Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Helafricanus  Wesołowska, 1986   1 species

Helafricanus edentulus  (Simon, 1871)

Description
Male

Prosoma brown, eye field black or at least eyes surrounded with blackm some specimens with indistinct white longitudinal band. Sternum yellow or brown. Legs yellow or brown. Opisthosoma light or dark brown, anterior margin light, with leaf-like pattern.

Body length male: 3.5-5.2 mm
Female

Colouration as in males.

Body length female: 4.3-4.7 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Nigeria, Mediterranean to Iran
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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.

Algeria   (Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Egypt   (El-Hennawy, 2017a) ||| France / Corsica   (Wesołowska, 1986) ||| Greece   (Logunov, 2015) ||| Libya   (Wesołowska, 1986) ||| Morocco   (Wesołowska, 1986) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2024) ||| Turkey (Europe)   (Demircan & Topçu, 2016) |||
References

Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 pdf

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173 pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2024) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2024 [last updated 01 January 2024], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Demircan N, Topçu A (2016) First records for spider fauna of the European part of Turkey (Araneae). Serket 15: 85-91 pdf

El-Hennawy H K (2017a) A list of Egyptian spiders (revised in 2017). Serket 15: 167-183 pdf

Lecigne S (2021a) A new species of Sintula (Linyphiidae), redescription of Brigittea innocens (Dictynidae) and eight spider species newly recorded for Turkey (Araneae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 62: 11-34 pdf

Logunov D V (2015) Taxonomic-faunistic notes on the jumping spiders of the Mediterranean (Aranei: Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 24: 33-85 pdf

Metzner H (1999) Die Springspinnen (Araneae, Salticidae) Griechenlands. Andrias 14: 1-279 pdf

Wesołowska W (1986) A revision of the genus Heliophanus C. L. Koch, 1833 (Aranei: Salticidae). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 40: 1-254 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
14-03-2023 Distribution update Detail
14-03-2023 Distribution insert Detail
08-07-2021 Image insert
02-07-2021 Distribution update Detail
16-05-2018 Distribution update Detail
16-07-2015 Distribution update Detail
16-10-2014 Datasheet update Detail
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