Theses
- Doctor of Philosophy
Spiders of Iran – Systematics, diversity and distribution (2023) [University of Turku, Turku, Finland]
Supervisors: Dr. Varpu Vahtera, Prof. Dr. Ilari Eerikki Sääksjärvi.
Grade: Accepted with honors. - Master of Science
Taxonomy of the spider genus Pterotricha Kulczyński, 1903 (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) in Iran, based on morphological characters and DNA barcoding (2018) [University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran]
Supervisors: Dr. Marjan Seiedy, Prof. Dr. Alireza Saboori. Advisor: Dr. Ahmadreza Katouzian.
Grade: Excellent.
Online catalog
- Zamani, A., Mirshamsi, O., Marusik, Y. M. & Moradmand, M. (2014–2023). The Checklist of the Spiders of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae). [discontinued]
Books
- Zamani, A. & Naderi, A. (2023). Field Guide to the Insects and Other Arthropods of Iran. Iranshenasi, Tehran. 324 pp. [In Persian]
- Zamani, A. (2016). Field Guide to the Spiders and Scorpions of Iran. Iranshenasi, Tehran. 360 pp. [In Persian] (second edition published in 2021)
- Zamani, A. (2012). Culturing & Breeding of Green Iguanas. Parto-e Vagheae, Tehran. 168 pp. [In Persian]
Scientific articles
- Zamani, A., Esyunin, S. L., Mikhailov, K. G. & Marusik, Y. M. (2024). New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), Part XI. Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 10(2): 285–309.
- Bellvert, A., Dimitrov, D., Zamani, A. & Arnedo, M. A. (2024). Integrating museum collections and molecules reveals genus-level synonymy and new species in red devil spiders (Araneae, Dysderidae) from the Middle East and Central Asia. European Journal of Taxonomy 921: 210–235.
- Österman, E. M., Hopkins, T. & Zamani, A. (2024). Ramp traps versus pitfall traps for collecting epigeal arthropods: a case study in a coniferous forest in Southwest Finland. Biodiversity 25(1): 78–87.
- Zamani, A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2024). New data on Dysdera Latreille, 1804 and Harpactea Bristowe, 1939 (Araneae: Dysderidae) of the Caucasus, with new species and records. Zootaxa 5397(2): 195–217.
- Marusik, Y. M., Mikhailov, K. G. & Zamani, A. (2023). The first case of an abnormally developed bulb in Dictynidae, and the first case of a malformed conductor in spiders (Arachnida: Aranei). Arthropoda Selecta 32(4): 455–458.
- Zamani, A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2023). New species and records of Oecobius Lucas, 1846 (Araneae: Oecobiidae) from Iran and Azerbaijan. Journal of Natural History 57(37–40): 1693–1709.
- Zamani, A., Darvishnia, H. & Marusik, Y. M. (2023). New data on cave spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Iran, with new species and records. Zootaxa 5361(3): 345–366.
- Al-Khazali, A. M., Kachel, H. S., Zamani, A. & Hussen, F. S. (2023). An updated and annotated checklist of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Iraq. Zootaxa 5339(2): 132–158.
- Esyunin, S. L., Zamani, A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2023). Redescriptions of two poorly known species of Zodariellum Andreeva & Tystshenko, 1968 (Araneae, Zodariidae) from Uzbekistan. Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 9(4): 703–709.
- Zamani, A. & West, R. C. (2023). A new species of Chaetopelma Ausserer, 1871 (Araneae, Theraphosidae) from Iran. ZooKeys 1174: 75–84.
- Orr, M. C., Hughes, A. C., Carvajal, O. T., Ferrari, R. R., Luo, A., Rajaei, H., Ron, S. R., Warrit, N., Zamani, A., Zhang, Y. M. & Zhu, C-D. (2023). Inclusive and productive ways forward needed for species-naming conventions. Nature Ecology & Evolution 7(8): 1168–1169.
- Kosyan, A., Zamani, A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2023). Notes on Dysderidae (Arachnida, Araneae) of Armenia and Iran, with new species and records. ZooKeys 1172: 117–130.
- Zamani, A., Marusik, Y. M. & Szűts, T. (2023). A survey of Dysderella Dunin, 1992 (Araneae, Dysderidae), with a new species from Iran. Zoosystematics and Evolution 99(2): 337–344.
- Kaya, R., Zamani, A., Yağmur, E. A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2023). A new species of Anatextrix Kaya, Zamani, Yağmur & Marusik, 2023 (Araneae, Agelenidae, Textricini) from southern Türkiye, with a remarkable morphology of the male palpal femur. Zoosystematics and Evolution 99(2): 299–305.
