Alireza Zamani
Ph.D.
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
- Insights Into Spatial Orientation and Cognition in Tarantulas (Araneae: Theraphosidae) Under Natural Conditions, With Notes on Possible Ontogenetic Niche Shifts (2026)
- Ecology and Evolution
- West Side Story: systematics of funnel-weavers (Araneae: Agelenidae: Ageleninae) from arid western South Africa, with two new genera and 16 new species (2026)
- Zootaxa
- An annotated checklist of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Azerbaijan (2025)
- Zootaxa
- A new species of Eresus Walckenaer, 1805 (Araneae: Eresidae) from Iraq (2025)
- Arachnology
- Arthropod diversity in Iran: Class Arachnida Lamarck, 1801 (excl. Acariformes Zakhvatkin, 1952 and Parasitiformes Reuter, 1909) (2025)
- Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics
- Copulatory Mechanics Reveals a Self‐Bracing Mechanism via a Femoral Apophysis in Funnel Weavers (Araneae, Agelenidae) (2025)
- Ecology and Evolution
- Different, but still the same: integrative taxonomy confirms a new species of Eresus Walckenaer, 1805 (Araneae, Eresidae) from the South Caucasus (2025)
- ZooKeys
- First DNA barcoding of Dysderidae (Araneae) from Kosovo, with new records and the description of a new species of Harpactea Bristowe, 1939 (2025)
- Zootaxa
- First Nordic record of Pandava laminata (Araneae: Titanoecidae), with a synopsis of anthropochorous species of spiders in Finland (2025)
- Arachnologische Mitteilungen: Arachnology Letters
- Four new species of Mygalomorphae (Araneae) from Tajikistan and Afghanistan (2025)
- Journal of Natural History
- Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) attacking and eating vertebrates: an update (2025)
- Journal of Arachnology
- New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), Part XII (2025)
- Zootaxa
- New records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Azerbaijan, including the first record of Nephilidae from the Western Palaearctic (2025)
- Arachnology
- New taxonomic and faunistic data on Moroccan spiders (Arachnida: Araneae), including the description of five new species (2025)
- Zootaxa
- Persian treasures: integrative taxonomy reveals high species’ diversity of ladybird spiders (Araneae: Eresidae: Eresus) (2025)
- Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
- 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
- Velvet Revolution: integrative taxonomy of South Caucasian Eresus Walckenaer, 1805 (Araneae, Eresidae), with five new species (2025)
- Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
- A checklist of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Afghanistan (2024)
- Zootaxa
- A new genus of Oecobiinae (Araneae: Oecobiidae) from Iran and Central Asia (2024)
- Journal of Natural History
- 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



