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
- Persian treasures: integrative taxonomy reveals high species’ diversity of ladybird spiders (Araneae: Eresidae: Eresus) (2025)
- Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Size matters: a new genus of tarantula with the longest male palps, and an integrative revision of Monocentropus Pocock, 1897 (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Eumenophorinae) (2025)
- ZooKeys
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Velvet Revolution: integrative taxonomy of South Caucasian Eresus Walckenaer, 1805 (Araneae, Eresidae), with five new species (2025)
- Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A checklist of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Afghanistan (2024)
- Zootaxa
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A new genus of Oecobiinae (Araneae: Oecobiidae) from Iran and Central Asia (2024)
- Journal of Natural History
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - An extensive review of mutualistic and similar ecological associations involving tarantulas (Araneae: Theraphosidae), with a new hypothesis on the evolution of their hirsuteness (2024)
- Journal of Natural History
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A survey of mygalomorph spiders (Araneae: Atypidae, Nemesiidae) of Azerbaijan, including the description of two new species (2024)
- Zoology in the Middle East
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Integrating museum collections and molecules reveals genus-level synonymy and new species in red devil spiders (Araneae, Dysderidae) from the Middle East and Central Asia (2024)
- European Journal of Taxonomy
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - New data on Dysdera Latreille, 1804 and Harpactea Bristowe, 1939 (Araneae: Dysderidae) of the Caucasus, with new species and records (2024)
- Zootaxa
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - New data on species of Zodariellum Andreeva & Tyshchenko, 1968 (Araneae: Zodariidae) in Central Asia (2024)
- Arachnology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)



