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 sp ...

. 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 United Nations geoscheme for Asia#South-eastern Asia, south-eastern region of Asia, consistin ...

and

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, 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. Alt ...

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. 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 List ...

Dutch East Indies The Dutch East Indies, also known as the Netherlands East Indies ( nl, Nederlands(ch)-Indië; ), was a Dutch colony consisting of what is now Indonesia. It was formed from the nationalised trading posts of the Dutch East India Company, which ...

. Her family returned to the Netherlands in 1935, and she entered

Leiden University Leiden University (abbreviated as ''LEI''; nl, Universiteit Leiden) is a Public university, public research university in Leiden, Netherlands. The university was founded as a Protestant university in 1575 by William the Silent, William, Prince o ...

in 1949. after three years she began working at entered the Dutch

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, 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, w ...

. 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

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Deelemania ''Deelemania'' is a genus of African dwarf spiders that was first described by R. Jocqué & R. Bosmans in 1983. Species it contains four species: *'' Deelemania gabonensis'' Jocqué, 1983 – Gabon *'' Deelemania malawiensis'' Jocqué & Russel ...

'' Jocqué & Bosmans, 1983 *''

Deelemanella ''Deelemanella'' is a monotypic genus of comb-footed spiders containing the single species, ''Deelemanella borneo''. It was first described by H. Yoshida in 2003, and is found on Borneo. This genus was named after the Dutch arachnologist Christa ...

'' Yoshida, 2003 *'' Deelemanikara'' Jäger, 2021 *'' Troglohyphantes deelemanae'' Tanasevitch, 1987 *''

Harpactea deelemanae ''Harpactea'' is a genus of woodlouse hunting spiders that was first described by W. S. Bristowe in 1939. They are non-web building predators that forage on the ground and on tree trunks at night, mainly in xerothermic forests. During the day, ...

'' Dunin, 1989 *''

Kenocymbium deelemanae ''Kenocymbium'' is a genus of Southeast Asian dwarf spiders that was first described by Alfred Frank Millidge & A. Russell-Smith in 1992. it contains only two species, both found in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand: '' K. deelemanae'' and '' ...

'' Millidge & Russell-Smith, 1992 *''

Hersilia deelemanae In Roman mythology, Hersilia was a figure in the foundation myth of Rome. She is credited with ending the war between Rome and the Sabines. Battle of the Lacus Curtius In some accounts she is the wife of Romulus, the founder and first King of ...

'' Baehr & Baehr, 1993 *''

Dianleucauge deelemanae ''Dianleucauge'' is a monotypic genus of Chinese long-jawed orb-weavers containing the single species, ''Dianleucauge deelemanae''. It was first described by D. X. Song & M. S. Zhu in 1994, and is found in China. See also * List of Tetragnathida ...

'' Song & Zhu, 1994 *''

Amaurobius deelemanae ''Amaurobius deelemanae'' is a species of spider in the family Amaurobiidae ''Amaurobiidae'' is a family of three-clawed cribellate or ecribellate spiders found in crevices and hollows or under stones where they build retreats, and are often co ...

'' Thaler & Knoflach, 1995 *''

Dubiaranea deelemanae ''Dubiaranea'' is a genus of dwarf spiders that was first described by Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão in 1943. Species it contains one hundred species found throughout South America, except one found on Borneo: *'' D. abjecta'' Millidge, 1 ...

'' Millidge, 1995 *''

Cryphoecina deelemanae ''Cryphoecina'' is a monotypic genus of Balkan araneomorph spiders in the family Cybaeidae containing the single species, ''Cryphoecina deelemanae''. It was first described by C. Deltshev in 1997, and has only been found in Montenegro ) , ...

'' Deltshev, 1997 *''

'' Yoshida, 2003 *''

Molione christae ''Molione christae'' is a species of comb-footed spider in the family Theridiidae Theridiidae, also known as the tangle-web spiders, cobweb spiders and comb-footed spiders, is a large family of Araneomorphae, araneomorph spiders first described ...

'' Yoshida, 2003 *''

Rhitymna deelemanae ''Rhitymna'' is a genus of huntsman spiders described in 1897 by Eugène Simon. Members of this genus can be distinguished by a number of characteristics, but it is most often confused with Olios species, many of which also have the Y-shaped ...

'' Jäger, 2003 *''

Herennia deelemanae ''Herennia'' is a genus of spiders in the family Araneidae, found from India to northern Australia. It was formerly placed in a separate family, Nephilidae. While two species have been known since the 19th century, nine new species were described ...

'' Kuntner, 2005 *''

Spermophora deelemanae ''Spermophora'' is a genus of cellar spiders that was first described by Nicholas Marcellus Hentz in 1841. Species it contains 45 species, found in Africa, Europe, Oceania, Asia, the United States, and Brazil: *'' Spermophora abibae'' Huber, 20 ...

'' 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
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*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
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*Deeleman-Reinhold, 1981: "Remarks on Origin and Distribution of Troglobitic Spiders". ''Proc. 8th Int. Congr. Speleology'', blz. 305–308.
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*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.
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*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
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