Torbay Mouse Spider Missulena torbayensis Main, 1996
Fauna Portal species: 7643
Missulena torbayensis male, dorsal (WAM 1995/2; Rutherwood Road/South Coast Highway (Highway 1), Torbay, Nature Reserve; Western Australia)
Image: Main (1996; fig. 1A)
Fauna Portal Image No. 5246Diagnosis
(after Main 1996): Male spiders small and black with no white "patches" on abdomen; carapace length up to 4.0 mm. Carapace finely rugulose, caput with heavy rugosities. Teeth on inner row of cheliceral groove numerous (7–10) of uneven size, few (3) evenly sized relatively large teeth on outer and 3–4 smaller teeth on inner row. Differs from other small black species (M. dipsaca and M. rutraspina) by having "rasps" on all patellae instead of on patellae III only and by the "extra" pair of faint sigilla in the labial groove; from M. rutraspina by the rounded embolus tip and more numerous teeth in chelicera! groove rows and many long, pointed rastellum teeth; from M. dipsaca by presence of thin scapula on tarsus I and well developed scapula on tarsi III and IV.
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- Western Australia
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Publications
(1996): Biosystematics of Australian mygalomorph spiders: description of a new species of Missulena from southwestern Australia (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Actinopodidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum. 17: 355 - 359WEB