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

Heliophanus agricoloides Wunderlich, 1987

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033750

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Described:

Distribution: Canary Is.

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019) Heliophanus agricoloides Wunderlich, 1987, 1 m (37287-141) -
Paratype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany (data base search of type material, 11.01.2019) Heliophanus agricoloides Wunderlich, 1987, 1 m, 1 m (subadult), 1 f (37301-141) -

Taxonomic References

Heliophanus agricola Wesołowska, 1986: 209, f. 595-596 (m; misidentified per Wunderlich, 1987a: 272)

Heliophanus agricoloides Wunderlich, 1987a: 272, f. 686a-d (Dmf) Original description

Heliophanus agricoloides Logunov, 2015a: 62, f. 95-99, 102-103 (mf)

Heliophanus agricoloides Wunderlich, 2017b: 318 (might be S of H. agricola)

Heliophanus agricoloides Schäfer, 2022: 67, f. 18a-c (f habitus)

References

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. (2022). Ein Beitrag zur Springspinnenfauna (Araneae: Salticidae) der Kanarischen Inseln mit der Erstbeschreibung von Euophrys arnograbollei spec. nov. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 64: 57-72. doi: 10.30963/aramit6408 -- 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. (1987a). Die Spinnen der Kanarischen Inseln und Madeiras: Adaptive Radiation, Biogeographie, Revisionen und Neubeschreibungen. Triops Langen, 435 pp. -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (2017b). Descriptions, notes and synonyms of some mainly Mediterranean and Macaronesian spiders (Araneae) of various families. Beiträge zur Araneologie 10: 298-326, 354. -- 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.

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

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference
2024-02-17	New taxonomic reference entry	Wesołowska, 1986
2023-01-09	New taxonomic reference entry	Schäfer, 2022
2017-03-20	New taxonomic reference entry	Wunderlich, 2017b
2015-07-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Logunov, 2015a