Fourteen new species and notes on the genera Amauropelma Raven, Stumkat & Gray, 2001 and Bowie Jäger, 2022 (Arachnida: Araneae: Ctenidae) from Southeast Asia

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  Fourteen new species and notes on the genera Amauropelma Raven, Stumkat & Gray, 2001 and Bowie Jäger, 2022 (Arachnida: Araneae: Ctenidae) from Southeast Asia Abstract Material of the spider family Ctenidae from Southeast Asia is investigated. Ten new species of the genus Amauropelma Raven, Stumkat & Gray, 2001 are described: A. grasshoffi sp. nov. (first record from the Philippines; male), A. kihit sp. nov. (Laos; female), A. kochang sp. nov. (Thailand; female), A. lombok sp. nov. (Indonesia; male, female), A. maimoun sp. nov. (Laos; female), A. phamom sp. nov. (Laos; female), A. penang sp. nov. (Malaysia; male), A. prangphe sp. nov. (Thailand; male, female), A. saiyok sp. nov. (Thailand; female) and A. thammim sp. nov. (Laos; male, female); the male of A. khanense Jäger & Nophaseud, 2024 is described for the first time. New records are listed for A. jagelkii Jäger, 2012 (Laos) and A. mariae Omelko & Fomichev, 2024a (Indonesia). Four new species of the genus Bowie...

Medically significant spiders (Araneae), camel spiders (Solifugae), and centipedes (Chilopoda) of Iran: new distributional records and public health implications

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Medically significant spiders (Araneae), camel spiders (Solifugae), and centipedes (Chilopoda) of Iran: new distributional records and public health implications

Abstract

Several species of spiders, camel spiders and centipedes have medical significance due to their envenomation and causing painful wounds. These arthropods are responsible for various public health problems in different regions of Iran. Encountering these arthropods often causes fear, anxiety, and obsession among many people. The bites from certain species can be dangerous and include various clinical symptoms such as pain, burning, inflammation, nausea, injury, infection, muscle spasm, and
rarely death. This paper seeks to investigate the medically important species of spiders, camel spiders and centipedes of Iran, their distribution, and the clinical symptoms associated with their bites. In this
study, a literature review using reliable scientific databases was conducted and informative data were summarized and presented. Several spider species of the genera Latrodectus and Loxosceles (Araneae), most large galeodid and rhagodid species (Solifugae), and four Scolopendra species (Chilopoda) are listed as the most important species in terms of medical significance in Iran. New distributional records of camel spider species Galeodopsis bilkjeviczi (Birula), Paragaleodes nesterovi Birula, Rhagodorta zorab (Birula), and centipede species Scolopendra canidens Newport and Scolopendra mirabilis (Porat) are provided.

Citation: Khoobdel, M., Maddahi, H. and Hatami, M. (2025). Medically significant spiders (Araneae), camel spiders (Solifugae), and centipedes (Chilopoda) of Iran: new distributional records and public health implications. Journal of Animal Diversity, 7 (1): 57–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.22034/JAD.2025.7.1.5