Heliophanus lesserti is a jumping spider species in the genus Heliophanus.[1] It was first described by Wanda Wesołowska in 1986 and lives in Central and Southern Africa.[2] Fitting with the arachnid classification, the spider's body features consists of a front cephalothorax and a back abdomen. The Heliophanus lesserti jumping spider has a primarily black colored body with light yellow and gold accents. The front legs are notability thicker than the rest while the back four having light yellow details. The part of the back abdomen that is attached to the cephalothorax has a light yellow coloring surrounding the edge.[3]
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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: | Heliophanus |
| Species: | H. lesserti
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| Binomial name | |
| Heliophanus lesserti Wesołowska, 1986
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History
editThis species was first recorded by Wanda Wesołowska in 1986. A description of the species was submitted to the Natural History Museum of Bern and has a status of "accepted" marking the species as officially recognized. [4]
References
edit- ^ Wesołowska, W. (1986). "A Revision of the Genus Heliophanus C. L. Koch, 1833 (Aranei: Salticidae)". Annales Zoologici, Warszawa. 40: 1–254.
- ^ World Spider Catalog (2017). "Heliophanus lesserti Wesolowska, 1986". World Spider Catalog. 18.0. Bern: Natural History Museum. Retrieved 9 April 2017.
- ^ "Photos of Heliophanus lesserti · iNaturalist". iNaturalist. Retrieved 2023-06-15.
- ^ "NMBE - World Spider Catalog". wsc.nmbe.ch. Retrieved 2023-06-15.