- Kaya, R., Zamani, A., Yağmur, E. A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2023). A new genus of Textricini Lehtinen, 1967 (Araneae, Agelenidae) from Anatolia. ZooKeys 1151: 31–45.
- Luo, X.-X., Li, Q.-Q., Zamani, A., Che, Y.-L. & Wang, Z.-Q. (2023). Redescription of Periplaneta arabica (Bey-Bienko, 1938) (Blattodea, Blattidae), with a comparative analysis of three species of Periplaneta Burmeister, 1838 (sensu stricto). ZooKeys 1146: 165–183.
- Szűts, T., Szabó, K., Zamani, A., Forman, M., Miller, J., Oger, P., Fabregat, M., Kovács, G. & Gál, J. (2023). A study in scarlet: integrative taxonomy of the spider genus Loureedia (Araneae: Eresidae). Diversity 15: 238.
- Zamani, A., Marusik, Y. M. & Szűts, T. (2023). A survey of the spider genus Dysdera Latreille, 1804 (Araneae, Dysderidae) in Iran, with fourteen new species and notes on two fossil genera. ZooKeys 1146: 43–86.
- Zamani, A., Vahtera, V., Sääksjärvi, I. E. & Carvalho, L. S. (2023). The effect of sampling bias on evaluating the diversity and distribution patterns of Iranian spiders (Arachnida: Araneae). Diversity 15: 22.
- Zamani, A., Österman, E. M. & Koponen, S. (2022). On a collection of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from the island of Seili, with a new record for the Finnish fauna and a list of species from the island. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 64: 29–33.
- Zamani, A., Österman, E. M. & Koponen, S. (2022). The first record of Gibbaranea gibbosa (Walckenaer, 1802) (Araneae: Araneidae) in Finland. Sahlbergia 28(1): 23–24.
- Zamani, A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2022). A new species of Plator Simon, 1880 from Pakistan, with a supplementary description of P. pandeae Tikader, 1969 (Araneae: Trochanteriidae). Revue suisse de Zoologie 129(2): 297–301.
- Zamani, A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2022). A new genus of Zodariidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Tajikistan. Journal of Natural History 56(25–28): 1187–1198.
- Zamani, A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2022). On a small collection of spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) from Iraq, with new species and records. Zoodiversity 56(4): 291–306.
- Zamani, A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2022). New taxonomic considerations in Zodariellum Andreeva & Tyshchenko, 1968 (Araneae: Zodariidae), with notes on the presence of cymbial diverticulum in different zodariid genera. Zootaxa 5178(2): 161–177.
- Mammola, S., Malumbres-Olarte, J., Arabesky, V., Barrales-Alcalá, D. A., Barrion-Dupo, A. L., Benamú, M. A., Bird, T. L., Bogomolova, M., Cardoso, P., Chatzaki, M., Cheng, R., Chu, T., Dhiya’ulhaq, N. U., Drapeau Picard, A., El-Hennawy, H. K., Elverici, M., Fukushima, C. S., Ganem, Z., Gavish-Regev, E., Gonnye, N., Hacala, A., Haddad, C., Hesselberg, T., Ho, T. A. T., Into, T., Isaia, M., Jayaraman, D., Karuaera, N., Khalap, R., Khalap, K., Kim, D., Korhonen, T., Kralj-Fišer, S., Land, H., Lin, S., Loboda, S., Lowe, E., Lubin, Y., Miličić, M., Martínez, A., Mbo, Z., Mwende Kioko, G., Nanni, V., Norma-Rashid, Y., Nwankwo, D., Painting, C. J., Pang, A., Pantini, P., Pavlek, M., Pearce, R., Petcharad, B., Pétillon, J., Raberahona, O. C., Russo, P., Saarinen, J. A., Segura-Hernández, L., Sentenská, L., Uhl, G., Walker, L., Warui, C. M., Wiśniewski, K., Zamani, A., Chuang, A. & Scott, C. (2022). The global spread of misinformation on spiders. Current Biology 32(16): R871–R873.
- Zamani, A., Al-Yacoub, G. A. A. & Najim, S. A. (2022). New data on Gnaphosidae (Arachnida, Araneae) of Iraq. Evolutionary Systematics 6(2): 143–150.
- Nadolny, A. A., Marusik, Y. M., Kronestedt, T., Kovblyuk, M. M. & Zamani, A. (2022). New cases of teratological deformities in wolf spiders (Araneae: Lycosidae). Arachnology 19(2): 585–590.
