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 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
- The spider family Oecobiidae (Arachnida: Araneae) in Iran, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan (2020)
- European Journal of Taxonomy
- Two new species of Araniella (Aranei: Araneidae) from Western Himalaya, with notes on species reported from India (2020)
- Arthropoda Selecta
- An Afrotropic element at the north-western periphery of the Oriental Region: Pseudomicrommata mokranica sp. nov. (Araneae: Sparassidae) (2019)
- Revue Suisse de Zoologie
- First record of Poltys nagpurensis (Araneae: Araneidae) from Iran (2019)
- Arachnologische Mitteilungen: Arachnology Letters
- New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Aranei), Part VI (2019)
- Euroasian entomological journal
- Overview of Arachnids and Arachnology in Iran (2019)
- Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics
- Survey of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) in southwestern Iran, with new records (2019)
- Ecologica Montenegrina
- Taxonomic remarks on two Drassodes species (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) from Iran (2019)
- Acta Arachnologica
- The Aelurillina Simon, 1901 (Aranei: Salticidae) of Iran: A check-list and three new species of Aelurillus Simon, 1884 and Proszynskiana Logunov, 1996 (2019)
- Arthropoda Selecta
- The flattie spider family Selenopidae (Araneae) in the Middle East (2019)
- Zoology in the Middle East
- The spider genera Azerithonica and Tegenaria (Aranei: Agelenidae: Tegenariini) in Iran (2019)
- Arthropoda Selecta
- A new species of hersiliid spiders (Aranei: Hersiliidae) from Iran (2018)
- Euroasian entomological journal
- A new species of Phyxioschema (Araneae: Dipluridae) from Iran (2018)
- Revue Suisse de Zoologie