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Maratus trigonus Otto & Hill 2017
Creators
- 1. 19 Grevillea Avenue, St. Ives, New South Wales 2075, Australia
- 2. 213 Wild Horse Creek Drive, Simpsonville, SC 29680 - 6513, USA,
Description
Maratus trigonus
Otto & Hill 2017Maratus trigonus Otto & Hill 2017b; Maratus sp. Whyte & Anderson 2017
Known only from the summit of Mt. Lindesay, males can be identified by a white "crown" at the top of a triangular fan. In one display both legs III are waved as the fan is rotated from side to side. In a second display the fan is twisted to one side and a single leg is kicked.
Notes
Published as part of Otto, Jürgen C. & Hill, David E., 2019, Catalogue of the Australian peacock spiders (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryini: Maratus, Saratus), version 3, pp. 1-28 in Peckhamia 148 (3) on page 24, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3732535
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Salticidae
- Genus
- Maratus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Araneae
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Otto & Hill
- Species
- trigonus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Maratus trigonus Otto, 2017 sec. Otto & Hill, 2019
References
- Otto, J. C. and D. E. Hill. 2017 a. Five new peacock spiders from eastern Australia (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryini: Maratus Karsch 1878 and Saratus, new genus). Peckhamia 147. 1: 1 - 86.
- Otto, J. C. and D. E. Hill. 2017 b. Five new peacock spiders from Western Australia (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryini: Maratus Karsch 1878). Peckhamia 152. 1: 1 - 97.
- Whyte, R. and G. Anderson. 2017. A field guide to spiders of Australia. Csiro Publishing, Clayton South, Victoria. i-xii, 1 - 452.