- Zamani, A., Nadolny, A. A. & Dolejš, P. (2022). New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), Part X. Arachnology 19(2): 551–573.
- Zamani, A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2022). New taxonomic data on Zodariinae (Araneae: Zodariidae) of Azerbaijan, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Zootaxa 5155(3): 423–438.
- Zamani, A., Nadolny, A. A., Esyunin, S. L. & Marusik, Y. M. (2022). New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), Part IX. Arachnology 19(Special Issue): 358–384.
- Zamani, A., Faltýnek Fric, Z., Gante, H. F., Hopkins, T. E., Orfinger, A. B., Scherz, M. D., Sucháčková Bartoňová, A. & Dal Pos, D. (2022). DNA barcodes on their own are not enough to describe a species. Systematic Entomology 47(3): 385–389.
- Zamani, A., Dal Pos, D., Faltýnek Fric, Z., Orfinger, A. B., Scherz, M. D., Sucháčková Bartoňová, A. & Gante, H. F. (2022). The future of zoological taxonomy is integrative, not minimalist. Systematics and Biodiversity 20(1): 2063964.
- Mammola, S., Malumbres-Olarte, J., Arabesky, V., Barrales-Alcalá, D. A., Barrion-Dupo, A. L., Benamú, M. A., Bird, T. L., Bogomolova, M., Cardoso, P., Chatzaki, M., Cheng, R., Chu, T., Classen-Rodríguez, L. M., Čupić, I., Dhiya’ulhaq, N. U., Drapeau Picard, A., El-Hennawy, H. K., Elverici, M., Fukushima, C. S., Ganem, Z., Gavish-Regev, E., Gonnye, N., Hacala, A., Haddad, C., Hesselberg, T., Ho, T. A. T., Into, T., Isaia, M., Jayaraman, D., Karuaera, N., Khalap, R., Khalap, K., Kim, D., Korhonen, T., Kralj-Fišer, S., Land, H., Lin, S., Loboda, S., Lowe, E., Lubin, Y., Martínez, A., Mbo, Z., Miličić, M., Mwende Kioko, G., Nanni, V., Norma-Rashid, Y., Nwankwo, D., Painting, C. J., Pang, A., Pantini, P., Pavlek, M., Pearce, R., Petcharad, B., Pétillon, J., Raberahona, O. C., Saarinen, J. A., Segura-Hernández, L., Sentenská, L., Uhl, G., Walker, L., Warui, C. M., Wiśniewski, K., Zamani, A., Scott, C. & Chuang, A. (2022). An expert-curated global database of online newspaper articles on spiders and spider bites. Scientific Data 9: 109.
- Gorneau, J. A., Ausich, W. I., Bertolino, S., Bik, H., Daly, M., Demissew, S., Donoso, D. A., Folk, R., Freire-Fierro, A., Ghazanfar, S. A., Grace, O. M., Hu, A.-Q., Kulkarni, S., Lichter-Marck, I. H., Lohmann, L. G., Malumbres-Olarte, J., Muasya, A. M., Pérez-González, A., Singh, Y., Siniscalchi, C. M., Specht, C. D., Stigall, A. L., Tank, D. C., Walker, L. A., Wright, D. F., Zamani, A. & Esposito, L. A. (2022). Framing the future for taxonomic monography: Improving recognition, support, and access. Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists 1(1): 8328.
- Zamani, A., Stockmann, M., Magalhaes, I. L. F. & Rheims, C. A. (2022). New taxonomic considerations in the spitting spider family Scytodidae (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 5092(2): 151–175.
- Zamani, A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2021). Three new species of spiders (Aranei) from Iran. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 17(2): 451–458.
- Zamani, A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2021). Two new species of Liocranidae (Arachnida: Aranei) from the Caucasus and northern Iran. Arthropoda Selecta 30(4): 557–564.
- Zamani, A. (2021). A new species of Draconarius Ovtchinnikov, 1999 (Araneae, Agelenidae) from northeastern Pakistan. Evolutionary Systematics 5(2): 359–362.
- Zamani, A., Nadolny, A. A., Esyunin, S. L. & Marusik, Y. M. (2021). New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), part VIII. Zoosystematica Rossica 30(2): 279–297, suppl. 298–306.
- Zamani, A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2021). A new genus and ten new species of spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) from Iran. ZooKeys 1054: 95–126.
