New record of the Arabian Endemic Tarantula Satyrex ferox Zamani & von Wirth, 2025 (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Eumenophorinae) from southern Oman, with notes on its predator
2025/09/08 by Ali Al-Jahdhami, Sulaiman Al‐Hashmi, Ahmed Hamood Albusaidi +3 · 2 voices
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Entomological Studies and Ecology #Orthoptera Research and Taxonomy #Spider Taxonomy and Behavior Studies
paper · pdf · doi:10.12741/ebrasilis.v18.e1124
openalex publication_date 2025/09/08 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11
Abstract
The present communication deals with the recording of Satyrex ferox Zamani & von Wirth, 2025 (Araneae: Theraphosidae) from the Afrotropical part of Oman (Dhofar region). This species is recorded from Southern Oman for the second time. A brief description of the morphology of S. ferox is provided, along with notes on its predator, the tarantula hawk Hemipepsis heros (Guérin-Méneville, 1849) (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae).
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