Spiders of the mungaich group from Western Australia (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryinae: Maratus), with one new species from Cape Arid
Author
Jürgen C. Otto
Author
David E. Hill
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Peckhamia
2014
2014-01-01
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10.5281/zenodo.1292576
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1292576
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Maratus karrie
Waldock 2013
This smaller species (
Figure 1
) is reported from the southwestern corner of Australia. We have examined specimens collected by Darlington in 1931 from Margaret River (
Figure 12
:2, locality 1) and Pemberton (locality 2). The pattern of scales on the dorsal opisthosomal plate (fan) is similar to that of
M. sarahae
, but the spider is smaller (
Waldock 2013
). We have given this spider the common name of Darlington's Peacock Spider (
Hill & Otto 2011
). Many of its features are intermediate between those of
M. mungaich
and
M. sarahae
(
Table 1
,
Figure 14
), but perhaps more like the latter. We have previously considered this variety to be conspecific with
M. sarahae
(
Otto & Hill 2011b
,
2012b
). The distinctive pattern of the fan, including the wide bands of iridescent scales, appears to place these specimens with
M. sarahae
, but some of the characters related to setation are more like those of
M. mungaich
. See Waldock's (2013) description of
M. karrie
for more details.