Mouse spider at Mount Clear, ACT
Identification history
| Missulena sp. (genus) | 21 Jan 2018 | KimPullen | ||
| Missulena occatoria | 16 Jan 2018 | KMcCue |
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User's notes
This specimen fell into my glove whilst I was weeding Broom. Needless to say it bit me, intense pain like a bull ant. I hope I only stunned it. The nurse at the drop-in Centre at Belconnen amazingly recognised the species from my photo, her constriction bandage worked and the swelling didn't get above the wrist. All fixed in 3 days.
6 comments
KMcCue
wrote:
17 Jan 2018
The female Mouse Spider is dark brown to black and very stout. They are 20-30 mm in body length with a broader head than that of a funnel web. The male Mouse Spider is smaller, about 12 mm long with a blue-black body. It has bright red fangs and fang bases and a red cephalothorax (first half of body). The male can be very aggressive and deliver a painful bite (hope its not worse than the female's bite).
MichaelMulvaney
wrote:
21 Jan 2018
I don't think this is the mouse spider, the female doesn't as I understand often leave her burrow, so unless your broom removal was disturbing the soil I'm not sure you would have encountered her. I'm thinking more that it is from the funnnelweb spider family perhaps one of the Hadronyche?
KMcCue
wrote:
21 Jan 2018
Our weeding preference was to pull them out rather than cut and dab which we did only for the large plants. So yes were were disturbing the soil.
KimPullen
wrote:
22 Jan 2018
Missulena sp. Could be M. occatoria, or possibly M. bradleyi or M. insignis.
Location information
- Coordinates 148.980167-35.879662
- Maps Namadgi National Park
- Places Mount Clear, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 25 Oct 2014 11:26 AM Recorded on
- KMcCue Recorded by
Additional information
- 25mm to 50mm Animal size
Species information
- Missulena sp. (genus) Scientific name
- Mouse spider Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-Invasive
- Up to 685.93m Recorded at altitude
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