- Zamani, A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2021). Two new species of Theridiidae from Iran, and the revalidation of Enoplognatha submargarita Yaginuma & Zhu, 1992 (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnology 18(8): 957–964.
- Snegovaya, N. Y., Cokendolpher, J. C. & Zamani, A. (2021). Further studies on harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones) from Iran, with the descriptions of two new species. Zootaxa 4984(1): 73–86.
- Zamani, A., Chatzaki, M., Esyunin, S. L. & Marusik, Y. M. (2021). One new genus and nineteen new species of ground spiders (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from Iran, with other taxonomic considerations. European Journal of Taxonomy 751: 68–114.
- Zamani, A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2021). Revision of the spider family Zodariidae (Arachnida, Araneae) in Iran and Turkmenistan, with seventeen new species. ZooKeys 1035: 145–193.
- Zamani, A., Sääksjärvi, I. E. & Prendini, L. (2021). Amateur venom-extraction business may hasten extinction of scorpions. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 61: 20–23.
- Zamani, A., Mirshamsi, O. & Marusik, Y. M. (2021). ‘Burning Violin’: the medically important spider genus Loxosceles (Araneae: Sicariidae) in Iran, Turkmenistan, and Afghanistan, with two new species. Journal of Medical Entomology 58(2): 666–675.
- Zamani, A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2021). New taxa of six families of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Iran. Zoology in the Middle East 67(1): 81–91.
- Zamani, A., Vahtera, V., Sääksjärvi, I. E. & Scherz, M. D. (2021). The omission of critical data in the pursuit of ‘revolutionary’ methods to accelerate the description of species. Systematic Entomology 46(1): 1–4.
- Zamani, A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2020). New species of Filistatidae, Palpimanidae and Scytodidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from southern Iran. Acta Arachnologica 69(2): 121–126.
- Zamani, A. & Bosselaers, J. (2020). The spider family Oecobiidae (Arachnida: Araneae) in Iran, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan. European Journal of Taxonomy 726: 38–58.
- Zamani, A., Dimitrov, D., Weiss, I., Alimohammadi, S., Rafiei-Jahed, R., Esyunin, S. L., Moradmand, M., Chatzaki, M. & Marusik, Y. M. (2020). New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), Part VII. Arachnology 18(6): 569–591.
- Esyunin, S. L. & Zamani, A. (2020). ‘Conundrum of esoterica’: on the long-forgotten genus Eutittha Thorell, 1878, with new taxonomic considerations in Cheiracanthium C. L. Koch, 1839 (Araneae: Cheiracanthiidae). Journal of Natural History 54(19–20): 1293–1323.
- Zamani, A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2020). Two new species of Araniella (Aranei: Araneidae) from Western Himalaya, with notes on species reported from India. Arthropoda Selecta 29(3): 361–366.
- Nadolny, A. A. & Zamani, A. (2020). A new species of wolf spiders of the genus Lycosa (Aranei: Lycosidae) from Iran. Zoosystematica Rossica 29(2): 205–212.
- Zamani, A., Altın, Ç. & Szűts, T. (2020). A black sheep in Eresus (Araneae: Eresidae): taxonomic notes on the ladybird spiders of Iran and Turkey, with a new species. Zootaxa 4851(3): 559–572.
- Zamani, A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2020). A new and easternmost species of Loureedia (Aranei: Eresidae) from Iran. Arthropoda Selecta 29(2): 239–243.
- Azarkina, G. A. & Zamani, A. (2020). The first description of the female of Heliophanus xerxesi Logunov, 2009 (Araneae: Salticidae) from Iran. Revue suisse de Zoologie 127(1): 21–25.
- Zamani, A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2020). A survey of Phrurolithidae (Arachnida: Araneae) in southern Caucasus, Iran and Central Asia. Zootaxa 4758(2): 311–329.
- Zamani, A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2020). A review of Agelenini (Araneae: Agelenidae: Ageleninae) of Iran and Tajikistan, with descriptions of four new genera. Arachnology 18(4): 368–386.
- Zamani, A., Hosseini, M. S. & Moradmand, M. (2020). New data on jumping spiders of Iran, with a new species of Salticus (Araneae: Salticidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 59: 63–66.
- Montemor, V. M., West, R. C., Zamani, A., Moradmand, M., Wirth, V. von, Wendt, I., Huber, S. & Guadanucci, J. P. L. (2020). Taxonomy of the genus Ischnocolus in the Middle East, with description of a new species from Oman and Iran (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Zoology in the Middle East 66(1): 76–90.
