Heliocapensis maluti ( Wesołowska & Haddad, 2014 )

Haddad, Charles Richard & Wesołowska, Wanda, 2024, On some new and poorly-known Chrysillini from arid western South Africa (Araneae, Salticidae), African Invertebrates 65 (2), pp. 127-159 : 127-159

Heliocapensis maluti ( Wesołowska & Haddad, 2014)

Fig. 3 A, D

Heliophanus maluti Wesołowska & Haddad, 2014: 241, figs 28, 29, 41–47.

Heliocapensis maluti Wesołowska 2024: 84.

Material examined.

South Africa • Northern Cape Province; 1 ♂; Namaqua National Park, Koeroebees ; 30 ° 08.683 ' S, 17 ° 42.177 ' E; 240 m a. s. l.; 14 Jan 2021; C. Haddad et al. leg.; beating short shrubs, dry river bed; NCA 2021 / 740 • 1 ♂; same collection data as for preceding; NMBA 19849 .

Description.

See Wesołowska and Haddad (2014) for a description of both sexes. General appearance of live male as in Fig. 3 A, D .

Distribution.

A species previously known only from the montane enclave of Lesotho, recorded from South Africa for the first time ( Wesołowska and Haddad 2014; Dippenaar-Schoeman et al. 2023).

Figures

Figure 3. Dorsal habitus (A – C) and anterior view (D – F) of living Heliocapensis maluti Wesołowska & Haddad, 2014 male (A, D), H. mirabilis (Wesołowska, 1986) female (B, E) and Heliophanus deformis Wesołowska, 1986 male (C, F).