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

Helafricanus saudis (Prószyński, 1989)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033856

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Described:

Distribution: Saudi Arabia, Yemen

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel (NMB), Switzerland (database search of type material, 08.04.2019) Heliophanus saudis Prószyński, 1989, 1 m (NMB-ARAN-02397 a) -

Taxonomic References

Heliophanus saudis Prószyński, 1989a: 37, f. 5-8 (Dm) Original description

Heliophanus saudis Wesołowska & van Harten, 1994: 40, f. 86-92 (m, Df)

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

References

Prószyński, J. (1989a). Salticidae (Araneae) of Saudi Arabia. Fauna Saudi Arabia 10: 31-64. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Harten, A. van (1994). The jumping spiders (Salticidae, Araneae) of Yemen. Yemeni-German Plant Protection Project Sana'a, 86 pp. -- 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
2024-01-26	New taxonomic reference entry	Wesołowska, 2024
2024-01-26	Species transferred to new genus	Wesołowska, 2024		Species transferred from Heliophanus to Helafricanus