taxonID	type	description	language	source
03BB745FFFE3FFF4FC86FAE6B826107A.taxon	description	(Fig. 1)	en	Zamani, Alireza, Nuruyeva, Tamara, Snegovaya, Nataly, Freyhof, Jörg, Mustafayev, Namiq, Marusik, Yuri M. (2025): New records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Azerbaijan, including the first record of Nephilidae from the Western Palaearctic. Arachnology 20 (1): 132-137, DOI: 10.13156/arac.2024.20.1.132
03BB745FFFE3FFF4FC86FAE6B826107A.taxon	materials_examined	Material: AZERBAIJAN: Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic: 2 ♂♂ (IZBA), Ordubad, Tivi Vill., 39 ° 07 ′ 28.0 ″ N 45 ° 53 ′ 29.0 ″ E, 27 April 2012 (E. F. Huseynov).	en	Zamani, Alireza, Nuruyeva, Tamara, Snegovaya, Nataly, Freyhof, Jörg, Mustafayev, Namiq, Marusik, Yuri M. (2025): New records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Azerbaijan, including the first record of Nephilidae from the Western Palaearctic. Arachnology 20 (1): 132-137, DOI: 10.13156/arac.2024.20.1.132
03BB745FFFE3FFF4FC86FAE6B826107A.taxon	distribution	Distribution: Iran, Kazakhstan, India (Zamani, Marusik & Šestáková 2020), Azerbaijan (the present paper).	en	Zamani, Alireza, Nuruyeva, Tamara, Snegovaya, Nataly, Freyhof, Jörg, Mustafayev, Namiq, Marusik, Yuri M. (2025): New records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Azerbaijan, including the first record of Nephilidae from the Western Palaearctic. Arachnology 20 (1): 132-137, DOI: 10.13156/arac.2024.20.1.132
03BB745FFFE3FFF7FC86F8DFBC3B1229.taxon	materials_examined	Material: AZERBAIJAN: Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic: 1 ♀ (ZMMU), Dasharkh Vill., 39 ° 33 ′ 37.7 ″ N 45 ° 02 ′ 31.8 ″ E, 870 m, 01 – 04 April 2003 (Yu. M. Marusik).	en	Zamani, Alireza, Nuruyeva, Tamara, Snegovaya, Nataly, Freyhof, Jörg, Mustafayev, Namiq, Marusik, Yuri M. (2025): New records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Azerbaijan, including the first record of Nephilidae from the Western Palaearctic. Arachnology 20 (1): 132-137, DOI: 10.13156/arac.2024.20.1.132
03BB745FFFE3FFF7FC86F8DFBC3B1229.taxon	distribution	Distribution: Crete, Turkey (World Spider Catalog 2025), Azerbaijan (the present paper). This species is currently known from only three localities, with the new record from Azerbaijan representing the northeasternmost record in its known range.	en	Zamani, Alireza, Nuruyeva, Tamara, Snegovaya, Nataly, Freyhof, Jörg, Mustafayev, Namiq, Marusik, Yuri M. (2025): New records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Azerbaijan, including the first record of Nephilidae from the Western Palaearctic. Arachnology 20 (1): 132-137, DOI: 10.13156/arac.2024.20.1.132
03BB745FFFE0FFF7FFC7FB27BEF017AD.taxon	materials_examined	Material: AZERBAIJAN: Baku Region: 1 ♀ (IZBA), Absheron Peninsula, Dubendi, sea shore, 40 ° 25 ′ 46.0 ″ N 50 ° 14 ′ 56.0 ″ E, 08 July 1998 (E. F. Huseynov).	en	Zamani, Alireza, Nuruyeva, Tamara, Snegovaya, Nataly, Freyhof, Jörg, Mustafayev, Namiq, Marusik, Yuri M. (2025): New records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Azerbaijan, including the first record of Nephilidae from the Western Palaearctic. Arachnology 20 (1): 132-137, DOI: 10.13156/arac.2024.20.1.132
03BB745FFFE0FFF7FFC7FB27BEF017AD.taxon	distribution	Distribution: Sardinia, Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey to Central Asia and Pakistan, south to Israel (World Spider Catalog 2025).	en	Zamani, Alireza, Nuruyeva, Tamara, Snegovaya, Nataly, Freyhof, Jörg, Mustafayev, Namiq, Marusik, Yuri M. (2025): New records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Azerbaijan, including the first record of Nephilidae from the Western Palaearctic. Arachnology 20 (1): 132-137, DOI: 10.13156/arac.2024.20.1.132
