Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Heliophanus  C. L. Koch, 1833   40 species

Heliophanus verus Wesołowska, 1986

Description
Male

Prosoma length: 1.75 mm, prosoma width: 1.25 mm. Prosoma dark brown, ocular area black. Sternum and chelicerae dark brown. Maxillae brown. Labium black. Legs brown, with dorsal longitudinal stripes, metatarsi and tarsi yellow. Opisthosoma grey.

Female

Prosoma length: 2.25 mm, prosoma width: 1.65 mm. Colouration as in males but lighter. Legs yellow.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Azerbaijan, Iran
Phenology
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Distribution List
Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Turkey (Asia)  Removed (Logunov, 2023a; Coşar & Varol, 2016) |||
References

Coşar İ, Varol M İ (2016) Six new records for the spider fauna of Turkey (Araneae: Salticidae) Turkish Journal of Entomology 40: 157-163 pdf

Logunov D V (2023a) On the jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from Iran collected by Antoine Senglet (1927–2015). Arachnology 19: 732-768 pdf

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

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 pdf

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

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
14-03-2023 Image insert
14-03-2023 Distribution update Detail
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06-12-2016 Datasheet update Detail
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