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Pholcomma Gibbum
''Pholcomma'' is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1869. Species it contains eleven species, found worldwide: *'' Pholcomma antipodianum'' ( Forster, 1955) – New Zealand (Antipodes Is.) *'' Pholcomma barnesi'' Levi, 1957 – USA *'' Pholcomma carota'' Levi, 1957 – USA *'' Pholcomma gibbum'' (Westring, 1851) (type) – Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iran? *''Pholcomma hickmani'' Forster, 1964 – New Zealand (Campbell Is.) *'' Pholcomma hirsutum'' Emerton, 1882 – USA, Canada *'' Pholcomma mantinum'' Levi, 1964 – Brazil *'' Pholcomma micropunctatum'' ( Mello-Leitão, 1941) – Argentina *'' Pholcomma soloa'' ( Marples, 1955) – Samoa, Niue *'' Pholcomma tokyoense'' Ono, 2007 – Japan *'' Pholcomma turbotti'' (Marples, 1956) – New Zealand Formerly included: *''P. amamiense'' Yoshida, 1985 (Transferred to '' Phycosoma'') *''P. japonicum'' Yoshida, 1985 (Transferred to ''Phycosoma'') *''P. nigromaculatum'' Yoshid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamerlan Thorell
Tord Tamerlan Teodor Thorell (3 May 1830 – 22 December 1901) was a 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. 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) (Clubionidae) * ''Malamatidia thorell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Europe
Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and traditions. Europe is also considered a subcontinent of Eurasia and it is located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. Comprising the westernmost peninsulas of Eurasia, it shares the continental landmass of Afro-Eurasia with both Africa and Asia. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south and Asia to the east. Europe is commonly considered to be separated from Asia by the watershed of the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Greater Caucasus, the Black Sea and the waterways of the Turkish Straits. "Europe" (pp. 68–69); "Asia" (pp. 90–91): "A commonly accepted division between Asia and Europe ... is formed by the Ural Mountains, Ural River, Caspian Sea, Caucasus Mountains, and the Blac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pholcomma Soloa
''Pholcomma'' is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1869. Species it contains eleven species, found worldwide: *'' Pholcomma antipodianum'' ( Forster, 1955) – New Zealand (Antipodes Is.) *'' Pholcomma barnesi'' Levi, 1957 – USA *'' Pholcomma carota'' Levi, 1957 – USA *''Pholcomma gibbum'' (Westring, 1851) (type) – Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iran? *''Pholcomma hickmani'' Forster, 1964 – New Zealand (Campbell Is.) *'' Pholcomma hirsutum'' Emerton, 1882 – USA, Canada *'' Pholcomma mantinum'' Levi, 1964 – Brazil *'' Pholcomma micropunctatum'' ( Mello-Leitão, 1941) – Argentina *'' Pholcomma soloa'' ( Marples, 1955) – Samoa, Niue *'' Pholcomma tokyoense'' Ono, 2007 – Japan *'' Pholcomma turbotti'' (Marples, 1956) – New Zealand Formerly included: *''P. amamiense'' Yoshida, 1985 (Transferred to '' Phycosoma'') *''P. japonicum'' Yoshida, 1985 (Transferred to ''Phycosoma'') *''P. nigromaculatum'' Yoshida ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourth-largest country in the Americas, and the eighth-largest country in the world. It shares the bulk of the Southern Cone with Chile to the west, and is also bordered by Bolivia and Paraguay to the north, Brazil to the northeast, Uruguay and the South Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Drake Passage to the south. Argentina is a federal state subdivided into twenty-three provinces, and one autonomous city, which is the federal capital and largest city of the nation, Buenos Aires. The provinces and the capital have their own constitutions, but exist under a federal system. Argentina claims sovereignty over the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, and a part of Antarctica. The earliest recorded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cândido Firmino De Mello-Leitão
Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão (July 17, 1886 – December 14, 1948) was a Brazilian zoologist who is considered the founder of Arachnology in South America, publishing 198 papers on the taxonomy of Arachnida. He was also involved with education, writing high-school textbooks, and contributed to biogeography, with essays on the distribution of Arachnida in the South American continent. Biography Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão was born on the Cajazeiras Farm, Campina Grande, Paraíba state, Brazil, to Colonel Cândido Firmino and Jacunda de Mello-Leitão. He died in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His parents were subsistence farmers, and he had 15 brothers and sisters. He lived most of his childhood at the state of Pernambuco. His first job as a zoologist (1913) was at the Escola Superior de Agricultura e Medicina Veterinária in Piraí, RJ, as a teacher of general Zoology and Systematics. In 1915, he published his first taxonomical paper, with descriptions of some genera an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pholcomma Micropunctatum
