Missulena insignis
Missulena insignis, commonly known as the lesser red-headed mouse spider, is a species of spider belonging to the family Actinopodidae native to Australia. The species name is derived from the Latin insignis "mark".[2]
Missulena insignis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Mygalomorphae |
Family: | Actinopodidae |
Genus: | Missulena |
Species: | M. insignis |
Binomial name | |
Missulena insignis (O. P-Cambridge, 1877)[1] | |
Synonyms[1] | |
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Taxonomy
The species was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1877, as Eriodon insigne. Separately, William Joseph Rainbow described a male collected from Menindie, New South Wales as Actinopus formosus in 1896,[3] formosus being Latin for "handsome/beautiful". H. Womersley in 1943 regarded Actinopus formosus as a synonym of Missulena occatoria.[4] Barbara York Main in 1985 treated Actinopus formosus as a synonym of Missulena insignis,[5] the position adopted by the World Spider Catalog.[1] She considered that Womersley had partly confused M. occatoria and M. insignis, with M. occatoria only occurring in eastern Australia.[5] According to Framenau et al., M. occatoria and M. insignis cannot be differentiated based on the original description.[6]
References
- "Taxon details Missulena insignis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877)". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2016-03-15.
- Brunet, Bert (1997). Spiderwatch: A Guide to Australian Spiders. Reed. p. 80. ISBN 0-7301-0486-9.
- Rainbow, William Joseph (1896). "Descriptions of some New Araneidae of New South Wales. No. 6". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 21: 320–44 [328–30]. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.8475.
- Womersley, H. (1943). "A revision of the spiders of the genus Missulena Walckenaer 1805". Records of the South Australian Museum. 7: 249–269.
- Main, B.Y. (1985). "Mygalomorphae". In Walton, D.W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 3. Canberra: Bureau of Flora and Fauna. pp. 1–48.
- Framenau, V.; Miglio, L.; Harms, D. & Harvey, M. (2014), "Four new Mouse Spider species (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Actinopodidae, Missulena) from Western Australia", ZooKeys (410): 121–148, doi:10.3897/zookeys.410.7156, PMC 4042711, PMID 24899853