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New locality records and future habitat suitability of Sassanidotus gracilis (Birula, 1900) (Scorpiones: Buthidae) in the Iran–Afghanistan–Pakistan arid belt

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  New locality records and future habitat suitability of Sassanidotus gracilis (Birula, 1900) (Scorpiones: Buthidae) in the Iran–Afghanistan–Pakistan arid belt Abstract This study reports new locality records from Iran and a climate-based habitat suitability assessment for Sassanidotus gracilis (Birula, 1900) (Scorpiones: Buthidae) in the Iran–Afghanistan–Pakistan arid belt. We document new specimens from Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran, with an updated distribution map and illustrations, and we model the species' potential distribution across south-eastern Iran and adjacent parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Habitat suitability was associated mainly with precipitation seasonality, precipitation of the wettest month, precipitation of the driest month, and slope. In an arid setting these rainfall variables are unlikely to indicate a need for moist habitat; they more plausibly track seasonal productivity and the terrain features that provide shelter. Present-day suitable areas...

Taxonomic revision of the jumping goblin spider genus Orchestina Simon, 1882 (Araneae: Oonopidae) in Japan with descriptions of two new species

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First record of a crab spider Xysticus crispabilis Song & Gao, 1996 (Araneae: Thomisidae) from Japan with the first description of a female

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Systematic study of the Ageniellini spider wasp genus Machaerothrix Haupt (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) from Japan and Southeast Asia

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Two new species of the Cybaeus hiroshimaensis-group (Araneae: Cybaeidae) from the northern Hida Mountains, Japan

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Two new species of the genus Cladothela (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from Nansei Islands, southwest Japan, with the description of the true female of C. auster

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A new species of the genus Cicurina Menge, 1871 (Araneae: Cicurinidae) from Hachijojima Island, Tokyo, with notes on the congeners in Japan and China

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Description and genome sequencing of Olios ishikawatodaorum n. sp. (Arachnida: Araneae: Sparassidae) from Aichi, Japan

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Thirty-eight spider species (Arachnida: Araneae) from China, Indonesia, Japan and Vietnam

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