Volker W. Framenau (born 1965,
Cologne
Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western States of Germany, state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 m ...
) is a German-born Australian arachnologist and entomologist.
He earned his M.Sc. in 1995 from
Philipps-University Marburg
The Philipps University of Marburg (german: Philipps-Universität Marburg) was founded in 1527 by Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse, which makes it one of Germany's oldest universities and the oldest still operating Protestant university in the worl ...
(''Populationsökologie und Ausbreitungsdynamik von Arctosa cinerea (Araneae, Lycosidae) in einer alpinen Wildflußlandschaft''), and a Ph.D from
Melbourne University in 2002 with the thesis ''Taxonomy, life history characteristics, and ecology of riparian wolf spiders (Araneae, Lycosidae) in the Victorian Alps, south-east Australia''.
His zoological author abbreviation is Framenau. He has authored over 70 taxa, initially specialising in
wolf spiders
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 ...
, but later in many other spider families including: tube web spiders (
Segestriidae
Tube-dwelling spiders (Segestriidae) are a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1893. It consists of five genera, two large and widespread, '' Segestria'' and ''Ariadna'', and three smaller genera, '' Citharoceps'', ...
),
leaf curling orb-weaving spiders,
and orb-weaving spiders (
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 ...
).
He is currently a senior lecturer at
Murdoch University
Murdoch University is a public university in Perth, Western Australia, with campuses also in Singapore and Dubai. It began operations as the state's second university on 25 July 1973, and accepted its first undergraduate students in 1975. Its n ...
in the centre for Biosecurity and One Health, Harry Butler Institute, Murdoch University, where his specialities are listed as: Animal systematics and
taxonomy
Taxonomy is the practice and science of categorization or classification.
A taxonomy (or taxonomical classification) is a scheme of classification, especially a hierarchical classification, in which things are organized into groups or types. ...
,
Biosecurity
Biosecurity refers to measures aimed at preventing the introduction and/or spread of harmful organisms (e.g. viruses, bacteria, etc.) to animals and plants in order to minimize the risk of transmission of infectious disease. In agriculture, thes ...
,
Arachnida
Arachnida () is a class of joint-legged invertebrate animals (arthropods), in the subphylum Chelicerata. Arachnida includes, among others, spiders, scorpions, ticks, mites, pseudoscorpions, harvestmen, camel spiders, whip spiders and vinegaroon ...
,
Myriapoda and
Macrophotography.
Publications
See also
*
:Taxa named by Volker W. Framenau
References
External links
Wikidata query
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Australian arachnologists
1965 births
Living people
University of Melbourne alumni
Academic staff of Murdoch University