Heliophanus koktas Logunov, 1992
Description
Male
Prosoma length: 1.53 mm, prosoma width: 1.07 mm. Prosoma dark brown. Clypeus orange, covered with white hairs. Sternum greyish, with lighter margin. Maxillae, labium and chelicerae light orange. Legs yellow, all segments except tarsi with black stripes on prolateral-ventral side and black lines on dorsal side. Opisthosoma grey with broad yellow median band, venter grey with 2 parallel yellow lines.
Female
Prosoma length: 1.66 mm, prosoma width: 1.20 mm. Colouration somewhat lighter than in males. Prosoma light brown, eyes surrounded with black. Clypeus orange, remaining body parts yellow. Opisthosoma: dorsum with a pair of grey longitudinal stripes composed of spots.
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Rakov & Logunov 1997a)
Bulbus, prolateral view
(Rakov & Logunov 1997a)
Bulbus, ventral view
(Rakov & Logunov 1997a)
Bulbus, retrolateral view
(Rakov & Logunov 1997a)
Palpal femur
(Rakov & Logunov 1997a)
Habitus
(Rakov & Logunov 1997a)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Rakov & Logunov 1997a)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Rakov & Logunov 1997a)
Vulva, posterior view
(Rakov & Logunov 1997a)
Habitus
(Rakov & Logunov 1997a)
Distribution List
"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.
References
Esyunin S L, Vlasov S V (2021) [Remarks to the fauna and biotopic distribution of spiders in the Talovskaya steppe]. In: Steppes of Northern Eurasia. Proceedings of the IX international symposium. OSU Publishing House, Orenburg. pp. 300-304 
Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.
Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp.
Rakov S Y, Logunov D V (1997a) A critical review of the genus Heliophanus C. L. Koch, 1833, of Middle Asia and the Caucasus (Aranei Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 5(3/4): 67-104
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2
Updates
| 24-10-2025 | Distribution update | Detail |