The surprising discovery of a new species of grass huntsman spider, Pseudomicrommata mokranica sp. nov. (♂♀), belonging to “the African clade”, is reported and described from south-eastern Iran, more than 4000 km away from the nearest recorded locality of the genus in Kenya. Similar vicariant occurrences of other sparassid taxa in Africa and Asia are discussed.
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1 January 2020
An Afrotropic element at the north-western periphery of the Oriental Region: Pseudomicrommata mokranica sp. nov. (Araneae: Sparassidae)
Majid Moradmand,
Alireza Zamani,
Peter Jäger
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Revue suisse de Zoologie
Vol. 126 • No. 2
September 2019
Vol. 126 • No. 2
September 2019
Baluchistan
Iran
taxonomy
vicariance