This article was originally published on Critter Science.

The katipō, aka red katipō, black katipō, and New Zealand’s redback, is a spider species native to New Zealand. These arachnids are in a larger family of spiders known as Latrodectus. Other spiders in this family are the deadly Australian redback spider and the black widow spider, of the United […]

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