I assure you, it was a black widow. Had the red hour glass on the belly. We find several black widows each year.
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I assure you, it was a black widow. Had the red hour glass on the belly. We find several black widows each year.
Oh, interesting. In which country are you?
Those dimples on her abdomen along with the shiny reddish-black abdomen are generally iconic for Steatoda sp (along with the flattish rounded and overhanging structure of the abdomen). They also generally have a band that goes across the front of the abdomen but can't see that from the angle here.
But yeah, red hourglass-like marking on the underside is a give-away for Widows.
I am in North Texas in the United States. I have caught about a dozen Black Widows from this area. It is my parents property. I even caught one with an egg sack and had the egg sack hatch in a jar. Was quite a site.