First photograph of an unknown peacock spider

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On 19 June 2020 Sunayana Rammohan from Bunbury in Western Australia reported an undescribed peacock spider she found at Cape Naturaliste in the southwest of Western Australia. The spider stands out by its brightly coloured abdomen, orange stripes on a blue iridescent background. This is the second undescribed species Sunayana found. The previous one was named after her Maratus suae. It is unknown at this point what the new one will be called.