Maratus anomalus

Baehr, Barbara C. & Whyte, Robert, 2016, The Peacock Spiders (Araneae: Salticidae: Maratus) of the Queensland Museum, including six new species, Zootaxa 4154 (5), pp. 501-525 : 509

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 .

Figures

FIGURE 7 (A ‒ I). Maratus anomalus group males: A, D, G, M. anomalus (Karsch, 1878) (QM-S 56273); B, E, H, M. julianneae Baehr & Whyte, sp. nov. holotype (QM-S 96325); C, F, I, Maratus michaelorum Baehr & Whyte, sp. nov. holotype (QM- S 80074); A ‒ C, palpal tip with embolic disc; D ‒ F, embolic disc frontal view; G ‒ I, palpal tip retrolateral view, with retrolateral groove at embolic tip and semicircular lateral process of embolic disc.

FIGURE 8 (A ‒ N). Maratus julianneae Baehr & Whyte, sp. nov. male holotype (QM-S 96325). A, D, E, live images (photos: Robert Whyte); A, B, habitus, dorsal view; C, habitus, ventral view; D, prosoma, anterior view; E, habitus, lateral view; F, opisthosoma frontal view; G, right III leg, prolateral view; H, I, male palp, prolateral view; J, same, ventral view; K, same, retrolateral view; L, embolic disc, prolateral view; M, same, ventral view; N, same, retolateral view.