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It is a spider

Western Black Widow Spider

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Scientific Name- Latrodectus mactans

Kingdom- Animalia

Phylum- Arthropoda

Class- Arachnida

Order- Araneae

Family- Theridiidae

Genus- Latrodectus

Species-  mactans

The Latrodectus (Western Black Widow Spider) is a Western spider with a particularly harmful bite to humans, but is usually not fatal. The Latrodectus is dark in color with a small hourglass shape on it's back. 

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