- Zamani, A., Marusik, Y. M. & Šestáková, A. (2020). On Araniella and Neoscona (Araneae, Araneidae) of the Caucasus, Middle East and Central Asia. ZooKeys 906: 13–40.
- Esyunin, S. L. & Zamani, A. (2019). Taxonomic remarks on two Drassodes species (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) from Iran. Acta Arachnologica 68(2): 63–71.
- Cokendolpher, J. C., Zamani, A. & Snegovaya, N. Y. (2019). Overview of Arachnids and Arachnology in Iran. Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 5(4): 301–367.
- Hosseinpour, A., Zamani, A., Azizi, K., Moemenbellah-Fard, M. D. & Soltani, A. (2019). Survey of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) in southwestern Iran, with new records. Ecologica Montenegrina 22: 204–213.
- Moradmand, M., Zamani, A. & Jäger, P. (2019). An Afrotropic element at the north-western periphery of the Oriental Region: Pseudomicrommata mokranica sp. nov. (Araneae: Sparassidae). Revue suisse de Zoologie 126(2): 249–256.
- Zamani, A., Tanasevitch, A. V., Nadolny, A. A., Esyunin, S. L. & Marusik, Y. M. (2019). New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Aranei). Part VI. Euroasian Entomological Journal 18(4): 233–243.
- Zamani, A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2019). The spider genera Azerithonica and Tegenaria (Aranei: Agelenidae: Tegenariini) in Iran. Arthropoda Selecta 28(2): 291–303.
- Azarkina, G. & Zamani, A. (2019). The Aelurillina Simon, 1901 (Aranei: Salticidae) of Iran: a check-list and three new species of Aelurillus Simon, 1884 and Proszynskiana Logunov, 1996. Arthropoda Selecta 28(1): 83–97.
- Zamani, A., Marusik, Y. M., Soofi, M., Koponen, S., Caleb, J. T. D. & Šestáková, A. (2019). First record of Poltys nagpurensis (Araneae: Araneidae) from Iran. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 4–7.
- Zamani, A. & Crews, S. C. (2019). The flattie spider family Selenopidae (Araneae) in the Middle East. Zoology in the Middle East 65(1): 79–87.
- Zamani, A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2018). The first report on the spider fauna (Arachnida: Araneae) of the Lut Desert, Iran. Acta Arachnologica 67(2): 67–75.
- Nassirkhani, M. & Zamani, A. (2018). Description of a new pseudoscorpion, Parolpium litoreum sp.n. (Pseudoscorpiones: Olpiidae) from southern Islands of Iran. Arthropoda Selecta 27(4): 325–329.
- Zamani, A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2018). A new species of hersiliid spiders (Aranei: Hersiliidae) from Iran. Euroasian Entomological Journal 17(4): 273–275.
- Zamani, A. (2018). The spider genus Pterotricha Kulczyński, 1903 (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) in the United Arab Emirates. Evolutionary Systematics 2(2): 151–161.
- Schwendinger, P. & Zamani, A. (2018). A new species of Phyxioschema (Araneae: Dipluridae) from Iran. Revue suisse de Zoologie 125(2): 283–289.
- Zamani, A., Seiedy, M., Saboori, A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2018). The spider genus Pterotricha in Iran, with the description of a new genus (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). ZooKeys 777: 17–41.
- Zamani, A., Mirshamsi, O., Kashani, G. M. & Karami, L.(2018). New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), Part V. Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics 13(2, for 2017): 183–197.
- Zamani, A., Marusik, Y. M. & Malek-Hosseini, M. J. (2018). A new species of Tegenaria Latreille, 1804 (Araneae: Agelenidae) from western Iran. Zootaxa 4444(1): 95–97.
- Zamani, A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2018). New species and records of Filistatidae (Arachnida: Aranei) from Iran. Arthropoda Selecta 27(2): 121–128.
- Miranda, G. S. & Zamani, A. (2018). Filling the gap of whip spider distribution in Asia: Phrynichus persicus sp.n. (Arachnida, Amblypygi), a new Phrynichidae from Iran. Zootaxa 4413(2): 339–350.
- Zamani, A., Mirshamsi, O., Marusik, Y. M., Hatami, M. & Maddahi, H. (2017). The spider genus Oecobius in Iran, with description of two new species (Araneae: Oecobiidae). Oriental Insects 51(4): 330–337.
- Zamani, A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2017). Six new species of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Iran. Oriental Insects 51(4): 313–329.
- Zamani, A., Mirshamsi, O., Dolejš, P., Marusik, Y. M., Esyunin, S. L., Hula, V. & Ponel, P. (2017). New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), Part IV. Acta Arachnologica 66(2): 55–71.
