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Genus: Heliophanus C. L. Koch, 1833 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Heliophanus creticus Giltay, 1932

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033772

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Described:

Distribution: Greece (Crete)

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

Type Repository Provide information

Paratype: Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS/KBIN), Brussels, Belgium - (Prószyński, 1971e)

Taxonomic References

Heliophanus creticus Giltay, 1932: 36, f. 22 (Dm) Original description

Heliophanus creticus Giltay, 1933: 8, pl. 4, f. 4 (m)

Heliophanus creticus Wesołowska, 1986: 40, f. 467-475 (m, Df)

Heliophanus creticus Metzner, 1999: 99, f. 64a-h (mf)

References

Giltay, L. (1932). Arachnides recueillis par M. d'Orchymont au cours de ses voyages aux Balkans et en Asie Mineure en 1929, 1930 et 1931. Bulletin du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 8(22): 1-40. -- Show included taxa

Giltay, L. (1933). Description des arachnides nouveaux recueillis par M. A. d'Orchymont aux Balkans et en Asie Mineure en 1929-31. Acta pro Fauna et Flora Universali, Seria I, Zoologia 1(3-5): 1-8. -- Show included taxa

Metzner, H. (1999). Die Springspinnen (Araneae, Salticidae) Griechenlands. Andrias 14: 1-279. -- 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

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.

Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Kropf, C., Stäubli, A.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 01.2026. doi: 10.24436/1

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

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