Maratus fimbriatus

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 : 506

The Maratus fimbriatus group

( FIGURES 1 C, F, I, 4A‒I, 5A‒F)

Otto & Hill (2016a) described Maratus fimbriatus after which this group is named. It contains species which have a shiny black opisthosoma with two longitudinal stripes of white setae at the anterior edge and a long dense fringe of white bluish iridescent setae along the sides, an embolic disc with a wide front, covered with frontal ridges and a deep lateral groove like a wheel rim. There is no retrolateral process of embolic disc. The shiny black opisthosoma and the enormous white bluish iridescent setae along the sides separate this group from any other Maratus group.

Dance: You tube Peacock Spider 14 ( Maratus fimbriatus )

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf8d2rgGEME)

Species: Maratus fimbriatus from the Darling Riverina Plains Bioregion in New South Wales, plus the new species Maratus licunxini from Carnarvon Station .

Figures

FIGURE 1 (A ‒ I). Maratus species groups males: A, D, G, M. kiwirrkurra Baehr & Whyte, sp. nov. holotype (WAM-T 138587); B, E, H, M. chrysomelas (QM-S 96329); C, F, I, Maratus licunxini Baehr & Whyte, sp. nov. holotype (QM-S 96330); A ‒ C, palpal tip with embolic disc; D ‒ F, embolic disc frontal view; G, I, embolic disc retrolateral view; H, embolus tip.