Paraheliophanus
Appearance
Paraheliophanus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Araneae |
Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
Family: | Salticidae |
Subfamily: | Salticinae |
Genus: | Paraheliophanus Clark & Benoit, 1977[1] |
Type species | |
P. subinstructus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873)
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Species | |
4, see text |
Paraheliophanus is a genus of Atlantic jumping spiders that was first described by D. J. Clark & P. L. G. Benoit in 1977.[2] The name is a combination of the Ancient Greek "para" (παρά), meaning "alongside", and the salticid genus Heliophanus.[2]
Species
As of August 2019[update] it contains four species, found only on Saint Helena:[1]
- Paraheliophanus jeanae Clark & Benoit, 1977 – St. Helena
- Paraheliophanus napoleon Clark & Benoit, 1977 – St. Helena
- Paraheliophanus sanctaehelenae Clark & Benoit, 1977 – St. Helena
- Paraheliophanus subinstructus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873) (type) – St. Helena
References
- ^ a b "Gen. Paraheliophanus Clark & Benoit, 1977". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-09-08.
- ^ a b Clark, D. J.; Benoit, P. L. G. (1977), "Fam. Salticidae", La faune terrestre de l'île de Sainte-Hélène IV