Helafricanus bisulcus (Wesołowska, 1986)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033759

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Taxonomic References
Heliophanus bisulcus Wesołowska, 1986: 16, f. 70-74 (Dm) Original description
Heliophanus villosus Wesołowska, 1986: 22, f. 176-179 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033869]
Heliophanus bisulcus Haddad & Wesołowska, 2013: 478, f. 40-43, 52 (mf, S of Heliophanus villosus)
Helafricanus bisulcus Wesołowska, 2024: 82 (T from Heliophanus)
Helafricanus bisulcus Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025c: 5, f. 1-9 (mf)
References

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Walt, V. van der, Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2025c). The Salticidae of South Africa. Part 3 (He-Iran). Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 74 pp. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.17103454 -- Show included taxa

Haddad, C. R. & Wesołowska, W. (2013). Additions to the jumping spider fauna of South Africa (Araneae: Salticidae). Genus 24(3-4): 459-501. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. (1986). A revision of the genus Heliophanus C. L. Koch, 1833 (Aranei: Salticidae). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 40: 1-254. -- 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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Metzner, H. (2026). Jumping spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) of the world. Online at https://www.jumping-spiders.com.

Prószyński, J. (2025). Salticidae (Araneae) Genera of the World "a management tool for developing a new system of Salticidae" - a scrollable e-Textbook. Version December 20th, 2025, online at http://www.salticidae.pl.

GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History
Date Type Reference Old value Comment
2025-09-12 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025c
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
2014-08-11 Species distribution update Old value
2014-06-30 New taxonomic reference entry Haddad & Wesołowska, 2013
2014-06-30 Species synonymy Haddad & Wesołowska, 2013 Heliophanus villosus synonymized with Heliophanus bisulcus

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