Species Maratus digitatus Otto & Hill, 2012

Museums

Regional Maps

• Maratus digitatus Otto, J.C. & Hill, D.E. 2012. Two new Australian peacock spiders that display inflated and extended spinnerets (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryinae: Maratus Karsch 1878). Peckhamia 104.1: 1-28 [10].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM KS 119749 male, Mount Kaputar, near Narrabri, NSW [30°15'50.8"S, 150°03'21.7"E].
  Paratype(s) AM KS 119750-63 10 males & 4 females, Mount Kaputar, near Narrabri, NSW [30°15'50.8"S, 150°03'21.7"E].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Mount Kaputar, near Narrabri , NSW and Dunmore State Forest, southeastern QLD (27°37'39" S, 151°01'12" E)

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Nandewar (NAN)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, carnivorous, litter, predator.

 

General References

Baehr, B.C. & Whyte, R. 2016. The Peacock Spiders (Araneae: Salticidae: Maratus) of the Queensland Museum, including six new species. Zootaxa 4154: 501–525 [515, figs 11C, F, I]

Otto, J.C. & Hill, D.E. 2017. Catalogue of the Australian peacock spiders (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryini: Maratus, Sataus). Peckhamia 148.1: 1-24 (includes a photo, distribution and diagnostic characteristics)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
15-Oct-2020	Maratus Karsch, 1878	15-Sep-2016	MODIFIED
15-Oct-2020	SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841	28-May-2015	MODIFIED	Barry Richardson
	Maratus Karsch, 1878	26-Mar-2014	ADDED