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Latrodectus

genus of spiders
Taxon taxon Q385932
Latrodectus
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Summary

Latrodectus is a taxon[1]. Latrodectus ranks in the top 0.078% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (15,161 views/month, #152 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: genus[3]
  • Parent taxon: Theridiidae[4]
  • Taxon name: Latrodectus[5]
  • Commons category: Latrodectus[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Latrodectus[7]
  • Commons gallery: Latrodectus[8]
  • Taxon common name: Zwarte weduwe[9], latrodektus[10]
  • Taxon author citation: Walckenaer, 1805[11]

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Identifiers

Latrodectus's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 47370[12]. Latrodectus's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 6923[13]. Latrodectus's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 112076[14]. Latrodectus's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2157920[15]. Latrodectus's ITIS TSN is recorded as 848644[16].

Why It Matters

Latrodectus has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] Latrodectus is known by 28 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wsc.nmbe.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [13] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [16] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [14] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [15] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] ↑ . Nederlands Soortenregister. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [11] ↑ . biodiversity.org.au. biodiversity.org.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 8w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikidata description → genus of spiders
    Interlingual index id → i44612
    Wordnet 3.1 synset id → 01776893-n
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  2. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Taxon rank → genus
    Instance of → —
    Aliases → —
    Topic's main category → Category:Latrodectus
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007558165505171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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