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Chrysso Longshanensis
''Chrysso'' is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1882. ''C. pulcherrima'' is pantropical, ''C. spiniventris'' has been introduced to Europe, and ''C. nordica'' occurs both in North America and in Asia from Hungary to Mongolia. Description Many species are strikingly colored, but like most theridiids, the coloration is variable. ''C. compressa''has a striking black sternum and abdomen, but the venter of Brazilian species is black, while those of Peru are yellow. ''C. venusta'' has been observed to rapidly change its color when disturbed. Females are about long, and have blade-like hairs on the tip of the abdomen. Species it contains sixty-four species, mostly found in the Americas and Asia: *'' C. albomaculata'' O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882 (type) – USA, Caribbean to Brazil *'' C. alecula'' Levi, 1962 – Panama *'' C. anei'' Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines *'' C. angula'' ( Tikader, 1970) – India ...
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Octavius Pickard-Cambridge
Octavius Pickard-Cambridge Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (3 November 1828 – 9 March 1917) was an England, English clergyman and zoologist. He was a keen arachnologist who described and named more than 900 species of spider. Life and work Pickard-Cambridge was born in Bloxworth rectory, Dorset, the fifth son of Rev. George Pickard, rector and squire of Bloxworth: the family changed its name to Pickard-Cambridge in 1848 after receiving the property left behind by a relative, Charles Owen Cambridge, of Whitminster House in Gloucestershire. Octavius was tutored at home by the poet William Barnes, after failing to receive admission to Winchester College. He also learned to play the violin from Sidney Smith. He then studied law in London before theology at the Durham University, University of Durham. He was very active and made many friends in this period. He served as steward at steeplechases and presided over the college choral society. In 1857 he presented the Pickard-Camb ...
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Chrysso Anei
''Chrysso'' is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1882. ''C. pulcherrima'' is pantropical, ''C. spiniventris'' has been introduced to Europe, and ''C. nordica'' occurs both in North America and in Asia from Hungary to Mongolia. Description Many species are strikingly colored, but like most theridiids, the coloration is variable. ''C. compressa''has a striking black sternum and abdomen, but the venter of Brazilian species is black, while those of Peru are yellow. ''C. venusta'' has been observed to rapidly change its color when disturbed. Females are about long, and have blade-like hairs on the tip of the abdomen. Species it contains sixty-four species, mostly found in the Americas and Asia: *'' C. albomaculata'' O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882 (type) – USA, Caribbean to Brazil *'' C. alecula'' Levi, 1962 – Panama *'' C. anei'' Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines *'' C. angula'' ( Tikader, 1970) – India *'' C. ant ...
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Lodovico Di Caporiacco
Ludovico di Caporiacco (22 January 1900, in Udine – 18 July 1951, in Parma) was an Italian arachnologist. Caporiacco took part in an expedition to the Jebel Uweinat, a mountain massif in the boundary region of Sudan, Libya, and Egypt. On the mission, he, together with Hungarian explorer László Almásy, discovered the prehistoric rock paintings of Ain Doua in 1933. In 1943 he was appointed professor of zoology to the faculty of sciences at the University of Parma. He was the author of numerous scientific papers on arachnids native to Italy and other Mediterranean regions. He also published articles on species found in East Africa, Central Asia (Himalayas The Himalayas, or Himalaya (; ; ), is a mountain range in Asia, separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. The range has some of the planet's highest peaks, including the very highest, Mount Everest. Over 100 ... and the Karakoram) as well as Central and South America. He was the taxon ...
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Chrysso Barrosmachadoi
''Chrysso'' is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1882. ''C. pulcherrima'' is pantropical, ''C. spiniventris'' has been introduced to Europe, and ''C. nordica'' occurs both in North America and in Asia from Hungary to Mongolia. Description Many species are strikingly colored, but like most theridiids, the coloration is variable. ''C. compressa''has a striking black sternum and abdomen, but the venter of Brazilian species is black, while those of Peru are yellow. ''C. venusta'' has been observed to rapidly change its color when disturbed. Females are about long, and have blade-like hairs on the tip of the abdomen. Species it contains sixty-four species, mostly found in the Americas and Asia: *'' C. albomaculata'' O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882 (type) – USA, Caribbean to Brazil *'' C. alecula'' Levi, 1962 – Panama *'' C. anei'' Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines *'' C. angula'' ( Tikader, 1970) – India *'' C. ant ...
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Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Chile covers an area of , with a population of 17.5 million as of 2017. It shares land borders with Peru to the north, Bolivia to the north-east, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far south. Chile also controls the Pacific islands of Juan Fernández, Isla Salas y Gómez, Desventuradas, and Easter Island in Oceania. It also claims about of Antarctica under the Chilean Antarctic Territory. The country's capital and largest city is Santiago, and its national language is Spanish. Spain conquered and colonized the region in the mid-16th century, replacing Inca rule, but failing to conquer the independent Mapuche who inhabited what is now south-central Chile. In 1818, after declaring in ...
