Abstract
Three new species of the peacock spider genus Maratus Karsch, 1878 are described from the vicinity of Lake Jasper and Mount Romance in the Southwestern Australia ecoregion: M. aquilus sp. nov., M. combustus sp. nov., M. felinus sp. nov.
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