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 the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), part VIII (2021)
- Zoosystematica Rossica
- New taxa of six families of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Iran (2021)
- Zoology in the Middle East
- One new genus and nineteen new species of ground spiders (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from Iran, with other taxonomic considerations (2021)
- European Journal of Taxonomy
- Revision of the spider family Zodariidae (Arachnida, Araneae) in Iran and Turkmenistan, with seventeen new species (2021)
- ZooKeys
- Three new species of spiders (Aranei) from Iran (2021)
- Caucasian Entomological Bulletin
- Two new species of Liocranidae (Arachnida: Aranei) from the Caucasus and northern Iran (2021)
- Arthropoda Selecta
- Two new species of Theridiidae from Iran, and the revalidation of Enoplognatha submargarita Yaginuma & Zhu, 1992 (Arachnida: Araneae) (2021)
- Arachnology
- A black sheep in Eresus (Araneae: Eresidae): taxonomic notes on the ladybird spiders of Iran and Turkey, with a new species (2020)
- Zootaxa
- A new and easternmost species of Loureedia (Aranei: Eresidae) from Iran (2020)
- Arthropoda Selecta
- A new species of wolf spiders of the genus Lycosa (Aranei: Lycosidae) from Iran (2020)
- Zoosystematica Rossica
- A review of Agelenini (Araneae: Agelenidae: Ageleninae) of Iran and Tajikistan, with descriptions of four new genera (2020)
- Arachnology
- A survey of Phrurolithidae (Arachnida: Araneae) in southern Caucasus, Iran and Central Asia (2020)
- Zootaxa
- ‘Conundrum of esoterica’: on the long-forgotten genus Eutittha Thorell, 1878, with new taxonomic considerations in Cheiracanthium C. L. Koch, 1839 (Araneae: Cheiracanthiidae) (2020)
- Journal of Natural History
- New data on jumping spiders of Iran, with a new species of Salticus (Araneae: Salticidae) (2020)
- Arachnologische Mitteilungen: Arachnology Letters
- New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), Part VII (2020)
- Arachnology
- New species of Filistatidae, Palpimanidae and Scytodidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from southern Iran (2020)
- Acta Arachnologica
- On Araniella and Neoscona (Araneae, Araneidae) of the Caucasus, Middle East and Central Asia (2020)
- ZooKeys
- Taxonomy of the genus Ischnocolus in the Middle East, with description of a new species from Oman and Iran (Araneae: Theraphosidae) (2020)
- Zoology in the Middle East
- The first description of the female of Heliophanus xerxesi Logunov, 2009 (Araneae: Salticidae) from Iran (2020)
- Revue Suisse de Zoologie
- The omission of critical data in the pursuit of ‘revolutionary’ methods to accelerate the description of species (2020)
- Systematic Entomology