Maratus elephans name is derived from the shape of the orange-red-blue markings on the abdomen fan of the male of the species, said to resemble an elephant. The fan is rimmed with hairs. The head of Maratus elephans is blue with broken bands of orange-red behind the eyes. The first specimens were identified from New South Wales, the
The Maratus elephans Elephant-face Peacock Spiders presented here were photographed in Tamworth, New South Wales.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Chelicerata
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Infraorder: Araneomorphae
- Family: Salticidae
- Genus: Maratus
- Species: Maratus elephans
Footnote & References
- Photographs © Michael Doe
- Maratus elephans Otto & Hill, 2015, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/Maratus elephans
- Elephant-face Peacock Spider (Maratus elephans), iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/568034-Maratus-elephans
- Maratus elephans, a new species of Peacock Spider from New South Wales, Joe Bauwens, Sciency Thoughts, http://sciencythoughts.blogspot.com/2015/04/maratus-elephans-new-species-of-peacock.html
MaratusMaratus Image Index Maratus amabilis Maratus anomalus Maratus elephans Maratus hortorum Maratus madelineae Maratus nigromaculatus Maratus plumosus Maratus purcellae Maratus speculifer Maratus volans
SpidersIndex of Spider Images Spiders in Australia Spiders Index Araneidae — Orb Weavers Spider sac Arkys Australian Huntsman Spider Barking Spider Black House Spider Carepalxis sp Celaenia sp Cosmophasis micarioides Crab Spiders Deinopidae — Net-casting Spiders Dolomedes sp Dolophones sp Euryopis Flower Spiders Gnaphosidae (Stealthy Ground Spider) Hackled Orbweavers (Uloboridae) Helpis minitabunda (Bronze Hopper) Herennia sp Jewel Spider Jumping Spider Long Jawed Spider (Tetragnatha sp) Lynx Spider (Oxyopes) Mangrovia albida Maratus Missulena occatoria (Red-headed Mouse Spider) Molycria burwelli Mopsus mormon Nicodamidae (Red and Black Spider) Nyssus coloripes (Orange-legged Swift Spider) Ogre-faced Net-casting Spider Poltys sp (Twig Spider) Scorpion-tailed Spider (Arachnura higginsi) Redback Spider Miturgidae Salticidae Tetragnatha Thomisidae Tiger Spider (Trichonephila plumipes) White-spotted Swift Spider (Nyssus albopunctatus) Wolf Spider