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Lucien Berland
Lucien Berland (14 May 1888 in Ay, Marne – 18 August 1962 in Versailles)Jean-Jacques Amigo, « Berland (Lucien) », in Nouveau Dictionnaire de biographies roussillonnaises, vol. 3 Sciences de la Vie et de la Terre, Perpignan, Publications de l'olivier, 2017, 915 p. () was a French entomologist and arachnologist Partial list of publications * 1925 : ''Faune de France. 10, Hyménoptères vespiformes, I, Sphegidae, Pompilidae, Scoliidae, Sapygidae, Mutillidae''(Paul Lechevalier, Paris) * 1927 : « Les Araignées ubiquistes, ou à large répartition, et leurs moyens de dissémination », ''Compte rendu sommaire des séances de la Société de biogéographie'', 23 : 65–67. * 1929 : ''Faune de France. 19, Hyménoptères vespiformes, II, Eumenidae, Vespidae, Masaridae, Bethylidae, Dryinidae, Embolemidae'' (Paul Lechevalier, Paris) * 1929 : « Araignées recueillies par Madame Pruvot aux îles Loyalty », ''Bulletin de la Société zoologique de France'', LIV : 387–399. * 1929 ...
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Chrysso Backstromi
''Chrysso'' is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1882. ''C. pulcherrima'' is pantropical, ''C. spiniventris'' has been introduced to Europe, and ''C. nordica'' occurs both in North America and in Asia from Hungary to Mongolia. Description Many species are strikingly colored, but like most theridiids, the coloration is variable. ''C. compressa''has a striking black sternum and abdomen, but the venter of Brazilian species is black, while those of Peru are yellow. ''C. venusta'' has been observed to rapidly change its color when disturbed. Females are about long, and have blade-like hairs on the tip of the abdomen. Species it contains sixty-four species, mostly found in the Americas and Asia: *'' C. albomaculata'' O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882 (type) – USA, Caribbean to Brazil *'' C. alecula'' Levi, 1962 – Panama *'' C. anei'' Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines *'' C. angula'' ( Tikader, 1970) – India *'' C. ant ...
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Chrysso Arops
''Chrysso'' is a genus of Theridiidae, comb-footed spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1882. ''C. pulcherrima'' is pantropical, ''C. spiniventris'' has been introduced to Europe, and ''C. nordica'' occurs both in North America and in Asia from Hungary to Mongolia. Description Many species are strikingly colored, but like most Theridiidae, theridiids, the coloration is variable. ''C. compressa''has a striking black sternum and abdomen, but the venter of Brazilian species is black, while those of Peru are yellow. ''C. venusta'' has been observed to rapidly change its color when disturbed. Females are about long, and have blade-like hairs on the tip of the abdomen. Species it contains sixty-four species, mostly found in the Americas and Asia: *''Chrysso albomaculata, C. albomaculata'' O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882 (Type_species, type) – USA, Caribbean to Brazil *''Chrysso alecula, C. alecula'' Herbert Walter Levi, Levi, 1962 – Panama *''Chrysso anei ...
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Trinidad
Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands of Trinidad and Tobago. The island lies off the northeastern coast of Venezuela and sits on the continental shelf of South America. It is often referred to as the southernmost island in the West Indies. With an area of , it is also the List of Caribbean islands by area, fifth largest in the West Indies. Name The original name for the island in the Arawak language, Arawaks' language was which meant "Land of the Hummingbird". Christopher Columbus renamed it ('The Island of the Holy Trinity, Trinity'), fulfilling a vow he had made before setting out on his third voyage. This has since been shortened to ''Trinidad''. History Island Caribs, Caribs and Arawaks lived in Trinidad long before Christopher Columbus encountered the islands on his third voyage on 31 July 1498. The island remained Spanish until 1797, but it was largely settled by French colonists from the French Caribbean, especially Martinique.Besson, ...
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Chrysso Arima
''Chrysso'' is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1882. ''C. pulcherrima'' is pantropical, ''C. spiniventris'' has been introduced to Europe, and ''C. nordica'' occurs both in North America and in Asia from Hungary to Mongolia. Description Many species are strikingly colored, but like most theridiids, the coloration is variable. ''C. compressa''has a striking black sternum and abdomen, but the venter of Brazilian species is black, while those of Peru are yellow. ''C. venusta'' has been observed to rapidly change its color when disturbed. Females are about long, and have blade-like hairs on the tip of the abdomen. Species it contains sixty-four species, mostly found in the Americas and Asia: *'' C. albomaculata'' O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882 (type) – USA, Caribbean to Brazil *'' C. alecula'' Levi, 1962 – Panama *'' C. anei'' Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines *'' C. angula'' ( Tikader, 1970) – India *'' C. ant ...
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Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the seventh most populous. Its capital is Brasília, and its most populous city is São Paulo. The federation is composed of the union of the 26 States of Brazil, states and the Federal District (Brazil), Federal District. It is the largest country to have Portuguese language, Portuguese as an List of territorial entities where Portuguese is an official language, official language and the only one in the Americas; one of the most Multiculturalism, multicultural and ethnically diverse nations, due to over a century of mass Immigration to Brazil, immigration from around the world; and the most populous Catholic Church by country, Roman Catholic-majority country. Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, Brazil has a Coastline of Brazi ...
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Chrysso Antonio
''Chrysso'' is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1882. ''C. pulcherrima'' is pantropical, ''C. spiniventris'' has been introduced to Europe, and ''C. nordica'' occurs both in North America and in Asia from Hungary to Mongolia. Description Many species are strikingly colored, but like most theridiids, the coloration is variable. ''C. compressa''has a striking black sternum and abdomen, but the venter of Brazilian species is black, while those of Peru are yellow. ''C. venusta'' has been observed to rapidly change its color when disturbed. Females are about long, and have blade-like hairs on the tip of the abdomen. Species it contains sixty-four species, mostly found in the Americas and Asia: *'' C. albomaculata'' O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882 (type) – USA, Caribbean to Brazil *'' C. alecula'' Levi, 1962 – Panama *'' C. anei'' Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines *'' C. angula'' ( Tikader, 1970) – India *'' C. ant ...
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