Taxon details

Family: Salticidae / Genus: Heliocapensis

Heliocapensis termitophagus (Wesołowska & Haddad, 2002)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-01-26
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:039092]
  • Distribution: South Africa
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium; m (211409) (Wesołowska & Haddad, 2002)
  • Holotype: National Collection of Arachnida (NCA), ARC – Plant Protection Research Institute (PPRI), Pretoria, South Africa; m (2009/3249) of Heliocapensis thaleri (Marais et al., 2013)
  • Paratype: National Collection of Arachnida (NCA), ARC – Plant Protection Research Institute (PPRI), Pretoria, South Africa; 1m 1f (2002/1050) (Marais et al., 2013)
  • Paratype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium; 6f 1j (211410, 211412) (Wesołowska & Haddad, 2002)
  • Paratype: Museum of Natural History, University of Wroclaw, Poland; 1m 1f (Wesołowska & Haddad, 2002)
  • Paratype: National Museum, Bloemfontein (NMBA), South Africa; 2m 2f 2j (A/9425) (Wesołowska & Haddad, 2002)
  • Paratype: American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, USA; 2m 2f 2j (Wesołowska & Haddad, 2002)
  • Paratype: California Academy of Sciences (CAS), San Francisco, USA; 2m 2f 2j (Wesołowska & Haddad, 2002)
  • Paratype: National Museum of Zimbabwe (NMZ), Bulawayo, Zimbabwe; 2m 2f 2j (A/14275) (Wesołowska & Haddad, 2002)
Taxonomic references
Heliophanus termitophagus Wesołowska & Haddad, 2002: 198, f. 1A-F, 2A-F (Dmf; N.B.: spelled termiophagus in species heading, but correct elsewhere).
Heliophanus thaleri Wesołowska, 2009d: 1409, f. 1-5 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:042971].
Heliocapensis termitophagus Wesołowska, 2024: 85, 90 (S of Heliophanus thaleri, T from Heliophanus).
References

Wesołowska, W. & Haddad, C. R. (2002). A new termitivorous jumping spider from South Africa (Araneae Salticidae). Tropical Zoology 15(2): 197-207. doi:10.1080/03946975.2002.10531174 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. (2009d). New species of jumping spiders from South Africa (Araneae: Salticidae). Contributions to Natural History 12: 1409-1413. 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 Species synonymy Wesołowska, 2024 Heliocapensis thaleri synonymized with Heliocapensis termitophagus
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 Heliocapensis