Tord Tamerlan Teodor Thorell (3 May 1830 – 22 December 1901)
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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 ...
.
Thorell studied spiders with Giacomo Doria
Marquis Giacomo Doria (1 November 1840 – 19 September 1913) was an Italian naturalist, botanist, herpetologist, and politician.
He was the founder of the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Genoa in 1867, and director from then until his d ...
at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale de Genoa
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. He corresponded with other arachnologists, such as Octavius Pickard-Cambridge
Octavius Pickard-Cambridge Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (3 November 1828 – 9 March 1917) was an England, English clergyman and zoologist. He was a keen arachnologist who described and named more than 900 species of spider.
Life and wor ...
, Eugène Simon
Eugène Louis Simon (; 30 April 1848 – 17 November 1924) was a French naturalist who worked particularly on insects and spiders, but also on birds and plants. He is by far the most prolific spider taxonomist in history, describing over 4, ...
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
Orb-weaver spiders are members of the spider family Araneidae. They are the most common group of builders of spiral wheel-shaped webs often found in gardens, fields, and forests. The English word "orb" can mean "circular", hence the English name ...
genus '' Thorellina'' and the jumping spider
Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family (biology), 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 sp ...
genus '' Thorelliola'' are named after him, as well as about 30 species of spiders:
* '' Araneus thorelli'' (Roewer, 1942) (Myanmar) (Araneidae
Orb-weaver spiders are members of the spider family Araneidae. They are the most common group of builders of spiral wheel-shaped webs often found in gardens, fields, and forests. The English word "orb" can mean "circular", hence the English name ...
)
* '' Gasteracantha thorelli'' Keyserling, 1864 (Madagascar) (Araneidae
Orb-weaver spiders are members of the spider family Araneidae. They are the most common group of builders of spiral wheel-shaped webs often found in gardens, fields, and forests. The English word "orb" can mean "circular", hence the English name ...
)
* '' Leviellus thorelli'' (Ausserer, 1871) (Europe) (Araneidae
Orb-weaver spiders are members of the spider family Araneidae. They are the most common group of builders of spiral wheel-shaped webs often found in gardens, fields, and forests. The English word "orb" can mean "circular", hence the English name ...
)
* ''Mandjelia thorelli
''Mandjelia'' is a genus of South Pacific brushed trapdoor spiders first described by Robert Raven
Robert John Raven is an Australian arachnologist, being the Head of Terrestrial Biodiversity and the Senior Curator (Arachnida) at the Queensl ...
'' (Raven, 1990) (Queensland) ( Barychelidae)
* '' Clubiona thorelli'' Roewer, 1951 (Sumatra) (Clubionidae
The sac spiders of the family Clubionidae have a very confusing taxonomic history. Once, this family was a large catch-all taxon for a disparate collection of spiders, similar only in that they had eight eyes arranged in two rows and conical anter ...
)
* ''Malamatidia thorelli
''Malamatidia'' is a genus of 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 ...
'' Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 (Sulawesi) (Clubionidae
The sac spiders of the family Clubionidae have a very confusing taxonomic history. Once, this family was a large catch-all taxon for a disparate collection of spiders, similar only in that they had eight eyes arranged in two rows and conical anter ...
)
* ''Corinnomma thorelli
''Corinnomma'' is a genus of African and Asian corinnid sac spiders first described by Ferdinand Karsch in 1880.
Species
it contains fourteen species:
*'' Corinnomma afghanicum'' Roewer, 1962 – Afghanistan
*'' Corinnomma albobarbatum'' Simo ...
'' Simon, 1905 (Java) (Corinnidae
Corinnidae is a family of araneomorph spiders, sometimes called corinnid sac spiders. The family, like other "clubionoid" families, has a confusing taxonomic history. Once it was a part of the large catch-all taxon Clubionidae, now very much small ...
)
* ''Ctenus thorelli
''Bowie thorelli'', is a species of spider of the genus '' Bowie''. It is endemic to Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ( ...
'' F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1897 (Sri Lanka) (Ctenidae
Wandering spiders (''Ctenidae'') are a family of spiders that includes the Brazilian wandering spiders. These spiders have a distinctive longitudinal groove on the top-rear of their oval carapace similar to those of the Amaurobiidae. They are hig ...
)
* ''Zelotes thorelli
''Zelotes'' is a genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and bel ...
'' Simon, 1914 (Southern Europe) (Gnaphosidae
Ground spiders comprise Gnaphosidae, the seventh largest spider family with over 2,000 described species in over 100 genera distributed worldwide. There are 105 species known to central Europe, and common genera include ''Gnaphosa'', ''Drassodes ...
