Taxon details

Family: Salticidae / Genus: Helafricanus

Helafricanus fascinatus (Wesołowska, 1986)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-01-26
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033796]
  • Distribution: Sudan, Congo to South Africa, Yemen
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium; m (12025) (Wesołowska, 1986)
  • Paratype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium; 3m 16f 5j (24833, 119885, 130155, 132815, 146546) (Wesołowska, 1986)
  • Paratype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK; 2m 3f (Wesołowska, 1986)
  • Allotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium; f (12027) (Wesołowska, 1986)
Taxonomic references
Heliophanus fascinatus Wesołowska, 1986: 23, f. 186-198 (Dmf).
Heliophanus fascinatus Wesołowska & Haddad, 2009: 44, f. 76-80 (mf).
Heliophanus fascinatus Hänggi & Stäubli, 2012: 71, f. 9.1-4 (m).
Helafricanus fascinatus Wesołowska, 2024: 82 (T from Heliophanus).
References

Hänggi, A. & Stäubli, A. (2012). Nachträge zum "Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen" 4. Neunachweise von 2002 bis 2011. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 44: 59-76. doi:10.5431/aramit4410 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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

Wesołowska, W. & Haddad, C. R. (2009). Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of the Ndumo Game Reserve, Maputaland, South Africa. African Invertebrates 50(1): 13-103. doi:10.5733/afin.050.0102 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. (2024). Taxonomic notes on the genus Heliophanus C.L. Koch, 1833, with description of three additional genera (Araneae: Salticidae: Chrysillini). Zootaxa 5405(1): 80-92. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5405.1.3 download pdf -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

Metzner, H. (2019). Jumping spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) of the world. Online at https://www.jumping-spiders.com.

Prószyński, J. (2016). Monograph of Salticidae (Araneae) of the World 1995-2015. Part II. Global Species Database of Salticidae (Araneae). Version October 30th, 2016, online at http://www.salticidae.pl. download pdf

Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2024-01-26 New taxonomic reference entry Wesołowska, 2024 n/a
2024-01-26 Species transferred to new genus Wesołowska, 2024 Species transferred from Heliophanus to Helafricanus