An Afrotropic element at the north-western periphery of the Oriental Region: Pseudomicrommata mokranica sp. nov. (Araneae: Sparassidae)

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Sep 2018 English Publisher:ZenodoJournal:Revue Suisse de Zoologie, volume 126, pages 249-256 (issn: 0035-418X,

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Authors: Majid Moradmand; Alireza Zamani; Peter Jäger;

doi: 10.5281/zenodo.3463458 , 10.5281/zenodo.3463459

An Afrotropic element at the north-western periphery of the Oriental Region: Pseudomicrommata mokranica sp. nov. (Araneae: Sparassidae)

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Abstract

The surprising discovery of a new species of grass huntsman spider, Pseudomicrommata mokranica sp. nov. (♂♀), belonging to "the African clade", is reported and described from south-eastern Iran, more than 4000 km away from the nearest recorded locality of the genus in Kenya. Similar vicariant occurrences of other sparassid taxa in Africa and Asia are discussed.

Related Organizations

University of Turku
Finland
University of Isfahan
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Senckenberg Nature Research Society
Germany
Senckenberg Museum
Germany

Keywords

vicariance, Baluchistan, ta1181, Iran, Taxonomy

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