Alireza
Zamani
Department of Biology
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
First DNA barcoding of Dysderidae (Araneae) from Kosovo, with new records and the description of a new species of Harpactea Bristowe, 1939 (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 )
An annotated checklist of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Azerbaijan (2025)
Zootaxa
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
A new species of Eresus Walckenaer, 1805 (Araneae: Eresidae) from Iraq (2025)
Arachnology
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Persian treasures: integrative taxonomy reveals high species’ diversity of ladybird spiders (Araneae: Eresidae: Eresus) (2025)
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
(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 )
Size matters: a new genus of tarantula with the longest male palps, and an integrative revision of Monocentropus Pocock, 1897 (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Eumenophorinae) (2025)
ZooKeys
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
First Nordic record of Pandava laminata (Araneae: Titanoecidae), with a synopsis of anthropochorous species of spiders in Finland (2025)
Arachnologische Mitteilungen: Arachnology Letters
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
New taxonomic and faunistic data on Moroccan spiders (Arachnida: Araneae), including the description of five new species (2025)
Zootaxa
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
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 )