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
- A new species of Eresus Walckenaer, 1805 (Araneae: Eresidae) from Iraq (2025)
- Arachnology
- Copulatory Mechanics Reveals a Self‐Bracing Mechanism via a Femoral Apophysis in Funnel Weavers (Araneae, Agelenidae) (2025)
- Ecology and Evolution
- 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
- 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
- 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
- A survey of mygalomorph spiders (Araneae: Atypidae, Nemesiidae) of Azerbaijan, including the description of two new species (2024)
- Zoology in the Middle East
- 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
- New data on Dysdera Latreille, 1804 and Harpactea Bristowe, 1939 (Araneae: Dysderidae) of the Caucasus, with new species and records (2024)
- Zootaxa
- New data on species of Zodariellum Andreeva & Tyshchenko, 1968 (Araneae: Zodariidae) in Central Asia (2024)
- Arachnology
- New data on spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Iraqi Kurdistan, with new species and records (2024)
- Zootaxa
- “New Data on the Spider Fauna of Iran”: an overview of the results from a decade-long large-scale project (2024) 34th European Congress of Arachnology Zamani, Alireza
- New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), Part XI (2024)
- Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics
- New species and records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Ecuador (2024)
- Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics
- New taxonomic and faunistic data on Liocranidae (Arachnida: Araneae) of West Palaearctic), with nine new species of Mesiotelus Simon, 1897 (2024)
- Zootaxa
- New taxonomic and faunistic data on the funnel-weavers (Araneae, Agelenidae) of Turkiye and the Caucasus, with five new species (2024)
- ZooKeys
- Opening Pandora’s box: Integrative taxonomy of Eresus (2024) 34th European Congress of Arachnology Szűts, Tamás; Urák, István; Zamani, Alireza; Kaya, Rahşen S.; Gündüz, Gökhan; Szabó, Krisztián