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

Heliophanus encifer  Simon, 1871

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:033791

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Description
Male

Prosoma dark brown or black, with metallic sheen. Sternum brown. Legs brown, tarsi and metatarsi yellow, or only femora brown. Opisthosoma dark brown or black, anterior margin with narrow white band and 1-2 pair(s) of white spots (sometimes absent).

Body length male: 3.2-3.5 mm
Female

Coloration as in males. Legs yellow.

Body length female: 4.8-5.6 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Mediterranean
Figures
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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Simon 1937)

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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 Pedipalp, ventral view
(Wesołowska 1986)

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male Femoral apophysis
(Wesołowska 1986)

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male Femoral apophysis
(Wesołowska 1986)

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male Palpal femur
(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)

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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.

Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| France / Corsica   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) |||
References

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173 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
16-10-2014 Datasheet update Detail
16-10-2014 Image insert