De Miranda Gustavo Silva, Zamani Alireza
Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, USA..
Zootaxa. 2018 Apr 23;4413(2):339-350. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4413.2.6.
The whip spider genus Phrynichus (Phrynichidae, Amblypygi) is widely distributed in Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and Asia with a total of 17 species. No records, however, are known from several countries in the Middle East. Here we provide the first record of a whip spider from Iran (Ilam Province), with the description and illustration of a new species, Phrynichus persicus sp. n. This discovery fills a gap in the distribution of the group that is known from both sides of this biogeographically interesting region and is also the northernmost record of the family Phrynichidae. Moreover, all distribution records of the Phrynichus species are mapped (including the first verified record of the order from the United Arab Emirates), an updated key to the species of the deflersi and ceylonicus groups is provided, and Phrynichus andhraensis Bastawade, Rao, Maqsood Javed and Krishna, 2005 (India) is assigned to the ceylonicus group.
鞭蛛属Phrynichus（鞭蛛科，无鞭目）广泛分布于非洲、阿拉伯半岛和亚洲，共有17个物种。然而，中东的几个国家尚无相关记录。在此，我们首次报道了来自伊朗（伊拉姆省）的一种鞭蛛，并对一个新物种——波斯鞭蛛Phrynichus persicus sp. n.进行了描述和绘图。这一发现填补了该类群在这个具有生物地理学意义的地区两侧分布的空白，也是鞭蛛科最北的记录。此外，绘制了Phrynichus物种的所有分布记录图（包括来自阿拉伯联合酋长国该目首个经核实的记录），提供了deflersi组和ceylonicus组物种的最新检索表，并将2005年发现于印度的安德拉鞭蛛Phrynichus andhraensis Bastawade、Rao、Maqsood Javed和Krishna归入ceylonicus组。
