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Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Helpis  Simon, 1901   1 species

Helpis occidentalis  Simon, 1909

Description
Additional information

This species of Australian origin is not native to Europe (alien species). It had been introduced to Europe at least once and did not yet establish.

Distribution
  Presence
  Not established
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Australia. Introduced to Britain
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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.

United Kingdom   (Logunov & Popovici, 2021) |||
References

Gardzińska J (1996) New species and records of Astieae (Araneae: Salticidae) from Australia and Papua New Guinea. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 39: 297-305 pdf

Logunov D V, Popovici G (2021) On two new non-native species of spiders (Araneae: Salticidae and Titanoecidae) from the United Kingdom. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 152: 5-6 pdf

Wanless F R (1988) A revision of the spider group Astieae (Araneae: Salticidae) in the Australian region. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 15: 81-172 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
07-01-2022 Image insert
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05-01-2022 Distribution insert Detail