Latrodectus elegans

Latrodectus elegans is a species of black widow spider,[1][2][3][4] found in India and East Asia. It was first collected in the Carin Cheba mountains in Myanmar, Thailand[5] but is also found in India, China and Japan.[6]

Latrodectus elegans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Theridiidae
Genus:	Latrodectus
Species:	L. elegans
Binomial name
Latrodectus elegans Thorell, 1898

References

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3. "Latrodectus elegans Thorell, 1898". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 14 October 2012.
4. "Latrodectus elegans Thorell, 1898". World Spider Catalog. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 14 October 2012.
5. Kananbala, A.; Manoj, K.; Bhubaneshwari, M.; Binarani, A.; Siliwal, Manju (2012). "The first report of the widow spider Latrodectus elegans (Araneae: Theridiidae) from India" (PDF). Journal of Threatened Taxa. 4 (7): 2718–22. doi:10.11609/jott.o3152.2718-22. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-11-01. Retrieved 2013-10-29.
6. Nieuwenhuys, Ed. "The demystification of the toxicity of spiders".