)
* ''Hypochilus thorelli
''Hypochilus thorelli'' is a species of spider in the family Hypochilidae. Unlike almost all other araneomorph or "true" spiders, members of the family have four book lungs. They are often called "lampshade spiders" because of the shape of their ...
'' Marx, 1888 (USA) (Hypochilidae
Lampshade spiders, family Hypochilidae, are among the most primitive of araneomorph spiders. There are two genera and twelve species currently recognized. Like mygalomorphs, most hypochilids have two pairs of book lungs, but like araneomorphs th ...
)
* ''Idiops thorelli
'' Idiops crassus'' and its trapdoor nest entrance
''Idiops'' is a genus of armored trapdoor spiders that was first described by Josef Anton Maximilian Perty in 1833. It is the type genus of the spurred trapdoor spiders, Idiopidae. ''Idiops'' i ...
'' O. P.-Cambridge, 1870 (South Africa) (Idiopidae
Idiopidae, also known as armored trapdoor spiders, is a family of mygalomorph spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1889. They have a large body similar to tarantulas.
Description
In some species the males have a spur on their legs, whic ...
)
* ''Trichopterna thorelli
''Trichopterna'' is a genus of Linyphiidae, sheet weavers that was first described by C. Chyzer & Władysław Kulczyński in 1894.
Species
it contains nine species, found only in Africa, Asia, and Europe:
*''Trichopterna cito'' (O. Pickard-Cambr ...
'' (Westring, 1861) (Palearctic) (Linyphiidae
Linyphiidae, spiders commonly known as sheet weavers (from the shape of their webs), or money spiders (in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and in Portugal, from the superstition that if such a spider is seen running on you, ...
)
* ''Lycosa thorelli
''Lycosa'' is a genus of wolf spiders distributed throughout most of the world. Sometimes called the "true tarantula", though not closely related to the spiders most commonly called tarantulas today, ''Lycosa'' spp. can be distinguished from comm ...
'' (Keyserling, 1877) (Colombia to Argentina) (Lycosidae
Wolf spiders are members of the family Lycosidae (). They are robust and agile hunters with excellent eyesight. They live mostly in solitude, hunt alone, and do not spin webs. Some are opportunistic hunters, pouncing upon prey as they find it or ...
)
* '' Lycosula thorelli'' (Berland, 1929) (Samoa, Marquesas Is.) (Lycosidae
Wolf spiders are members of the family Lycosidae (). They are robust and agile hunters with excellent eyesight. They live mostly in solitude, hunt alone, and do not spin webs. Some are opportunistic hunters, pouncing upon prey as they find it or ...
)
* '' Pardosa thorelli'' (Collett, 1876) (Norway) (Lycosidae
Wolf spiders are members of the family Lycosidae (). They are robust and agile hunters with excellent eyesight. They live mostly in solitude, hunt alone, and do not spin webs. Some are opportunistic hunters, pouncing upon prey as they find it or ...
)
* ''Mecicobothrium thorelli
''Mecicobothrium thorelli'' is a spider in the family Mecicobothriidae, native to Argentina and Uruguay. It was first described in 1882 by Holmberg. The Specific name (zoology), specific name ''thorelli'' honours Tamerlan Thorell. The species is ...
'' Holmberg, 1882 (Argentina, Uruguay) ( Mecicobothriidae)
* '' Miturga thorelli'' Simon, 1909 (Western Australia) (Miturgidae
Miturgidae is a family (biology), family of Araneomorphae, araneomorph spiders that includes nearly 170 species in 29 genus, genera worldwide. First described by Eugène Simon in 1886, it has been substantially revised, and includes the previous f ...
)
* '' Spermophora thorelli'' Roewer, 1942 (Myanmar) (Pholcidae
The Pholcidae are a family of araneomorph spiders. The family contains over 1,800 individual species of pholcids, including those commonly known as cellar spider, daddy long-legs spider, carpenter spider, daddy long-legger, vibrating spid ...
)
* ''Cispius thorelli
Cispius is the '' nomen'' of the Roman '' gens Cispia''.
Cispius Laevus
The ''Mons Cispius'', or Cispian Hill, is one of several summits of the Esquiline Hill in Rome. The grammarian Festus says that it was named for a Cispius Laevus of Anagnia, ...
'' Blandin, 1978 (Congo) (Pisauridae
Nursery web spiders (Pisauridae) is a family of Araneomorphae, araneomorph spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1890. They resemble wolf spiders (Lycosidae) except for several key differences. Wolf spiders have two very prominent eyes in ad ...
