Maratus

Maratus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Euophryinae
Genus:	Maratus Karsch, 1878
Type species
Maratus amabilis Karsch, 1878
Species
see text
Diversity
7 species

Maratus is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). All described species are endemic to Australia.

Its best known member is the "peacock spider", M. volans, which is able to expand flaps on its abdomen, resulting in a colorful display used in courtship. The males of all known Maratus species use expanded flaps in courtship display.^[1]

Several species in this genus were earlier classified in genus Saitis, containing the Mediterranean Saitis barbipes, which is superficially similar to M. volans (colorful males with enlarged third pair of legs). However, the two genera are in all likelihood not closely related.

Maratus live on or near the ground in low bushes (Hill 2009).

Species

There are at least twenty species of Maratus (Waldock 2007), however only seven are described so far.

• Maratus amabilis Karsch, 1878 — Australia
• Maratus linnaei Waldock, 2008 — Western Australia
• Maratus mungaich Waldock, 1995 — Western Australia
• Maratus pavonis (Dunn, 1947) — Victoria
• Maratus rainbowi (Roewer, 1951) — New South Wales
• Maratus vespertilio (Simon, 1901) — Australia
• Maratus volans (O. P.-Cambridge, 1874) — Queensland, New South Wales

References

1. ^ Western Australian Museum, Julianne M. Waldock

• Platnick, Norman I. (2011): The world spider catalog, version 11.5. American Museum of Natural History.

• Western Australian Museum, Julianne M. Waldock 2007: What's in a name? Or: why Maratus volans (Salticidae) cannot fly - Pictures of M. volans, M. pavonis, M. mungaich and several undescribed species

• David Edwin Hill 2009: "Euophryine jumping spiders that extend their third legs during courtship (Araneaee: Salticidia: Euophryinae: Maratus, Saitis)". Peckhamia 74(1): 1-27.

External links

• Diagnostic drawings of two species (M. volans, M. mungaich)
• Pictures and behavioral description of M. pavonis

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