Maratus vespertilio (Simon, 1901)

Otto, Jürgen C. & Hill, David E., 2019, Catalogue of the Australian peacock spiders (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryini: Maratus, Saratus), version 3, Peckhamia 148 (3), pp. 1-28 : 21

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.3732535

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3812727

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Maratus vespertilio
status

 

The vespertilio View in CoL View at ENA group

This includes the widely-distributed M. vespertilio and a second species, M. sapphirus , known from only two localities on the southern coast of New South Wales. These are similar in appearance but M. sapphirus has a more eliptical fan with a well-defined pattern of pigmented scales on a background of iridescent scales at the center. In M. vespertilio males the fan is more lobate, legs I and II have a dense cover of off-white to light yellow setae, and legs III are decorated with dark anterior femora and a fringe of long white setae extending below the patella to metatarsus. This agrees with the observation that legs III figure prominently in both courtship and agonistic displays of M. vespertilio .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Salticidae

Genus

Maratus

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