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.