''Pholcomma'' is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1869. Species it contains eleven species, found worldwide: *'' Pholcomma antipodianum'' ( Forster, 1955) – New Zealand (Antipodes Is.) *'' Pholcomma barnesi'' Levi, 1957 – USA *'' Pholcomma carota'' Levi, 1957 – USA *''Pholcomma gibbum'' (Westring, 1851) (type) – Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iran? *''Pholcomma hickmani'' Forster, 1964 – New Zealand (Campbell Is.) *'' Pholcomma hirsutum'' Emerton, 1882 – USA, Canada *'' Pholcomma mantinum'' Levi, 1964 – Brazil *'' Pholcomma micropunctatum'' ( Mello-Leitão, 1941) – Argentina *''Pholcomma soloa'' ( Marples, 1955) – Samoa, Niue *'' Pholcomma tokyoense'' Ono, 2007 – Japan *'' Pholcomma turbotti'' (Marples, 1956) – New Zealand Formerly included: *''P. amamiense'' Yoshida, 1985 (Transferred to '' Phycosoma'') *''P. japonicum'' Yoshida, 1985 (Transferred to ''Phycosoma'') *''P. nigromaculatum'' Yoshida, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the seventh most populous. Its capital is Brasília, and its most populous city is São Paulo. The federation is composed of the union of the 26 states and the Federal District. It is the largest country to have Portuguese as an official language and the only one in the Americas; one of the most multicultural and ethnically diverse nations, due to over a century of mass immigration from around the world; and the most populous Roman Catholic-majority country. Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, Brazil has a coastline of . It borders all other countries and territories in South America except Ecuador and Chile and covers roughly half of the continent's land area. Its Amazon basin includes a vast tropical forest, ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pholcomma Mantinum
''Pholcomma'' is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1869. Species it contains eleven species, found worldwide: *'' Pholcomma antipodianum'' ( Forster, 1955) – New Zealand (Antipodes Is.) *'' Pholcomma barnesi'' Levi, 1957 – USA *'' Pholcomma carota'' Levi, 1957 – USA *''Pholcomma gibbum'' (Westring, 1851) (type) – Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iran? *''Pholcomma hickmani'' Forster, 1964 – New Zealand (Campbell Is.) *'' Pholcomma hirsutum'' Emerton, 1882 – USA, Canada *'' Pholcomma mantinum'' Levi, 1964 – Brazil *''Pholcomma micropunctatum'' ( Mello-Leitão, 1941) – Argentina *''Pholcomma soloa'' ( Marples, 1955) – Samoa, Niue *'' Pholcomma tokyoense'' Ono, 2007 – Japan *'' Pholcomma turbotti'' (Marples, 1956) – New Zealand Formerly included: *''P. amamiense'' Yoshida, 1985 (Transferred to '' Phycosoma'') *''P. japonicum'' Yoshida, 1985 (Transferred to ''Phycosoma'') *''P. nigromaculatum'' Yoshida, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by total area. Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching , is the world's longest binational land border. Canada's capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. Indigenous peoples have continuously inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years. Beginning in the 16th century, British and French expeditions explored and later settled along the Atlantic coast. As a consequence of various armed conflicts, France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Henry Emerton
James Henry Emerton (March 31, 1847 – December 5, 1931) was an American arachnologist and illustrator. Early life Emerton was born at Salem, Massachusetts, on March 31, 1847. He was rather frail, and a young helper in his father's drug store, George F. Markoe, interested the boy in outdoor life. They collected plants, insects and shore invertebrates and at the age of fifteen he was frequently visiting the Essex Institute, where he became acquainted with A. S. Packard, F. W. Putnam, John Robinson, Caleb Cooke, and others who later became more or less prominent students of natural history. From the first, he showed much skill in drawing and made sketches of a great variety of natural objects. Of these early drawings, there are many in Packard's ''Guide'' and forty quarto plates in Watson and Eaton ''Botany of the Fortieth Parallel'' published in 1871. Professional life He was elected to the Boston Society of Natural History in 1870, and later, 1873-1874 was an assistant in the M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pholcomma Hirsutum
''Pholcomma'' is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1869. Species it contains eleven species, found worldwide: *'' Pholcomma antipodianum'' ( Forster, 1955) – New Zealand (Antipodes Is.) *'' Pholcomma barnesi'' Levi, 1957 – USA *'' Pholcomma carota'' Levi, 1957 – USA *''Pholcomma gibbum'' (Westring, 1851) (type) – Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iran? *''Pholcomma hickmani'' Forster, 1964 – New Zealand (Campbell Is.) *'' Pholcomma hirsutum'' Emerton, 1882 – USA, Canada *''Pholcomma mantinum'' Levi, 1964 – Brazil *''Pholcomma micropunctatum'' ( Mello-Leitão, 1941) – Argentina *''Pholcomma soloa'' ( Marples, 1955) – Samoa, Niue *'' Pholcomma tokyoense'' Ono, 2007 – Japan *'' Pholcomma turbotti'' (Marples, 1956) – New Zealand Formerly included: *''P. amamiense'' Yoshida, 1985 (Transferred to '' Phycosoma'') *''P. japonicum'' Yoshida, 1985 (Transferred to ''Phycosoma'') *''P. nigromaculatum'' Yoshida, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pholcomma Hickmani
''Pholcomma'' is a genus of Theridiidae, comb-footed spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1869. Species it contains eleven species, found worldwide: *''Pholcomma antipodianum'' (Raymond Robert Forster, Forster, 1955) – New Zealand (Antipodes Is.) *''Pholcomma barnesi'' Herbert Walter Levi, Levi, 1957 – USA *''Pholcomma carota'' Levi, 1957 – USA *''Pholcomma gibbum'' (Westring, 1851) (Type species, type) – Europe, North Africa, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iran? *''Pholcomma hickmani'' Forster, 1964 – New Zealand (Campbell Is.) *''Pholcomma hirsutum'' James Henry Emerton, Emerton, 1882 – USA, Canada *''Pholcomma mantinum'' Levi, 1964 – Brazil *''Pholcomma micropunctatum'' (Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão, Mello-Leitão, 1941) – Argentina *''Pholcomma soloa'' (Brian J. Marples, Marples, 1955) – Samoa, Niue *''Pholcomma tokyoense'' Ono, 2007 – Japan *''Pholcomma turbotti'' (Marples, 1956) – New Zealand Formerly included: *''P. amamiense'' Yoshida, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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