Alireza Zamani
Ph.D.
Areas of expertise
Arachnology; Evolutionary Biology; Taxonomy; Systematics; Faunistics
Arachnology; Evolutionary Biology; Taxonomy; Systematics; Faunistics
Biography
Research
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.
Teaching
Arachnids of Finland
Publications
- 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) - An Afrotropic element at the north-western periphery of the Oriental Region: Pseudomicrommata mokranica sp. nov. (Araneae: Sparassidae) (2019)
- Revue Suisse de Zoologie
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - First record of Poltys nagpurensis (Araneae: Araneidae) from Iran (2019)
- Arachnologische Mitteilungen: Arachnology Letters
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Aranei), Part VI (2019)
- Euroasian entomological journal
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Overview of Arachnids and Arachnology in Iran (2019)
- Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Survey of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) in southwestern Iran, with new records (2019)
- Ecologica Montenegrina
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Taxonomic remarks on two Drassodes species (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) from Iran (2019)
- Acta Arachnologica
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The Aelurillina Simon, 1901 (Aranei: Salticidae) of Iran: A check-list and three new species of Aelurillus Simon, 1884 and Proszynskiana Logunov, 1996 (2019)
- Arthropoda Selecta
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The flattie spider family Selenopidae (Araneae) in the Middle East (2019)
- Zoology in the Middle East
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The spider genera Azerithonica and Tegenaria (Aranei: Agelenidae: Tegenariini) in Iran (2019)
- Arthropoda Selecta
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A new species of hersiliid spiders (Aranei: Hersiliidae) from Iran (2018)
- Euroasian entomological journal
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A new species of Phyxioschema (Araneae: Dipluridae) from Iran (2018)
- Revue Suisse de Zoologie
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A new species of Tegenaria Latreille, 1804 (Araneae: Agelenidae) from western Iran (2018)
- Zootaxa
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Description of a new pseudoscorpion, Parolpium litoreum sp. n. (Pseudoscorpiones: Olpiidae) from southern Islands of Iran (2018)
- Arthropoda Selecta
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Filling the gap of whip spider distribution in Asia: Phrynichus persicus sp n. (Arachnida, Amblypygi), a new Phrynichidae from Iran (2018)
- Zootaxa
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - New species and records of Filistatidae (Arachnida: Aranei) from Iran (2018)
- Arthropoda Selecta
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The first report on the spider fauna (Arachnida: Araneae) of the lut desert, Iran (2018)
- Acta Arachnologica
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The spider genus Pterotricha in Iran, with the description of a new genus (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) (2018)
- ZooKeys
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The spider genus Pterotricha Kulczyński, 1903 (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) in the United Arab Emirates (2018)
- Evolutionary Systematics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)