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Hugo Albert Tullgren (7 September 1874, in

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– 1 July 1958) was a Swedish entomologist and

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. In 1899 he received his

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from

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, then from 1902 worked as an assistant at the National Entomological Institute. From 1907 he was associated with the entomology department of the ''Centralanstalten för försöksväsendet på jordbruksområdet'' (Central Institute for Experimental Agriculture), of which, he became a professor in 1913. The

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genus '' Tullgrenella'' was named in his honor by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão. The eponymous "

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" is a modified Berlese funnel, a device used to extract small insects and arthropods from soil samples.

Selected works

* "On the spiders collected in Florida by Dr. Einar Lönnberg, 1892-93" (in English, 1901). * "Spiders collected in the Aysen Valley in South-Chile by P. Dusén" (in English, 1902). * "On some species of the genus Scolia (s.1.) from the East-Indies collected by Carl Aurivillius" (in English, 1904). * ''Einge Chelonethiden aus Java'', 1905 – Chelonethida from

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. * "Aranedia from the Swedish expedition through the Gran Chaco and the Cordilleras" (in English, 1905). * ''Zur kenntnis schwedischer coniopterygiden'', 1906 – On Coniopterygidae. * ''Zur Kenntnis aussereuropäischer Chelonethiden des Natürhistorischen Museums in Hamburg'', 1907 – Non-European Chelonethida at the Natural History Museum in Hamburg. * ''Skadeinsekter i trädgården och på fältet, en kortfattad handbok för trädgårdsodlare och landtmän'', 1908 – Insect pests in the garden and field. * ''Aphidologische studien'', 1909 –

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ology studies. * ''Trädgårdsväxternas fiender och vänner bland de lägre djuren'', 1915. * ''Vȧra insekter sȧsom sjukdomsspridare; pȧ uppdrag av Kungl. Medicinalstyrelsen'', 1918. * ''Apelmärgmalen (Blastodacna putripennella Hell) : ett i vårt land föga beaktat, men tvivelsutan viktigt skadedjur'', 1918. * ''Svenska insekter, en orienterande handbok vid studiet av vårt lands insektfauna'', 1920. – Swedish insects, an introductory guide to the study of our country's insect fauna. * ''Svenska fjärilar : systematisk bearbetning av sveriges storfjärilar, Macrolepidoptera'' (with Frithiof Nordström and Einar Wahlgren, 1934) – Swedish butterflies; systematic processing of Sweden's large butterflies,

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. * ''Svensk spindelfauna. 3. Egentliga spindlar. Araneae. Fam. 1-4. Salticidae, Thomisidae, Philodromidae, och Eusparrassidae'', 1944 – Swedish spider fauna. 3. Southwest spiders.

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. Families 1–4.

Salticidae Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family Salticidae. As of 2019, this family contained over 600 described genera and over 6,000 described species, making it the largest family of spiders at 13% of all species. Jumping spi ...

Thomisidae The Thomisidae are a family of spiders, including about 170 genera and over 2,100 species. The common name crab spider is often linked to species in this family, but is also applied loosely to many other families of spiders. Many members of th ...

Philodromidae Philodromidae, also known as philodromid crab spiders and running crab spiders, is a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Tord Tamerlan Teodor Thorell in 1870 (then known as subfamily Philodrominae within Thomisidae). It contains over ...

, and Eusparrassidae. * ''Våra spindlar och hur man känner igen dem; illustrerad handbok'', 1949 – Sweden's spiders and how to recognize them; illustrated guide.Most widely held works by Albert Tullgren
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tullgren, Albert 1874 births 1958 deaths Scientists from Stockholm Uppsala University alumni Swedish entomologists Swedish arachnologists 20th-century Swedish zoologists