Peacock spider / Gliding spider (Maratus volans) The Peacock spider or Gliding spider (Maratus volans) is a species of jumping spider. Octavius Pickard-Cambridge noted in his original description that “it is difficult to describe adequately the great beauty of the colouring of this spider”. The red, blue and black colored males have flap-like extensions of the abdomen with white hairs […]