Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Helafricanus  Wesołowska, 1986   2 species

Helafricanus fascinatus (Wesołowska, 1986)

Description
Distribution
  Presence
  Not established
  No data
Distribution comment: Switzerland: sub 'prope' fascinatus
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Ghana, Sudan, DR Congo, Rwanda, Botswana, South Africa, Yemen
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"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.

Switzerland   (Hänggi & Stäubli, 2012) |||
References

Hänggi A, Stäubli A (2012) Nachträge zum „Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen“: 4. Neunachweise von 2002 bis 2011. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 44: 59-76 pdf

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

Wesołowska W, Haddad C R (2009) Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of the Ndumo Game Reserve, Maputaland, South Africa. African Invertebrates 50: 13-103 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
12-09-2025 Image insert
12-09-2025 Distribution insert Detail