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Genus: Trapezocephalus Berland & Millot, 1941 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Trapezocephalus orchesta (Simon, 1886)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033839

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Described:

Distribution: Ivory Coast, DR Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Namibia, Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa, Madagascar

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

Type Repository Provide information

Lectotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France m (7816) - (Wesołowska, 1986)
Paralectotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France 1m (7816) - (Wesołowska, 1986)
Syntype: Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC), South Africa 3m (418) of Heliophanus decoloratus - (Wesołowska, 1986)
Syntype: Swedish Museum of Natural History (Naturhistoriska riksmuseet), Stockholm (NHRS), Sweden 3m 4f of Heliophanus ambiguus - (Wesołowska, 1986)

Taxonomic References

Heliophanus orchesta Simon, 1886g: 389, f. 2 (Dm) Original description

Heliophanus orchesta Simon, 1901a: 541, 550, f. 666 (m)

Heliophanus orchesta Simon, 1901e: 54, f. 4 (m)

Heliophanus ambiguus Lessert, 1925a: 458, f. 40-42 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:059809]

Heliophanus decoloratus Lawrence, 1927: 58, pl. 4, f. 83 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:059810]

Heliophanus orchesta Wesołowska, 1986: 30, f. 295-309 (mf, S of Heliophanus ambiguus and H. decoloratus)

Trapezocephalus orchesta Wesołowska, 2024: 90 (T from Heliophanus)

References

Lawrence, R. F. (1927). Contributions to a knowledge of the fauna of South-West Africa V. Arachnida. Annals of the South African Museum 25(1): 1-75, pl. 1-4. -- Show included taxa

Lessert, R. de (1925a). Araignées du Kilimandjaro et du Merou (suite). 5. Salticidae. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 31: 429-528. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1886g). Etudes arachnologiques. 18e Mémoire. XXVI. Matériaux pour servir à la faune des Arachnides du Sénégal. (Suivi d'une appendice intitulé: Descriptions de plusieurs espèces africaines nouvelles). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (6) 5: 345-396. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1901a). Histoire naturelle des araignées. Deuxième édition, tome second. Roret, Paris, pp. 381-668. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.51973 [[last page with detailed publication dates of the single parts]] -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1901e). Etudes arachnologiques. 31e Mémoire. XLVIII. Etude sur les Heliophanus d'Afrique et de Madagascar. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 70(1): 52-61. -- 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
2024-12-30	Species distribution update	Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024	Old value
2024-01-26	New taxonomic reference entry	Wesołowska, 2024
2024-01-26	Species transferred to new genus	Wesołowska, 2024		Species transferred from Heliophanus to Trapezocephalus
2022-10-16	Species distribution update	Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022	Old value