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Genus: Helpis Simon, 1901 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Helpis occidentalis Simon, 1909

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033875

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Described:

Distribution: Australia. Introduced to Britain

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

Type Repository Provide information

Syntype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany 1j (18604) - (Wanless, 1988)
Syntype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France f - (Wanless, 1988)

Taxonomic References

Helpis occidentalis Simon, 1909d: 195 (Df) Original description

Helpis occidentalis Wanless, 1988: 98, f. 7A-K (f, Dm)

Helpis occidentalis Gardzińska, 1996: 303, f. 5G, 6E (mf)

Helpis occidentalis Logunov & Popovici, 2021: 5, f. 1-5 (m)

Helpis occidentalis Oxford, 2025: 10, f. 1-3 (m)

References

Gardzińska, J. (1996). New species and records of Astieae (Araneae: Salticidae) from Australia and Papua New Guinea. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 39: 297-305. -- Show included taxa

Logunov, D. V. & Popovici, G. (2021). On two new non-native species of spiders (Araneae: Salticidae and Titanoecidae) from the United Kingdom. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 152: 5-6. -- Show included taxa

Oxford, G. (2025). Helpis occidentalis (Salticidae) – a second record for Britain. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 163: 10-11. -- Show included taxa

Simon, E. (1909d). Araneae. 2me partie. In: Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds.) Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Ergebnisse der Hamburger südwest-australischen Forschungsreise 1905. Band 2, Lieferung 12. Gustav Fischer, Jena, pp. 152-212. doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.7416 [[2nd pdf lists the collection locations]] -- Show included taxa

Wanless, F. R. (1988). A revision of the spider group Astieae (Araneae: Salticidae) in the Australian region. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 15(1): 81-172. doi: 10.1080/03014223.1988.10422611 -- 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
2025-07-23	New taxonomic reference entry	Oxford, 2025
2022-01-05	New taxonomic reference entry	Logunov & Popovici, 2021
2022-01-05	Species distribution update	Logunov & Popovici, 2021	Old value