A survey of running crab spiders (Araneae: Philodromidae) in Iran

Abstract

Nine species and four genera of Philodromidae are identified and recorded from various parts of Iran including Pulchellodromus medius (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) (genus and species new to Iran) and Thanatus setiger (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) (new to Iran). The male of Rhysodromus hierosolymitanus (Levy, 1977), which was previously known only from females, is described and diagnosed here.

Keywords:

• Middle East
• new country records
• Rhysodromus hierosolymitanus
• taxonomy

Acknowledgement

We acknowledge the Research and Technology Office, University of Isfahan for their support of this project in the form of the MSc thesis in Animal Biosystematics for the first author.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.