A new "enigmatic" Iranian intertidal Paratheuma

[Alireza Zamani]

Hi everyone!

I'm happy to announce the publication of a very interesting Iranian new species: Paratheuma enigmatica!

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09397140.2016.1173927#abstract

This is an intertidal spider, inhabiting shores of the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman in southern Iran. It is noteworthy that the nearest reported locality of the genus is more than 6000 km far to the east from this species!

Also, in this paper we transferred the whole genus from Desidae to Dictynidae based on morphological and molecular evidence.

Alireza

[Arno Grabolle]

Very interesting!

Arno