Contribution to the distribution of spiders with significant medical importance (Araneae: Loxosceles and Latrodectus) in Iran, with a new record for the country

Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics

مقاله 8، دوره 10، شماره 1، 2014، صفحه 57-66   

نوع مقاله: Research articles

شناسه دیجیتال (DOI): 10.22067/ijab.v10i1.36892

نویسندگان

Alireza Zamani^{* 1}؛ Omid Mirshamsi²؛ Alireza Savoji³؛ Mehran Shahi⁴

¹Department of Animal Biology, School of Biology and Centre of Excellence in Phylogeny of Living Organisms, College of Science, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

²Ferdowsi UNiversity of Mashhad

³Ministry of Education and Training, Zone 6, Tehran, Iran

⁴niversity of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Hormozgan, Iran

چکیده

A faunistic review is given on the Iranian medically important spiders of two genera Loxosceles and Latrodectus. Latrodectus cinctus Blackwall, 1865 is reported for the first time from Iran (and for the second time from Asia) and is replaced with the previous erroneous reports of L. hasseltii Thorell, 1870. The following species are reported for the first time from the listed provinces: Loxosceles rufescens (Dufour, 1820) (Fars and Hormozgan Provinces), Latrodectus dahli Levi, 1959 (Hormozgan Province), L. pallidus O.P.-Cambridge, 1872 (Alborz and Semnan Provinces) and L. tredecimguttatus (Rossi,1790) (Alborz, Qom, Semnan and Tehran Provinces). These data, together with L. geometricus C.L. Koch, 1841, already recorded from Khorasan-e-Razavi Province, raise the number of Latrodectus species present in Iran to five.

کلیدواژه‌ها

cytotoxicity؛ envenomation؛ fauna؛ neurotoxicity؛ recluse spider؛ widow spider