FIRST RECORDS OF PHOLCIDAE (ARACHNIDA, ARANEAE) FROM IRAQ
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https://doi.org/10.26842/binhm.7.2018.15.2.0179Keywords:
Araneae, Artema doriae, Cellar spiders, First record, IraqAbstract
The family Pholcidae represented by the species Artema doriae )Thorell, 1881) is recorded in Iraq for the first time.So far, 23 families of spiders have been recorded in Iraq.
In this paper, we add a new family and a description of a species belonging to this family in the checklist of Iraqi spider fauna.
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Huber, B. A. 2000. New World pholcids spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae): A revision at generic level. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 254: 1–348.
Huber, B. A. 2005. High species diversity, male-female coevolution, and metaphyly in Southeast Asian pholcid spiders: the case of Belisana Thorell, 1898 (Araneae, Pholcidae). Zoologica, 155: 1–126.
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Manhart, C. 1994. Spiders on bark in a tropical rainforest (Panguana, Peru). Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment, 29(1): 49-53.
Najim, S. A. 2015. Morphological taxonomy and diversity studies on spiders in some regions of Basrah Province. PhD, University of Basrah, Science Collage, Basrah, Iraq.
Thorell, T. 1881. Studi sui Ragni Malesi e Papuani. III. Ragni dell'Austro Malesia e del Capo York, conservati nel Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova,17: 1-727.
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World Spider Catalog. 2018. World Spider Catalog, version 17, Natural History Museum, Bern. Available at: http://wsc.nmbe.ch. (accessed 20 July 2018)
Zamani, A. and El-Hennawy, H. K. 2016. Preliminary list of the spiders of Iraq
(Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnida – Rivista Aracnologica Italiana, 6: 12-20.
