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Lampona Quinqueplagiata
''Lampona'' is a genus of Oceania, South Pacific spiders in the family Lamponidae that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1869. At least two species have a whitish tip to the abdomen and are known as "white-tailed spiders". Both hunt other spiders and have been introduced to New Zealand. The name is derived from the Middle English ''wikt:laumpe#Middle English, laumpe'', meaning "light" or "fire". Species it contains fifty-seven species native to Australia and New Guinea: *''Lampona airlie, L. airlie'' Norman I. Platnick, Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Queensland) *''Lampona allyn, L. allyn'' Platnick, 2000 – Australia (New South Wales) *''Lampona ampeinna, L. ampeinna'' Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Western Australia, central Australia) *''Lampona barrow, L. barrow'' Platnick, 2000 – Australia (Western Australia) *''Lampona braemar, L. braemar'' Platnick, 2000 – Eastern Australia, Tasmania *''Lampona brevipes, L. brevipes'' L. Koch, 1872 – Australia (Western Austra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamerlan Thorell
Tord Tamerlan Teodor Thorell (3 May 1830 – 22 December 1901) was a Sweden, Swedish arachnologist. Thorell studied spiders with Giacomo Doria at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale de Genoa. He corresponded with other arachnologists, such as Octavius Pickard-Cambridge, Eugène Simon and Thomas Workman (entomologist), Thomas Workman. He described more than 1,000 spider species during his time from the 1850 to 1900. Thorell wrote: ''On European Spiders'' (1869) and ''Synonym of European Spiders'' (1870-73). Taxonomic honors The Orb-weaver spider genus ''Thorellina'' and the jumping spider genus ''Thorelliola'' are named after him, as well as about 30 species of spiders: * ''Araneus thorelli'' (Roewer, 1942) (Myanmar) (Araneidae) * ''Gasteracantha thorelli'' Keyserling, 1864 (Madagascar) (Araneidae) * ''Leviellus thorelli'' (Ausserer, 1871) (Europe) (Araneidae) * ''Mandjelia thorelli'' (Raven, 1990) (Queensland) (Barychelidae) * ''Clubiona thorelli'' Roewer, 1951 (Sumatra) (Clubi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
