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Metazygia Lagiana
''Metazygia'' is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by F. O. Pickard-Cambridge in 1904. They physically resemble members of ''Nuctenea ''Nuctenea'' is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1895. Its most familiar member is the Walnut Orb-Weaver Spider, ''N. umbratica''. Species it contains only three species. * '' Nuctenea cedrorum'' (Simon, 1929) ...'', but they do not have fine setae on the carapace. Species it contains ninety species: *''Metazygia adisi, M. adisi'' Herbert Walter Levi, Levi, 1995 – Brazil *''Metazygia aldela, M. aldela'' Levi, 1995 – Brazil *''Metazygia amalla, M. amalla'' Levi, 1995 – Brazil *''Metazygia arnoi, M. arnoi'' Levi, 1995 – Brazil *''Metazygia atalaya, M. atalaya'' Levi, 1995 – Peru *''Metazygia atama, M. atama'' Levi, 1995 – Brazil *''Metazygia bahama, M. bahama'' Levi, 1995 – Bahama Is. *''Metazygia bahia, M. bahia'' Levi, 1995 – Brazil *''Metazygia barueri, M. barueri'' Levi, 1995 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge
Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge (3 November 1860 – 9 February 1905) was an English arachnologist. He is sometimes confused with his uncle, Octavius Pickard-Cambridge (1828–1917), who was also an arachnologist and from whom F. O. Pickard-Cambridge picked up his enthusiasm for the study of spiders. Life F. O. Pickard-Cambridge was born in Warmwell, Dorset, where his father was rector. He became a curate at St Cuthbert's church in Carlisle for a few years after having been educated at Sherborne School and Exeter College, Oxford. He left to become a professional biological illustrator, and in 1894–1895 spent several months in the Amazon as a naturalist on board the SS ''Faraday''. He found much of interest on his voyage and began writing papers in 1896 to describe the spiders he discovered. He had a promising career ahead of him, but this promise was not to be fulfilled. Bristowe, writing in the book ''British Spiders'', 1951, said of this time in F. O. Pickard-Cam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |