PARA-161-Black-Widow-Spider: Rheia
Caretaker Status: Unknown
Affiliated companion(s): COM-24-161-1
Level 3 - concrete
Word: Spider (Black Widow)
Origin:
Common use name based upon the spider's coloring and gender-based reminiscient appearance. (Aka, females of this species look radically different from the males.)
Definition:
A highly venomous American spider that has a black body with red markings.
Latrodectus is a genus of spiders in the family Theridiidae, most of which are commonly known as widow spiders. The genus contains 31 recognized species distributed worldwide, including the North American black widows (L. mactans, L. hesperus, and L. variolus), the button spiders of Africa, and the Australian redback spider. Species vary widely in size. In most cases, the females are dark-coloured and readily identifiable by reddish markings on the abdomen, which are often (but not always) hourglass-shaped.
Magic Status: 0 - Uninitiated
Wisdom Status: 0 - Unaware