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Maratus montanus Otto & Hill 2014
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 montanus
Otto & Hill 2014Maratus montanus Otto & Hill 2014d; Whyte & Anderson 2017
This species was originally described from Mt. Ragged in Western Australia but has since been found also at Geraldton (Western Australia) and the Eyre Peninsula (South Australia), both far from the original location. Males are similar to M. maritimus but they elevate their fan as they display to females.
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 14, 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
- montanus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Maratus montanus Otto, 2014 sec. Otto & Hill, 2019
References
- Hill, D. E. and J. C. Otto. 2014. Visual courtship display by the male Coastal Peacock Spider [Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryinae: Maratus speciosus (O. Pickard-Cambridge 1874)]. Peckhamia 119. 1: 1 - 18.
- Otto, J. C. and D. E. Hill. 2014 d. Peacock spiders of the pavonis group from southern Australia (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryinae: Maratus). Peckhamia 117. 1: 1 - 62.
- Whyte, R. and G. Anderson. 2017. A field guide to spiders of Australia. Csiro Publishing, Clayton South, Victoria. i-xii, 1 - 452.