- Tahami, M. S., Zamani, A., Sadeghi, S. & Ribera, C. (2017). A new species of Loxosceles Heineken & Lowe, 1832 (Araneae: Sicariidae) from Iranian caves. Zootaxa 4318(2): 377–387.
- Zamani, A. & André, J.-M. (2017). First record of the orb-weaver spider Araneus grossus (C. L. Koch, 1844) in Iran (Araneae: Araneidae). Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 139: 6.
- Zamani, A., Mirshamsi, O. & Marusik, Y. M. (2017). Description of a new species of Hersiliola and the male of Duninia rheimsae Marusik & Fet, 2009 from Iran (Araneae: Hersiliidae). Turkish Journal of Zoology 41(4): 624–629.
- Zamani, A. & Mozaffarian, F. (2017). Further spider (Arachnida: Araneae) material deposited in the Agricultural Zoology Museum of Iran (AZMI), Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 54: 8–20.
- Nadolny, A. A. & Zamani, A. (2017). A new species of burrowing wolf spiders (Araneae: Lycosidae: Lycosa) from Iran. Zootaxa 4286(4): 597–600.
- Zamani, A., Hosseinpour, A., Azizi, K. & Soltani, A. (2017). A new species of the jumping spider genus Evarcha (s. lat.) from southwestern Iran (Araneae: Salticidae). Peckhamia 150.1: 1–5.
- Esyunin, S. L., Zamani, A. & Tuneva, T. K. (2017). On two poorly known Eurasian dictynid species (Aranei: Dictynidae), with a description of a new genus. Arthropoda Selecta 26(1): 49–62.
- Zamani, A., Marusik, Y. M. & Koponen, S. (2017). First description of the male of the easternmost Harpactea species, H. parthica (Araneae: Dysderidae). Zootaxa 4238(2): 258–262.
- Kiany, N., Sadeghi, S., Kiany, M., Zamani, A. & Ostovani, S. (2017). Additions to the crab spider fauna of Iran (Araneae: Thomisidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 53: 1–8.
- Malek-Hosseini, M. J. & Zamani, A. (2017). A checklist of subterranean arthropods of Iran. Subterranean Biology 21: 19–46.
- Zamani, A. (2016). A new species of Spariolenus from South Iran (Aranei: Sparassidae). Arthropoda Selecta 25(4): 421–422.
- Zamani, A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2016). A new species and new distribution records of Zaitunia from Iran (Araneae: Filistatidae). Zoology in the Middle East 62(4): 373–376.
- Marusik, Y. M. & Zamani, A. (2016). A new species of Sahastata (Aranei, Filistatidae) from Southern Iran. Vestnik Zoologii 50(3): 267–270.
- Zamani, A. (2016). Predation on Cyrtopodion scabrum (Squamata: Gekkonidae) by Steatoda paykulliana (Araneae: Theridiidae). Arachnida – Rivista Aracnologica Italiana 8: 12–15.
- Moradi, M., Yağmur, E. A., Moradi Ghrakhloo, P. & Zamani, A. (2016). First record of Filistata lehtineni Marusik & Zonstein, 2014 for the fauna of Iran (Araneae: Filistatidae). Biharean Biologist 10(1): 53–54.
- Sadeghi, H., Ahmadi, M., Zamani, A. & Jabaleh, I. (2016). A study on the spider fauna of Dargaz and Kalat Counties in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran (Arachnida: Araneae). Biharean Biologist 10(1): 4–7.
- Moradmand, M., Zamani, A. & Jäger, P. (2016). On the genus Cebrennus Simon, 1880 in Iran with description of a new species from Iranian Central Desert (Araneae: Sparassidae). Zootaxa 4121(2): 187–193.
- Zamani, A., Marusik, Y. M. & Berry, J. W. (2016). A new species of Paratheuma (Araneae: Dictynidae) from Southwestern Asia and transfer of the genus. Zoology in the Middle East 62(2): 177–183.
- Mirshamsi, O., Zamani, A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2016). A survey of Hersiliidae (Arachnida: Araneae) of Iran with description of one new genus and two new species. Journal of Natural History 50(23–24): 1447–1461.
- Zamani, A., Mirshamsi, O., Rashidi, P., Marusik, Y. M., Moradmand, M. & Bolzern, A. (2016). New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Aranei), part III. Arthropoda Selecta 25(1): 99–114.
