A new spider species of the genus Uroctea Dufour, 1820 (Araneae: Oecobiidae) from the Lut desert, Iran

Abstract

A new species of Uroctea Dufour, 1820 is described from the Lut desert, Iran, based on the male. The species is close to the Uroctea grossa complex, but morphologically very distinct from all of its congeners by having only one branch of the median apophysis.

http://www.zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:DC791FE7-E251-418B-8350-AB7BD00A7B67

Keywords:

• Irano-turanian region
• species description
• spider taxonomy

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank Christine Rollard for giving me the opportunity to study the spider collection of the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris. The manuscript benefited a lot from the valuable comments and recommendations of Alireza Zamani (University of Turku, Finland) and an anonymous reviewer.

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Funding

The research was supported by the Séjours scientifiques de haut niveau grant (2023) of the “Institut français de Bulgarie”.