Western Australia SpidersSpider Index Aname sp Dingosa sp Jotus sp Maratus griseus Maratus hortorum Maratus pavonis Maratus speciosus Mituliodon tarantulinus
Mituliodon tarantulinus, as of September 2024, is currently the only species in the genus Mituliodon (family Miturgidae), first described in 2003 by Raven & Stumkat.
They are noted to have either yellow or red markings on the leg joints, whilst there have been observed some Mituliodon tarantulinus with both red and yellow markings on the leg joints.
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- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Chelicerata
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Infraorder: Araneomorphae
- Family: Miturgidae
- Subfamily: Diaprograptinae
- Genus: Mituliodon
- Species: Mituliodon tarantulinus
Footnote & References
- Photographs © Jean and Fred hort
- Mituliodon tarantulinus (L. Koch, 1873), Long-Legged Sac Spider, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/0d0c5545-e1eb-4525-b4b1-be10f8a24cc4
- Little Tarantula (Mituliodon tarantulinus), iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/505709-Mituliodon-tarantulinus
Western Australia SpidersSpider Index Aname sp Dingosa sp Jotus sp Maratus griseus Maratus hortorum Maratus pavonis Maratus speciosus Mituliodon tarantulinus
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