- Zamani, A. & El-Hennawy, H. K. (2016). Preliminary list of the spiders of Iraq (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnida – Rivista Aracnologica Italiana 6: 12–20.
- Namaghi, H. S., Safari, A., Entezari, E. & Zamani, A. (2016). New faunistic records of spiders (Araneae) from Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. Zoology and Ecology 26: 18–21.
- Malek Hosseini, M. J., Zamani, A. & Sadeghi, S. (2015). A survey of cave-dwelling spider fauna of Kohgiluyeh & Boyer-Ahmad and Fars Provinces, Iran (Arachnida: Araneae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 27: 90–94.
- Marusik, Y. M. & Zamani, A. (2015). First description of the male of Tegenaria zamanii Marusik & Omelko, 2014 (Araneae: Agelenidae) from northern Iran. Zootaxa 4052(2): 226–228.
- Marusik, Y. M. & Zamani, A. (2015). Additional new species of Filistatidae (Aranei) from Iran. Arthropoda Selecta 24(4): 429–435.
- Zamani, A., Mirshamsi, O., Jannesar, B., Marusik, Y. M. & Esyunin, S. L. (2015). New data on spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), Part II. Zoology and Ecology 25(4): 339–346.
- Mirshamsi, O., Marusik, Y. M., Zamani, A., Kashefi, R. & Moradmand, M. (2015). Fauna Iranica: I. Annotated checklist of the spiders of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae). Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics Supplement 1: 1–108.
- Marusik, Y. M. & Zamani, A. (2015). The spider family Filistatidae (Araneae) in Iran. ZooKeys 516: 123–135.
- Zamani, A. & Rossi, A.(2015). Intraguild predation of Euscorpius concinnus (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae) by Parasteatoda tepidariorum (Araneae: Theridiidae). Arachnida – Rivista Aracnologica Italiana 3: 10–13.
- Zamani, A. (2015). The spider collection (Arachnida: Araneae) of the Zoological Museum of the Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, with new species records for Iran. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 50: 11–18.
- Shahi, M., Shahi, A., Khademi, Z., Zamani, A., Nakhaii, A. & Rafinejad, J. (2015). Loxoscelism: a case report from Bandar Abbas in south of Iran. Hormozgan Medical Journal 18(5): 467–473.
- Zamani, A. (2014). First report of a mermithid nematode (Enoplea: Mermithida) parasitizing the crab spider Heriaeus spinipalpus (Araneae: Thomisidae). Acta Arachnologica 63(2):63–64.
- Marusik, Y. M., Zamani, A. & Mirshamsi, O. (2014). Three new species of mygalomorph and filistatid spiders from Iran (Araneae, Cyrtaucheniidae, Nemesiidae and Filistatidae). ZooKeys 463:1–10.
- Namaghi, H. S., Kaykhosravi, M. & Zamani, A. (2014). New data and records of spiders from North-Eastern Iran (Arachnida: Araneae). Serket 14(2): 105–110.
- Zamani, A., Nikmagham, Z., Allahdadi, M., Ghassemzadeh, F. & Mirshamsi, O. (2014). New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae). Zoology in the Middle East 60(4):362–367.
- Zamani, A., Mirshamsi, O., Savoji, A. & Shahi, M. (2014). Contribution to the distribution of spiders with significant medical importance (Araneae: Loxosceles and Latrodectus) in Iran, with a new record for the country. Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics 10(1): 57–66.
- Zamani, A. (2014). The spitting spider genus Scytodes (Araneae: Scytodidae) in Iran. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 47: 41–44.
- Zamani, A. (2014). The first record of family Segestriidae Simon, 1893 (Araneae: Dysderoidea) from Iran. Serket 14(1): 15–18.
- Zamani, A. & Rafinejad, J. (2014). First record of the Mediterranean Recluse Spider Loxosceles rufescens (Araneae: Sicariidae) from Iran. Journal of Arthropod-Borne Diseases 8(2): 228–231.
- Mirshamsi, O., Hatami, M. & Zamani, A. (2013). New record of the Mediterranean recluse spider Loxosceles rufescens (Dufour, 1820) and its bite from Khorasan Province, northeast of Iran (Aranei: Sicariidae). Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics 9(1): 83–86.
Congress papers
- Zamani, A. (2023). The limitations and shortcomings of DNA barcoding as a sole taxonomic tool. 4th Iranian International Congress of Entomology p.: 20.
