Taxon details
Heliophanus hamifer Simon, 1886
- Rank: Species
- Status: accepted
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Described:
- Last updated: 2025-09-13
- LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033804]
- Distribution: Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa, Comoros, Mayotte, Seychelles, Madagascar. Introduced to Brazil
- External Resources *:
- It is widely assumed that most of the type material from Simon can be found in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France
Heliophanus hamifer Simon, 1901e: 53, f. 2 (m).
Heliophanus hamifer Wanless, 1984c: 73, f. 24a-f (m, Df).
Heliophanus hamifer Wesołowska, 1986: 37, f. 420-431 (mf).
Heliophanus hamifer Saaristo, 2010: 189, f. 27.64-67 (mf).
Heliophanus hamifer Dierkens, 2012c: 72, f. 1-3 (mf).
Heliophanus hamifer Michelotto & Santos, 2023: 2, f. 2.1-6, 3.1-4, 4.1-9 (mf).
Heliophanus hamifer Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025c: 39, f. 1-6 (mf).
Dierkens, M. (2012c). Le genre Heliophanus (Araneae, Salticidae) à Mayotte (Comores), avec la description de Heliophanus (Heliocapensis) comorensis n. sp. Cahiers Musée des Confluences - Études scientifiques 3: 71-74. 
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Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Walt, V. van der, Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2025c). The Salticidae of South Africa. Part 3 (He-Iran). Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 74 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.17103454 -- Show included taxa
Michelotto, A. S. & Santos, A. J. (2023). A new alien species in Brazil: Heliophanus hamifer Simon, 1886. Peckhamia 300.1: 1-7. -- Show included taxa
Saaristo, M. I. (2010). Araneae. In: Gerlach, J. & Marusik, Y. M. (eds.) Arachnida and Myriapoda of the Seychelles islands. Siri Scientific Press, Manchester, pp. 8-306. -- Show included taxa
Simon, E. (1886g). Etudes arachnologiques. 18e Mémoire. XXVI. Matériaux pour servir à la faune des Arachnides du Sénégal. (Suivi d'une appendice intitulé: Descriptions de plusieurs espèces africaines nouvelles). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (6) 5: 345-396. -- Show included taxa
Simon, E. (1901e). Etudes arachnologiques. 31e Mémoire. XLVIII. Etude sur les Heliophanus d'Afrique et de Madagascar. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 70(1): 52-61. -- Show included taxa
Wanless, F. R. (1984c). Araneae-Salticidae. Contributions à l'étude de la faune terrestre des îles granitiques de l'archipel des Séchelles (Mission P.L.G. Benoit - J.J. Van Mol). Annales, Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Sciences zoologiques 241: 1-84. -- 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
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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.
| Date | Type | Reference | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-13 | New taxonomic reference entry | Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025c | n/a |
| 2025-09-13 | Species distribution update | Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025c | n/a (Old value) |
| 2023-06-26 | New taxonomic reference entry | Michelotto & Santos, 2023 | n/a |
| 2023-06-26 | Species distribution update | Michelotto & Santos, 2023 | n/a (Old value) |