Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Type: Article
Published: 2015-06-13
Page range: 549–561
Abstract views: 46
PDF downloaded: 1

Description of the first cave dwelling species of the spider genus Trilacuna Tong & Li from Iran (Araneae: Oonopidae)

Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran Department of Biology, Payame Noor University (Pnu) of Yasouj, Iran
División Aracnología, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia” – CONICET, Av. Ángel Gallardo 470 C1405DJR, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
Goblin spiders troglobiont relict new species Iran Araneae

Abstract

A new species of the hard-bodied oonopid genus Trilacuna Tong & Li is described from a cave in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, southwestern Iran. Trilacuna qarzi sp. nov. is the first troglobiont species known of the genus, and is also the fifth oonopid species to be reported from Iran. Relationships of this new species are briefly discussed in the context of the limits of the genera belonging to the Dysderoides complex.