Maratus pavonis

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 : 522

The Maratus pavonis group

( FIGURES 15 C, F, I, 16A‒I)

This group contains those species with an embolic disc which has a broad smooth rim and a broad bent embolic ridge with the embolic opening at the frontal end ( Fig. 15 F). The lateral process of the embolic disc has a pointed tip and zig-zag longitudinal ridges ( Fig. 15 I).

Further SEM examination of the embolic discs of known and other putative M. pavonis specimens will clarify if the palpal characters shown in M. pavonis var nornalup are also present elsewhere in the Maratus pavonis group.

Figures

FIGURE 15 (A ‒ I). Maratus males: A, D, G, M. volans (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874) (QM-S 54112); B, E, H, M. speciosus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874) (QM-S 26034); C, F, I, Maratus pavonis var. nornalup (WAM-T 136127); A ‒ C, palpal tip with embolic disc; D ‒ F, embolic disc frontal view; G ‒ I, palpal tip retrolateral view, with flat retrolateral groove and differently shaped lateral process of embolic disc.