Peacock Spider 11

This species was brought to my attention by David Knowles from Perth who spotted and photographed it, probably for the first time, in 1994 and I thank David here for helping me to locate this remarkable 4.5 mm long spider at Cape Le Grand in Western Australia. Almost 20 years later, it has just been named by David Hill and myself. We called it Maratus pardus after the ancient greek 'pardus' meaning 'leopard'. You can download the paper in which we describe it from the Peckhamia website (download may