Maratus anomalus ( Karsch, 1878 )

Baehr, Barbara C. & Whyte, Robert, 2016, The Peacock Spiders (Araneae: Salticidae: Maratus) of the Queensland Museum, including six new species, Zootaxa 4154 (5), pp. 501-525 : 509-510

Maratus anomalus ( Karsch, 1878)

( FIGURE 7 A, D, G)

Lycidas anomalus Karsch, 1878d: 26 ; Prószyński 1984a: 159 (removed m from S of Saitis nigriceps ); Żabka, 1987: 471, figs 50‒51.

Maratus anomalus Otto & Hill, 2012a: 23 , figs. 28.1‒12, 29.1‒4, 30.1‒8, 31.1‒8, 32.1‒8, 33.1‒12, 34.1‒6, 35.1‒4, 36.1‒6, 37.1‒6. [Type locality: New South Wales. So far known from Bribie Island, Mareeba and Cairns in Queensland ( Otto & Hill, 2012a; Atlas of living Australia)].

Material examined. 1 male (QM-S56347), Australia, south-east Queensland, North Stradbroke Is. Enterprise, Blackbutt , 27°35’S, 153°28’E, 80 m, QM party, 9 Jan. 2002, day hand coll. ; 1 male (QM-S56273), same data as previous Scribbly Gum , 27°37’S, 153°26’E, 70 m, D. Cook, 8‒10 Jan. 2002, dung trap ; 1 male (QM-S56331), same data as previous Mallee , 27°35’S, 153°27’E, 100 m, QM party, 11 Jan. 2002, day hand coll.

Distribution. Known only from New South Wales, and Queensland.

Figures

FIGURE 7 (A ‒ I). Maratus anomalus group males: A, D, G, M. anomalus (Karsch, 1878) (QM-S 56273); B, E, H, M. julianneae Baehr & Whyte, sp. nov. holotype (QM-S 96325); C, F, I, Maratus michaelorum Baehr & Whyte, sp. nov. holotype (QM- S 80074); A ‒ C, palpal tip with embolic disc; D ‒ F, embolic disc frontal view; G ‒ I, palpal tip retrolateral view, with retrolateral groove at embolic tip and semicircular lateral process of embolic disc.