03BB745FFFE0FFF7FC86FDA2B95615CB.taxon	materials_examined	Material: AZERBAIJAN: Mountainous Shirvan Region: 1 ♀ (ZMMU), Ismayilli Dist., Khanaya, 30 September 2003 (E. F. Huseynov); Shaki-Zagatala Region: 1 ♀ (ZMMU), Qabala Dist., Qabala, 05 June 2001 (E. F. Huseynov).	en	Zamani, Alireza, Nuruyeva, Tamara, Snegovaya, Nataly, Freyhof, Jörg, Mustafayev, Namiq, Marusik, Yuri M. (2025): New records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Azerbaijan, including the first record of Nephilidae from the Western Palaearctic. Arachnology 20 (1): 132-137, DOI: 10.13156/arac.2024.20.1.132
03BB745FFFE0FFF7FC86FDA2B95615CB.taxon	distribution	Distribution: France to the eastern Caucasus (World Spider Catalog 2025).	en	Zamani, Alireza, Nuruyeva, Tamara, Snegovaya, Nataly, Freyhof, Jörg, Mustafayev, Namiq, Marusik, Yuri M. (2025): New records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Azerbaijan, including the first record of Nephilidae from the Western Palaearctic. Arachnology 20 (1): 132-137, DOI: 10.13156/arac.2024.20.1.132
03BB745FFFE0FFF6FC86FB85BC6D120B.taxon	materials_examined	Material: AZERBAIJAN: Baku Region: 1 ♂ (ZMMU), Absheron Peninsula, Dubendi, 40 ° 29 ′ N 50 ° 13 ′ E, 17 April 2001 (E. F. Huseynov).	en	Zamani, Alireza, Nuruyeva, Tamara, Snegovaya, Nataly, Freyhof, Jörg, Mustafayev, Namiq, Marusik, Yuri M. (2025): New records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Azerbaijan, including the first record of Nephilidae from the Western Palaearctic. Arachnology 20 (1): 132-137, DOI: 10.13156/arac.2024.20.1.132
03BB745FFFE0FFF6FC86FB85BC6D120B.taxon	distribution	Distribution: Ukraine to central Mongolia (World Spider Catalog 2025).	en	Zamani, Alireza, Nuruyeva, Tamara, Snegovaya, Nataly, Freyhof, Jörg, Mustafayev, Namiq, Marusik, Yuri M. (2025): New records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Azerbaijan, including the first record of Nephilidae from the Western Palaearctic. Arachnology 20 (1): 132-137, DOI: 10.13156/arac.2024.20.1.132
03BB745FFFE1FFF6FFC7FB85BCCB13F0.taxon	materials_examined	Material: AZERBAIJAN: Baku Region: 1 ♀ (ZMMU), Absheron Peninsula, Dubendi, 40 ° 29 ′ N 50 ° 13 ′ E, 08 June 2003 (E. F. Huseynov).	en	Zamani, Alireza, Nuruyeva, Tamara, Snegovaya, Nataly, Freyhof, Jörg, Mustafayev, Namiq, Marusik, Yuri M. (2025): New records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Azerbaijan, including the first record of Nephilidae from the Western Palaearctic. Arachnology 20 (1): 132-137, DOI: 10.13156/arac.2024.20.1.132
03BB745FFFE1FFF6FFC7FB85BCCB13F0.taxon	distribution	Distribution: Ukraine to Kazakhstan, south to Iran (World Spider Catalog 2025).	en	Zamani, Alireza, Nuruyeva, Tamara, Snegovaya, Nataly, Freyhof, Jörg, Mustafayev, Namiq, Marusik, Yuri M. (2025): New records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Azerbaijan, including the first record of Nephilidae from the Western Palaearctic. Arachnology 20 (1): 132-137, DOI: 10.13156/arac.2024.20.1.132
03BB745FFFE1FFF6FFC7F98EBF631E26.taxon	materials_examined	Material: AZERBAIJAN: Baku Region: 1 ♂ 1 j. (ZMMU), env. of Baku, Gobustan, 40 ° 05 ′ N 49 ° 25 ′ E, mountain semidesert, 15 April 2001 (Yu. M. Marusik).	en	Zamani, Alireza, Nuruyeva, Tamara, Snegovaya, Nataly, Freyhof, Jörg, Mustafayev, Namiq, Marusik, Yuri M. (2025): New records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Azerbaijan, including the first record of Nephilidae from the Western Palaearctic. Arachnology 20 (1): 132-137, DOI: 10.13156/arac.2024.20.1.132
