| 1. | This family includes the medically important Latrodectus genus the widow spiders.
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| 2. | The public is not entirely immune to the lure of the Latrodectus.
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| 3. | "Latrodectus hesperus " can be found in western regions of North America.
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| 4. | Diagnosis is obvious in most people reporting contact with a " Latrodectus " spider.
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| 5. | This advantage correlates with high paternal success in the species " Latrodectus hasselti ".
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| 6. | The bite of a female Latrodectus mactans can inject a neurotoxin that is potentially fatal to humans.
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| 7. | However, despite the genus'notoriety, " Latrodectus " bites are rarely fatal.
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| 8. | It is a parasitoid of the venomous redback spider ( " Latrodectus hasseltii " ).
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| 9. | The most widely known of those spiders are the black widows, " Latrodectus mactans ".
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| 10. | The males from the species " Latrodectus hesperus " show high mate preference for better conditioned females.
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