Maratus mungaich

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Maratus mungaich
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Maratus
Species:
M. mungaich
Binomial name
Maratus mungaich
Waldock, 1995 [1]

Maratus mungaich, the banksia peacock spider,[ citation needed ] is a species of jumping spider in the family Salticidae. [2] It is endemic to Western Australia. [2]

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The species was first described in 1995 by Julianne Waldock. [1] In 2013 she described a species-group for Maratus mungaich. [3] In 2014 Waldock identified Maratus hortorum which had until then been identified as M.mungaich. [4]

In courtship, males in the Maratus genus extend their elongated third legs, [5] and only the male is so brightly and beautifully coloured.

Etymology

The specific epithet, mungaich, derives from a Nyoongar word for "banksia" [1] [6] (mangatch). [7] [8]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Waldock, J. M. (1995) A new species of Maratus from southwestern Australia (Araneae: Salticidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 52: 165-169.
  2. 1 2 WSC Salticidae:Maratus mungaich(Dunn, 1947), World Spider Catalog (WSC) Retrieved 8 August 2019.
  3. ↑ Waldock, J. M. (2013) A review of the peacock spiders of the Maratus mungaich species-group (Araneae: Salticidae), with descriptions of four new species. Records of the Western Australian Museum 28: 66-81. doi:10.18195/issn.0312-3162.28(1).2013.066-081
  4. ↑ Waldock, Julianne. "Two new species of peacock spider of the Maratus mungaich species-group (Araneae: Salticidae) from south-western Australia" (PDF). Museum.wa.gov.au. Western Australian Museum. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
  5. ↑ Hill, D.E. (2009) Euophryine jumping spiders that extend their third legs during courtship (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryinae: Maratus, Saitis). Peckhamia 74.1:1-27. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
  6. ↑ Bindon, P.& Chadwick, R. (1992). A Nyoongar Wordlist from the South-West of Western Australia. Western Australian Museum, Perth
  7. ↑ Whitehurst, R. (1997) Noongar Dictionary Noongar to English and English to Noongar (2nd Ed) Archived 2019-08-08 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 9 August 2019.
  8. ↑ Douglas, W. (1996) Illustrated dictionary of the South-West Aboriginal language Retrieved 9 August 2019.
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