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Euprosthenops Ellioti
''Euprosthenops'' is a genus of Pisauridae, nursery web spiders that was first described by Reginald Innes Pocock in 1897. Species it contains ten species and one subspecies, found only in Africa, India and Israel: *''Euprosthenops australis'' Eugène Simon, Simon, 1898 – Senegal, Nigeria, Zambia, Botswana, South Africa *''Euprosthenops bayaonianus'' (Brito Capello, 1867) (Type_species, type) – West, Central, East Africa *''Euprosthenops benoiti'' Blandin, 1976 – Rwanda *''Euprosthenops biguttatus'' Carl Friedrich Roewer, Roewer, 1955 – Congo, Namibia *''Euprosthenops ellioti'' (Octavius Pickard-Cambridge, O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877) – India *''Euprosthenops insperatus'' Zonstein & Marusik, 2021 – Israel *''Euprosthenops pavesii'' Lessert, 1928 – Central, East Africa *''Euprosthenops proximus'' Lessert, 1916 – Central, East, Southern Africa **''Euprosthenops proximus, Euprosthenops p. maximus'' Blandin, 1976 – Ivory Coast *''Euprosthenops schenkeli'' (Roewer, 195 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reginald Innes Pocock
Reginald Innes Pocock F.R.S. (4 March 1863 – 9 August 1947) was a British zoologist. Pocock was born in Clifton, Bristol, the fourth son of Rev. Nicholas Pocock and Edith Prichard. He began showing interest in natural history at St. Edward's School, Oxford. He received tutoring in zoology from Sir Edward Poulton, and was allowed to explore comparative anatomy at the Oxford Museum. He studied biology and geology at University College, Bristol, under Conwy Lloyd Morgan and William Johnson Sollas. In 1885, he became an assistant at the Natural History Museum, and worked in the section of entomology for a year. He was put in charge of the collections of Arachnida and Myriapoda. He was also given the task to arrange the British birds collections, in the course of which he developed a lasting interest in ornithology. The 200 papers he published in his 18 years at the museum soon brought him recognition as an authority on Arachnida and Myriapoda; he described between 300 and 400 s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |