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Genus: Heliophanus C. L. Koch, 1833 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Heliophanus verus Wesołowska, 1986

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033868

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Described:

Distribution: Azerbaijan, Iran

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

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany f of Heliophanus ignorabilis - (Wesołowska, 1986)
Paratype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany 1f of Heliophanus ignorabilis [the other paratypes belong to Heliophanus mordax] - (Wesołowska, 1986)

Taxonomic References

Heliophanus verus Wesołowska, 1986: 223, f. 789-792 (Dm) Original description

Heliophanus ignorabilis Wesołowska, 1986: 214, f. 664-665 (Df; f. 661-663 see Heliophanus mordax) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:063182]

Heliophanus verus Rakov & Logunov, 1997a: 100, f. 109-111, 113, 137-139 (mf, S of Heliophanus ignorabilis, removed from S of H. mordax, rejecting Wesołowska, 1996: 30)

Heliophanus verus Logunov, 2023a: 748, f. 62, 64 (f)

References

Logunov, D. V. (2023a). On the jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from Iran collected by Antoine Senglet (1927–2015). Arachnology 19(4): 732-768. doi: 10.13156/arac.2023.19.4.732 -- Show included taxa

Rakov, S. Y. & Logunov, D. V. (1997a). A critical review of the genus Heliophanus C. L. Koch, 1833, of Middle Asia and the Caucasus (Aranei Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 5(3/4, for 1996): 67-104. -- 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

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.

Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Kropf, C., Stäubli, A.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 01.2026. doi: 10.24436/1

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
2023-03-14	New taxonomic reference entry	Logunov, 2023a
2023-03-14	Taxonomic reference assigned to new taxon			Taxonomic reference entry assigned to Heliophanus mordax (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)
2023-03-14	Species distribution update	Logunov, 2023a	Old value
2016-09-22	New taxonomic reference entry	Coşar & Varol, 2016
2016-09-22	Species distribution update	Coşar & Varol, 2016	Old value