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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".

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, formosus being Latin for "handsome/beautiful". H. Womersley in 1943 regarded Actinopus formosus as a synonym of Missulena occatoria. Barbara York Main in 1985 treated Actinopus formosus as a synonym of Missulena insignis, the position adopted by the World Spider Catalog. She considered that Womersley had partly confused M. occatoria and M. insignis, with M. occatoria only occurring in eastern Australia. According to Framenau et al., M. occatoria and M. insignis cannot be differentiated based on the original description.

References

1. ^ "Taxon details Missulena insignis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877)". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2016-03-15.
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 . doi:10.5962/bhl.part.8475.
4. Womersley, H. (1943). "A revision of the spiders of the genus Missulena Walckenaer 1805". Records of the South Australian Museum. 7: 249–269.
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.
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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