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

Heliophanus encifer Simon, 1871

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033791

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Described:

Distribution: Mediterranean

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

Type Repository Provide information

It is widely assumed that most of the type material from Simon can be found in the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France -

Taxonomic References

Heliophanus encifer Simon, 1871a: 342 (Dm) Original description

Salticus facetus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872: 344 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063178]

Heliophanus encifer Simon, 1876a: 149, pl. 10, f. 6 (m)

Heliophanus facetus Simon, 1876a: 165

Heliophanus mordax Kulczyński, 1911a: 53, pl. 2, f. 68 (f; misidentified per Wesołowska, 1986: 41)

Heliophanus encifer Simon, 1937: 1160, 1248, f. 1810-1811 (m)

Heliophanus ensifer Bonnet, 1957: 2137 (unjustified emendation)

Heliophanus encifer Wesołowska, 1986: 40, f. 456-466 (mf, S of Heliophanus facetus)

Heliophanus encifer Prószyński, 2003: 77, f. 287-291 (mf)

Heliophanus encifer Prószyński, 2017b: 31, f. 13E-E2 (mf)

References

Bonnet, P. (1957). Bibliographia araneorum. Analyse méthodique de toute la littérature aranéologique jusqu'en 1939. Tome II. Systématique des araignées (Étude par ordre alphabétique) (3me partie: G-M). Douladoure, Toulouse, pp. 1927-3026. -- Show included taxa

Kulczyński, W. (1911a). Fragmenta Arachnologica. XVI, XVII. Bulletin International de l'Academie des Sciences de Cracovie 1911: 12-75. -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, O. (1872). General list of the spiders of Palestine and Syria, with descriptions of numerous new species, and characters of two new genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 40(1): 212-354, pl. 13-16. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1872.tb00489.x -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (2003). Salticidae (Araneae) of the Levant. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 53: 1-180. -- 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

Simon, E. (1871a). Révision des Attidae européens. Supplément à la monographie des Attides (Attidae Sund.). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (5) 1: 125-230, 329-360. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1876a). Les arachnides de France. Tome troisième. Roret, Paris, 364 pp., pl. 9-13. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1937). Les arachnides de France. Synopsis générale et catalogue des espèces françaises de l'ordre des Araneae. Tome VI. 5e et derniére partie. Roret, Paris, pp. 979-1298. -- 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]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2017-09-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Prószyński, 2017b