New species and records of Oecobius Lucas, 1846 (Araneae: Oecobiidae) from Iran and Azerbaijan




Zamani Alireza, Marusik Yuri M.

PublisherTaylor & Francis

2023

Journal of Natural History

57

37-40

1693

1709

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2023.2272356

https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2023.2272356

https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/181663886



New data on the oecobiid spiders of the genus Oecobius Lucas, 1846 occurring in Iran and Azerbaijan are provided. Five species are described as new to science: O. dariusi sp. n. (♀; Alborz and Tehran ‒ northern Iran), O. melanocephalus sp. n. (♀; Lorestan, Razavi Khorasan, Semnan, and Tehran ‒ south-western, northern and north-eastern Iran; hitherto described as the female of O. ferdowsii Mirshamsi, Zamani and Marusik, 2017), O. naxuanus sp. n. (♂; Nakhchivan ‒ western Azerbaijan), O. pasargadae sp. n. (♂♀; Fars ‒ south-central Iran), and O. zagros sp. n. (♂; Kermanshah ‒ western Iran). Furthermore, O. navus Blackwall, 1859 is reported in Iran for the first time, and new distribution records are provided for O. putus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876 and O. nadiae (Spassky, 1936).


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