Three New and Two Confirmed Records for the Iraqi Spider Fauna (Arachnida: Araneae)

The Iraqi spider fauna includes several dozens of species described and reported mostly by local researchers but still there are considerable sampling gaps. For the first time in Iraq, Agelena orientalis C. L. Koch 1837 (Agelenidae), Oxyopes globifer Simon, 1876 (Oxyopidae), Thanatus formicinus (Clerck, 1757) (Philodromidae) recorded. In addition, newly collected material Bassaniodes tristrami (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) (Thomisidae) Eusparassus mesopotamicus Moradmand & Jäger, 2012 (Sparassidae) also presented. characteristic features, habitus copulatory organs all presented here along with their geographic distribution.