Christa Laetitia Deeleman-Reinhold (born 23 November 1930) is a Dutch

arachnologist Arachnology is the scientific study of arachnids, which comprise spiders and related invertebrates such as scorpions, pseudoscorpions, and harvestmen. Those who study spiders and other arachnids are arachnologists. More narrowly, the study of ...

. She specializes in

spider 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 ...

s from

Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical south-eastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of mainlan ...

and

Southern Europe Southern Europe is the southern region of Europe. It is also known as Mediterranean Europe, as its geography is essentially marked by the Mediterranean Sea. Definitions of Southern Europe include some or all of these countries and regions: Alba ...

, particularly

cave-dwelling A cave dweller, or troglodyte, is a human being who inhabits a cave or the area beneath the overhanging rocks of a cliff. Prehistory Some prehistoric humans were cave dwellers, but most were not (''see'' ''Homo'' and Human evolution). Suc ...

and tropical spiders. She donated a collection of about 25,000 Southeast Asian spiders, the largest collection of Southeast Asian spiders in existence, to the

Naturalis Biodiversity Center Naturalis Biodiversity Center ( nl, Nederlands Centrum voor Biodiversiteit Naturalis) is a national museum of natural history and a research center on biodiversity in Leiden, Netherlands. It was named the European Museum of the Year 2021. ...

Leiden Leiden (; in English and archaic Dutch also Leyden) is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland, Netherlands. The municipality of Leiden has a population of 119,713, but the city forms one densely connected agglomeration wi ...

. In addition to numerous articles, she has written the book ''Forest Spiders of South East Asia'' (2001). She born in 1930 to Dutch parents on the island of

Java Java (; id, Jawa, ; jv, ꦗꦮ; su, ) is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea to the north. With a population of 151.6 million people, Java is the world's mos ...

, Dutch East Indies. Her family returned to the Netherlands in 1935, and she entered Leiden University in 1949. after three years she began working at entered the Dutch

National Museum of Natural History The National Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum administered by the Smithsonian Institution, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States. It has free admission and is open 364 days a year. In 2021, with 7 ...

, studying

mantis Mantises are an order (Mantodea) of insects that contains over 2,400 species in about 460 genera in 33 families. The largest family is the Mantidae ("mantids"). Mantises are distributed worldwide in temperate and tropical habitats. They ha ...

es under museum director

Hilbrand Boschma Hilbrand Boschma (22 April 1893 – 22 July 1976) was a Dutch zoologist and director of the Rijksmuseum of Natural History in Leiden. Boschma studied botany and zoology at the University of Amsterdam. He went to the former Dutch East Indies, ...

. She began studying spiders as a postgraduate, first studying Dutch ground spiders, and later cave spiders of the genus ''

Troglohyphantes ''Troglohyphantes'' is a genus of sheet weavers that was first described by G. Joseph in 1881. The genus name is a combination of the Ancient Greek ('' troglo-''), meaning "cave (dweller)", and ''-hyphantes'', a common ending for linyphiid gene ...

'' under the supervision of , and earned a PhD. from Leiden University in 1978. She was married to businessman Paul Robert Deeleman, who accompanied her on multiple collecting expeditions to

Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label=Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavija ...

and Southeast Asia. Her husband died in 1989, and she spent the next decade working on her ''mangum opus'', ''Forest Spiders of South East Asia'' (2001), a nearly-600 page work in which she revised six spider families, describing 18 new genera and 115 new species. She continues to actively publish at the age of 90.

Taxa named for Deeleman-Reinhold

*'' Deelemania'' Jocqué & Bosmans, 1983 *'' Deelemanella'' Yoshida, 2003 *'' Deelemanikara'' Jäger, 2021 *'' Troglohyphantes deelemanae'' Tanasevitch, 1987 *'' Harpactea deelemanae'' Dunin, 1989 *'' Kenocymbium deelemanae'' Millidge & Russell-Smith, 1992 *'' Hersilia deelemanae'' Baehr & Baehr, 1993 *'' Dianleucauge deelemanae'' Song & Zhu, 1994 *'' Amaurobius deelemanae'' Thaler & Knoflach, 1995 *'' Dubiaranea deelemanae'' Millidge, 1995 *'' Cryphoecina deelemanae'' Deltshev, 1997 *'' Deelemanella'' Yoshida, 2003 *'' Molione christae'' Yoshida, 2003 *'' Rhitymna deelemanae'' Jäger, 2003 *'' Herennia deelemanae'' Kuntner, 2005 *'' Spermophora deelemanae'' Huber, 2005 *'' Dolichognatha deelemanae'' Smith, 2008

