Lycosa aragogi

{{Short description|Species of spider}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2024}} {{Speciesbox | status = | status_system = | image = Lycosa aragogi.jpg | image_caption = Holotype female of ''Lycosa aragogi'' | taxon = Lycosa aragogi | authority = [[Anton A. Nadolny|Nadolny]] & [[Alireza Zamani|Zamani]], 2017<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=http://wsc.nmbe.ch/species/55851/Lycosa_aragogi|title=NMBE – World Spider Catalog|first=Natural History Museum|last=Bern|website=wsc.nmbe.ch}}</ref> | synonyms = }}

'''''Lycosa aragogi''''' is a species of the [[Araneomorphae|araneomorph]] [[spider]] family [[Wolf spiders|Lycosidae]]<ref name="auto"/> [[Endemism|endemic]] to [[Kerman province]], Iran.<ref name="auto1">{{cite journal|url=http://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4286.4.13|title=A new species of burrowing wolf spiders (Araneae: Lycosidae: Lycosa ) from Iran|first1=Anton A.|last1=Nadolny|first2=Alireza|last2=Zamani|date=4 July 2017|journal=Zootaxa|volume=4286|issue=4|pages=597–600|via=mapress.com|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4286.4.13|doi-access=free}}</ref> The female [[holotype]] measured 26mm, (excluding the legs), with two black and three white stripes of [[setae]] on its [[cephalothorax]], black setae on its [[chelicerae]], and scattered dots and patterns of black and white setae on its abdomen.<ref name="auto1"/><ref name="livescience.com">{{cite web|url=https://www.livescience.com/59729-wolf-spider-honors-harry-potter-aragog.html|title=Furry 'Harry Potter' Spider Discovered in Mountain Burrow|website=[[Live Science]] |date=7 July 2017 }}</ref>

==Discovery and naming== This species was named after [[Aragog]], the fictional spider from the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' series by [[J.K. Rowling]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/books/a-new-spider-species-has-been-named-after-a-harry-potter-character/story-U4ykWNluEApj8ivK4fqKEO.html|title=A new spider species has been named after a Harry Potter character|date=9 July 2017}}</ref> as it resembled the animatronic puppet version of this character created for the movie ''[[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)|Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]]''.<ref name="auto1"/> Another reason for this [[eponymy]] was the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the whole ''Harry Potter'' series in 2017.{{citation needed|date=August 2018}} The single specimen was collected by Iranian [[entomologist]] [[Alireza Naderi]] in a mountainous region of southeastern Iran's Kerman province on 26 April 2016, just over 19 years after Aragog died (20 April 1997, according to the ''Harry Potter'' series), and later described by [[arachnologists]] Anton Nadolny and Alireza Zamani in a paper published in the journal ''[[Zootaxa]]''.<ref name="livescience.com"/>

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[[Category:Endemic fauna of Iran]] [[Category:Lycosidae]] [[Category:Spiders described in 2017]] [[Category:Spiders of Iran]]