Majid Moradmand, Ph.D.

Publications

Griebenow, Z. H., Isaia, M. & Moradmand, M. (2022). A remarkable troglomorphic ant, Yavnella laventa sp. nov.(Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Leptanillinae), identified as the first known worker of Yavnella Kugler by phylogenomic inference. Invertebrate Systematics, 36(12), 1118-1138.

  Moradmand, M., & Yousefi, M. (2022). Ecological Niche Modelling and Climate Change in two Species Groups of Huntsman Spider Genus Eusparassus in the Western Palearctic. Nature Scientific Reports, 12: 4138.

  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.

  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 (1): 63-66.

  Maddahi, H., Aliabadian, M., Moradmand, M, . & Mirshamsi, O.(2020). Revised Diagnosis of The Camel Spider Rhagodes Ahwazensis Kraus, 1959 (Solifugae: Rhagodidae), A Rare Endemic Species from SW Iran. Arthropoda Selecta, 29(2): 211–218.

  Montemor, V. M., Zamani, A., West, R. C., Moradmand, M., Wirth, V.V, Wendt, I., Huber, S.,& Guadanucci, J. P. L.(2020). Taxonomy of the Genus Ischnocolus in the Middle East, with the Description of a New Species from Oman and Iran (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Ischnocolinae). Zoology in the Middle East, 66(1): 76–90.

  Moradmand, M., Zamani, A.,& Jäger, P. (2020). An Afrotropic Element at the North-Western Periphery of the Oriental Region: Pseudomicrommata Mokranica sp. nov. (Araneae: Sparassidae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 126(2): 249–156.

  Alimohammadi, S., & Moradmand, M. (2019). A Study of the Spider (Arachnida: Araneae) Fauna of the Dalan-Kouh Protected Area (Isfahan Province, Iran). Journal of Taxonomy and Biosystematics, 11(41: 71-84. (in Farsi language).

  Maddahi, H., Aliabadian, M., Moradmand, M. & Mirshamsi, O. (2019). New Insights to the Taxonomy of Rhagodes Eylandti (Walter, 1889):A Remarkable Sexually Dimorphic Species (Solifugae: Rhagodidae). Zootaxa, 4648 (3): 494–510.

  Torabi, M., Moradmand, M., & Muster, C. (2019).A Survey of Running crab Spiders (Araneae: Philodromidae) in Iran. Zoology in the Middle East 65(3): 274–279.

  Shafaie, S., Mirshamsi, O., Aliabadian, M., Moradmand, M., & Marusik, Y. M. (2018). A New Pardosa Species from Northern Iran (Araneae, Lycosidae). Zootaxa, 4387(2): 350–364.

  Moradmand, M. (2017). Three New Species of the Subterranean Huntsman Spider Genus Spariolenus (Araneae: Sparassidae: Heteropodinae) in Iran. Subterranean Biology, 24: 11–25.

 Mirshamsi, O., Shafaie, S., Aliabadian, M., Moradmand, M., & Marusik, Y. M. (2017). An Overview of Species Concept used in Spiders Taxonomy with an Emphasis on Mating Structures. Journal of Taxonomy and Biosystematics, 9(31): 87-100.(in Farsi language).

  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., Mirshamsi, O., Rashidi, P., Marusik, Y.M., Moradmand, M.,& A. Bolzern (2016). New Data on the Spider Fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Aranei), part III. Arthropoda Selecta, 25(1): 99–114.

  Mirshamsi, O., Marusik, YM., Zamani, A., Moradmand, M., & R. Kashefi (2015). Annotated Checklist of the Spiders of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae). Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics, 1–108.

  Moradmand, M. (2015).Revision of the Grass Huntsman Spider Genus Pseudomicrommata Järvi, 1914 (Araneae: Sparassidae) in the Afrotropical Region . African Invertebrates, 56 (2): 425–443.

  Moradmand, M., Mirshamsi Kakhki O.,& Hula, V. (2015). New Records of the Huntsman Spider genus Olios (Araneae: Sparassidae) from Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan. Zoology in the Middle East, 61 (1): 76–80.

  Moradmand, M., Schönhofer, A. L.,& Jäger, P. (2014). Molecular Phylogeny of the Huntsman Spider family Sparassidae with focus on the Genus Eusparassus and Notes on the RTA-clade and ‘Laterigradae’. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 7: 48–65.

 Moradmand, M., & P. Jäger (2012a). Taxonomic Revision of the Huntsman Spider Genus Eusparassus Simon, 1903 (Araneae: Sparassidae) in Eurasia. Journal of Natural History, 46(39-40): 2439–2496.