Mouse Spider
Missulena
FP-11337 (WAM MYG252)
Discoverer: M. Castalanelli (COI)
Fauna Portal species: 11337
Missulena sp. indet. (generic image for DNA-identified juvenile)
Image: V.W. Framenau (2021)
Fauna Portal Image No. 2413Diagnosis
Missulena FP-11337 is currently only known from females and juveniles and cannot be diagnosed morphologically (mature males are needed). Genetic analyses of the COI-barcoding gene fragment support it as a new species, at least 11.4% divergent from any other species in the genus for which there are COI sequences available for analyses (>150 sequences). Phylogenetically most closely related (based on COI data) is Missulena FP-11270, currently only known from east of Tom Price in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
Fauna Portal Reference
Australia
- Western Australia
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(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