title: On the genus Cebrennus Simon, 1880 in Iran with description of a new species from Iranian Central Desert (Araneae: Sparassidae).
abstract: The taxonomic knowledge on the desert-dwelling sparassid genus Cebrennus Simon, 1880 in Iran is updated by describing a new species, Cebrennus rambodjavani sp. nov. (male) from northern Qom in Iran's Central Desert, and reviewing the material of the previous Iranian record of the genus [sub C. kochi (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)] from Bushehr, southern Iran, which is found to be a misidentification. A revised definition of the term "embolus kink", a male copulatory structure in Cebrennus, is given. A comparative discussion of this structure between several representatives of the genus Cebrennus is included.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran; Email: moradmand.arachnids@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Majid
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Moradmand
authors.affiliation: School of Biology, College of Sciences, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran; Email: unknown.
authors.forename: Alireza
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zamani
authors.affiliation: Arachnology, Senckenberg Research Institute, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Email: unknown.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Jäger
mesh_terms: D063147:Animal Distribution; D000825:Animal Structures / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000254:growth & development; D000818:Animals; D049628:Body Size; D017753:Ecosystem; D005260:Female; D007492:Iran; D008297:Male; D009929:Organ Size; D013112:Spiders / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000145:classification* / Q000254:growth & development