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Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Heliophanus  C. L. Koch, 1833   41 species

Heliophanus rufithorax  Simon, 1868

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033855

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Description
Male

Prosoma light brown, eyes surrounded with black. Opisthosoma light brown. Sternum light brown or yellow. Legs brown. Palp: femoral apophysis bifurcated, embolus short.

Body length male: 3.75 mm
Female

Colouration as in males. Sometimes opisthosoma with dorsal pair of lighter marks near posterior margin. Legs yellow. Epigyne oval, with one depression, sometimes plugged with waxy secretion.

Body length female: 4.5 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Southern Europe to Central Asia
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Simon 1937)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Wesołowska 1986)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Wesołowska 1986)

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male Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Wesołowska 1986)

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male Femoral apophysis
(Simon 1937)

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male Femoral apophysis
(Wesołowska 1986)

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female Epigyne
(Simon 1937)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Wesołowska 1986)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Wesołowska 1986)

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female Vulva
(Wesołowska 1986)

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female Vulva
(Wesołowska 1986)

Distribution List

"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.

Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| France / Corsica   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018) pdf

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

Simon E (1937) Les arachnides de France 6 (5). Paris (Roret): 979-1298 pdf

Wesołowska W (1986) A revision of the genus Heliophanus C. L. Koch, 1833 (Aranei: Salticidae). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 40: 1-254 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
19-07-2016 Datasheet update Detail
16-10-2014 Image insert
15-04-2013 Distribution update Detail