New record of the Arabian Endemic Tarantula Satyrex ferox Zamani & von Wirth, 2025 (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Eumenophorinae) from southern Oman, with notes on its predator

Ali Abduallah Al-Jahdhami; Sulaiman Ali Al-Hashmi; Ahmed Hamood Albusaidi; Adil Salam Ward Al-Riamy; Hilal Saud Al-Naabi; Mohammed Ahmed Al-Hadhrami

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

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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