Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Heliophanillus  Prószyński, 1989   1 species

Heliophanillus fulgens  (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)

Description
Male

Prosoma and opisthosoma rusty brown with white hairs on black margin, clear orange-brown iridescent scales. Head plate and eye region wrinkled, glossy and black. Palp rusty brown, distally lighter.

Body length male: 2.25-2.9 mm
Female

Colouration as in males. A bit lighter, opisthosoma with white hairs on anterior margin.

Body length female: 3.3 mm
Additional information

on a garden wall (Chios, Greece)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2023): Greece to Central Asia, Afghanistan
Figures
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   (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Egypt   (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| Greece   (Russell-Smith et al., 2011) ||| Greece / Crete   (no references) ||| Libya   (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2022) |||
References

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

Bosmans R. (unpubl.) Provisional list of spiders of North Africa. Database excerpt Aug. 2019

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S (2022) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2022 [last updated 24 August 2022], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Logunov D V (2021b) Further notes on the jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of Afghanistan. Arachnology 18: 821-828 pdf

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

Russell-Smith A, Allison R, Askins M, Blumsom W, Snazell R, Spilling C (2011) A provisional checklist and gazetteer of the spiders of Chios, Greece (Arachnida: Araneae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 15: 133-167 pdf

WSC (2023) World Spider Catalog. Version 24. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (14.02.2023) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
05-07-2021 Image insert
05-07-2021 Distribution update Detail
19-07-2016 Datasheet update Detail