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Pararaneus Spectator
''Pararaneus'' is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Lodovico di Caporiacco in 1940. Species it contains five species: *''Pararaneus cyrtoscapus'' (Pocock, 1898) – Central, East, Southern Africa, Socotra *'' Pararaneus perforatus'' ( Thorell, 1899) – Central, East, Southern Africa *''Pararaneus pseudostriatus ''Pararaneus'' is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Lodovico di Caporiacco in 1940. Species it contains five species: *''Pararaneus cyrtoscapus ''Pararaneus'' is a genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used i ...'' ( Strand, 1908) – Central, East Africa *'' Pararaneus spectator'' ( Karsch, 1885) – Africa, Middle East *'' Pararaneus uncivulva'' (Strand, 1907) – Madagascar References Araneidae Araneomorphae genera Spiders of Africa Spiders of Asia {{Araneidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pararaneus Cyrtoscapus
''Pararaneus'' is a genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ... of orb-weaver spiders first described by Lodovico di Caporiacco in 1940. Species it contains five species: *'' Pararaneus cyrtoscapus'' (Pocock, 1898) – Central, East, Southern Africa, Socotra *'' Pararaneus perforatus'' ( Thorell, 1899) – Central, East, Southern Africa *'' Pararaneus pseudostriatus'' ( Strand, 1908) – Central, East Africa *'' Pararaneus spectator'' ( Karsch, 1885) – Africa, Middle East *'' Pararaneus uncivulva'' (Strand, 1907) – Madagascar References Araneidae Araneomorphae genera Spiders of Africa Spiders of Asia {{Araneidae-stub ... [...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] |
Species
In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. Other ways of defining species include their karyotype, DNA sequence, morphology, behaviour or ecological niche. In addition, paleontologists use the concept of the chronospecies since fossil reproduction cannot be examined. The most recent rigorous estimate for the total number of species of eukaryotes is between 8 and 8.7 million. However, only about 14% of these had been described by 2011. All species (except viruses) are given a two-part name, a "binomial". The first part of a binomial is the genus to which the species belongs. The second part is called the specific name or the specific epithet (in botanical nomenclature, also sometimes i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family (taxonomy), family. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus. :E.g. ''Panthera leo'' (lion) and ''Panthera onca'' (jaguar) are two species within the genus ''Panthera''. ''Panthera'' is a genus within the family Felidae. The composition of a genus is determined by taxonomy (biology), taxonomists. The standards for genus classification are not strictly codified, so different authorities often produce different classifications for genera. There are some general practices used, however, including the idea that a newly defined genus should fulfill these three criteria to be descriptively useful: # monophyly – all descendants ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Araneidae
Orb-weaver spiders are members of the spider family Araneidae. They are the most common group of builders of spiral wheel-shaped webs often found in gardens, fields, and forests. The English word "orb" can mean "circular", hence the English name of the group. Araneids have eight similar eyes, hairy or spiny legs, and no stridulating organs. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution, including many well-known large or brightly colored garden spiders. With 3,108 species in 186 genera worldwide, the Araneidae comprise the third-largest family of spiders (behind the Salticidae and Linyphiidae). Araneid webs are constructed in a stereotypical fashion, where a framework of nonsticky silk is built up before the spider adds a final spiral of silk covered in sticky droplets. Orb webs are also produced by members of other spider families. The long-jawed orb weavers (Tetragnathidae) were formerly included in the Araneidae; they are closely related, being part of the superfamily Araneo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pararaneus Perforatus
''Pararaneus'' is a genus of Araneidae, orb-weaver spiders first described by Lodovico di Caporiacco in 1940. Species it contains five species: *''Pararaneus cyrtoscapus'' (Pocock, 1898) – Central, East, Southern Africa, Socotra *''Pararaneus perforatus'' (Tamerlan Thorell, Thorell, 1899) – Central, East, Southern Africa *''Pararaneus pseudostriatus'' (Embrik Strand, Strand, 1908) – Central, East Africa *''Pararaneus spectator'' (Ferdinand Karsch, Karsch, 1885) – Africa, Middle East *''Pararaneus uncivulva'' (Strand, 1907) – Madagascar References Araneidae Araneomorphae genera Spiders of Africa Spiders of Asia {{Araneidae-stub ... [...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] |
Pararaneus Pseudostriatus
''Pararaneus'' is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Lodovico di Caporiacco in 1940. Species it contains five species: *''Pararaneus cyrtoscapus ''Pararaneus'' is a genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biologi ...'' (Pocock, 1898) – Central, East, Southern Africa, Socotra *'' Pararaneus perforatus'' ( Thorell, 1899) – Central, East, Southern Africa *'' Pararaneus pseudostriatus'' ( Strand, 1908) – Central, East Africa *'' Pararaneus spectator'' ( Karsch, 1885) – Africa, Middle East *'' Pararaneus uncivulva'' (Strand, 1907) – Madagascar References Araneidae Araneomorphae genera Spiders of Africa Spiders of Asia {{Araneidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Embrik Strand
Embrik Strand (2 June 1876 – 3 November 1947) was an entomologist and arachnologist who classified many insect and spider species including the greenbottle blue tarantula. Life and career Strand was born in Ål, Norway. He studied at the University of Kristiania (now University of Oslo). Around 1900 he focused on collecting insect specimens from Norway. These are now deposited at the university's museum, where he worked as a curator from 1901 to 1903. After studying at the University of Oslo Strand traveled in Norway from 1898 to 1903 collecting a great number of insects. For part of this time (1901–1903) he was a conservator in the museum of zoology of the university. He then left for Germany where he continued his studies of zoology at the University of Marburg (1903), then he worked with State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart (1905) and, later, that of Tübingen and then with Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt. From 1907, he worked with Natural History Museum, Ber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pararaneus Spectator
''Pararaneus'' is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Lodovico di Caporiacco in 1940. Species it contains five species: *''Pararaneus cyrtoscapus'' (Pocock, 1898) – Central, East, Southern Africa, Socotra *'' Pararaneus perforatus'' ( Thorell, 1899) – Central, East, Southern Africa *''Pararaneus pseudostriatus ''Pararaneus'' is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Lodovico di Caporiacco in 1940. Species it contains five species: *''Pararaneus cyrtoscapus ''Pararaneus'' is a genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used i ...'' ( Strand, 1908) – Central, East Africa *'' Pararaneus spectator'' ( Karsch, 1885) – Africa, Middle East *'' Pararaneus uncivulva'' (Strand, 1907) – Madagascar References Araneidae Araneomorphae genera Spiders of Africa Spiders of Asia {{Araneidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferdinand Karsch
Ferdinand Anton Franz Karsch or Karsch-Haack (2 September 1853, in Münster – 20 December 1936, in Berlin) was a German arachnologist, entomologist and anthropologist. The son of a doctor, Karsch was educated at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin and published a thesis on the gall wasp in 1877. From 1878 to 1921 he held the post of curator at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. Between 1873 and 1893, he published a catalogue of the spiders of Westphalia; he also published numerous articles on the specimens that the museum received from various explorers and naturalists working in Africa, in China, in Japan, in Australia, etc. This publication of others' work sometimes led to disputes over priority and nomenclature, for example with Pickard-Cambridge. Alongside his zoological activities, he published many works on sexuality and, in particular, homosexuality in both the animal kingdom and in so-called "primitive" peoples, including ''Das gleichgeschlechtliche Leben ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
