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

Helafricanus congolensis (Giltay, 1935)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033770

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Described:

Distribution: Nigeria, Central African Rep., DR Congo, São Tomé and Príncipe

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS/KBIN), Brussels, Belgium m (10482) - (Wesołowska, 1986)

Taxonomic References

Heliophanus congolensis Giltay, 1935a: 10, f. 6 (Dm) Original description

Heliophanus congolensis Wesołowska, 1986: 19, f. 124-132 (m, Df)

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

References

Giltay, L. (1935a). Notes arachnologiques africaines. V. Quelques araignées de Léopoldville et d'Eala (Congo belge). Bulletin du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 11(6): 1-11. -- 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
2026-01-12	Species distribution update	Wesołowska, Russell-Smith & Danflous, 2026	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 Helafricanus