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Genus: Heliophanus C. L. Koch, 1833 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Heliophanus agricola Wesołowska, 1986

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033749

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Described:

Distribution: Algeria, Portugal, Spain (incl. Balearic Is.)

External Resources*: Jumping Spiders of the World Metzner (2026) | Salticidae Database Prószyński (2025) | araneae - Spiders of Europe | GBIF

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France m (1269) - (Wesołowska, 1986)
Paratype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France 6m 2f (1269, 1661, 5414, 22599) - (Wesołowska, 1986)
Paratype: Museum and Institute of Zoology (MIZ), Polish Academy of Science (PAN), Warsaw, Poland 1m - (Wesołowska, 1986)
Paratype: Jörg Wunderlich Private Collection, Hirschberg, Germany 2m 1f 1j - (Wesołowska, 1986)
Allotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France f (1269) - (Wesołowska, 1986)

Taxonomic References

Heliophanus agricola Wesołowska, 1986: 209, f. 589-594, 597-600 (Dmf; f. 595-596 see Heliophanus agricoloides) Original description

Heliophanus agricola Logunov, 2015a: 62, f. 100-101 (f)

Heliophanus agricola Schäfer & Klimsa, 2017: 62, f. 1-4 (mf)

Heliophanus agricola Lecigne, 2017: 34, f. 10K (m)

Heliophanus agricola Wunderlich, 2023: 74, f. 184-185 (m)

References

Lecigne, S. (2017). Contribution a la connaissance de l’araneofaune (Araneae) de l’Algarve (Portugal). Description de Theridion bernardi n.sp. (Araneae: Theridiidae) et redécouverte d’Ozyptila perplexa Simon, 1875 (Araneae: Thomisidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 31: 25-48. -- Show included taxa

Logunov, D. V. (2015a). Taxonomic-faunistic notes on the jumping spiders of the Mediterranean (Aranei: Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 24(1): 33-85. doi: 10.15298/arthsel.24.1.03 -- Show included taxa

Schäfer, M. & Klimsa, E. (2017). Ein Beitrag zur Springspinnenfauna Spaniens mit drei Erstnachweisen für die Balearen (Araneae, Salticidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 53: 62-66. doi: 10.5431/aramit5310 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. (1986). A revision of the genus Heliophanus C. L. Koch, 1833 (Aranei: Salticidae). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 40: 1-254. -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (2023). Contribution to the spider (Araneida) fauna of the Algarve, Portugal, with notes on the phylogeny of the superfamily Araneoidea and the description of the new araneoid family Fonteferridae. Beiträge zur Araneologie 16: 4-112, 231-233. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Metzner, H. (2026). Jumping spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) of the world. Online at https://www.jumping-spiders.com.

Prószyński, J. (2025). Salticidae (Araneae) Genera of the World "a management tool for developing a new system of Salticidae" - a scrollable e-Textbook. Version December 20th, 2025, online at http://www.salticidae.pl.

Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Kropf, C., Stäubli, A.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 01.2026. doi: 10.24436/1

GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value
2026-01-07	Species distribution update	Schäfer, 2025	Old value
2024-02-17	Species distribution update	Wunderlich, 1987a	Old value
2023-11-20	New taxonomic reference entry	Wunderlich, 2023
2023-11-20	Species distribution update	Wesołowska, 1986	Old value
2018-01-01	New taxonomic reference entry	Lecigne, 2017
2018-01-01	Species distribution update	Lecigne, 2017	Old value
2017-04-05	New taxonomic reference entry	Schäfer & Klimsa, 2017
2015-07-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Logunov, 2015a