On the genus Cebrennus Simon, 1880 in Iran with description of a new species from Iranian Central Desert (Araneae: Sparassidae)

: Moradmand M, Zamani A, Jager P

Publisher: MAGNOLIA PRESS

: 2016

: Zootaxa

: ZOOTAXA

: 4121

: 2

: 187

: 193

: 7

: 1175-5326

DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4121.2.9

The taxonomic knowledge on the desert-dwelling sparassid genus Cebrennus Simon, 1880 in Iran is updated by describing a new species, Cebrennus rambodjavani sp. nov. (male) from northern Qom in Iran's Central Desert, and reviewing the material of the previous Iranian record of the genus [sub C. kochi (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)] from Bushehr, southern Iran, which is found to be a misidentification. A revised definition of the term "embolus kink", a male copulatory structure in Cebrennus, is given. A comparative discussion of this structure between several representatives of the genus Cebrennus is included.