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Published September 1, 2018 | Version v1
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An Afrotropic element at the north-western periphery of the Oriental Region: Pseudomicrommata mokranica sp. nov. (Araneae: Sparassidae)

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  • 1. Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran. E-mail: m.moradmand@sci.ui.ac.ir, moradmand.arachnids@gmail.com
  • 2. Zoological Museum, Biodiversity Unit, FI-20014 University of Turku, Finland. E-mail: zamani.alireza5@gmail.com
  • 3. Arachnology, Senckenberg Research Institute, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. E-mail: peter.jaeger@senckenberg.de

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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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