1964] 
McCrone and Levi — Latrodectus 
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species is probably one given by Nicolet (1849), who named several 
Latrodectus from Chile. 
Latrodectus curacaviensis (Muller) 
Figures 1, 16, 17 
Aranea curacaviensis Muller, 1776, p. 242. Female type from Curagao, 
Netherland Antilles, lost. 
Latrodectus curacaviensis, — Levi, 1959, p. 38 (in part). 
Description of female specimen from Curacao: Carapace light yel- 
low-brown, slightly darker in thoracic depression and around margin. 
Sternum darker yellow-brown with a narrow median longitudinal 
lighter mark. Legs light yellow-brown ; patellae, distal ends of femora, 
and tibiae slightly darker. Abdomen black with white marks (Fig. 
16, 17) that are lighter around the edge than centrally, and pre- 
sumably were red in the live animal. Carapace comparatively long. 
Total length 6.5 mm. Carapace 2.6 mm long, 1.4 mm wide. First 
femur 3.8 mm. Patella and tibia 4.2 mm, metatarsus 3.8 mm, tarsus 
1.3 mm. Second patella and tibia 2.7 mm, third 1.9 mm, fourth 4.0 
mm. 
Latrodectus variolus Walckenaer (Northern Widow) 
Figures 3, 8-13, 27 
Latrodectus variolus Walckenaer, 1837, p. 648. Female lectotype here des- 
ignated: Abbot manuscript figure 391, manuscript in the British Museum 
(Natural History) library. 
Latrodectus curacaviensis, — Levi, 1959, p. 38 (in part; not L. curacaviensis 
Muller) 
Note: Abbot manuscript figure 391 was chosen lectotype because 
Abbot described two ventral transverse bars on the specimen, a char- 
acteristic of the species (Fig. 27) that distinguishes it from L. mactans, 
which has an hour glass (Fig. 26). It presumably came from the 
Beaver Dam Creek area, Screven County, near where Abbot lived in 
the 1790’s, in a part that used to be Burke County. 
The comments to Abbot’s figures are (in original spelling) : 
“191 Aranea Taken 28th May in the Oak Woods, very rare 
[?] 
194 Aranea Taken 15th May on Oak, in Oak Woods. Rare 
[juv. $] 
195 Aranea Taken 23 Feb. under a Stone. It has a large 
angulated red spot beneath the Abdomen. It makes an ir- 
regular Web, under old Logs and Rails, not very common. 
