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Based on a series of specimens collected between 2021 and 2023, this study presents new data on spiders of Iraqi Kurdistan. Despite the small size of the collection (i.e., 74 specimens), the material was found to include five species new to science, which are described and illustrated in this paper: Dysdera goyzha sp. n. (♂♀; Sulaymaniyah) Dysderidae, D. kurdistanica sp. n. (♂; Sulaymaniyah) Dysderidae, Palpimanus garmiyanus sp. n. (♂; Sulaymaniyah) Palpimanidae, Tegenaria sorani sp. n. (♂; Erbil) Agelenidae, and Zelotes hazarmerdensis sp. n. (♀; Sulaymaniyah) Gnaphosidae. Two families (Cheiracanthiidae; Zoropsidae), eleven genera (Agalenatea Archer, 1951 Araneidae; Cheiracanthium C.L. Koch, 1839 Cheiracanthiidae; Drassodes Westring, 1851 Gnaphosidae; Gibbaranea Archer, 1951 Araneidae; Mesiotelus Simon, 1897 Liocranidae; Micrommata Latreille, 1804 Sparassidae; Porrhoclubiona Lohmander, 1944 Clubionidae; Rhysodromus Schick, 1965 Philodromidae; Steatoda Sundevall, 1833 Theridiidae; Trochosa C.L. Koch, 1847 Lycosidae; Zoropsis Simon, 1878 Zoropsidae) and 18 species are recorded in Iraq for the first time, and five species are newly reported from the Kurdistan Region.
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