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

Ho e tseba jwang
- 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
Hangata e ferekanngwa le: It is often confused with M. insignis. Experts cannot reliably tell the two apart from the original description of the species.1
Matla a chefo
Chefo e tswa ka meno a yona a chefo (fangs) kapa ka meno a mang ha e loma.
Chefo ya yona (eo e e kenyang ka ho loma kapa ho hlaba) e etsang?
The venom may be very toxic. Most recorded bites caused only minor effects.1
E kotsi hakae ho batho?
Kotsi ho batho: E tebilengHo longwa ho hloka ngaka. Lefu le etsahala ka seoelo haholo.Few cases of serious envenomation have been recorded, so serious harm is uncommon. However, the venom may be very toxic.1
Ditaba tse monate: dingaka di na le moriana (antivenom) kapa kalafo bakeng sa sena.1
Haeba e loma
- Australian funnel-web spider antivenom has proved effective as a treatment for bites from this spider.1
- Hlatswa moo e lomileng teng mme o pholise. Fumana thuso ya bongaka haeba bohloko bo le matla kapa motho a ikutlwa a kula.
- Australia, nka ho longwa ke sekgo sefe kapa sefe se seholo se setsho e le ho longwa ke funnel-web: Pressure immobilisation: phuthela bandeje e tiileng e huduhang (elastiki) hodima moo e lomileng teng ebe o nyolla setho sohle, o se tlame ka splint (lepolanka la ho se tshehetsa), mme o boloke motho a sa sisinyehe ho hang ho fihlela thuso e fihla.
Kamehla letsetsa nomoro ya tshohanyetso pele (112, 000, 911). Ena ke tataiso e akaretsang ya thuso ya pele, hase keletso ya bongaka. Metheo ya thuso ya pele
Dula o bolokehile
- O se ke wa ama, wa tshwara kapa wa tena phoofolo ya naheng, leha e le e nyenyane, le leha e shebahala e robetse kapa e shwele.
- E fe sebaka. Ha o kopana le yona, dula o kgutsitse, kgutlela morao butle mme o e tlohele e tsamaye ka tsela ya yona.
- Haeba e nngwe e o loma: dula o kgutsitse, o se ke wa sisinyeha, letsetsa nomoro ya tshohanyetso (112, 000, 911) kapa o ye sepetlele kapele. Hopola hore e ne e shebahala jwang, foto e a thusa.
Ha e o batle. E sebedisa chefo ya yona ho tshwara dijo kapa ho itshireletsa, mme e kgetha ho ipata. Ho eketsehileng ka ho dula o bolokehile
Hokae lefatsheng?
E kgolo hakae?
E telele hakae?
e telele jwaloka klipi ya pampiri
e ka matha metara e 100 ka metsotswana e 300 (motho ya potlakang ka ho fetisisa o hloka 9,6)Red-headed mouse spider e kgolo hakae ha e bapiswa le WENA?
Ke dipalo feela ka hara sebatli sa hao. Ha ho letho le bolokwang kapa le romelwang kae kapa kae.
E potlaka hakae?
Dintlha
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
Moo dintlha di tswang teng
- Missulena occatoria (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Missulena occatoria (iNaturalist): mabitso le tlhophiso.
- Venom Wiki: boemo ba kotsi, boholo bo tlwaelehileng le kakanyo ya lebelo ke tsa rona. Bona kamoo re di balang ka teng: Kamoo re lekanyang kotsi ka teng.
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