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 mmFemale
Colouration as in males, except legs yellow and opisthosoma sometimes with very distinct white marks.
Body length female: 4.8 mmDistribution
Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Simon 1937)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Wesołowska 1986)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Wesołowska 1986)
Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Wesołowska 1986)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Wesołowska 1986)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Wesołowska 1986)
Pedipalp with tibia, patella and femur, retrolateral view
(Gündüz & Kaya 2023)
Pedipalp with tibia, patella and femur, retrolateral view
(Gündüz & Kaya 2023)
Pedipalp with tibia, patella and femur, ventral view
(Gündüz & Kaya 2023)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Gündüz & Kaya 2023)
Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Düzgünses et al. 2024)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Düzgünses et al. 2024)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Düzgünses et al. 2024)
Femoral apophysis
(Wesołowska 1986)
Palpal femur
(Simon 1937)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Wesołowska 1986)
Epigyne
(Düzgünses et al. 2024)
Vulva, ventral view
(Wesołowska 1986)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Wesołowska 1986)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Düzgünses et al. 2024)
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
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 
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
Gündüz G, Kaya R S (2023) Contributions to the spider (Araneae) fauna of Türkiye. Commagene Journal of Biology 7: 159-163
Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468
Lissner J (2016c) A small study of the Corsican spider and pseudoscorpion fauna (Araneae, Pseudoscorpiones). Nieuwsbrief SPINED 36: 5-15
Logunov D V (2024a) Salticidae (Araneae) imported to the United Kingdom, with description of a new, non-native, species of Anasaitis Bryant, 1950. Arachnology 19: 1036-1042
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
Schäfer M (2015) Ein Beitrag zur Springspinnenfauna der Balearen mit dem Erstnachweis von Heliophanus stylifer für Europa (Araneae, Salticidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 49: 62-67
Simon E (1937) Les arachnides de France 6 (5). Paris (Roret): 979-1298
Wesołowska W (1986) A revision of the genus Heliophanus C. L. Koch, 1833 (Aranei: Salticidae). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 40: 1-254
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
Updates
| 18-04-2024 | Distribution insert | Detail |
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| 28-12-2016 | Datasheet update | Detail |
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| 01-07-2015 | Distribution update | Detail |
| 16-10-2014 | Datasheet update | Detail |
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| 09-07-2013 | Distribution update | Detail |