Latrodectus bishopi
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| Latrodectus bishopi (Fabricius, 1775) |
Latrodectus bishopi is the scientific name for the Red Widow Spider, which is found only in select parts of Florida. The Red Widow has a red-orange cephalothorax, and its abdomen is black with yellow rings outlining the rows of red spots. On its underside, it does not have the familiar hourglass marking, but a small red bar. It is venomous like the other widow spiders, but is not found normally in the Northeast. It is one of the many different kinds of Arachnids and is in Kingdom Animalia. It lives underneath palmetto leaves, primarily in sand pine scrub, a type of vegetation found only in peninsular Florida.
