Paraheliophanus | |
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Scientific classification
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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]
As of August 2019 [update] it contains four species, found only on Saint Helena: [1]