Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Heliophanus  C. L. Koch, 1833   41 species

Heliophanus stylifer Simon, 1878

Description
Male

Prosoma dark brown, covered with short, dark, shiny hairs, eye field black, with metallic sheen, or at least eyes surrounded with black. Prosoma length: 1.4-1.8 mm. Sternum dark brown. Legs brown. Opisthosoma: dorsum dark brown covered with short, dark, shiny hairs, venter dark.

Female

Prosoma length: 2.0 mm. Colouration as in males.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2025): Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia
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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   (Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Morocco   (Benhalima & Bosmans, 2024) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands  Removed (Schäfer, 2015; Schäfer & Klimsa, 2017) ||| Tunisia   (Kmira et al., 2025) |||
References

Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 pdf

Benhalima S, Bosmans R (2024) First historical checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Morocco, between 1840–2024. Zootaxa 5555: 407-535 pdf

Kmira G, Nasri-Ammar, Petillon J, Bosmans R (2025) Catalog of the spiders of Tunisia (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 5641: 1-95 pdf

Schäfer M (2015) Ein Beitrag zur Springspinnenfauna der Balearen mit dem Erstnachweis von Heliophanus stylifer für Europa (Araneae, Salticidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 49: 62-67 pdf

Schäfer M, Klimsa E (2017) Ein Beitrag zur Springspinnenfauna Spaniens mit drei Erstnachweisen für die Balearen (Araneae, Salticidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 53: 62-66 pdf

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

WSC (2025) World Spider Catalog. Version 26. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (28.2.2025) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
06-11-2025 Distribution update Detail
06-11-2025 Distribution insert Detail
04-04-2017 Distribution update Detail
01-07-2015 Image insert
01-07-2015 Distribution update Detail