# Lycosa aragogi

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Species of spider

Lycosa aragogi Holotype female of Lycosa aragogi Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Class: Arachnida Order: Araneae Infraorder: Araneomorphae Family: Lycosidae Genus: Lycosa Species: L. aragogi Binomial name Lycosa aragogi Nadolny & Zamani, 2017[1]

***Lycosa aragogi*** is a species of the [araneomorph](/source/Araneomorphae) [spider](/source/Spider) family [Lycosidae](/source/Wolf_spiders)[1] [endemic](/source/Endemism) to [Kerman province](/source/Kerman_province), Iran.[2] The female [holotype](/source/Holotype) measured 26mm, (excluding the legs), with two black and three white stripes of [setae](/source/Setae) on its [cephalothorax](/source/Cephalothorax), black setae on its [chelicerae](/source/Chelicerae), and scattered dots and patterns of black and white setae on its abdomen.[2][3]

## Discovery and naming

This species was named after [Aragog](/source/Aragog), the fictional spider from the *[Harry Potter](/source/Harry_Potter)* series by [J.K. Rowling](/source/J.K._Rowling),[4] as it resembled the animatronic puppet version of this character created for the movie *[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets](/source/Harry_Potter_and_the_Chamber_of_Secrets_(film))*.[2] Another reason for this [eponymy](/source/Eponymy) was the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the whole *Harry Potter* series in 2017.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] The single specimen was collected by Iranian [entomologist](/source/Entomologist) [Alireza Naderi](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alireza_Naderi&action=edit&redlink=1) 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](/source/Arachnologists) Anton Nadolny and Alireza Zamani in a paper published in the journal *[Zootaxa](/source/Zootaxa)*.[3]

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-auto_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-auto_1-1) Bern, Natural History Museum. ["NMBE – World Spider Catalog"](http://wsc.nmbe.ch/species/55851/Lycosa_aragogi). *wsc.nmbe.ch*.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-auto1_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-auto1_2-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-auto1_2-2) Nadolny, Anton A.; Zamani, Alireza (4 July 2017). ["A new species of burrowing wolf spiders (Araneae: Lycosidae: Lycosa ) from Iran"](http://www.mapress.com/j/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4286.4.13). *Zootaxa*. **4286** (4): 597–600. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.11646/zootaxa.4286.4.13](https://doi.org/10.11646%2Fzootaxa.4286.4.13) – via mapress.com.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-livescience.com_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-livescience.com_3-1) ["Furry 'Harry Potter' Spider Discovered in Mountain Burrow"](https://www.livescience.com/59729-wolf-spider-honors-harry-potter-aragog.html). *[Live Science](/source/Live_Science)*. 7 July 2017.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["A new spider species has been named after a Harry Potter character"](http://www.hindustantimes.com/books/a-new-spider-species-has-been-named-after-a-harry-potter-character/story-U4ykWNluEApj8ivK4fqKEO.html). 9 July 2017.

Taxon identifiers Lycosa aragogi Wikidata: Q32851751 Wikispecies: Lycosa aragogi CoL: 3WNDW GBIF: 9345241 iNaturalist: 554783 ITIS: 1122172 Open Tree of Life: 7687147 WSC: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:049452

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