Langland's Mouse Spider Missulena langlandsi Framenau & Harms, 2013
Fauna Portal species: 7634
Missulena langlandsi male, holotype (WAM T115948; Wonmunna mining lease, Western Australia)
Image: V.W. Framenau (2011)
Fauna Portal Image No. 752Diagnosis
(after Greenberg et al. 2021): Missulena langlandsi is a red-headed Pilbara region mouse spider and is similar to M. davidi, which is widespread in the central Pilbara. They differ from M. david by thin rastellar spines (strong and conical in the former) and their size (carapace > 3.00 mm in M. davidi, < 2.9 mm in M. langlandsi up to 2.8 mm) (Greenberg et al. 2021).
(after Harms & Framenau 2013): Males of M. langlandsi differ from other red-headed Missulena (M. occatoria, M. insignis and M. reflexa) in their small body size (about < 5.0 in M. langlandsi, > 8.0 in other species), small number of cheliceral teeth (retrolateral row with less than 7 teeth), rastellum with less than 8 spines, patellae III with less than 30 rasps, patellae IV with less than 15 rasps, and the undivided second pair of sigilla (see Womersley 1943: 262). Females of M. langlandsi are unknown.
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- Western Australia
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Publications
(2013): New species of Mouse Spiders (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Actinopodidae: Missulena) from the Pilbara region, Western Australia. Zootaxa. 3637: 521 - 540
(2021): Three new species of mouse spider (Araneae: Actinopodidae: Missulena Walckenaer, 1805) from Western Australia, including an assessment of intra specific variability in a widespread species from the arid biome. Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny. 79: 509 - 533