Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Heliophanus  C. L. Koch, 1833   41 species

Heliophanus apiatus  Simon, 1868

Description
Male

Prosoma dark brown or black, with metallic sheen, thoracic part covered with few white hairs. Sternum black. Legs dark brown, sometimes with white scales at bases of segments. Opisthosoma dark brown or black, anterior margin with narrow white band and 2 pairs of white marks.

Body length male: 3.9 mm
Female

Colouration as in males, except legs yellow and opisthosoma sometimes with very distinct white marks.

Body length female: 4.8 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Portugal to Italy, Turkey. Introduced to USA
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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.

France   (Le Peru, 2007; Simon, 1937) ||| France / Corsica   (Lissner, 2016c) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands   (Branco et al., 2019; Schäfer, 2015) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Gündüz & Kaya, 2023) ||| Turkey (Europe)   (Gündüz & Kaya, 2023) |||
References

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Düzgünses F A, Coşar İ, Danışman T (2024) Occurence of an introduced synantropic sun jumping spider (Araneae: Salticidae) in Türkiye. Munis Entomology and Zoology 19: 67-72 pdf

Gündüz G, Kaya R S (2023) Contributions to the spider (Araneae) fauna of Türkiye. Commagene Journal of Biology 7: 159-163 pdf

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

Lissner J (2016c) A small study of the Corsican spider and pseudoscorpion fauna (Araneae, Pseudoscorpiones). Nieuwsbrief SPINED 36: 5-15 pdf

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

Schäfer M (2015) Ein Beitrag zur Springspinnenfauna der Balearen mit dem Erstnachweis von Heliophanus stylifer für Europa (Araneae, Salticidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 49: 62-67 pdf

Simon E (1937) Les arachnides de France 6 (5). Paris (Roret): 979-1298 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
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