Published September 20, 2019
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Maratus sceletus Otto & Hill 2015
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 sceletus
Otto & Hill 2015Maratus sceletus Otto & Hill 2015a; Whyte & Anderson 2017
Popularly known as Skeletorus, males raise their fan and inflated spinnerets as they circle around stems to safely approach a female.
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 6, 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
- sceletus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Maratus sceletus Otto, 2015 sec. Otto & Hill, 2019
References
- Otto, J. C. and D. E. Hill. 2015 a. Two new peacock spiders of the calcitrans group from southern Queensland (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryinae: Maratus). Peckhamia 121. 1: 1 - 34.
- Whyte, R. and G. Anderson. 2017. A field guide to spiders of Australia. Csiro Publishing, Clayton South, Victoria. i-xii, 1 - 452.