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Genus: Trapezocephalus Berland & Millot, 1941 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Trapezocephalus cassinicola (Simon, 1909)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033765

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Described:

Distribution: West, Central, East Africa, Mozambique, Yemen

External Resources*: Jumping Spiders of the World Metzner (2026) | Salticidae Database Prószyński (2025) | GBIF

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museo Civico Storia Naturale G. Doria, Genova (MCSNG), Italy m - (Wesołowska, 1986)
Syntype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France 2m 1j of Heliophanus milloti - (Wesołowska, 1986)
Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France m of Trapezocephalus aelurilliformis - (Wesołowska, 1986)
Paratype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France 1m of Trapezocephalus aelurilliformis - (Wesołowska, 1986)

Taxonomic References

Heliophanus cassinicola Simon, 1909f: 424, f. 20 (Dm) Original description

Trapezocephalus aelurilliformis Berland & Millot, 1941: 358, f. 57 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:059807]

Heliophanus milloti Denis, 1955b: 118, f. 18-19 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:059808]

Heliophanus cassinicola Wesołowska, 1986: 28, f. 261-278 (mf, S of Heliophanus milloti and Trapezocephalus aelurilliformis)

Heliophanus cassinicola Wesołowska, 2003a: 257, f. 25-29 (m)

Heliophanus cassinicola Wesołowska & van Harten, 2007: 218, f. 83-88 (mf)

Trapezocephalus cassinicola Wesołowska, 2024: 88, f. 5A-G (mf, T from Heliophanus)

References

Berland, L. & Millot, J. (1941). Les araignées de l'Afrique Occidentale Française I.-Les salticides. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris (N.S.) 12: 297-423. -- Show included taxa

Denis, J. (1955b). Contribution à l'étude de l'Aïr (Mission L. Chopard et A. Villiers). Araignées. Bulletin de l'Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire 17(A): 99-146. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1909f). Arachnides recueillis par L. Fea sur la côte occidentale d'Afrique. 2e partie. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova 44: 335-449. [[year corrected from 1910 to 1909, see pp. 337, 353, 369, etc.; following Bonnet, contra Roewer]] -- 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. (2003a). New data on African Heliophanus species with descriptions of new species (Araneae: Salticidae). Genus 14: 249-294. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Harten, A. van (2007). Additions to the knowledge of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of Yemen. Fauna of Arabia 23: 189-269. -- 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
2024-12-30	Species distribution update	Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024	Old value
2024-01-26	New taxonomic reference entry	Wesołowska, 2024
2024-01-26	Species transferred to new genus	Wesołowska, 2024		Species transferred from Heliophanus to Trapezocephalus