Heliophanillus fulgens

Heliophanillus fulgens is a small jumping spider. It is rusty brown with white hairs and clear orange-brown iridescent scales. The male is between 2.25 and 2.9 millimetres (0.09 and 0.11 in) in body length, while the female is larger, typically with a body 3.3 millimetres (0.13 in) long.[2]

The species was first described in 1872 by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge and named Salticus fulgens.[3] In 1876, Eugène Simon named a spider in the Euophrys as Euophrys fulgens, but then subsequently described the same spider in 1890 (female) and 1901 (male) but named Heliophanus lucipeta.[1] In 1986, Wanda Wesołowska transferred Heliophanus lucipeta to the species Pseudicius.[4] In 1988, Wesołowska transferred both species to the genus Icius as Icius fulgens and Icius lucipeta respectively.[5] The following year, Jerzy Prószyński transferred them to the genus Heliophanillus and described another spider species (male only) called Heliophanillus arabicus.[6] In 1994, this new species was recognised as a synonym of H. fulgens and, finally, in 2007, Heliophanillus lucipeta was also named as a synonym of the species.[7][1]