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Red widow

Latrodectus bishopi

Ne din ho asɛm: The name bishopi honours Marshall B. Bishop, who collected the specimens used to describe the spider.1

Ɛyɛ yaw kɛkɛƐyɛ yaw, nanso ɛrenpira wo kɛseɛ.

Ananse

KaƆdi: Nam

Asiane ma nnipa: Ɛyɛ yawƐtumi yɛ yaw paa, nanso ɛkame ayɛ sɛ ɛnyɛ asiane kɛseɛ da.

The red widow is a venomous spider that lives only in Florida, in the dry, sandy scrub where sand pine trees grow. It is a close relative of the black widow, but it rarely comes into contact with people, so it is not often met. Its bright red colours make it easy to recognise.1

Ɔte

Central and southern Florida, USA1

Amerika Atifi

Fie

It lives mainly in sand-pine scrub, which is inland areas of dry sand dunes covered in sand pine trees. It builds most of its webs in palmetto bushes, at least 30 cm above the ground. It seldom comes into contact with humans.1

Tenten

4 cm (1,6 in)3

ɔpanin kɛseɛ a ɛtaa yɛ

Ntɛm a ɛsen biara

bɛyɛ 0,98 km/h (0,61 mph)

Asaase so, susuo kɛkɛ

Ɛdi deɛn?

It is a predator of the insect Hemisphaerota cyanea. It catches prey in its tangled webs, then retreats to a funnel-shaped hideaway below.1

Red widow mfonini — Red widow. Mfonini: Stevenklioze00. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Sɛdeɛ wobɛhunu no

The cephalothorax (the front part of the body) is red-orange.1
The abdomen is black, with yellow rings outlining rows of red spots.1
The legs are vermilion red.1
The underside does not have the familiar hourglass marking. It usually has one or two small red marks instead.1
Females are almost double the size of males.1

Wɔtaa fa no sɛ: It is closely related to the black widow (Latrodectus mactans). The two can be told apart by features of the male and female genitalia, which are examined under magnification. The red widow's male embolus has one fewer loop, and the female's connecting ducts to the spermatheca also have one fewer loop.1

Bɔre ahoɔden

Bɔre fi ne se mu ba bere a ɔka.

Ne bɔre yɛ dɛn?

The red widow is venomous like other members of the genus Latrodectus. In a documented bite, the main effect was a mildly painful throbbing sensation that lasted several hours. The median lethal dose (LD50) of its venom in mice is 2.20 mg/kg, and each spider contains about 0.157 mg of venom.1

Ne asiane ma nnipa te sɛn?

Asiane ma nnipa: Ɛyɛ yawƐtumi yɛ yaw paa, nanso ɛkame ayɛ sɛ ɛnyɛ asiane kɛseɛ da.

No bites from this spider are recorded in the medical literature. It seldom comes into contact with humans, unlike the black and brown widows, which live close to people. One documented bite caused a mildly painful throbbing that lasted several hours.1

Sɛ ɛka a

Hohoro baabi a ɛkaa no na fa ice pack hyɛ so ma yaw no. Hwehwɛ dɔkota mmoa sɛ yaw no mu yɛ den, ɛtrɛtrɛw anaa onipa no ho ntɔ no a.

Di kan frɛ wo ahohiahia nɔma (112, 000, 911). Yei yɛ mmoa a ɛdi kan ho akwankyerɛ, ɛnyɛ dɔkota afotuo. Mmoa a ɛdi kan ho nsɛm titiriw

Hwɛ wo ho so

Mfa wo nsa nka wiram aboa biara, nkyere no na mfa no nni agorɔ, sɛ ɔyɛ ketewa mpo, na sɛ ɛte sɛ ɔrededa anaa wawu mpo a.
Ma no kwan. Sɛ wohyia baako a, ma wo bo nnwo, san w'akyi brɛoo na ma ɔnkɔ ne kwan.
Sɛ baako ka wo a: ma wo bo nnwo, tena dinn, frɛ wo ahohiahia nɔma (112, 000, 911) anaa kɔ ayaresabea ntɛm. Kae sɛdeɛ na ɛte, mfonini bɛboa.

Ɛnhwehwɛ wo sɛ ɛbɛpira wo. Ɛde ne bɔre kyere aduane anaa ɛbɔ ne ho ban, na ɛpɛ sɛ ɛhinta sene biribiara. Nsɛm pii fa ahobammɔ ho

Wiase mu baabi bɛn?

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Ne kɛseɛ te sɛn?

Ne tenten te sɛn?

ne tenten bɛyɛ sɛ paper clip

Red widow kɛseɛ te sɛn sɛ wode toto WO ho a?

Akontabuo kɛkɛ wɔ wo browser mu. Wɔnkora hwee, na wɔmfa hwee nkɔ baabiara.

Ne ntɛm te sɛn?

Akyekyedeɛ bɛyɛ 0,3 km/h (0,19 mph)

Red widow bɛyɛ 0,98 km/h (0,61 mph)

Onipa a ɔrenante bɛyɛ 5 km/h (3,1 mph)

ɛho hia sɛ wohunu

Nsɛm

A bite was filmed and documented in 2023 by biologist Spencer Hoffman, one of the few recorded bites from this species.1

Females are almost double the size of males.1

Its predators are thought to include sphecid wasps and the Florida scrub jay.1

It lives in sand-pine scrub, a habitat found only in Florida and coastal Alabama.1

Atosɛm sɛefoɔ

Atosɛm: All widow spiders have the hourglass marking on the underside.

Nokorɛ: The red widow does not have the familiar hourglass marking. It usually has one or two small red marks instead.1

Ma bɔre ho animdefoɔ

Nyansahu din: Latrodectus bishopi
Kuo: Ananse
Abusua: Theridiidae2
Nhyehyɛeɛ (Order): Araneae
Asaase akɛseɛ: Amerika Atifi
Mmofra nketewa: The spider stores its egg sacs in its funnel-shaped retreat.1
Sɛdeɛ ɔte wɔ kwaem: Threatened (in the United States)1
Asiane ma nnipa: 2 / 5: Ɛyɛ yaw3

Baabi a nsɛm no fi

Latrodectus bishopi (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Latrodectus bishopi (iNaturalist): din ne nkyekyɛmu.
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