Alfred Frank Millidge (1914 – 16 April 2012) was a British arachnologist who wrote several works on

spiders Spiders ( order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude silk. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species dive ...

. One of his best-known might be ''British Spiders'', volumes I and II, which he co-wrote with

G. H. Locket George Hazelwood Locket (12 October 1900 – 27 January 1991) was a British arachnologist who shared the 1974 H. H. Bloomer Award with A. F. Millidge. He was a co-writer of Millidge's ''British Spiders'', volumes I and II. He studied at the Unive ...

. In 1983, he became the first person to describe the spider species ''

Walckenaeria crocea ''Walckenaeria crocea'' is a spider species first described by A. F. Millidge in 1983. The male holotype Millidge used was found 15 miles west of Ciudad Hidalgo in Tepetates Pass, Michoacán Michoacán, formally Michoacán de Ocampo (; Pur� ...

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British arachnologists Zoologists with author abbreviations 1914 births 2012 deaths {{UK-zoologist-stub