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Issue: Vol. 5601 No. 1: 6 Mar. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-03-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5601.1.1
Page range: 1-45
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New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), Part XII

Zoological Museum; Biodiversity Unit; FI-20014 University of Turku; Turku 20500; Finland
Department of Plant Protection; Faculty of Agriculture; University of Zabol; Zabol 98613-35856; Iran
Department of Plant Protection; Faculty of Agriculture; University of Zabol; Zabol 98613-35856; Iran
Department of Zoology; Institute of Biology and Ecology; Faculty of Science; Pavol Jozef Šafárik University; Šrobárova 2; 041 54 Košice; Slovakia
Department of Zoology; Institute of Biology and Ecology; Faculty of Science; Pavol Jozef Šafárik University; Šrobárova 2; 041 54 Košice; Slovakia
Department of Zoology & Entomology; University of the Free State; Bloemfontein 9300; South Africa; Altai State University; Lenina Pr.; 61; Barnaul; RF-656049; Russia; Institute for Biological Problems of the North; Portovaya Str. 18; Magadan 685000; Russia
Araneae new combination new record new species Sistan & Baluchistan taxonomy

Abstract

New faunistic and taxonomic data are provided for 18 families of Iranian spiders. Eleven species from eastern Iran are described as new to science: Cheiracanthium minusculum Zamani & Marusik, sp. nov. (♂; Sistan & Baluchistan), C. monstrum Zamani & Marusik, sp. nov. (♂♀; South Khorasan), C. sistani Zamani & Marusik, sp. nov. (♀; Sistan & Baluchistan) [Cheiracanthiidae], Cithaeron persicus Zamani & Marusik, sp. nov. (♀; Sistan & Baluchistan) [Cithaeronidae], Archaeodictyna longichela Zamani & Marusik, sp. nov. (♂♀; Sistan & Baluchistan), Devade miniatura Zamani & Marusik, sp. nov. (♀; Razavi Khorasan) [Dictynidae], Talanites sakastanicus Zamani & Marusik, sp. nov. (♀; Sistan & Baluchistan) [Gnaphosidae], Philodromus parvulus Zamani & Marusik, sp. nov. (♀; Sistan & Baluchistan), Rhysodromus tikhmenevi Zamani & Marusik, sp. nov. (♂; Sistan & Baluchistan) [Philodromidae], Steatoda pallens Zamani & Marusik, sp. nov. (♀; Sistan & Baluchistan) [Theridiidae] and Bassaniodes drangianus Zamani & Marusik, sp. nov. (♂♀; Sistan & Baluchistan) [Thomisidae]. The females of Trichothyse hamipalpis (Kroneberg, 1875) [Gnaphosidae] and Rhysodromus medes Zamani & Marusik, 2021 are described for the first time. A new combination, Rhysodromus latrophagus (Levy, 1999) comb. nov. (ex. Philodromus), is proposed. The subfamily Coelotinae, the genus Brignoliolus Ovtchinnikov, 1999 [both Agelenidae] and seven species are reported from Iran for the first time, and the Iranian record of Steatoda nobilis (Thorell, 1875) is rejected. Additionally, 52 new provincial records are provided for 47 species.

 

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