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Ferdinand Karsch
Ferdinand Anton Franz Karsch or Karsch-Haack (2 September 1853, in Münster – 20 December 1936, in Berlin) was a German arachnologist, entomologist and anthropologist. The son of a doctor, Karsch was educated at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin and published a thesis on the gall wasp in 1877. From 1878 to 1921 he held the post of curator at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. Between 1873 and 1893, he published a catalogue of the spiders of Westphalia; he also published numerous articles on the specimens that the museum received from various explorers and naturalists working in Africa, in China, in Japan, in Australia, etc. This publication of others' work sometimes led to disputes over priority and nomenclature, for example with Pickard-Cambridge. Alongside his zoological activities, he published many works on sexuality and, in particular, homosexuality in both the animal kingdom and in so-called "primitive" peoples, including ''Das gleichgeschlechtliche Leben ...
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Holothele
''Holothele'' is a genus of tarantulas that was first described by Ferdinand Anton Franz Karsch in 1879. Originally placed with the curtain-web spiders, it was transferred to the tarantulas in 1980. Diagnosis They can be distinguished by the lack of urticating hairs, tarsus 4 being pseudo segmented. The tarsal claws own a row of teeth, and a labium with around 90 cuspules. Species it contains six species, found in the West Indies and in the north of South America: *'' Holothele culebrae'' ( Petrunkevitch, 1929) – Puerto Rico *'' Holothele denticulata'' (Franganillo, 1930) – Cuba *'' Holothele longipes'' (L. Koch, 1875) ( type) – Panama, Venezuela, Bolivia, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil *'' Holothele maddeni'' (Esposito & Agnarsson, 2014) - Dominican Republic *'' Holothele shoemakeri'' (Petrunkevitch, 1926) – US Virgin Islands ( St. Thomas) *'' Holothele sulfurensis'' Maréchal, 2005 – Guadeloupe In synonymy *''H. ludwigi'' (St ...
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Pedinopistha
''Pedinopistha'' is a genus of Hawaiian running crab spiders that was first described by Ferdinand Anton Franz Karsch in 1880. Species it contains five species, found only on Hawaii: *'' Pedinopistha aculeata'' (Simon Simon may refer to: People * Simon (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the given name Simon * Simon (surname), including a list of people with the surname Simon * Eugène Simon, French naturalist and the genus ..., 1900) – Hawaii *'' Pedinopistha finschi'' Karsch, 1880 ( type) – Hawaii *'' Pedinopistha longula'' (Simon, 1900) – Hawaii *'' Pedinopistha schauinslandi'' (Simon, 1899) – Hawaii *'' Pedinopistha stigmatica'' (Simon, 1900) – Hawaii See also * List of Philodromidae species References Araneomorphae genera Philodromidae Spiders of Hawaii Taxa named by Ferdinand Karsch {{Philodromidae-stub ...
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Heterothele
''Heterothele'' is a genus of South American and African tarantulas that was first described by Ferdinand Anton Franz Karsch in 1879. Species it contains ten species, found in Africa and Argentina: *'' Heterothele affinis'' Laurent, 1946 – Congo, Tanzania *'' Heterothele atropha'' Simon, 1907 – Congo *'' Heterothele caudicula'' (Simon, 1886) – Argentina *'' Heterothele darcheni'' (Benoit, 1966) – Gabon *'' Heterothele decemnotata'' (Simon, 1891) – Congo *'' Heterothele gabonensis'' (Lucas, 1858) – Gabon *'' Heterothele honesta'' Karsch, 1879 ( type) – Angola *'' Heterothele hullwilliamsi'' Smith, 1990 – Cameroon *'' Heterothele ogbunikia'' Smith, 1990 – Nigeria *'' Heterothele spinipes'' Pocock, 1897 – Tanzania See also * List of Theraphosidae species This page lists all described genera and species of the spider family Theraphosidae. , the World Spider Catalog accepts 1041 species in 156 genera: A ''Acanthopelma'' ''Acanthopelma'' F. O. Pickard-Cambri ...
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Sphaerobothria
''Sphaerobothria'' is a monotypic genus of Central American tarantulas containing the single species, ''Sphaerobothria hoffmanni''. It was first described by Ferdinand Anton Franz Karsch in 1879, and is found in Panama and Costa Rica Costa Rica (, ; ; literally "Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica ( es, República de Costa Rica), is a country in the Central American region of North America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the no .... See also * List of Theraphosidae species References Monotypic Theraphosidae genera Spiders of Central America Taxa named by Ferdinand Karsch Theraphosidae {{Theraphosidae-stub ...
