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

Heliophanus ramosus  Wesołowska, 1986

Description
Male

Prosoma dark brown, eye field black or at least eyes surrounded with black. Sternum brown. Legs brown, sometimes with white marks at bases of segments. Opisthosoma dorsally dark brown, venter dark.

Body length male: 3.2 mm
Female

Prosoma brownish, eye fiels dark brown to almost black. Prosoma length: 1.95 mm. Sternum brown, covered with white hairs. Chelicerae red-brown. Legs brown, tarsi yellow, femora dark brown, tibiae and metatarsi with 1 or 2 yellow dorsal lines. Opisthosoma: dorsum and sides grey-brown, anterior part of dorsum with white transverse line. Spinnerets light brown.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Algeria, Portugal, Spain
Phenology
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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.

Algeria   (Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands   (Branco et al., 2019; Schäfer & Klimsa, 2017) |||
References

Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 pdf

Bosmans R. (unpubl.) Provisional list of spiders of North Africa. Database excerpt Aug. 2019

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

Logunov D V (2015) Taxonomic-faunistic notes on the jumping spiders of the Mediterranean (Aranei: Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 24: 33-85 pdf

Schäfer M, Klimsa E (2017) Ein Beitrag zur Springspinnenfauna Spaniens mit drei Erstnachweisen für die Balearen (Araneae, Salticidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 53: 62-66 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 25.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (31.10.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
13-02-2020 Distribution update Detail
04-04-2017 Image insert
04-04-2017 Distribution update Detail
16-07-2015 Datasheet update Detail
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20-05-2014 Datasheet update Detail