that is in the Northeast:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/48950

Ah, yes. Very nice but still no bright colorings. It's almost as though bright colors are reserved for things that are venomous and tropical.