Research Article

New Record of Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Bashagard District, Southern Iran, with the Report of a Medically Important Species

Table 1

Frequency of all collected spider species from each family in Bashagard, south of Iran.

FamilySpeciesDistribution in 15 locationsNumber of samplesSex

Salticidae Blackwall, 1841Plexippoides flavescens (O. P.-Cambridge, 1872)11M
Plexippus paykulli (Audouin, 1826)11M
Plexippus minor (Wesołowska & van Harten, 2010)11M

Lycosidae Sundevall, 1833Hogna effera (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)22M
Wadicosa fidelis (O. P.-Cambridge, 1872)13113M/F

Gnaphosidae Pocock, 1898Pterotricha strandi Spassky, 193622F

Oecobiidae Blackwall, 1862Oecobius putus (O. P.-Cambridge, 1876)12M

Sparassidae Bertkau, 1872Eusparassus mesopotamicus (Moradmand & Jäger, 2012)11M
Eusparassus xerxes (Pocock, 1901)22M

Pholcidae C. L. Koch, 1850Artema doriae (Thorell, 1881)11M

Sicariidae Keyserling, 1880Loxosceles rufescens (Dufour, 1820)11F
SUM137