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Definition of Genus Latrodectus

1. Noun. Venomous spiders.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Latrodectus

Literary usage of Genus Latrodectus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Handbook of Medical Entomology by William Albert Riley, Oskar Augustus Johannsen (1915)
"Spiders of the genus Latrodectus.—While most of the popular accounts of evil effects from the bites of spiders will not stand investigation, ..."

2. Denizens of the Desert: A Book of Southwestern Mammals, Birds, and Reptiles by Edmund Carroll Jaeger (1922)
"... THE POISONOUS (Latrodectus mactans) OF all the spiders feared by man to-day few have the black reputation of those belonging to the genus Latrodectus. ..."

3. The Spider Book: A Manual for the Study of the Spiders and Their Near by John Henry Comstock (1912)
"Genus LATRODECTUS (Lat-ro-dec'tus) This is one of the two genera of the Theridiidae occurring in our fauna in which the lateral eyes of each side are widely ..."

4. New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anschutz (1917)
"as we were before; but it seems to us, after analyzing the evidence, that it must at least be admitted that certain spiders of the genus Latrodectus have ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1922)
"The spiders of the genus Latrodectus, of which we have a common representative in the South, are feared wherever they occur, and it is possible that they ..."

6. Half Hours with Insects by Alpheus Spring Packard (1877)
"sionally fatal and certainly very painful and distressing." This spider belongs to the genus Latrodectus, and Walck- enaer, says the same journal, ..."

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