)
* '' Bavia thorelli'' Simon, 1901 (Sulawesi) (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 ...
)
* ''Pancorius thorelli
''Pancorius'' is a genus of Asian Salticidae, jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Simon, Eugène Louis Simon in 1902. They are similar to ''Hyllus (spider), Hyllus''.
Description
''Pancorius'', or at least its Vietnamese species ...
'' (Simon, 1899) (Sumatra) (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 ...
)
* '' Talavera thorelli'' (Kulczyn'ski, 1891) (Palearctic) (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 ...
)
* '' Pseudopoda thorelli'' Jäger, 2001 (Myanmar) (Sparassidae
Huntsman spiders, members of the family Sparassidae (formerly Heteropodidae), are known by this name because of their speed and mode of hunting. They are also called giant crab spiders because of their size and appearance. Larger species sometim ...
)
* '' Afroblemma thorelli'' (Brignoli, 1974) (Angola, Tanzania) (Tetrablemmidae
Tetrablemmidae, sometimes called armored spiders, is a family of tropical araneomorph spiders first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1873. It contains 126 described species in 29 genera from southeast Asia, with a few that occur in Afric ...
)
* '' Mesida thorelli'' (Blackwall, 1877) (Seychelles) (Tetragnathidae
Long-jawed orb weavers or long jawed spiders (Tetragnathidae) are a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Anton Menge in 1866. They have elongated bodies, legs, and chelicerae, and build small orb webs with an open hub with few, wide-se ...
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* '' Chilobrachys thorelli'' Pocock, 1900 (India) (Theraphosidae
Tarantulas comprise a group of large and often hairy spiders of the family Theraphosidae. , 1,040 species have been identified, with 156 genera. The term "tarantula" is usually used to describe members of the family Theraphosidae, although m ...
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* '' Cyriopagopus thorelli'' (Simon, 1901) (Malaysia) (Theraphosidae
Tarantulas comprise a group of large and often hairy spiders of the family Theraphosidae. , 1,040 species have been identified, with 156 genera. The term "tarantula" is usually used to describe members of the family Theraphosidae, although m ...
)
* '' Helvibis thorelli'' Keyserling, 1884 (Peru, Brazil) (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 by Carl Jakob Sundevall in 1833. This diverse, globally distributed family includes ...
)
* '' Theridion thorelli'' L. Koch, 1865 (New South Wales) (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 by Carl Jakob Sundevall in 1833. This diverse, globally distributed family includes ...
)
* '' Tmarus thorelli'' Comellini, 1955 (Congo) (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 thi ...
)
Works
* 1856
Recensio critica aranearum suecicarum quas descripserunt Clerckius, Linnaeus, de Geerus
N. Act. reg. Soc. sci. Upsal. (3) 2(1): 61-176.
* 1858: Om Clercks original-spindelsammlung. Öfvers. Kongl. vet. Akad. Förh. 15: 143–154.
* 1858: Till kännedomen om slägten a Mithras och Uloborus. Öfvers. Kongl. vet. Akad. Förh. 15: 191–205.
* 1859: Nya exotiska Epeirider. Öfvers. Kongl. vet. Akad. Förh. 16: 299–304.
* 1868: Arachnida. In Eisen, G. & A. Stuxberg, Bidrag till kännedomen om Gotska-Sandön. Öfvers. Kongl. vet. Akad. Förh. 25: 379.
* 1868: Araneae. Species novae minusve cognitae. In Virgin, C. A., Kongliga Svenska Fregatten Eugenies Resa omkring Jorden. Uppsala, Zoologi, Arachnida, pp. 1–34.
* 1869: On European spiders. Part I. Review of the European genera of spiders, preceded by some observations on zoological nomenclature. Nova Acta reg. Soc. sci. Upsaliae (3) 7: 1–108.
* 1870: Remarks on synonyms of European spiders. Part I. Uppsala, pp. 1–96.
* 1870: On European spiders. Nov. Act. reg. Soc. sci. Upsaline (3) 7: 109–242.
* 1870: Araneae nonnullae Novae Hollandie, descriptae. Öfvers. Kongl. vet. Akad. Förh. 27: 367–389.
* 1871: Remarks on synonyms of European spiders. Part II. Uppsala, pp. 97–228.
* 1871: Om Arachnider fran Spitsbergin och Beeren-Eiland. Öfvers. Kongl. vet. Akad. Förh. 28: 683-702
* 1872: Remarks on synonyms of European spiders. Part III. Upsala, pp. 229–374.
* 1872: Om några Arachnider från Grönland. Öfvers. Kongl. vet. Akad. Förh. 29: 147–166.
