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Drassodes Cerinus
''Drassodes'' is a genus of Gnaphosidae, ground spiders that was first described by Niklas Westring in 1851. They are brown, gray, and red spiders that live under rocks or bark in mostly dry habitats, and are generally long, but can reach up to in length. Species it contains 162 species: *''Drassodes adisensis, D. adisensis'' Embrik Strand, Strand, 1906 – Ethiopia *''Drassodes affinis, D. affinis'' (Nicolet, 1849) – Chile *''Drassodes afghanus, D. afghanus'' Carl Friedrich Roewer, Roewer, 1961 – Afghanistan *''Drassodes albicans, D. albicans'' (Eugène Simon, Simon, 1878) – Mediterranean *''Drassodes andamanensis, D. andamanensis'' B. K. Tikader, Tikader, 1977 – India (Andaman Is.) *''Drassodes andorranus, D. andorranus'' Denis, 1938 – Andorra *''Drassodes angulus, D. angulus'' Norman I. Platnick, Platnick & Shadab, 1976 – USA *''Drassodes arapensis, D. arapensis'' Strand, 1908 – Peru *''Drassodes archibensis, D. archibensis'' Ponomarev & Alieva, 2008 – Russi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niklas Westring
Niklas Westring (13 November 1797, in Gothenburg – 28 January 1882) was a Swedish entomologist and arachnologist. He started out with the intention to study medicine but this was frustrated by the death of his father. His full-time profession from 1816 was as a customs officer in Gothenburg, where he was customs administrator from 1834 to 1856. When he retired he spent most of his time working on natural history, especially from 1840 to 1862, during which time he also became a conservator at the Göteborg Natural History Museum. He is best known for his book ''Araneae suecicae descriptae'' in 1862 in which he described 308 species of spider found in Sweden. Of these, 124 had already been described by Carl Linnaeus, Charles De Geer and Carl Jakob Sundevall. He appears to have been something of a mentor to Tamerlan Thorell who lived in Gothernborg until he went to university at Uppsala and was familiar with Westring's collection of spiders and how to identify them since he had be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |