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Maratus sapphirus Otto & Hill 2017
Authors/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 sapphirus
Otto & Hill 2017Maratus sapphirus Otto & Hill 2017c
This species was first found near Barraga Bay on the "Sapphire Coast" of New South Wales, but has now been found near Sydney. The tightly packed iridescent scales on the flaps of the males are thought to resemble sapphires, hence the name sapphirus. During courtship display the fan is rotated from side to side at irregular intervals at a low amplitude (only several degrees in either direction). Except for side-stepping, leg and pedipalp movement is not important to this display.
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 21, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3732535
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Otto & Hill
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Araneae
- Family
- Salticidae
- Genus
- Maratus
- Species
- sapphirus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Maratus sapphirus 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 c. Two new peacock spiders from southeastern Australia (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryini: Maratus Karsch 1878). Peckhamia 153. 1: 1 - 34.