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Red widow

Latrodectus bishopi

Malunga negama: The name bishopi honours Marshall B. Bishop, who collected the specimens used to describe the spider.1

Kubuhlungu njeKubuhlungu, kodwa akusayi kukwenzakalisa kakhulu.

Izigcawu

UkulumaSitya: Inyama

Ingozi ebantwini: KubuhlunguKunokuba buhlungu ngokwenene, kodwa phantse akusoze kube kubi kakhulu.

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

Sihlala

Central and southern Florida, USA1

uMntla Melika

Ekhaya

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

Ubude

4 cm (1,6 in)3

ubungakanani obuqhelekileyo besilwanyana esikhulileyo

Esona santya siphezulu

malunga ne-0,98 km/h (0,61 mph)

Emhlabeni, uqikelelo nje

Sitya ntoni?

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

Ifoto ka-Red widow — Red widow. Ifoto: Stevenklioze00. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

Indlela yokusiqaphela

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

Sidla ngokubhidaniswa no: 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

Amandla etyhefu yokuluma nokuhlaba

Ukuluma

Ityhefu iphuma ngamazinyo aso etyhefu okanye ngamazinyo aso xa siluma.

Ityhefu yaso yokuluma okanye yokuhlaba yenza ntoni?

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

Siyingozi kangakanani ebantwini?

Ingozi ebantwini: KubuhlunguKunokuba buhlungu ngokwenene, kodwa phantse akusoze kube kubi kakhulu.

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

Ukuba siyaluma

Hlamba indawo elunyiweyo uze ubeke ipakethi yomkhenkce kuyo ngenxa yeentlungu. Fumana uncedo lwezonyango ukuba iintlungu zinamandla, ziyasasazeka okanye umntu uziva engaphilanga kakuhle.

Soloko utsalela inombolo kaxakeka kuqala (112, 000, 911). Esi sisikhokelo soncedo lokuqala ngokubanzi, asilocebiso lwezonyango. Iziseko zoncedo lokuqala

Hlala ukhuselekile

Ungaze uchukumise, ubambe okanye uqhule isilwanyana sasendle, nokuba sincinci, kwaye nokuba sibonakala silele okanye sifile.
Sinike indawo. Ukuba udibana naso, hlala uzolile, buyela umva kancinci kwaye usiyeke sihambe ngendlela yaso.
Ukuba siyakuluma: hlala uzolile, musa ukushukuma, tsalela inombolo kaxakeka (112, 000, 911) okanye uye esibhedlele ngokukhawuleza. Khumbula ukuba sasikhangeleka njani, ifoto iyanceda.

Asikuzingeli. Sisebenzisa ityhefu yaso ukubamba ukutya okanye ukuzikhusela, kwaye singakhetha ukuzimela. Okungakumbi malunga nokuhlala ukhuselekile

Phi emhlabeni?

IAfrika IAsiya IYurophu uMntla Melika uMzantsi Melika IOstreliya neOceania

Sikhulu kangakanani?

Side kangakanani?

malunga nobude besiqhobosho sephepha

U-Red widow mkhulu kangakanani xa uthelekisa NAWE?

Zizibalo nje kwibhrawuza yakho. Akukho nto igcinwayo okanye ithunyelwa naphi na.

Sikhawuleza kangakanani?

Ufudo malunga ne-0,3 km/h (0,19 mph)

Red widow malunga ne-0,98 km/h (0,61 mph)

Umntu ohambayo malunga ne-5 km/h (3,1 mph)

kufanelekile ukwazi

Iinyaniso

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

Umqhekezi weentsomi

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

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

Kwiingcali zetyhefu

Igama lenzululwazi: Latrodectus bishopi
Iqela: Izigcawu
Usapho: Theridiidae2
Ucwangco: Araneae
Amazwekazi: uMntla Melika
Iintsana: The spider stores its egg sacs in its funnel-shaped retreat.1
Imeko yaso endle: Threatened (in the United States)1
Ingozi ebantwini: 2 / 5: Kubuhlungu3

Apho iinyaniso zivela khona

Latrodectus bishopi (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
Latrodectus bishopi (iNaturalist): amagama nokuhlelwa.
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