Helafricanus trepidus (Simon, 1910)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033861

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Described:

Distribution: Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa


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  • Syntype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany (database export of type material, March 2019) Heliophanus trepidus Simon, 1910, (17604–05) -
Taxonomic References
Heliophanus trepidus Simon, 1910b: 215 (Dm) Original description
Helafricanus trepidus Wesołowska, 2024: 83 (T from Heliophanus)
Heliophanus tropicus Roewer, 1955c: 1166 (lapsus)
Helafricanus trepidus Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2025c: 20, f. 1-10 (mf)
Heliophanus trepidus Wesołowska, 1986: 20, f. 133-147 (m, Df)
Heliophanus trepidus Wesołowska, 2003a: 290, f. 135-137 (m)
Heliophanus trepidus Wesołowska & Cumming, 2008: 185, f. 52-54 (m)
Heliophanus trepidus Wesołowska & Haddad, 2009: 46, f. 81, 82 (f)
Heliophanus trepidus Prószyński, 2017b: 31, f. 13G (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

Prószyński, J. (2017b). Pragmatic classification of the world's Salticidae (Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 12: 1-133. doi: 10.37828/em.2017.12.1 -- Show included taxa

Roewer, C. F. (1955c). Katalog der Araneae von 1758 bis 1940, bzw. 1954. 2. Band, Abt. a (Lycosaeformia, Dionycha [excl. Salticiformia]). 2. Band, Abt. b (Salticiformia, Cribellata) (Synonyma-Verzeichnis, Gesamtindex). Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Bruxelles, 1751 pp. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1910b). Arachnoidea: Araneae (II.). In: Schultze, L. (ed.) Zoologische und anthropologische Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise im westlichen und zentralen Südafrika. Vierter Band. Systematik und Tiergeographie. Denkschriften der Medizinisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena 16: 175-218. -- 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. (2003a). New data on African Heliophanus species with descriptions of new species (Araneae: Salticidae). Genus 14: 249-294. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Cumming, M. S. (2008). Taxonomy and natural history of a species rich assemblage of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae); a long-term study of a suburban site in Zimbabwe. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 58: 167-230. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Haddad, C. R. (2009). Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of the Ndumo Game Reserve, Maputaland, South Africa. African Invertebrates 50(1): 13-103. doi: 10.5733/afin.050.0102 -- 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
2017-09-12 New taxonomic reference entry Prószyński, 2017b

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