#4359 · 🕷️ spiders & kin

Brown Widow

🇳🇱 Bruine weduwe ·Latrodectus geometricus

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Wayne Fidler · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Franklin Howley-Dumit Serulle · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Eduardo Ingani · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Jesse Rorabaugh · CC BY 4.0
5. © Jesse Rorabaugh · CC0
6. santa ana, california:© Randi Poer · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Los Angeles County, US-CA, US:© hsug1747 · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Espírito Santo, BR:© Vitor C. Dias Gonçalves · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. 香港屯門:© Kit Law · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. San Jeronimo Nte., Santa Fe, Argentina:© Gustavo Fernando Durán · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

what is it?

Latrodectus geometricus , commonly known as the brown widow , brown button spider , grey widow , brown black widow , house button spider or geometric button spider , is one of the widow spiders in the genus Latrodectus . As such, it is a 'cousin' to the more infamous Latrodectus mactans (black widow).

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 32,544iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
32,544 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1841 (185 years ago).