Heliocapensis
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| Heliocapensis | |
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| female H. capensis | |
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| female H. deserticola | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Heliocapensis Wesołowska, 1986[1] |
| Type species | |
| Heliocapensis peckhami | |
| Species | |
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Heliocapensis is a mainly South African genus of the spider family Salticidae (jumping spiders).
Life style
These are free-living spiders found on the ground or plant-dwellers collected from various habitat types.[3]
Description
These are small salticids, measuring between 3.0 and 4.5 mm in length.[3]
Males are characterized by black coloration with distinctive white markings. A thin line traverses the anterior region of the abdomen, accompanied by two or three pairs of rounded or obliquely-oriented white markings. These markings consist of white setae or microscopic scales and tend to fade as the specimen ages.[3]
Taxonomy
The genus Heliocapensis was elevated from a subgenus of Heliophanus C. L. Koch, 1833 by Wesołowska in 2024.[4]
