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Issue: Vol. 4387 No. 2: 27 Feb. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-02-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4387.2.6
Page range: 350–364
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A new Pardosa species from northern Iran (Araneae, Lycosidae)

Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran Research Department of Zoological Innovations (RDZI), Institute of Applied Zoology, Faculty of Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran Research Department of Zoological Innovations (RDZI), Institute of Applied Zoology, Faculty of Sciences, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Isfahan University, Isfahan, Iran
Institute for Biological Problems of the North, Portovaya Street 18, Magadan 685000, Russia Department of Zoology & Entomology, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa Zoological Museum, Biodiversity Unit, University of Turku, FI-20014 Turku, Finland
Araneae wolf spiders Aranei Pardosini monticola-group Middle East Mazandaran redescription

Abstract

A study of Pardosa pontica (Thorell, 1875) in Iran indicates two distinct morphospecies. A detailed comparison of these morphospecies and types of P. pontica reveals that populations from Mazandaran, Golestan and North Khorasan Provinces of Iran and Balkan Welaýaty of Turkmenistan belong to a newly described species, P. mirzakhaniae sp. n., and populations in western and easternmost Iran belong to P. pontica. Although the two morphospecies differ in colour, size and spination, no molecular differences in 16S rRNA and COI were detected.

 

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