Latrodectus mactans. That's the Latin name, the name that scientists use, for a black widow spider. My own Latrodectus mactans is named Erzsébet. I named her after Erzsébet Báthory, of course, after ...

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THE ‘black widow’ has for long been the popular name of the American spider Latrodectus mactans, notorious above all others for the reputed virulence of its bite. In 1934 there was a remarkable ...

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