
Alireza
Zamani
Biodiversity Unit of the University of Turku
Ph.D.
Contact
Areas of expertise
Arachnology
Evolutionary Biology
Taxonomy
Systematics
Faunistics
Teaching
Arachnids of Finland
Research
I am an arachnologist with expertise in spider systematics and biogeography, primarily specializing in the fauna of the Caucasus, Middle East, and Central Asia. Over the course of my career, I have described and named more than 200 arachnid taxa from various countries across South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. This research contributes to our understanding of arachnid diversity, as well as their geographical distribution patterns and evolutionary relationships. Additionally, I have actively contributed to research projects and published papers in other fields such as functional morphology, phylogeography, ecology, and theoretical concepts of taxonomy.
Publications
New records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Azerbaijan, including the first record of Nephilidae from the Western Palaearctic (2025)
Arachnology
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), Part XII (2025)
Zootaxa
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Four new species of Mygalomorphae (Araneae) from Tajikistan and Afghanistan (2025)
Journal of Natural History
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
A new species of Eresus Walckenaer, 1805 (Araneae: Eresidae) from Iraq (2025)
Arachnology
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Copulatory Mechanics Reveals a Self‐Bracing Mechanism via a Femoral Apophysis in Funnel Weavers (Araneae, Agelenidae) (2025)
Ecology and Evolution
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
New taxonomic and faunistic data on the funnel-weavers (Araneae, Agelenidae) of Turkiye and the Caucasus, with five new species (2024)
ZooKeys
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
A new genus of Oecobiinae (Araneae: Oecobiidae) from Iran and Central Asia (2024)
Journal of Natural History
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
New taxonomic and faunistic data on Liocranidae (Arachnida: Araneae) of West Palaearctic), with nine new species of Mesiotelus Simon, 1897 (2024)
Zootaxa
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Integrating museum collections and molecules reveals genus-level synonymy and new species in red devil spiders (Araneae, Dysderidae) from the Middle East and Central Asia (2024)
European Journal of Taxonomy
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Opening Pandora’s box: Integrative taxonomy of Eresus (2024)
European Congress of Arachnology
(O2 Muu julkaisu )