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

Helafricanus patellaris (Simon, 1901)

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Described:

Distribution: South Africa, Lesotho

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 (21882) - (Wesołowska, 1986)
Paratype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France 3m (21882) - (Wesołowska, 1986)

Taxonomic References

Heliophanus patellaris Simon, 1901a: 541, 550, f. 667 (m)

Heliophanus patellaris Simon, 1901e: 58, f. 11 (Dm) Original description

Heliophanus patellaris Wesołowska, 1986: 22, f. 163-175 (m, Df)

Heliophanus patellaris Wesołowska & Haddad, 2014: 242, f. 30-31, 49-55 (mf)

Helafricanus patellaris Wesołowska, 2024: 81, f. 1A-H (mf, T from Heliophanus)

Helafricanus patellaris Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025c: 15, f. 1-11 (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

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. & Haddad, C. R. (2014). An overview of the jumping spiders of Lesotho (Araneae: Salticidae), with descriptions of six new species. African Invertebrates 55(2): 229-268. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7680935 -- 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
2024-11-20	Species distribution update	Haddad & 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 Helafricanus
2014-09-29	New taxonomic reference entry	Wesołowska & Haddad, 2014