Maratus plumosus is a species of the genus Maratus (peacock spiders), common name Plumed Peacock Spider.
After doing their famed “arm in the air” dance, the male Peacock Spiders move in for the mating (assuming the female wants or lets him). In the following photo, the male Maratus plumosus has flipped the female over and is inserting his sperm package into her.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Chelicerata
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Infraorder: Araneomorphae
- Family: Salticidae
- Genus: Maratus
- Species: Maratus plumosus
Footnote & References
- Photographs © Michael Doe
- Photograph © Marc Newman
- Maratus nigromaculatus (Keyserling, 1883), Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/Maratus nigromaculatus
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
