Mouse Spiders

Hello Reader,


Lets talk about the Missulena, is a genus of spider and you will prefer don’t see one of those.


Havin a venom that contain similarities to the venom of the Funnel-web spider you probably will think that this one is equal dangerous, but actually is less. Not that you don’t die because of the bite, you still can die the same way. The point is that this spider is less aggressive and like to keep har venom, so is more easy to receive just a bite without venom.



The female istil more in har burrows and are more common the males ander off looking for the female. This species live principali close to waterways, they like a umid clime to go around, so in the rain they will get off from their burrows and go for a walk looking for a mate and there is when you probably will see one.



They have dimorphism, the female is all black and the male have some variation of colors depending which species they are.

The big amount of them is more black, but have some exceptions like the rare red-coloured mouse spider.

They are well spread in Australia, and since I couldn’t find a good image of they distribution i got from a specific species that gives the idea.

And her borrow locks like this>









Kingdom> Animalia
 Phylum> Arthropoda
  Subphylum> Chelicerata
   Class> Arachnida
    Order> Aranea
      Infraorder> Mygalomorphae (look who is related with the Funnel-web)
       Family> Actinopodidae
        Genus> Missulena

~catch you later

References:
http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/wildlife/2012/08/australian-spiders-the-10-most-dangerous
http://www.spiders.com.au/mouse-spider.html
https://australianmuseum.net.au/red-headed-mouse-spider-missulena-occatoria
http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/wildlife/2015/08/rare-red-coloured-mouse-spider
http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?search=Missulena+occatoria