Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spiderfam:0101] Back

Gen. Maratus Karsch, 1878 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03055 ]
N.B.: revalidated by Żabka, 1987b: 479; considered a senior synonym of Lycidas Karsch, 1878d: 25 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03037] (type L. anomalus Karsch, 1878) by Otto & Hill, 2012a: 23 (revalidated by Prószyński, 1984a: 159 and considered not a senior synonym of Jotus L. Koch, 1881 by Davies & Żabka, 1989: 238, contra Żabka, 1987b: 451); considered a senior synonym of Hypoblemum Peckham & Peckham, 1886: 326 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:02999] (type Acmaea villosa Keyserling, 1883 = Maratus griseus (Keyserling, 1882)) and of Saratus Otto & Hill, 2017a: 70 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:04384] (type S. hesperus Otto & Hill, 2017) by Otto & Hill, 2021: 1; Hypoblemum is a replacement name for Drepanephora Keyserling, 1883b: 1477 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05616] (preoccupied in fossil Gastropoda by Eschscholtz, 1830), which itself is a replacement name for Acmaea Keyserling, 1883b: 1421 [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:05615] [by Keyserling, 1882: 1420 as nomen nudum] (preoccupied in Diptera by Loew, 1869); an unidentified female was illustrated by Davies & Żabka, 1989: 238, pl. 40.
Status: accepted
Last updated
2024-09-08
Described in
Karsch, 1878d: 27 (type Maratus amabilis Karsch, 1878; gender masculine)
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Species counts
Counts Status
113accepted
6synonym
1homonym replaced
Reference

Karsch, F. (1878d). Diagnoses Attoidarum aliquot novarum Novae Hollandiae collectionis Musei Zoologici Berolinensis. Mittheilungen des Münchener Entomologischen Vereins 2: 22-32. download pdf

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Date Type Reference Detail
2021-02-24 Genus synonymy Otto & Hill, 2021 Saratus synonymized with Maratus
2021-02-24 Genus synonymy Otto & Hill, 2021 Hypoblemum synonymized with Maratus