03BB745FFFE1FFF6FFC7F98EBF631E26.taxon	discussion	Remarks: The specimen from Azerbaijan has a slightly longer palpal tibia compared to the holotype (cf. Fig. 3 C and Zamani & Marusik 2021: fig. 8 A). This is herein considered to be an intraspecific variation.	en	Zamani, Alireza, Nuruyeva, Tamara, Snegovaya, Nataly, Freyhof, Jörg, Mustafayev, Namiq, Marusik, Yuri M. (2025): New records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Azerbaijan, including the first record of Nephilidae from the Western Palaearctic. Arachnology 20 (1): 132-137, DOI: 10.13156/arac.2024.20.1.132
03BB745FFFE1FFF6FFC7F98EBF631E26.taxon	distribution	Distribution: Northwestern Iran (Zamani & Marusik 2021), Azerbaijan (the present paper).	en	Zamani, Alireza, Nuruyeva, Tamara, Snegovaya, Nataly, Freyhof, Jörg, Mustafayev, Namiq, Marusik, Yuri M. (2025): New records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Azerbaijan, including the first record of Nephilidae from the Western Palaearctic. Arachnology 20 (1): 132-137, DOI: 10.13156/arac.2024.20.1.132
03BB745FFFE1FFF6FC86FC22B8FE1320.taxon	materials_examined	Material: AZERBAIJAN: Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic: 1 ♂ (ZMMU), Sharur Dist., Akhura, 39 ° 34 ′ N 45 ° 11 ′ E, 02 June 2003 (E. F. Huseynov).	en	Zamani, Alireza, Nuruyeva, Tamara, Snegovaya, Nataly, Freyhof, Jörg, Mustafayev, Namiq, Marusik, Yuri M. (2025): New records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Azerbaijan, including the first record of Nephilidae from the Western Palaearctic. Arachnology 20 (1): 132-137, DOI: 10.13156/arac.2024.20.1.132
03BB745FFFE1FFF6FC86FC22B8FE1320.taxon	distribution	Distribution: North Africa, Portugal to Turkmenistan; introduced to Cape Verde (World Spider Catalog 2025).	en	Zamani, Alireza, Nuruyeva, Tamara, Snegovaya, Nataly, Freyhof, Jörg, Mustafayev, Namiq, Marusik, Yuri M. (2025): New records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Azerbaijan, including the first record of Nephilidae from the Western Palaearctic. Arachnology 20 (1): 132-137, DOI: 10.13156/arac.2024.20.1.132
03BB745FFFE1FFF6FC86FA27B80C1E26.taxon	materials_examined	Material: AZERBAIJAN: Baku Region: 1 ♀ (ZMMU), Gobustan, Beyuk-Dash Mt., 38 ° 38 ′ N 48 ° 47 ′ E, 17 May 2003 (E. F. Huseynov); Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic: 1 ♂ 1 ♀ 1 juv. (ZMMU), Dasharkh Vill., 39 º 33 ′ N 45 º 02 ′ E, 870 m, 01 – 04 June 2003 (Yu. M. Marusik).	en	Zamani, Alireza, Nuruyeva, Tamara, Snegovaya, Nataly, Freyhof, Jörg, Mustafayev, Namiq, Marusik, Yuri M. (2025): New records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Azerbaijan, including the first record of Nephilidae from the Western Palaearctic. Arachnology 20 (1): 132-137, DOI: 10.13156/arac.2024.20.1.132
03BB745FFFE1FFF6FC86FA27B80C1E26.taxon	distribution	Distribution: Greece (Rhodes), the Caucasus (World Spider Catalog 2025). In the Caucasus, the species was recently reported from Georgia (Seropian et al. 2024 b). Its occurrence in Turkey and Armenia is highly probable.	en	Zamani, Alireza, Nuruyeva, Tamara, Snegovaya, Nataly, Freyhof, Jörg, Mustafayev, Namiq, Marusik, Yuri M. (2025): New records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Azerbaijan, including the first record of Nephilidae from the Western Palaearctic. Arachnology 20 (1): 132-137, DOI: 10.13156/arac.2024.20.1.132
03BB745FFFE6FFF1FC86FA9AB90810EC.taxon	materials_examined	Material: AZERBAIJAN: Baku Region: 1 ♀ (ZMMU), Absheron Peninsula, env. of Baku, Ganly-Gyol Lake, 40 ° 21 ′ N 49 ° 48 ′ E, 20 May & 06 June 2003 (Yu. M. Marusik).	en	Zamani, Alireza, Nuruyeva, Tamara, Snegovaya, Nataly, Freyhof, Jörg, Mustafayev, Namiq, Marusik, Yuri M. (2025): New records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Azerbaijan, including the first record of Nephilidae from the Western Palaearctic. Arachnology 20 (1): 132-137, DOI: 10.13156/arac.2024.20.1.132
