Species Missulena occatoria Walckenaer, 1805

Museums

Regional Maps

• Missulena occatoria Walckenaer, C.A. 1805. Tableau des Aranéides ou Caractères Essentiels des Tribus, Genres, Familles et Races que venforme le genre Aranea de Linné, avec la désignation des espèces comprises dans chacune de ces divisions. Paris : Dentu xii 88 pp. 9 pls. [8].

  Type data:

   Holotype ♀ adult (missing), Australia (as New Holland).
• Eriodon rubrocapitatum Keyserling, E. in Ausserer, A. 1875. Zweiter beiträg zur Kenntniss der Arachniden-Familie der Territelariae Thorell (Mygalidae Autor.). Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 25: 125-206 pls 5-7 [140].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMH ♂ adult (Keyserling collection, missing), Australia.
• Eriodon occatorius Latreille, P.A. 1806. Araneides. In, Genera crustaceorum et insectorum secundum ordinem naturalem in familias disposita, iconibus exemplisque plurimis explicata. Parisiis et Argenorati : Amand Koenig Vol. 1 pp. 82-127. [86].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP ♀ adult (missing probably lost, but depository uncertain), NSW ?, Australia.
• Eriodon formidabile Cambridge, O.P.- 1869. Descriptions of a new genus and six new species of spiders. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 10: 264-276 [8 Jan. 1869] [267 pl. 9].

  Type data:

   Holotype OUM ♂ adult (missing), Australia (as New Holland).
• Eriodon rugosum Ausserer, A. 1875. Zweiter beitrag zur Kenntniss der Arachniden-Familie der Territelariae Thorell. (Mygalidae Autor.). Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 25: 125-206 pls 5-7 [140].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMH ♂ adult (Keyserling collection, missing), Australia.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Womersley, H. 1943. A revision of the spiders of the genus Missulena Walckenaer, 1805. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 7: 249-269 [251]
• Bonnet, P. 1957. Bibliographia araneorum: Analyse méthodique de toute la littérature aranéoligique jusqu'en 1939. Toulouse : Les Frères Douladoure Vol. 2(3) 1925-3026 pp. [2933]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Womersley (1943) appears to have confused (in part) occatoria and insignis; M. occatoria is here considered to occur only in eastern Australia, doubtful occurence in Papua New Guinea.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Flinders (FLI), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Fossorial, open forest, predator, terrestrial, woodland.

Extra Ecological Information

Open forest, woodland, burrowing, terrestrial, predator.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
15-Oct-2020	Missulena Walckenaer, 1805	27-Jul-2017	MODIFIED	Dr Federica Turco (QM)
15-Oct-2020		29-Jun-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)