Published September 20, 2019
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Maratus vespa Otto & Hill 2016
Creators
- 1. 19 Grevillea Avenue, St. Ives, New South Wales 2075, Australia
- 2. 213 Wild Horse Creek Drive, Simpsonville, SC 29680 - 6513, USA,
Description
The vespa group
This group is closely related to the linnaei group and it is also endemic to the southwestern corner of Australia. As do members of that group, vespa group males move their fan from side to side in front of attentive females at a distance of only a few millimeters, framed by their elevated and heavily fringed legs III. However vespa group males have prominent lobate flaps, and the lateral margins of these flaps are ornamented in a manner that attract a female when they are rotated far to the left or right behind the legs III. This remarkable and diverse group was only recently discovered.
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 19, 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
- vespa
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Maratus vespa Otto, 2016 sec. Otto & Hill, 2019