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Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Helafricanus  Wesołowska, 1986   2 species

Helafricanus fascinatus (Wesołowska, 1986)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033796

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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
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Hänggi & Stäubli 2012)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Hänggi & Stäubli 2012)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Hänggi & Stäubli 2012)

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male Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Wesołowska & Haddad 2009)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Wesołowska & Haddad 2009)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Wesołowska & Haddad 2009)

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male Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Wesołowska 1986)

species

male Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Wesołowska 1986)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Wesołowska 1986)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Wesołowska 1986)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Wesołowska 1986)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Wesołowska 1986)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Wesołowska 1986)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Wesołowska 1986)

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male Tip of pedipalp, ventro-retrolateral view
(Hänggi & Stäubli 2012)

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male Tip of embolus, ventro-lateral view
(Wesołowska & Haddad 2009)

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female Epigyne
(Wesołowska & Haddad 2009)

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female Epigyne
(Wesołowska 1986)

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female Epigyne
(Wesołowska 1986)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Wesołowska 1986)

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.

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