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

Heliophanus agricola  Wesołowska, 1986

Description
Male

Prosoma brown or black. Prosoma length: 1.3-1.8 mm. Sternum brown. Legs brown, sometimes leg I black with markings composed of white scales. Opisthosoma brown or black, with light band at anterior margin and 1 or 2 pairs of white marks, some specimens with uniformly brown opisthosoma without markings.

Female

Prosoma length: 2.0 mm. Colouration as in males, opisthosoma generally lighter, greyish yellow, without markings.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Algeria, Portugal, Spain
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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   (Wesołowska, 1986; Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
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

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

Wunderlich J (2023) Contribution to the spider (Araneida) fauna of the Algarve, Portugal, with notes on the phylogeny of the superfamily Araneoidea and the description of the new araneoid family Fonteferridae. Beiträge zur Araneologie 16: 4-112 pdf

Updates
01-12-2023 Image insert
20-11-2023 Distribution update Detail
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20-05-2014 Datasheet update Detail
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