Species Maratus griseus (Keyserling, 1882)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cytaea grisea Keyserling, E. 1882. Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet. Nürnberg : Bauer & Raspe Vol. 1 pp. 1325-1420. [1386, pl. 117 fig. 5].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown ♀ (in Mr Bradley's collection), Caigan, Sydney; MGH 8642 ♀, Gayndah.
• Acmaea villosa Keyserling, E. 1883. Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet. Nürnberg : Bauer & Raspe Vol. 1 pp. 1421-1489. [1421, pl. 120 fig. 3].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) ZMH MV GODEFFROY Nr.8636 1♀ &1♀juv. (Mr Bradley's collection), Sydney; MV MV, GODEFFROY Nr. 8633 1♀ &2♀juv., Peak Downs.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Otto, J.C., Hill, D.E. & Whyte, R. 2019. Australian jumping spiders of the genus Hypoblemum (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryini). Peckhamia 180.1: 1-62 [4]

Generic Combinations

• Maratus griseum (Keyserling, 1882). —
  Otto, J.C. & Hill, D.E. 2021. Catalogue of the Australian peacock spiders (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryini: Maratus, version 4. Peckhamia 148.4: 1-35 (returned to Maratus)
• Lycidas griseus (Keyserling, 1882). —
  Żabka, M. 1987. Salticidae (Araneae) of Oriental, Australian and Pacific Regions, II. Genera Lycidas and Maratus. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 40: 451-482 [470, figs 48-49]
• Maratus griseus (Keyserling, 1882). —
  Otto, J.C. & Hill, D.E. 2016. Seven new peacock spiders from Western Australia and South Australia (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryini: Maratus. Peckhamia 141.1: 1-101 [97, 99] (Interim placement in Maratus is the result of the synonymy of the genus to which they had been assigned, Lycidas, with Maratus)
• Hypoblemum griseus (Keyserling, 1882). —
  Otto, J.C., Hill, D.E. & Whyte, R. 2019. Australian jumping spiders of the genus Hypoblemum (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryini). Peckhamia 180.1: 1-62 [4] (new combination)

Introduction

This species has been variously misidentified as Euophrys parvula and Hypoblemum albovittatum: see Otto, Hill and Whyte 2019 for details.

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT)

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, carnivorous, litter, predator.

General References

Otto, J.C., Hill, D.E. & Whyte, R. 2019. Australian jumping spiders of the genus Hypoblemum (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryini). Peckhamia 180.1: 1-62 (This species has been frequently mis-identified as Euophrys parvula or Hypoblemum albovittatum)

Otto, J.C. & Hill, D.E. 2012. Notes on Maratus Karsch 1878 and related jumping spiders from Australia, with five new species (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryinae). Peckhamia 103.1: 1-81 (could not determine generic placement)

History of changes