Alireza Zamani
Ph.D.
alireza.zamani@utu.fi Office: 163 ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8084-9666 |
Arachnology; Evolutionary Biology; Taxonomy; Systematics; Faunistics
I am an arachnologist with expertise in spider systematics and biogeography, primarily specializing in the fauna of the Caucasus, Middle East, and Central Asia. Over the course of my career, I have described and named more than 200 arachnid taxa from various countries across South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. This research contributes to our understanding of arachnid diversity, as well as their geographical distribution patterns and evolutionary relationships. Additionally, I have actively contributed to research projects and published papers in other fields such as functional morphology, phylogeography, ecology, and theoretical concepts of taxonomy.
Arachnids of Finland
- ‘Conundrum of esoterica’: on the long-forgotten genus Eutittha Thorell, 1878, with new taxonomic considerations in Cheiracanthium C. L. Koch, 1839 (Araneae: Cheiracanthiidae) (2020)
- Journal of Natural History
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - New data on jumping spiders of Iran, with a new species of Salticus (Araneae: Salticidae) (2020)
- Arachnologische Mitteilungen: Arachnology Letters
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), Part VII (2020)
- Arachnology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - New species of Filistatidae, Palpimanidae and Scytodidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from southern Iran (2020)
- Acta Arachnologica
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - On Araniella and Neoscona (Araneae, Araneidae) of the Caucasus, Middle East and Central Asia (2020)
- ZooKeys
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Taxonomy of the genus Ischnocolus in the Middle East, with description of a new species from Oman and Iran (Araneae: Theraphosidae) (2020)
- Zoology in the Middle East
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The first description of the female of Heliophanus xerxesi Logunov, 2009 (Araneae: Salticidae) from Iran (2020)
- Revue Suisse de Zoologie
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The omission of critical data in the pursuit of ‘revolutionary’ methods to accelerate the description of species (2020)
- Systematic Entomology
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - The spider family Oecobiidae (Arachnida: Araneae) in Iran, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan (2020)
- European Journal of Taxonomy
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Two new species of Araniella (Aranei: Araneidae) from Western Himalaya, with notes on species reported from India (2020)
- Arthropoda Selecta
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)



