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

Heliophanus gramineus Wesołowska & Haddad, 2013

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:045908

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Described:

Distribution: South Africa

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

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Taxonomic References

Heliophanus gramineus Wesołowska & Haddad, 2013: 204, f. 11, 80-81 (Df) Original description

Heliophanus gramineus Wesołowska & Haddad, 2018: 890, f. 7-12, 61, 69-73 (Dm)

Heliophanus gramineus Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025c: 38, p. 34: f. 1-2, p. 38: f. 1-9 (mf)

References

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Walt, V. van der, Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2025c). The Salticidae of South Africa. Part 3 (He-Iran). Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 74 pp. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.17103454 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Haddad, C. R. (2013). New data on the jumping spiders of South Africa (Araneae: Salticidae). African Invertebrates 54(1): 177-240. doi: 10.5733/afin.054.0111 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Haddad, C. R. (2018). Further additions to the jumping spider fauna of South Africa (Araneae: Salticidae). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 68(4): 879-908. doi: 10.3161/00034541ANZ2018.68.4.011 -- 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
2025-09-13	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025c
2018-12-11	New taxonomic reference entry	Wesołowska & Haddad, 2018
2018-12-11	First description of male	Wesołowska & Haddad, 2018	Old value