Species Maratus nigriceps (Keyserling, 1882)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Thorellia nigriceps Keyserling, E. 1882. Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet. Nürnberg : Bauer & Raspe Vol. 1 pp. 1325-1420. [1359s pl. 115 figs 5, 6].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) MGH 7647 ♀, Gayndah, Qld; whereabouts unknown (Mr Bradley's collection), Sydney, Bellevue Hill, Cape York.

Generic Combinations

• Lycidas nigriceps (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 46-47]
• Saitis nigriceps (Keyserling, 1882). —
  Rainbow, W.J. 1911. A census of Australian Araneidae. Records of the Australian Museum 9(2): 107-319 [Vol 9 titled as published 1912-1913, but Part 2 published 2 Oct 1911]
• Maratus nigriceps (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)

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, Tas: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Wet Tropics (WT)

Other Regions

Lord Howe Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, carnivorous, litter, predator.

General References

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)

Rainbow, W.J. 1920. Arachnida from Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 1: 229-272 [264]

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