Lycidas chrysomelas, : Zabka, 1987

Otto, Jürgen C. & Hill, David E., 2017, Catalogue of the Australian peacock spiders (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryini: Maratus, Saratus), Peckhamia 148 (1), pp. 1-21 : 6

The chrysomelas group

This group includes the widely-distributed M. chrysomelas and the closely related M. nigromaculatus that is known only from the southern coast of Queensland. Unlike most other Maratus , M. chrysomelas can be found in the arid interior and the tropical north. In some parts of eastern Queensland M . nigromaculatus genes associated with the series of paired black spots of the fan may appear in some Queensland populations of the closely related M. chrysomelas as a result of introgression.