University of Guilan Caspian Journal of Environmental Sciences 1735-3033 20 4 2022 10 01 Recording some spider species in Al- Najaf, Iraq 849 853 5778 10.22124/cjes.2022.5778 EN Aliaa H. Mizhir Department of Ecology and Pollution, Faculty of Science, University of Kufa, Iraq Journal Article 2022 09 01 A total of 93 Individuals of wild spiders were collected from June through September 2019, from different regions of Al-Najaf Province, Iraq. Five spider species were recorded, four belong to Araneae order: <em>Plexippus paykulli </em>(Audouin, 1825)<em>, Habronttus aestus</em> Maddison, sp. n.<em>, Artema doriae </em>(Thorell, 1881)<em> </em>and<em> Loxosceles rufescens </em>(Dufour 1820)<em>. </em>One species belonging to order Solifugae<em> </em>is<em> Galeodes arabs </em>C.L. Koch, 1842.<em> </em>This is the first record of species<em> H</em>.<em> aestus </em>in Iraq. The results also showed that the highest rate of the appearance of <em>H. aestus</em> was 61.3%, while the lowest belonged to <em>G. arab</em> (4%). https://cjes.guilan.ac.ir/article_5778_66d1c94716be860ea2cd12b6c5191a86.pdf