Taxon details

Family: Salticidae / Genus: Helafricanus

Helafricanus giltayi (Lessert, 1933)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-01-26
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033800]
  • Distribution: Kenya to Angola
Type deposit provide information
  • Syntype: Museo Zoologico di Storia Naturale "La Specola", Università degli Studi di Firenze (MZUF), Florence, Italy; 1m 3f (646) of Heliophanus clercki (Berdondini & Whitman, 2003)
Taxonomic references
Heliophanus giltayi Lessert, 1933: 147, f. 64-66 (Dmf).
Heliophanus clercki Caporiacco, 1949a: 477, f. 92a-b (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:059805].
Heliophanus giltayi Wesołowska, 1986: 24, f. 201-209 (mf, S of Heliophanus clercki).
Helafricanus giltayi Wesołowska, 2024: 82 (T from Heliophanus).
References

Caporiacco, L. di (1949a). Aracnidi della colonia del Kenya raccolti da Toschi e Meneghetti negli anni 1944-1946. Commentationes Pontificia Academia Scientiarum 13: 309-492. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lessert, R. de (1933). Araignées d'Angola. Résultats de la Mission scientifique suisse en Angola 1928-1929. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 40(1): 85-159. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.117656 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. (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