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Genus: Helafricanus Wesołowska, 1986 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Helafricanus decempunctatus Caporiacco, 1941

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Described:

Distribution: Ethiopia

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Lectotype: Museo Zoologico di Storia Naturale "La Specola", Università degli Studi di Firenze (MZUF), Florence, Italy f (497) - (Berdondini & Whitman, 2003)
Paralectotype: Museo Zoologico di Storia Naturale "La Specola", Università degli Studi di Firenze (MZUF), Florence, Italy 1f (496) - (Berdondini & Whitman, 2003)

Taxonomic References

Icius decempunctatus Caporiacco, 1941b: 152, f. 67 (Df) Original description

Heliophanus decempunctatus Prószyński, 1987: 57, 151 (f, T from Icius, may be H. trepidus)

Heliophanus decempunctatus Prószyński, 2017b: 31, f. 13G1 (f)

Helafricanus decempunctatus Wesołowska, 2024: 82 (T from Heliophanus)

References

Caporiacco, L. di (1941b). Arachnida (esc. Acarina). Araneae. Missione Biologica Sagan-Omo, Reale Accademia d’Italia, Roma 12(Zoologia 6): 46-175. [[the page numbers given at the single species partly refer to a differently paginated reprint]] -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1987). Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae 2. Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoly Rolniczo-Pedagogicznej Siedlcach, 172 pp. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (2017b). Pragmatic classification of the world's Salticidae (Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 12: 1-133. doi: 10.37828/em.2017.12.1 -- 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 -- 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]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Comment
2024-01-26	New taxonomic reference entry	Wesołowska, 2024
2024-01-26	Species transferred to new genus	Wesołowska, 2024	Species transferred from Heliophanus to Helafricanus
2017-09-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b