Maratus anomalus, : Otto & Hill, 2012

Otto, Jürgen C. & Hill, David E., 2021, Catalogue of the Australian peacock spiders, Peckhamia 148 (4), pp. 1-35 : 3

The anomalus group

This group includes relatives of M. anomalus (type species for Lycidas Karsch 1878 ) that can be distinguished by the presence of a blunt, bifurcated apex of the outer ring of the embolus above a shorter, sharply pointed inner apex of the male pedipalp. The female epigynum has heavily sclerotized (darker) ducts at the lateral and medial posterior margin of each fossa. Most have a pair of black spots toward the rear of the fan, and courtship display tends to be simple for most species. Recently a series of grassland peacock spiders from eastern Australia have been added ( Baehr & Whyte 2016, Otto & Hill 2017a), and we now include M. sceletus with this group after Girard et al. (2021).