Heliophanus fascinatus : Wesolowska 1986
Creators: name: Wesolowska, Wanda
name: Haddad, Charles R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Araneae
Salticidae
Heliophanus
Heliophanus fascinatus

description: <i>Heliophanus fascinatus</i> Wesolowska, 1986 Figs 76–80 <i>Heliophanus fascinatus</i>: Wesolowska 1986: 23, figs 186–198; Logunov 2004: 86. Redescription: Measurements (male/female): Carapace length 1.4/1.6–1.7, width 1.1–1.4/1.1–1.2, height 0.5/0.6. Abdomen length 1.4/1.8–2.1, width 0.7–0.8/1.2–1.4. Eye field length 0.6–0.7/0.8, anterior width 0.9–1.0/1.0–1.1, posterior width 1.0–1.1/1.1–1.2. <i>Male.</i> Small spider. Carapace brown with black eye field; light scale-like hairs forming white transverse band on eye field, along anterior median eyes; two large, poorly contrasted light spots on ocular area centrally; light patch formed by white hairs on foveal area, extending to light streak running to posterior edge of carapace; lateral margins of carapace framed by white lines. Mouthparts and sternum dark brown, only tips of endites yellowish.Abdomen dark brown or black with white median band; venter yellow, with two dark patches at base of spinnerets; narrow dark lines along sides; spinnerets dark. Legs whitish yellow, spines and leg hairs brown. Pedipalps brown; patellar apophysis long, dorsal tibial apophysis spike-like (Figs 76–78); embolus short (Figs 76, 79). <i>Female.</i> Slightly larger than male and lighter coloured. Abdomen brown with longitudinal light band composed of five pairs of light patches; light coloured spots also on sides. Epigyne with rectangular depression at posterior edge (Fig. 80). Material examined:1ơ 1^Crocodile Farm, Pongola R. floodplain, 26 <i>°</i> 54.426'S: 32 <i>°</i> 19.185'E, <i>A. xanthophloea</i> bark, 6.ii.2005 (NCA 2008/623); 3^Eastern shore of Shokwe Pan, 26 <i>°</i> 52.516'S: 32 <i>°</i> 12.407'E, <i>A. xanthophloea</i> bark, 16.vi.2005 (NCA 2008/1861); 1^same data but 24.i.2006 (NCA 2008/632); 1ơ 6^same data but 24.i.2006 (NCA 2008/1868); 1^Southern shore of Hotwe Pan, 26 <i>°</i> 52.730'S: 32 <i>°</i> 18.452'E, <i>A. xanthophloea</i> bark, 7.ii.2005 (NCA 2008/647); 1ơ 1^same data but 27.i.2006 (NCA 2008/654); 1ơ 1^Western shore of Nyamiti Pan, 26 <i>°</i> 53.767'S: 32 <i>°</i> 16.557'E, <i>A. xanthophloea</i> bark, 6.ii.2005 (NCA 2008/603). Distribution: Species known from Botswana, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, recently reported from Sudan (Logunov 2004). Recorded here for the first time from South Africa. Habitat and biology: This species was only collected from fever tree bark in AX, and occurred in four of the five sites sampled. It was less common than <i>H. debilis</i> in this habitat. Silk retreats were constructed beneath the bark.
description: Published as part of <i>Wesolowska, Wanda &amp; Haddad, Charles R., 2009, Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of the Ndumo Game Reserve, Maputaland, South Africa, pp. 13-103 in African Invertebrates 50 (1)</i> on pages 44-45
description: {"references": ["WESOLOWSKA, W. 1986. A revision of the genus Heliophanus C. L. Koch, 1833 (Aranei: Salticidae). Annales zoologici 40: 1 - 254."]}