Missulena insignis

Missulena insignis
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Actinopodidae
Genus:	Missulena
Species:	M. insignis
Binomial name
	Missulena insignis; (O. P-Cambridge, 1877)
Synonyms
	Eriodon insigne O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877 ; Actinopus formosus Rainbow, 1896 ; Eriodon semicoccineum Simon, 1896 ; Eriodon rubrocapitata Rainbow, 1903 ; Missulena formosa (Rainbow, 1896) ;

Missulena insignis, commonly known as the lesser red-headed mouse spider, is a species of spider belonging to the family Actinopodidae native to Australia. The species name is derived from the Latin insignis "mark".^[2]

Taxonomy

The species was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1877, as Eriodon insigne. Separately, William Joseph Rainbow described a male collected from Menindie, New South Wales as Actinopus formosus in 1896,^[3] formosus being Latin for "handsome/beautiful". H. Womersley in 1943 regarded Actinopus formosus as a synonym of Missulena occatoria.^[4] Barbara York Main in 1985 treated Actinopus formosus as a synonym of Missulena insignis,^[5] the position adopted by the World Spider Catalog.^[1] She considered that Womersley had partly confused M. occatoria and M. insignis, with M. occatoria only occurring in eastern Australia.^[5] According to Framenau et al., M. occatoria and M. insignis cannot be differentiated based on the original description.^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Taxon details Missulena insignis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877)". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2016-03-15.
^ Brunet, Bert (1997). Spiderwatch: A Guide to Australian Spiders. Reed. p. 80. ISBN 0-7301-0486-9.
^ Rainbow, William Joseph (1896). "Descriptions of some New Araneidae of New South Wales. No. 6". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 21: 320–44 [328–30]. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.8475.
^ Womersley, H. (1943). "A revision of the spiders of the genus Missulena Walckenaer 1805". Records of the South Australian Museum. 7: 249–269.
^ ^a ^b Main, B.Y. (1985). "Mygalomorphae". In Walton, D.W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 3. Canberra: Bureau of Flora and Fauna. pp. 1–48.
^ Framenau, V.; Miglio, L.; Harms, D. & Harvey, M. (2014), "Four new Mouse Spider species (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Actinopodidae, Missulena) from Western Australia", ZooKeys (410): 121–148, doi:10.3897/zookeys.410.7156, PMC 4042711, PMID 24899853

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[WSC_s33-1] "Taxon details Missulena insignis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877)". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2016-03-15.

[spiderwatch-2] Brunet, Bert (1997). Spiderwatch: A Guide to Australian Spiders. Reed. p. 80. ISBN 0-7301-0486-9.

[3] Rainbow, William Joseph (1896). "Descriptions of some New Araneidae of New South Wales. No. 6". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 21: 320–44 [328–30]. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.8475.

[Wome43-4] Womersley, H. (1943). "A revision of the spiders of the genus Missulena Walckenaer 1805". Records of the South Australian Museum. 7: 249–269.

[Main85-5] Main, B.Y. (1985). "Mygalomorphae". In Walton, D.W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 3. Canberra: Bureau of Flora and Fauna. pp. 1–48.

[FramMiglHarmHarv14-6] Framenau, V.; Miglio, L.; Harms, D. & Harvey, M. (2014), "Four new Mouse Spider species (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Actinopodidae, Missulena) from Western Australia", ZooKeys (410): 121–148, doi:10.3897/zookeys.410.7156, PMC 4042711, PMID 24899853

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