Fiery Mouse Spider Missulena ignea Marsh, Stevens & Framenau, 2023
Fauna Portal species: 12677
Missulena ignea male, dorsal (WAM T148118; Cape Range National Park, Western Australia)
Image: Marsh et al. (2023; fig. 2c)
Fauna Portal Image No. 7171Diagnosis
(after Marsh et al. 2014): Males of Missulena ignea are morphologically closest to M. mainae and M. minima, which also have a bright red pars cephalica, pars thoracica, and chelicerae. They differ from these species by the presence of a rasp on patella I–IV in M. ignea, whilst only III and IV have a rasp in the other species. They further differ by the presence of scopulae on tarsus III, IV and metatarsus III, IV in M. ignea, which are only on metatarsus IV in these other species, and by by the absence of a swollen metatarsus IV in M. ignea.
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- Western Australia
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