Durokoppin Mouse Spider Missulena durokoppin Marsch, Stevens & Framenau, 2023
Fauna Portal species: 12675
Missulena durokoppin male, dorsal (WAM T44137; Durokoppin Nature Reserve, Western Australia)
Image: Marsh et al. (2023; 2a)
Fauna Portal Image No. 7137Diagnosis
(after Marsh et al. 2023): Males of M. durokoppin are similar to seven other species, which share a brown carapace and chelicerae: Missulena faulderi, M. harewoodi, M. leniae, M. melissae, M. pinguipes, M. rutraspina, and M. terra. Of these, they differ from M. terra, M. harewoodi, M. melissae and M. pinguipes by having a slender pedipalp tibia as opposed to it being distinctly swollen in these other species. Males of M. durokoppin differ from males of other species by the number of spinules in patella III, with 70–100 covering the dorsal, prolateral and retrolateral surface in M. durokoppin, 40 in M. harewoodi, 59 in M. melissae, 42 in M. rutraspina, 41 in M. terra and 31 or fewer in M. faulderi, M. leniae, and M. pinguipes. They are further differentiated from M. leniae and M. rutraspina by having a smooth carapace, which is coarsely granulated in males of these other species. They are further separated from males of M. faulderi by the curvature of the embolus, which is straighter and less curved in M. durkoppin. Males of M. durokoppin further differ from males of M. pinguipes by the number of spines in the rastellum, with five strong spines in M. durokoppin, as opposed nine in M. pinguipes.
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- Western Australia
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