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

Helafricanus modicus (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1903)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033834

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Described:

Distribution: South Africa, Lesotho, Madagascar

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

Type Repository Provide information

Lectotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA f (231) - (Wesołowska, 1986)
Paralectotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA 2f 3j (231) - (Wesołowska, 1986)

Taxonomic References

Heliophanus modicus Peckham & Peckham, 1903: 193, pl. 20, f. 2 (Df) Original description

Heliophanus modicus Wesołowska, 1986: 25, f. 215-225 (f, Dm)

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

Helafricanus modicus Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025c: 13, f. 1-8 (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

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1903). New species of the family Attidae from South Africa, with notes on the distribution of the genera found in the Ethiopian region. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 14(1): 173-278, pl. 19-29. -- 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
2025-09-12	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025c
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
2014-09-29	Species distribution update	Wesołowska & Haddad, 2014	Old value