Heliophanus dunini Rakov & Logunov, 1997
Description
Male
Prosoma length: 2.50 mm, prosoma width: 1.70 mm. Prosoma dark brown, ocular area black. Sternum and labium brown. Maxillae light brown. Leg I brown, legs II-IV yellow. Opisthosoma grey, dorsum with 5 white spots, venter with a pair of white spots in the front of spinnerets.
Female
Prosoma length: 2.30 mm, prosoma width: 1.59 mm. Colouration as in males except opisthosoma: dorsum with a single white spot and venter with a pair of white longitudinal lines converging near spinnerets.
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Rakov & Logunov 1997a)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Rakov & Logunov 1997a)
Palpal femur
(Rakov & Logunov 1997a)
Palpal femur
(Rakov & Logunov 1997a)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Rakov & Logunov 1997a)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Rakov & Logunov 1997a)
Vulva, posterior view
(Rakov & Logunov 1997a)
Distribution List
References
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Logunov D V (2015) Taxonomic-faunistic notes on the jumping spiders of the Mediterranean (Aranei: Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 24: 33-85
Mikhailov K G, Propistsova E A (2017) On the spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) from Armenia. Arthropoda Selecta 26: 369-371
Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.
Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp.
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
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2