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18 A. Zamani & F. Mozaffarian (A. Bahramishad); Tehran Province: 2 )) (AZMI), Varamin, Pishva, 28 April 2001 (A. Bahramishad). Distribution. Mediterranean. Iranian provinces: Markazi and Khorasan-e Razavi. Xysticus kochi Thorell, 1872 Identification. Almquist (2006) Material. Alborz Province: 1 ( (AZMI), Karaj, pear garden, 1 May 2000 (F. Mozaffarian); Alborz Province: 1 ( (AZMI), Karaj, wheat field, 12 May 1999; Tehran Province: 1 )  2 (( (AZMI), Damavand area, Firooz Kuh, pome orchard, 14 Ap- ril 1998 (F. Mozaffarian). Distribution. Europe to Turkmenistan. Iranian provinces: Azerbaijan-e Sharghi, Gilan, Golestan, Mazandaran, Khora- san-e Razavi and Tehran. Xysticus laetus Thorell, 1875 Identification. Logunov (2006) Material. Unknown Province: 1 ( (AZMI), no data. Distribution. Italy to Central Asia. Iranian provinces: Fars and Mazandaran. Xysticus striatipes L. Koch, 1870 Identification. Kiany et al. (2017), Roberts (1998) Material. Fars Province: 2 )) (AZMI), Shiraz, corn field, 18 October 2011. Distribution. Palaearctic. Iranian provinces: Fars, Mazanda- ran and Tehran. Family Titanoecidae Lehtinen, 1967 Nurscia albomaculata (Lucas, 1846) Identification. Kovblyuk et al. (2016) Material. Gilan Province: 1 ) (AZMI), Rasht, Rice Research Institute, rice land, 28 June 1996 (F. Mozaffarian). Distribution. Mediterranean to Central Asia. Iranian pro- vinces: Golestan, Mazandaran, Khorasan-e Razavi and Teh­ ran. Titanoeca turkmenia Wunderlich, 1995 Identification. Wunderlich (1995) Material. Gilan Province: 1 ) (AZMI), Rasht, Rice Research Institute, rice land, 28 June 1996 (F. Mozaffarian). Distribution. Greece, Iran, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan. Iranian provinces: Gilan, Kordestan and Mazandaran. Family Trachelidae Simon, 1897 Trachelas minor O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872 Identification. Bosselaers et al. (2009), Zamani et al. (2016) Material. Markazi Province: 1 ( (AZMI), Saveh, Yal Abad, pomegranate orchard, 14 August 1999 (A. Bahramishad); Mazandaran Province: 1 ( (AZMI), surroundings of Toneka- bon, rice land, 6 August 1996 (F. Mozaffarian). Distribution. Mediterranean to Central Asia. In Iran, it has been previously recorded from an unknown province (it was presumed by the authors that the specimens were collected in Fars Province). Our record from Markazi Province is the southernmost in the known distribution range. Discussion A total of 634 specimens was examined, out of which 106 species belonging to 70 genera and 27 families were identi- fied. Five species are new records for the fauna of Iran – Bri- gittea civica (Lucas, 1850), Pardosa roscai (Roewer, 1951), Te- tragnatha isidis (Simon, 1880), Trachyzelotes miniglossus Levy, 2009 and Zelotes tenuis (L. Koch, 1866), raising the number of species known from this country to 620. New provincial records were provided for an additional number of 64 spe- cies. Iran now comprises the easternmost known distributi- on limits for six species ( Aculepeira talishia , Brigittea civica , Pardosa aenigmatica , P . azerifalcata , Trachyzelotes miniglossus , Zelotes tenuis ), the southernmost record for six species ( Alo- pecosa albofasciata , Leviellus caspicus , Nomisia conigera , Pardosa italica , Talanites dunini , Trachelas minor ), the northernmost record for one species ( Zaitunia vahabzadehi ) and the south- easternmost record for two species ( Pardosa buchari , P. roscai ). Previous Iranian records of Pardosa azerifalcata and Heliopha- nus aeneus are attributed to Pardosa italica and Heliophanus flavipes , respectively, and Pardosa azerifalcata is re-recorded for the fauna of Iran based on the recently examined material. It is also noteworthy that partial or whole material of a considerable number of species from a variety of different fa- milies (25 species from 13 families) were collected from rice lands, which is in agreement with the structure of spider com- munities observed in ecological studies of this agroecosystem ( Bambaradeniya et al. 2004, Sebastian et al. 2005 ). The same holds true for our records from pomegranate, citrus and oli- ve orchards (32 species from 13 families). Ecological studies carried out in olive (Picchi et al. 2016), citrus (Mestre et al. 2012), pear (Tavares et al. 2011) and apple (Bogya et al. 1999) orchards have shown relatively high species numbers (>50) in comparably small assemblages, which is quite similar to what we have observed on the basis of our current material. Acknowledgements We are grateful to Yuri M. Marusik, Sergei L. Esyunin and Anton Nadolny for their comments on the identification of some of the ma- terial.The kind assistance of the staff of the entomology lab of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences in photographing the specimens is also acknowledged.The referees and Tobias Bauer gave helpful advices to improve the manuscript. 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