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

Heliocapensis termitophagus (Wesołowska & Haddad, 2002)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:039092

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Described:

Distribution: South Africa

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium m (211409) - (Wesołowska & Haddad, 2002)
Paratype: National Collection of Arachnida (NCA), ARC – Plant Protection Research Institute (PPRI), Pretoria, South Africa 1m 1f (2002/1050) - (Marais et al., 2013)
Holotype: National Collection of Arachnida (NCA), ARC – Plant Protection Research Institute (PPRI), Pretoria, South Africa m (2009/3249) of Heliocapensis thaleri - (Marais et al., 2013)
Paratype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium 6f 1j (211410, 211412) - (Wesołowska & Haddad, 2002)
Paratype: Museum of Natural History, University of Wroclaw (MNHW), Poland 1m 1f - (Wesołowska & Haddad, 2002)
Paratype: National Museum, Bloemfontein (NMBA), South Africa 2m 2f 2j (A/9425) - (Wesołowska & Haddad, 2002)
Paratype: American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), New York, USA 2m 2f 2j - (Wesołowska & Haddad, 2002)
Paratype: California Academy of Sciences (CAS), San Francisco, USA 2m 2f 2j - (Wesołowska & Haddad, 2002)
Paratype: National Museum of Zimbabwe (NMZ), Bulawayo, Zimbabwe 2m 2f 2j (A/14275) - (Wesołowska & Haddad, 2002)

Taxonomic References

Heliophanus termitophagus Wesołowska & Haddad, 2002: 198, f. 1A-F, 2A-F (Dmf; N.B.: spelled termiophagus in species heading, but correct elsewhere) Original description

Heliophanus thaleri Wesołowska, 2009d: 1409, f. 1-5 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:042971]

Heliocapensis termitophagus Wesołowska, 2024: 85, 90 (S of Heliophanus thaleri, T from Heliophanus)

Heliocapensis termitophagus Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025c: 33, f. 1-7 (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. (2002). A new termitivorous jumping spider from South Africa (Araneae Salticidae). Tropical Zoology 15(2): 197-207. doi: 10.1080/03946975.2002.10531174 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. (2009d). New species of jumping spiders from South Africa (Araneae: Salticidae). Contributions to Natural History 12: 1409-1413. doi: 10.5169/seals-787033 -- 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	Comment
2025-09-12	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025c
2024-01-26	Species synonymy	Wesołowska, 2024	Heliocapensis thaleri synonymized with Heliocapensis termitophagus
2024-01-26	New taxonomic reference entry	Wesołowska, 2024
2024-01-26	Species transferred to new genus	Wesołowska, 2024	Species transferred from Heliophanus to Heliocapensis