the eye region, surrounded by red-brown scales around the eyes, two dorsolateral bands of lighter scales behind the eye region instead of a single median thoracic band, and no marginal band. Both species also have a fan covered with blue to blue-green or purple iridescent scales, bearing a single pair of black spots. Like the male M. albus, the male M. vultus has a cover of long white setae on the lower half of the sides of the carapace, and an abundance of white setae under the anterior eyes. A distinctive orange figure on the posterior fan (Figure 105: 1 -2, 4) distinguishes the male M. vultus. The female M. vultus is presently not known. We place M. vultus with M. albus in the anomalus group of the genus Maratus.
eye region, on either side, a dorsolateral band of light brown to white scales extends most of the way to the rear of the carapace. The PME are closer to the PLE than to the ALE. The middorsal carapace behind the eye region, and most of the upper half of the carapace on either side, is black and glabrous. There is no marginal band, but the lower half of the carapace on either side is covered loosely with long white scales. The dorsal opisthosomal plate is rounded and sharp-edged but not fringed, covered with iridescent blue to blue-green or purple scales. On this background is a distinctive orange figure toward the front, and a single pair of small black spots toward the rear, bordered by red-orange scales (Figure 105: 1 -2, 4). Although the lateral edges of the fan are distinct, flaps are either small or not present, and lateral expansion of the fan during display is accomplished by flattening out the opisthosoma and the otherwise curved dorsal plate. There is an anterior marginal band of off-white setae, and longer, stout white setae project forward over the pedicel from this. Behind the dorsal plate the dorsal opisthosoma is black, with a patch of white colular setae above the black spinnerets. The sides of the opisthosoma are off-white, and the underside is brown with scattered light setae. The coxae are brown or grey with scattered white setae, and the sternum, labium, and endites are dark brown and glabrous.
leg III is covered with long, bright white setae. From the front (dorsal aspect) the pedipalps are covered with long, bright white setae. The structure of the pedipalp (Figure 106) is typical for Maratus in most aspects, but the outer apex of the embolus is wide and blunt or bifurcated at the end, a feature also observed in M. anomalus (Żabka 1987, Otto & Hill 2012) and M. albus.
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