Maratus digitatus Otto & Hill, 2012

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 : 515

Maratus digitatus Otto & Hill, 2012

( FIGURES 11 C, F, I)

Maratus digitatus Otto & Hill, 2012b: 10 , figs 12‒27. Type locality: Mount Kaputar near Narrabri, northern New South Wales.

Material examined. AUSTRALIA: 2 males (QM-S47268), south-east Queensland, Nipping Gully, site 5, Rainforest , 25°42’S, 151°26’E, 200 m, Monteith & Gough, 9 Oct.‒18 Dec. 1998, intercept ; 1 male (QM-S57424), south-east Queensland, East Woodmillar, Vine Scrub , 25°41’S, 151°36’E, 250 m, Monteith & Gough, 10 Oct.‒17 Dec. 1998, intercept ; 1 male (QM-S46992), south-east Queensland, Koy Property at Brigooda (Top site), Vine Scrub , 26°16’S, 151°25’E, 250 m, Monteith & Gough, 10 Oct.‒17 Dec. 1998, intercept. (These localities were mentioned in Otto & Hill, 2015: fig. 37).

Distribution. Northern New South Wales and south-eastern Queensland.

Figures

FIGURE 11 (A ‒ I). Maratus digitatus group males: A, D, G, M. eliasi Baehr & Whyte, sp. nov. holotype (QM-S 96335); B, E, H, M. ottoi Baehr & Whyte, sp. nov. holotype (QM-S 96332); C, F, I, Maratus digitatus Otto & Hill, 2012 (QM-S 47268); A ‒ C, palpal tip with embolic disc; D ‒ F, embolic disc frontal view; G ‒ I, palpal tip retrolateral view, embolic disc with flat retrolateral groove and finger shaped lateral process of embolic disc with pancake-stack shaped retrolateral ridges.