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

Heliophanus glaucus Bösenberg & Lenz, 1895

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033802

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Described:

Distribution: Libya, Egypt, Iran

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

Type Repository Provide information

Syntype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK 7m 3f (1936.2.12.403.410) of Heliophanus albescens - (Wesołowska, 1986)
Holotype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany f (A0002248) - (Wesołowska, 1986)

Taxonomic References

Heliophanus glaucus Bösenberg & Lenz, 1895: 33, pl. 1, f. 9 (Df) Original description

Heliophanus albescens Denis, 1947a: 68, pl. 5, f. 1-3, pl. 6, f. 3 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063169]

Heliophanus glaucus Wesołowska, 1986: 208, f. 558, 567-569 (mf, S of Heliophanus albescens)

References

Bösenberg, W. & Lenz, H. (1895). Ostafrikanische Spinnen gesammelt von Herrn Dr. F. Stuhlmann in den Jahren 1888 und 1889. Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten 12(2): 27-51. -- Show included taxa

Denis, J. (1947a). Results of the Armstrong College expedition to Siwa Oasis (Libyan desert), 1935. Spiders [Araneae]. Bulletin de la Société Fouad 1^er d'Entomologie 31: 17-103, pl. 1-6. -- 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
2017-02-02	Species distribution update	Logunov, Marusik & Mozaffarian, 2002	Old value