Alireza Zamani
Ph.D.
alireza.zamani@utu.fi : 163 |
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 taxonomic data on Zodariinae (Araneae: Zodariidae) of Azerbaijan, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan (2022)
- Zootaxa
- On a collection of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from the island of Seili, with a new record for the Finnish fauna and a list of species from the island (2022)
- Arachnologische Mitteilungen: Arachnology Letters
- On a small collection of spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) from Iraq, with new species and records (2022)
- Zoodiversity
- The first record of Gibbaranea gibbosa (Walckenaer, 1802) (Araneae: Araneidae) in Finland (2022)
- Sahlbergia: Hyönteistieteellinen Aikakauslehti
- The future of zoological taxonomy is integrative, not minimalist (2022)
- Systematics and Biodiversity
- The global spread of misinformation on spiders (2022)
- Current Biology
- Amateur venom-extraction business may hasten extinction of scorpions (2021)
- Arachnologische Mitteilungen: Arachnology Letters
- A new genus and ten new species of spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) from Iran (2021)
- ZooKeys
- A new species of Draconarius Ovtchinnikov, 1999 (Araneae, Agelenidae) from northeastern Pakistan (2021)
- Evolutionary Systematics
- 'Burning Violin': The Medically Important Spider Genus Loxosceles (Araneae: Sicariidae) in Iran, Turkmenistan, and Afghanistan, With Two New Species (2021)
- Journal of Medical Entomology
- Further studies on harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones) from Iran, with the descriptions of two new species (2021)
- Zootaxa
- 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



