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
- 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
- Ramp traps versus pitfall traps for collecting epigeal arthropods: a case study in a coniferous forest in Southwest Finland (2024)
- Biodiversity
- A new genus of Textricini Lehtinen, 1967 (Araneae, Agelenidae) from Anatolia (2023)
- ZooKeys
- A new species of Anatextrix Kaya, Zamani, Yağmur & Marusik, 2023 (Araneae, Agelenidae, Textricini) from southern Türkiye, with a remarkable morphology of the male palpal femur (2023)
- Zoosystematics and Evolution
- A new species of Chaetopelma Ausserer, 1871 (Araneae, Theraphosidae) from Iran (2023)
- ZooKeys
- An updated and annotated checklist of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Iraq (2023)
- Zootaxa
- A study in scarlet: integrative taxonomy of the spider genus Loureedia (Araneae: Eresidae) (2023)
- Diversity
- A survey of Dysderella Dunin, 1992 (Araneae, Dysderidae), with a new species from Iran (2023)
- Zoosystematics and Evolution
- A survey of the spider genus Dysdera Latreille, 1804 (Araneae, Dysderidae) in Iran, with fourteen new species and notes on two fossil genera (2023)
- ZooKeys
- Field Guide to the Insects and Other Arthropods of Iran (2023) Zamani Alireza, Naderi Alireza
- Inclusive and productive ways forward needed for species-naming conventions (2023)
- Nature Ecology and Evolution
- New data on cave spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Iran, with new species and records (2023)
- Zootaxa
- New species and records of Oecobius Lucas, 1846 (Araneae: Oecobiidae) from Iran and Azerbaijan (2023)
- Journal of Natural History
- Notes on Dysderidae (Arachnida, Araneae) of Armenia and Iran, with new species and records (2023)
- ZooKeys