Taxon details

Family: Salticidae / Genus: Helafricanus

Helafricanus modicus (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1903)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2024-01-26
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033834]
  • Distribution: South Africa, Lesotho, Madagascar
Type deposit provide information
  • Lectotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA; f (231) (Wesołowska, 1986)
  • Paralectotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA; 2f 3j (231) (Wesołowska, 1986)
Taxonomic references
Heliophanus modicus Peckham & Peckham, 1903: 193, pl. 20, f. 2 (Df).
Heliophanus modicus Wesołowska, 1986: 25, f. 215-225 (f, Dm).
Helafricanus modicus Wesołowska, 2024: 82 (T from Heliophanus).
References

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1903). New species of the family Attidae from South Africa, with notes on the distribution of the genera found in the Ethiopian region. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 14(1): 173-278, pl. 19-29. download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

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

Wesołowska, W. (2024). Taxonomic notes on the genus Heliophanus C.L. Koch, 1833, with description of three additional genera (Araneae: Salticidae: Chrysillini). Zootaxa 5405(1): 80-92. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5405.1.3 download pdf -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

Metzner, H. (2019). Jumping spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) of the world. Online at https://www.jumping-spiders.com.

Prószyński, J. (2016). Monograph of Salticidae (Araneae) of the World 1995-2015. Part II. Global Species Database of Salticidae (Araneae). Version October 30th, 2016, online at http://www.salticidae.pl. download pdf

Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2024-01-26 New taxonomic reference entry Wesołowska, 2024 n/a
2024-01-26 Species transferred to new genus Wesołowska, 2024 Species transferred from Heliophanus to Helafricanus
2014-09-29 Species distribution update Wesołowska & Haddad, 2014 n/a (Old value)