Taxon details

Family: Salticidae / Genus: Helafricanus

Helafricanus imperator (Wesołowska, 1986)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-01-26
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033810]
  • Distribution: Kenya, Malawi
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Zoological Museum of Uppsala University (ZMUU/UUZM), Uppsala, Sweden; m (1835), see also Wesołowska, 1986 (Wallin, 2001)
  • Paratype: Zoological Museum of Uppsala University (ZMUU/UUZM), Uppsala, Sweden; 3m (1835), see also Wesołowska, 1986 (Wallin, 2001)
  • Paratype: Zoological Museum of Uppsala University (ZMUU/UUZM), Uppsala, Sweden; 5f (incl. allotype, 1837) of Heliophanus gladiator belong to this species per Wesołowska, 2003a (Wallin, 2001)
  • Paratype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium; 2f (147311, 153015) of Heliophanus gladiator belong to this species per Wesołowska, 2003a (Wesołowska, 1986)
Taxonomic references
Heliophanus imperator Wesołowska, 1986: 25, f. 226-230 (Dm).
Heliophanus gladiator Wesołowska, 1986: 38, f. 438-441 (f; misidentified per Wesołowska, 2003a: 265).
Heliophanus imperator Wesołowska, 2003a: 265, f. 49-54 (mf).
Helafricanus imperator Wesołowska, 2024: 82 (T from Heliophanus).
References

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. (2003a). New data on African Heliophanus species with descriptions of new species (Araneae: Salticidae). Genus 14: 249-294. 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
2024-01-26 New taxonomic reference entry Wesołowska, 1986 n/a