A survey of the spider genus Dysdera Latreille, 1804 (Araneae, Dysderidae) in Iran, with fourteen new species and notes on two fossil genera

By

Zamani, Alireza
Marusik, Yuri M.
Szuts, Tamas

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2023

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

1146

Pages

43--86

Subjects

Aranei , Middle East , Mistura , red devil spiders , Segistriites , woodlouse hunters

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1146.97517

 

Abstract

The taxonomy of the Iranian species of the dysderid spider genus Dysdera Latreille, 1804 is revised. Currently, the only species of this genus known from Iran is D. pococki Dunin, 1985, albeit on the basis of a doubtful record. The following 14 species are described as new to science in this paper: D. achaemenessp. nov. (♀; Fars), D. bakhtiarisp. nov. (♂; Chaharmahal & Bakhtiari), D. damavandicasp. nov. (♂; Mazandaran), D. genoensissp. nov. (♂♀; Hormozgan), D. hormuzensissp. nov. (♀; Hormozgan), D. iranicasp. nov. (♂♀; Fars, Hormozgan), D. isfahanicasp. nov. (♂♀; Isfahan), D. mazerunisp. nov. (♀; Mazandaran), D. medessp. nov. (♂; Tehran), D. persicasp. nov. (♂♀; Golestan, Mazandaran), D. sagartiasp. nov. (♂♀; Tehran), D. tapuriasp. nov. (♂♀; Mazandaran), D. verkanasp. nov. (♂; Golestan), and D. xerxesisp. nov. (♂; Bushehr). Distribution records of all species are mapped. Also, the taxonomy of Mistura Petrunkevitch, 1971 and Segistriites Straus, 1967, two fossil genera currently considered in Dysderidae, is discussed and the latter is transferred to Segestriidae.