Brown Mouse Spider: Female, dorsal

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Spiders, Scorpions, Mites & Ticks (Arachnida)

Order:

Spiders (Araneae)

Family:

Mouse Spider (:Mygalomorph Actinopodidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Brown Mouse Spider (Missulena sp ES02)

This Photo:

🔍Female, dorsal🔎

Thank you (CesDaMess) for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
There two unusual aspects of this specimen.
1. It's brown. But there are brown mouse spiders out there. They just don't seem to be noticed as much.
2. It's a female. Now typically these are only seen when someone has accidentally dug up their burrow.
But we found this one just walking around in the daytime. Perhaps a bird dug up it's borrow? It is injured, with a big gash on it's head.

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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