Selected publications

*Deeleman-Reinhold, 1971: "Beitrag zur Kenntnis höhlenbewohnender Dysderidae (Araneida) aus Jugoslawien." ''Razprave slovenska akademija znanosti in umetnosti'', vol. 14 pp. 95–120. *Deeleman-Reinhold, 1974: "The cave spider fauna of Montenegro (Araneae)." ''Glasnik Republičkog Zavoda za zaštitu prirode i Prirodnjačkog Muzeja'', vol. 6 pp. 9–33 *Deeleman-Reinhold, 1978: "Revision of the cave-dwelling and related spiders of the genus Troglohyphantes Joseph (Linyphiidae), with special reference to the Yugoslav species." ''Academia Scientiarum et Artium Slovenica, Classis IV: Historia Naturalis, Institutum Biologicum Ionnis Hadži, Ljubljana'', vol. 23 pp. 1–220
full text
*Deeleman-Reinhold, 1980: "Contribution to the knowledge of the southeast Asian spiders of the families Pacullidae and Tetrablemmidae." ''Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden'', vol. 56 pp. 65–82
full text
*Deeleman-Reinhold, 1981: "Remarks on Origin and Distribution of Troglobitic Spiders". ''Proc. 8th Int. Congr. Speleology'', blz. 305–308.
full text
*Deeleman-Reinhold & Prinsen, 1987: "Micropholcus fauroti (Simon) n. comb., a pantropical, synanthropic spider (Araneae: Pholcidae)." ''Entomologische Berichten, Amsterdam,'' vol. 47, pp. 73–77 *Deeleman-Reinhold & Deeleman, 1988: "Révision des Dysderinae (Araneae, Dysderidae), les espèces mediterranéennes occidentales exceptées." ''Tijdschrift voor Entomologie'', vol. 131 pp. 141–269 *Deeleman-Reinhold, 1993: "A remarkable troglobitic tetrablemmid spider from a cave in Thailand (Arachnida: Araneae: Tetrablemmidae)." ''Natural History Bulletin of the Siam Society'', vol. 41 n. 2 pp. 99–103 *Deeleman-Reinhold, 1995: "The Ochyroceratidae of the Indo-Pacific region (Araneae)." ''The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology'' Supplement, n. 2, pp. 1–103 * Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001: ''Forest spiders of South East Asia: With a revision of the sac and ground spiders (Araneae: Clubionidae, Corinnidae, Liocranidae, Gnaphosidae, Prodidomidae and Trochanterriidae.'' Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, pp. 1–591. * Floren, A. & Deeleman-Reinhold, C.L. (2005): "Diversity of arboreal spiders in primary and disturbed tropical forests." ''Journal of Arachnology'', vol. 33 nr. 2, pp. 323–333. *Deeleman-Reinhold, 2009: "Spiny theridiids in the Asian tropics. Systematics, notes on behaviour and species richness (Araneae: Theridiidae: ''Chrysso, Meotipa'')". ''Contrib. Nat. Hist.'', vol. 12, blz. 403–436.
full text
*Deeleman-Reinhold, 2009: "Description of the lynx spiders of a canopy fogging project in northern Borneo (Araneae: Oxyopidae), with description of a new genus and six new species of Hamataliwa." ''Zoologische Medelingen Leiden'', vol. 83, pp. 673–700
full text

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Deeleman-Reinhold, Christa Laetitia Arachnologists Dutch women scientists Leiden University alumni 1930 births Living people 20th-century Dutch biologists Dutch zoologists Dutch people of the Dutch East Indies 20th-century Dutch women