The Peacock Spiders (Araneae: Salticidae: Maratus) of the Queensland Museum, including six new species
Author
Baehr, Barbara C.
Author
Whyte, Robert
text
Zootaxa
2016
4154
5
501
525
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4154.5.1
7d9964be-d1a1-4d0a-8017-9eedb4f3aa77
1175-5326
255783
9C689664-C36A-46F8-B106-6EF6D18B1D50
The
Maratus anomalus
group
(
FIGURES 7
A‒I, 8A‒N, 10A‒I)
This group contains species with a pair of large patches of white setae on the posterior sides of the prosoma (
Figs 8
A, E, 10B), with an embolic disc which has a smooth narrow front with a retrobasal knee-shaped structure and a long narrow embolic tip with the embolic opening at the posterior distal part (
Figs 7
A‒F) and a thin semicircular lateral process. Embolic tip with a narrow retrolateral fold (
Figs 7
G‒I).
This group contains at least
Maratus anomalus
from
NSW
and
Queensland
plus the new species
Maratus julianneae
from
Carnarvon Station
and
Maratus michaelorum
from Central
Queensland
.