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

Heliophanus forcipifer Kulczyński, 1895

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033798

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Description
Male

Prosoma length: 1.50 mm, prosoma width: 1.07 mm. Prosoma dark brown, ocular area black. Sternum grey. Legs dark brown with light lateral longitudinal stripes, metatarsi and tarsi yellow. Opisthosoma grey.

Female

Prosoma length: 1.87 mm, prosoma width: 1.36 mm. Colouration as in males, but paler.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Central Asia, Iran
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Rakov & Logunov 1997a)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Rakov & Logunov 1997a)

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male Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Rakov & Logunov 1997a)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Wesołowska 1986)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Wesołowska 1986)

species

male Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Wesołowska 1986)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Nuruyeva & Snegovaya 2024c)

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male Palpal femur
(Rakov & Logunov 1997a)

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male Palpal femur
(Rakov & Logunov 1997a)

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male Palpal femur
(Wesołowska 1986)

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male Palpal femur, prolateral view
(Nuruyeva & Snegovaya 2024c)

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male Palpal femur, retrolateral view
(Nuruyeva & Snegovaya 2024c)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Rakov & Logunov 1997a)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Rakov & Logunov 1997a)

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female Vulva, posterior view
(Rakov & Logunov 1997a)

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.

Armenia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Azerbaijan   (Nuruyeva & Snegovaya, 2024c) |||
References

Nuruyeva T V, Snegovaya N Y (2024c) New records of spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) from Azerbaijan. Euroasian Entomological Journal 23: 47-49 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 (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
24-07-2024 Image insert
23-07-2024 Distribution insert Detail
16-10-2014 Image insert