03BB745FFFE6FFF1FC86FA9AB90810EC.taxon	distribution	Distribution: Mediterranean to the eastern Caucasus (World Spider Catalog 2025).	en	Zamani, Alireza, Nuruyeva, Tamara, Snegovaya, Nataly, Freyhof, Jörg, Mustafayev, Namiq, Marusik, Yuri M. (2025): New records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Azerbaijan, including the first record of Nephilidae from the Western Palaearctic. Arachnology 20 (1): 132-137, DOI: 10.13156/arac.2024.20.1.132
03BB745FFFE6FFF1FFC7FA74BFEA1E26.taxon	materials_examined	Material: AZERBAIJAN: Lankaran-Astara Region: 1 ♀ (IZBA), Lankaran, Hirkan Park, 38 ° 39 ′ 31.3 ″ N 48 ° 46 ′ 52.0 ″ E, 03 September 2024 (J. Freyhof).	en	Zamani, Alireza, Nuruyeva, Tamara, Snegovaya, Nataly, Freyhof, Jörg, Mustafayev, Namiq, Marusik, Yuri M. (2025): New records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Azerbaijan, including the first record of Nephilidae from the Western Palaearctic. Arachnology 20 (1): 132-137, DOI: 10.13156/arac.2024.20.1.132
03BB745FFFE6FFF1FFC7FA74BFEA1E26.taxon	discussion	Remarks: Some authors consider Nephilidae as a sub-family of Araneidae.	en	Zamani, Alireza, Nuruyeva, Tamara, Snegovaya, Nataly, Freyhof, Jörg, Mustafayev, Namiq, Marusik, Yuri M. (2025): New records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Azerbaijan, including the first record of Nephilidae from the Western Palaearctic. Arachnology 20 (1): 132-137, DOI: 10.13156/arac.2024.20.1.132
03BB745FFFE6FFF1FFC7FA74BFEA1E26.taxon	distribution	Distribution: India to Japan and introduced to the USA (Chuang et al. 2023), the Russian Far East (Fomichev & Omelko 2024), and Azerbaijan (the present paper).	en	Zamani, Alireza, Nuruyeva, Tamara, Snegovaya, Nataly, Freyhof, Jörg, Mustafayev, Namiq, Marusik, Yuri M. (2025): New records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Azerbaijan, including the first record of Nephilidae from the Western Palaearctic. Arachnology 20 (1): 132-137, DOI: 10.13156/arac.2024.20.1.132
03BB745FFFE6FFF0FC86F862BD861319.taxon	distribution	Distribution: Europe to South Siberia (World Spider Catalog 2025).	en	Zamani, Alireza, Nuruyeva, Tamara, Snegovaya, Nataly, Freyhof, Jörg, Mustafayev, Namiq, Marusik, Yuri M. (2025): New records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Azerbaijan, including the first record of Nephilidae from the Western Palaearctic. Arachnology 20 (1): 132-137, DOI: 10.13156/arac.2024.20.1.132
03BB745FFFE7FFF0FFC7FA35BF371105.taxon	materials_examined	Material: AZERBAIJAN: 1 ♂ (ZMMU), collection locality and date unknown (E. F. Huseynov).	en	Zamani, Alireza, Nuruyeva, Tamara, Snegovaya, Nataly, Freyhof, Jörg, Mustafayev, Namiq, Marusik, Yuri M. (2025): New records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Azerbaijan, including the first record of Nephilidae from the Western Palaearctic. Arachnology 20 (1): 132-137, DOI: 10.13156/arac.2024.20.1.132
03BB745FFFE7FFF0FFC7FA35BF371105.taxon	distribution	Distribution: Turkey, Israel, Iraq, Iran (World Spider Catalog 2025), Azerbaijan (the present paper).	en	Zamani, Alireza, Nuruyeva, Tamara, Snegovaya, Nataly, Freyhof, Jörg, Mustafayev, Namiq, Marusik, Yuri M. (2025): New records of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Azerbaijan, including the first record of Nephilidae from the Western Palaearctic. Arachnology 20 (1): 132-137, DOI: 10.13156/arac.2024.20.1.132
