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Issue: Vol. 4121 No. 2: 8 Jun. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-06-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4121.2.9
Page range: 187–193
Abstract views: 224
PDF downloaded: 1

On the genus Cebrennus Simon, 1880 in Iran with description of a new species from Iranian Central Desert (Araneae: Sparassidae)

Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran
School of Biology, College of Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
Arachnology, Senckenberg Research Institute, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Araneae Middle East Dasht-e-Kavir taxonomy huntsman spiders

Abstract

The taxonomic knowledge on the desert-dwelling sparassid genus Cebrennus Simon, 1880 in Iran is updated by describing a new species, Cebrennus rambodjavani sp. nov. (male) from northern Qom in Iran’s Central Desert, and reviewing the material of the previous Iranian record of the genus [sub C. kochi (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)] from Bushehr, southern Iran, which is found to be a misidentification. A revised definition of the term “embolus kink”, a male copulatory structure in Cebrennus, is given. A comparative discussion of this structure between several representatives of the genus Cebrennus is included.

 

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