Catalogue of the Australian peacock spiders (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryini: Maratus, Saratus), version 3
Author
Otto, Jürgen C.
19 Grevillea Avenue, St. Ives, New South Wales 2075, Australia
jurgenotto8@gmail.com
Author
Hill, David E.
213 Wild Horse Creek Drive, Simpsonville, SC 29680 - 6513, USA,
platycryptus@yahoo.com
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Peckhamia
2019
2019-09-20
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Maratus flavus
Otto & Hill 2018
Maratus flavus
Otto & Hill 2018a
This spider is known only from Tims Thicket, south of Perth near the coast. Like
M. boranup
,
M. flavus
males rely greatly on semaphore signaling with legs III when they display to females, but unlike that species they also display their distinctive, mustard yellow opisthosoma. Legs III of the male are highly ornamented, with tufts of long black setae surrounding each metatarsus, and a thin red-brown line set off by a fringe of white setae on the front of each patella and tibia.