* 1873: Remarks on synonyms of European spiders. Part IV. Uppsala, pp. 375–645.
* 1875
Diagnoses Aranearum Europaearum aliquot novarum
Tijdschr. Ent. 18: 81-108.
* 1875: Verzeichniss südrussischer Spinnen. Horae Soc. ent. Ross. 11: 39-122.
* 1875: Descriptions of several European and North African spiders. Kongl. Svenska. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 13(5): 1–203.
* 1875: Notice of some spiders from Labrador. Proc. Boston Soc. nat. Hist. 17: 490–504.
* 1875: On some spiders from New-Caledonia, Madagascar and Réunion. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1875: 130–149.
* 1877: Due ragni esotici descritti. Ann. Mus. civ. stor. nat. Genova 9: 301–310.
* 1877: Studi sui Ragni Malesi e Papuani. I. Ragni di Selebes raccolti nel 1874 dal Dott. O. Beccari. Ann. Mus. civ. stor. nat. Genova 10: 341–637.
* 1877: Descriptions of the Araneae collected in Colorado in 1875, by A. S. Packard jun., M.D. Bull. U. S. geol. Surv. 3: 477–529.
* 1878: Notice of the spiders of the 'Polaris' expedition. Amer. Natural. 12: 393–396.
* 1878: Studi sui ragni Malesi e Papuani. II. Ragni di Amboina raccolti Prof. O. Beccari. Ann. Mus. civ. stor. nat. Genova 13: 1–317.
* 1881: Studi sui Ragni Malesi e Papuani. III. Ragni dell'Austro Malesia e del Capo York, conservati nel Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova. Ann. Mus. civ. stor. nat. Genova 17: 1–727.
* 1887: Viaggio di L. Fea in Birmania e regioni vicine. II. Primo saggio sui ragni birmani. Ann. Mus. civ. stor. nat. Genova 25: 5–417.
* 1890
Studi sui ragni Malesi e Papuani
IV, 1. Ann. Mus. civ. stor. nat. Genova 28: 1–419.
* 1890
Aracnidi di Nias e di Sumatra raccolti nel 1886 dal Sig. E. Modigliani
Ann. Mus. civ. stor. nat. Genova 30: 5–106.
* 1890: Diagnoses aranearum aliquot novarum in Indo-Malesia inventarum. Ann. Mus. civ. stor. nat. Genova 30: 132–172.
* 1890: Arachnidi di Pinang raccolti nel 1889 dai Signori L. Loria e L. Fea. Ann. Mus. civ. stor. nat. Genova 30: 269–383.
* 1891: Spindlar från Nikobarerna och andra delar af södra Asien. Kongl. Svenska. Vet.-Acad. Handl. 24(2): 1–149.
* 1892: Novae species aranearum a Cel. Th. Workman in ins. Singapore collectae. Boll. Soc. ent. ital. 24: 209–252.
* 1892: On some spiders from the Andaman Islands, collected by E. W. Oates, Esq. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (6) 9: 226–237.
* 1892
Studi sui ragni Malesi e Papuani
IV, 2. Ann. Mus. civ. stor. nat. Genova 31: 1–490.
* 1894: Förteckning öfver arachnider från Java och närgrändsande öar, insamlade af Carl Aurivillius; jemte beskrifningar å några sydasiatiska och sydamerikanska spindlar. Bih. Svenska. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 20(4): 1-63.
* 1894: Decas aranearum in ins. Singapore a Cel. Th. Workman inventarum. Boll. Soc. ent. ital. 26: 321–355.
* 1895
Descriptive catalogue of the spiders of Burma
* 1897, with J. Castelnau: Notes sur Hyptiotes anceps. Feuille jeun. Natural. 27: 107–111.
* 1897: Viaggio di Leonardo Fea in Birmania e regioni vicine. LXXIII. Secondo saggio sui Ragni birmani. I. Parallelodontes. Tubitelariae. Ann. Mus. civ. stor. nat. Genova (2) 17 37 161–267.
* 1897: Araneae paucae Asiae australis. Bih. Svenska. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 22(6): 1-36.
* 1898: Viaggio di Leonardo Fea in Birmania e regioni vicine. LXXX. Secondo saggio sui Ragni birmani. II. Retitelariae et Orbitelariae. Ann. Mus. civ. stor. nat. Genova (2) 19 39 271–378.
* 1899: Araneae Camerunenses (Africae occidentalis) quas anno 1891 collegerunt Cel. Dr Y. Sjöstedt aliique. Bih. Svenska. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 25(1): 1–105.
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