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Münster
Münster (; nds, Mönster) is an independent city (''Kreisfreie Stadt'') in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is in the northern part of the state and is considered to be the cultural centre of the Westphalia region. It is also a state district capital. Münster was the location of the Anabaptist rebellion during the Protestant Reformation and the site of the signing of the Treaty of Westphalia ending the Thirty Years' War in 1648. Today it is known as the bicycle capital of Germany. Münster gained the status of a ''Großstadt'' (major city) with more than 100,000 inhabitants in 1915. , there are 300,000 people living in the city, with about 61,500 students, only some of whom are recorded in the official population statistics as having their primary residence in Münster. Münster is a part of the international Euregio region with more than 1,000,000 inhabitants ( Enschede, Hengelo, Gronau, Osnabrück). History Early history In 793, Charlemagne sent out Ludger as ...
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Campostichomma
''Campostichomma'' is a genus of spiders in the family Udubidae native to Sri Lanka. Many of its species were moved to either ''Griswoldia'' or ''Devendra.'' This genus was originally placed in the family Agelenidae. It was moved to Miturgidae in 1967, to Zoropsidae in 1999, then to Udubidae in 2015. Species The World Spider Catalog accepts four species, : *'' Campostichomma alawala'' Polotow & Griswold, 2017 – Sri Lanka *'' Campostichomma harasbedda'' Polotow & Griswold, 2017 – Sri Lanka *'' Campostichomma manicatum'' Karsch, 1892 (type species In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specime ...) – Sri Lanka *'' Campostichomma mudduk'' Polotow & Griswold, 2017 – Sri Lanka References {{Taxonbar, from=Q968968 Spiders of Asia Udubidae Araneomorphae genera Taxa named ...
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Hawaii
Hawaii ( ; haw, Hawaii or ) is a state in the Western United States, located in the Pacific Ocean about from the U.S. mainland. It is the only U.S. state outside North America, the only state that is an archipelago, and the only state geographically located within the tropics. Hawaii comprises nearly the entire Hawaiian archipelago, 137 volcanic islands spanning that are physiographically and ethnologically part of the Polynesian subregion of Oceania. The state's ocean coastline is consequently the fourth-longest in the U.S., at about . The eight main islands, from northwest to southeast, are Niihau, Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Lānai, Kahoolawe, Maui, and Hawaii—the last of these, after which the state is named, is often called the "Big Island" or "Hawaii Island" to avoid confusion with the state or archipelago. The uninhabited Northwestern Hawaiian Islands make up most of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, the United States' largest protected area a ...
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Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area and 20% of its land area.Sayre, April Pulley (1999), ''Africa'', Twenty-First Century Books. . With billion people as of , it accounts for about of the world's human population. Africa's population is the youngest amongst all the continents; the median age in 2012 was 19.7, when the worldwide median age was 30.4. Despite a wide range of natural resources, Africa is the least wealthy continent per capita and second-least wealthy by total wealth, behind Oceania. Scholars have attributed this to different factors including geography, climate, tribalism, colonialism, the Cold War, neocolonialism, lack of democracy, and corruption. Despite this low concentration of wealth, recent economic expansion and the large and young population make Afric ...
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Madagascar
Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa across the Mozambique Channel. At Madagascar is the world's second-largest island country, after Indonesia. The nation is home to around 30 million inhabitants and consists of the island of Madagascar (the fourth-largest island in the world), along with numerous smaller peripheral islands. Following the prehistoric breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana, Madagascar split from the Indian subcontinent around 90 million years ago, allowing native plants and animals to evolve in relative isolation. Consequently, Madagascar is a biodiversity hotspot; over 90% of its wildlife is endemic. Human settlement of Madagascar occurred during or before the mid first millennium AD by Austronesian peoples, presumably arriving on outrigger cano ...
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Thelechoris
''Thelechoris'' is a genus of East African spiders in the family Ischnothelidae. It was first described by Ferdinand Karsch in 1881. it contained only two species, both found in Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...: ''T. rutenbergi'' and ''T. striatipes''. References Mygalomorphae Mygalomorphae genera Taxa named by Ferdinand Karsch {{Mygalomorphae-stub ...
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Costa Rica
Costa Rica (, ; ; literally "Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica ( es, República de Costa Rica), is a country in the Central American region of North America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the northeast, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, and maritime border with Ecuador to the south of Cocos Island. It has a population of around five million in a land area of . An estimated 333,980 people live in the capital and largest city, San José, with around two million people in the surrounding metropolitan area. The sovereign state is a unitary presidential constitutional republic. It has a long-standing and stable democracy and a highly educated workforce. The country spends roughly 6.9% of its budget (2016) on education, compared to a global average of 4.4%. Its economy, once heavily dependent on agriculture, has diversified to include sectors such as finance, corporate services for foreign companies, phar ...
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