Red-headed mouse spider
The red-headed mouse spider is a burrowing spider found across mainland Australia. It lives in open forest and desert shrubland, and the male has a bright red head. It is a venomous spider that people meet in the wild, so it helps to know what it looks like.1

Co renconuscher el
- Females are about 35 mm long, stout and short-legged, and mostly dark brown to black. Their jaws are sometimes red-tinged.1
- Males are about 15 mm long, with longer, thinner legs. The head and jaws are bright red.1
- The male's abdomen (rear body) is gunmetal blue to black.1
Savens confundì cun: It is often confused with M. insignis. Experts cannot reliably tell the two apart from the original description of the species.1
Forza dal tissi
Il tissi vegn or tras ses dents da tissi u ses dents, cura ch'el morda.
Tge fa ses tissi?
The venom may be very toxic. Most recorded bites caused only minor effects.1
Quant privlus è el per umans?
Privel per umans: GravIna morsa sto vegnir tractada dad in medi. Cas da mort èn fitg rars.Few cases of serious envenomation have been recorded, so serious harm is uncommon. However, the venom may be very toxic.1
Bunas novitads: ils medis han in medicament (antiserum) u in tractament per quai.1
Sch'el morda
- Australian funnel-web spider antivenom has proved effective as a treatment for bites from this spider.1
- Lava la morsa e sfradenta ella. Tschertga agid medicinal, sche las dolurs èn fermas u sche la persuna na sa senta betg bain.
- En l'Australia, tracta mintga morsa d'in grond filien nair sco morsa d'in filien funnel-web: Immobilisaziun cun squitsch: envolva ina bandascha elastica ferma sur la morsa e lura vi da l'entir member ensi, fixescha el cun ina stecca e tegna la persuna dal tut immobila, fin che l'agid arriva.
Clama adina l'emprim tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911). Quai è in cussegl general d'emprim agid, betg in cussegl medicinal. Basa da l'emprim agid
Resta en segirezza
- Na tutga, na piglia e na tizza mai in animal selvadi, gnanc in pitschen, ed era sch'el para da durmir u d'esser mort.
- Dà spazi a l'animal. Sche ti scuntras in, resta calm, va plaun enavos e lascha ir el per sia via.
- Sch'in tal animal ta morda: resta calm, na ta mova betg, clama tes numer d'urgenza (112, 000, 911) u va spert en in ospital. Ta regorda co ch'el veseva or, ina foto gida.
El n'ha betg quai sin tai. El dovra ses tissi per pigliar nutriment u per sa defender, e sa zuppa bler pli gugent. Dapli davart la segirezza
Quant grond è el?
Quant lung è el?
var uschè lung sco in clip da palpiri
pudess currer 100 meters en 300 secundas (l'uman il pli svelt dovra 9,6)Quant grond è Red-headed mouse spider cumpareglià cun TAI?
Mo matematica en tes navigatur. Nagut na vegn memorisà u tramess.
Quant svelt è el?
Fatgs
Its spiderlings can travel by wind, a method called ballooning. Mygalomorph spiders normally disperse by walking, so this is unusual for them.1
The spider digs a burrow up to 55 cm deep, with two trapdoors.1
Males have a bright red head and jaws, which sets them apart from the darker females.1
It is the most widely distributed Missulena species, found throughout mainland Australia.1
Da nua che vegnan ils fatgs
- Missulena occatoria (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Missulena occatoria (iNaturalist): nums e classificaziun.
- Venom Wiki: il stgalim da privel, la grondezza tipica e la stima da la sveltezza èn noss agens. Guarda co che nus als calculain: Co che nus valitain il privel.
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