- Chuang, A., Scott, C., Malumbres-Olarte, J., Agnarsson, I., Arabesky, V., Barrales-Alcalá, D. A., Barrion-Dupo, A. L., Benamú, M. A., Bird, T. L., Bogomolova, M., Cardoso, P., Chatzaki, M., Cheng, R., Chu, T., Dhiya’ulhaq, N. U., Drapeau Picard, A., El-Hennawy, H. K., Elverici, M., Fukushima, C. S., Ganem, Z., Gavish-Regev, E., Gonnye, N., Hacala, A., Haddad, C., Hesselberg, T., Ho, T. A. T., Into, T., Isaia, M., Jayaraman, D., Karuaera, N., Khalap, R., Khalap, K., Kim, D., Korhonen, T., Kralj-Fišer, S., Land, H., Lin, S., Loboda, S., Lowe, E., Lubin, Y., Miličić, M., Martínez, A., Mbo, Z., Mwende Kioko, G., Nanni, V., Norma-Rashid, Y., Nwankwo, D., Painting, C. J., Pang, A., Pantini, P., Pavlek, M., Pearce, R., Petcharad, B., Pétillon, J., Raberahona, O. C., Saarinen, J. A., Segura-Hernández, L., Sentenská, L., Uhl, G., Walker, L., Warui, C. M., Wiśniewski, K., Zamani, A. & Mammola, S. (2021). Spiders in the spotlight: a global assessment of news coverage on spiders and spider bites. American Arachnological Society Virtual Summer Symposium p.: 10.
- Zamani, A. (2021). Spiders of Iran: past, present and future. American Arachnological Society Virtual Summer Symposium p.: 53.
- Zamani, A. (2017). A review on the history of studies on the medically important spiders (Araneae) of Iran. 1st International Congress on Vector-Borne Diseases and Climate Change & 3rd Iranian National Congress on Medical Entomology p.: 36.
- Zamani, A. (2017). The spider family Dictynidae in Iran (Arachnida: Araneae). 2nd Iranian International Congress of Entomology p.: 107.
- Zamani, A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2017). An overview of the history of studies on the spider fauna of Iran, with emphasize on recent progresses. XV Congress of the Russian Entomological Society p.: 194–195.
- Zamani, A. & Mirshamsi, O. (2016). A review of the recent araneological studies in Iran, with emphasize on the taxonomy and distribution of Hersiliidae (Arachnida: Araneae). Life Science 2016: National Undergraduate Conference p.: 27.
- Zamani, A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2015). The spider family Filistatidae (Arachnida Araneae) in Iran. 29th European Congress of Arachnology p.: 181.
- Zamani, A., Mirshamsi, O. & Marusik, Y. M. (2014). About Hersiliidae Thorell, 1870 (Arachnida, Araneae) in Iran. 28th European Congress of Arachnology p.: 165.
- Zamani, A., Mirshamsi, O. & Savoji, A. (2014). Correction of the previous reports of the red-back spider Latrodectus hasseltii Thorell, 1870 from Iran by recording L. renivulvatus Dahl, 1902 for the first time from the country. 3rd Iranian Congress on Natural Toxins p.: 215.
- Zamani, A. (2013). First record of Loxosceles rufescens (Dufour, 1820) (Arachnida: Araneae: Sicariidae) from Iran. 19th International Congress of Arachnology p.: 165.
Popular articles
- Zamani, A. (2019). An overview on fascinating Iranian spiders. Mowj-e Sabz 60: 6–15. [In Persian]
- Zamani, A. (2017). Aragog in Zagros: the fascinating story of finding the giant “Harry Potter” spider in Iran + Interesting Iranian species named after celebrities and historical figures. Hamshahri: Danestaniha 189: 46–49. [In Persian]
- Zamani, A. (2015). Diversity of spitting spiders of Iran. Dena 12: 46–47. [In Persian]
- Zamani, A. (2015). Spiders of Hormuz Island. Dena 11: 46–47. [In Persian]
- Zamani, A. (2014). Diversity of Iranian spiders with medical importance. Dena 10: 46–47. [In Persian]
- Zamani, A. (2014). New records of two species of spitting spiders (Scytodes) from Hormuz Island, Persian Gulf. Newsletter of Entomological Society of Iran 52: 1–2. [In Persian]
- Zamani, A. (2014). Diversity of Iranian scorpions (Arachnida: Scorpiones). Dena 9: 68–69. [In Persian]
- Zamani, A. (2013). Spider; friend in clothes of enemy. Hamshahri: Danestaniha 80: 44–45. [In Persian]
- Zamani, A. (2013). Size-limiting factors in arthropods. Hamshahri: Danestaniha 79: 61. [In Persian]