Lycosa aragogi

Lycosa aragogi is a species of the araneomorph spider family Lycosidae[1] endemic to Kerman Province, Iran.[2] The female holotype measured 26mm, (excluding the legs), with two black and three white stripes of setae on its cephalothorax, black setae on its chelicerae, and scattered dots and patterns of black and white setae on its abdomen.[2][3]

Lycosa aragogi
Holotype female of Lycosa aragogi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Lycosidae
Genus: Lycosa
Species:
L. aragogi
Binomial name
Lycosa aragogi
Nadolny & Zamani, 2017[1]

Discovery and naming

This species was named after Aragog, the fictional spider from the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling,[4] as it resembled the animatronic puppet version of this character created for the movie Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.[2] Another reason for this eponymy was the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the whole Harry Potter series in 2017. The single specimen was collected by Iranian entomologist Alireza Naderi in a mountainous region of southeastern Iran's Kerman Province on April 26, 2016, just over 19 years after Aragog died (20 April 1997, according to the Harry Potter series), and later described by arachnologists Anton Nadolny and Alireza Zamani in a paper published in the journal Zootaxa.[3]

References
  1. Bern, Natural History Museum. "NMBE - World Spider Catalog". wsc.nmbe.ch.
  2. Nadolny, Anton A.; Zamani, Alireza (4 July 2017). "A new species of burrowing wolf spiders (Araneae: Lycosidae: Lycosa ) from Iran". Zootaxa. 4286 (4): 597–600. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4286.4.13 – via www.mapress.com.
  3. "Furry 'Harry Potter' Spider Discovered in Mountain Burrow". Live Science. 7 July 2017.
  4. "A new spider species has been named after a Harry Potter character". 9 July 2017.


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