Latrodectus elegans

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

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]

References[]

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^ Sari, I. (2008). "Myocarditis after black widow spider envenomation". The American Journal of Emergency Medicine. 630 (5): e1-3. doi:10.1016/j.ajem.2007.09.012. PMID 18534303.
^ "Latrodectus elegans Thorell, 1898". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 14 October 2012.
^ "Latrodectus elegans Thorell, 1898". World Spider Catalog. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 14 October 2012.
^ 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.
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