Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Heliophanillus  Prószyński, 1989   1 species

Heliophanillus fulgens  (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)

Description
Male

Prosoma and opisthosoma rusty brown with white hairs on black margin, clear orange-brown iridescent scales. Head plate and eye region wrinkled, glossy and black. Palp rusty brown, distally lighter.

Body length male: 2.25-2.9 mm
Female

Colouration as in males. A bit lighter, opisthosoma with white hairs on anterior margin.

Body length female: 3.3 mm
Additional information

on a garden wall (Chios, Greece)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): North Africa, Greece to Central Asia, Afghanistan
Figures
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   (Wesołowska, 1988) ||| Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Egypt   (El-Hennawy, 2017a) ||| Greece   (Russell-Smith et al., 2011) ||| Greece / Crete   (Bosmans et al., 2013) ||| Libya   (Wesołowska, 1988) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2024) |||
References

Abdel-Ghani D M A, Hassan F M, Sallam G M E (2023) Spiders as a bio-agent factor in a mango greenhouse at Giza Governorate, Egypt. Serket 20: 26-38 pdf

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173 pdf

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Kronestedt T, Alderweireldt M, Bosselaers J, De Koninck H (2013) Spiders of Crete (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from the Greek island of Crete. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 28 (Suppl. 1): 1-147 pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2024) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2024 [last updated 01 January 2024], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

El-Hennawy H K (2017a) A list of Egyptian spiders (revised in 2017). Serket 15: 167-183 pdf

Logunov D V (2021b) Further notes on the jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of Afghanistan. Arachnology 18: 821-828 pdf

Metzner H (1999) Die Springspinnen (Araneae, Salticidae) Griechenlands. Andrias 14: 1-279 pdf

Russell-Smith A, Allison R, Askins M, Blumsom W, Snazell R, Spilling C (2011) A provisional checklist and gazetteer of the spiders of Chios, Greece (Arachnida: Araneae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 15: 133-167 pdf

Wesołowska W (1988) Redescriptions of three species of the genus Icius Simon, 1876 (Aranei: Salticidae). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 41: 395-402 pdf

Wesołowska W, Harten A van (1994) The jumping spiders (Salticidae, Araneae) of Yemen. Yemeni-German Plant Protection Project, Sana'a, 86 pp. 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
22-04-2024 Image insert
09-01-2024 Distribution update Detail
05-07-2021 Image insert
05-07-2021 Distribution update Detail
19-07-2016 Datasheet update Detail