New data on the camel spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Solifugae), Part I. Kohgilouyeh & Boyer Ahmad Province

Document Type : Research articles

Authors

• Amin Hosseinpour ¹
• Hassan Maddahi ²
• Kourosh Azizi ³
• Aboozar Soltani ³

¹ Department of Medical Entomology and Vector Control, School of Health, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.

² Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

³ Research Center for Health Sciences, Institute of Health, Department of Medical Entomology and Vector Control, School of Health, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.

10.22067/ijab.v16i1.84275

Abstract

In this paper, which is the first contribution in the series devoted to the camel spiders of Iran, seven species from Kohgilouyeh and Boyer Ahmad Province are reported. The genus Gluviopsilla and two species; Gluviopsilla discolor (Kraepelin, 1899) (♀) and Paragaleodes nesterovi Birula, 1916 (♂♀) are new to the fauna of Iran, and five species Galeodes cf. krausi Harvey, 2002 (♂♀), Galeodes trichotichnus Roewer, 1934 (♂), Gylippus (Paragylippus) spinimanus Birula, 1905 (♀), Karschia (Karschia) persica Kraepelin, 1899 (♂) and Rhagodes caucasicus Birula, 1905 (♂♀) are new records for the province. Also, the females of P. nesterovi and G. cf. krausi are firstly recorded.

Keywords

• Diversity
• Fauna
• Iranian Plateau
• New records
• sun spider
• Zagros Mountains

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