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Barylestis Insularis
''Barylestis'' is a genus of huntsman spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1910. Species it contains ten species, all found in Africa, except ''B. saaristoi'', from Thailand and Myanmar: *'' Barylestis blaisei'' (Simon, 1903) (type) – Gabon *'' Barylestis fagei'' (Lessert, 1929) – Congo, Rwanda *'' Barylestis insularis'' Simon, 1910 – Equatorial Guinea (Bioko) *''Barylestis manni'' (Strand, 1906) – Nigeria - Nomen dubium *''Barylestis montandoni'' (Lessert, 1929) – Congo, Uganda *''Barylestis nigripectus'' Simon, 1910 – Congo *''Barylestis occidentalis'' (Simon, 1887) – Congo, Uganda, Sudan *''Barylestis peltatus'' (Strand, 1916) – Central Africa *''Barylestis saaristoi'' Jäger, 2008 – China, Thailand, Myanmar *'' Barylestis scutatus'' (Pocock, 1903) – Cameroon *'' Barylestis variatus'' (Pocock, 1900) – West Africa. Introduced to Northern Ireland, Britain, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Czech Rep. See also * List of Sparassidae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 4,000 species. Work on spiders His most significant work was ''Histoire Naturelle des Araignées'' (1892–1903), an encyclopedic treatment of the spider genera of the world. It was published in two volumes of more than 1000 pages each, and the same number of drawings by Simon. Working at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris, it took Simon 11 years to complete, while working at the same time on devising a taxonomic scheme that embraced the known taxa. Simon described a total of 4,650 species, and as of 2013 about 3,790 species are still considered valid. The International Society of Arachnology offers a Simon Award recognising lifetime achievement. The Eocene fossil spider species '' Cenotextricella simoni'' was named in h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uganda
}), is a landlocked country in East Africa. The country is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the south by Tanzania. The southern part of the country includes a substantial portion of Lake Victoria, shared with Kenya and Tanzania. Uganda is in the African Great Lakes region. Uganda also lies within the Nile basin and has a varied but generally a modified equatorial climate. It has a population of around 49 million, of which 8.5 million live in the capital and largest city of Kampala. Uganda is named after the Buganda kingdom, which encompasses a large portion of the south of the country, including the capital Kampala and whose language Luganda is widely spoken throughout the country. From 1894, the area was ruled as a protectorate by the United Kingdom, which established administrative law across the territory. Uganda gained independence from the UK on 9 Oc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cameroon
Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun, links=no), is a country in west- central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west and north; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and the Republic of the Congo to the south. Its coastline lies on the Bight of Biafra, part of the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean. Due to its strategic position at the crossroads between West Africa and Central Africa, it has been categorized as being in both camps. Its nearly 27 million people speak 250 native languages. Early inhabitants of the territory included the Sao civilisation around Lake Chad, and the Baka hunter-gatherers in the southeastern rainforest. Portuguese explorers reached the coast in the 15th century and named the area ''Rio dos Camarões'' (''Shrimp River''), which became ''Cameroon'' in English. Fulani soldiers founded the Adamawa E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reginald Innes Pocock
Reginald Innes Pocock F.R.S. (4 March 1863 – 9 August 1947) was a British zoologist. Pocock was born in Clifton, Bristol, the fourth son of Rev. Nicholas Pocock and Edith Prichard. He began showing interest in natural history at St. Edward's School, Oxford. He received tutoring in zoology from Sir Edward Poulton, and was allowed to explore comparative anatomy at the Oxford Museum. He studied biology and geology at University College, Bristol, under Conwy Lloyd Morgan and William Johnson Sollas. In 1885, he became an assistant at the Natural History Museum, and worked in the section of entomology for a year. He was put in charge of the collections of Arachnida and Myriapoda. He was also given the task to arrange the British birds collections, in the course of which he developed a lasting interest in ornithology. The 200 papers he published in his 18 years at the museum soon brought him recognition as an authority on Arachnida and Myriapoda; he described between 300 and 4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barylestis Scutatus
''Barylestis'' is a genus of huntsman spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1910. Species it contains ten species, all found in Africa, except ''B. saaristoi'', from Thailand and Myanmar: *''Barylestis blaisei'' (Simon, 1903) (type) – Gabon *''Barylestis fagei'' (Lessert, 1929) – Congo, Rwanda *''Barylestis insularis'' Simon, 1910 – Equatorial Guinea (Bioko) *''Barylestis manni'' (Strand, 1906) – Nigeria - Nomen dubium *''Barylestis montandoni'' (Lessert, 1929) – Congo, Uganda *''Barylestis nigripectus'' Simon, 1910 – Congo *''Barylestis occidentalis'' (Simon, 1887) – Congo, Uganda, Sudan *''Barylestis peltatus'' (Strand, 1916) – Central Africa *''Barylestis saaristoi'' Jäger, 2008 – China, Thailand, Myanmar *'' Barylestis scutatus'' (Pocock, 1903) – Cameroon *'' Barylestis variatus'' (Pocock, 1900) – West Africa. Introduced to Northern Ireland, Britain, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Czech Rep. See also * List of Sparassidae spe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myanmar
Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explains, the English spellings of both Myanmar and Burma assume a non-rhotic variety of English, in which the letter r before a consonant or finally serves merely to indicate a long vowel: �mjænmɑː, ˈbɜːmə So the pronunciation of the last syllable of Myanmar as ɑːror of Burma as ɜːrməby some speakers in the UK and most speakers in North America is in fact a spelling pronunciation based on a misunderstanding of non-rhotic spelling conventions. The final ''r'' in ''Myanmar'' was not intended for pronunciation and is there to ensure that the final a is pronounced with the broad ''ah'' () in "father". If the Burmese name my, မြန်မာ, label=none were spelled "Myanma" in English, this would be pronounced at the end by al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thailand
Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is bordered to the north by Myanmar and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the west by the Andaman Sea and the extremity of Myanmar. Thailand also shares maritime borders with Vietnam to the southeast, and Indonesia and India to the southwest. Bangkok is the nation's capital and largest city. Tai peoples migrated from southwestern China to mainland Southeast Asia from the 11th century. Indianised kingdoms such as the Mon, Khmer Empire and Malay states ruled the region, competing with Thai states such as the Kingdoms of Ngoenyang, Sukhothai, Lan Na and Ayutthaya, which also rivalled each other. European contact began in 1511 with a Portuguese diplomatic mission to Ayuttha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, most populous country, with a Population of China, population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and Borders of China, borders fourteen countries by land, the List of countries and territories by land borders, most of any country in the world, tied with Russia. Covering an area of approximately , it is the world's third List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country by total land area. The country consists of 22 provinces of China, provinces, five autonomous regions of China, autonomous regions, four direct-administered municipalities of China, municipalities, and two special administrative regions of China, Special Administrative Regions (Hong Kong and Macau). The national capital is Beijing, and the List of cities in China by population, most populous cit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Jäger
Peter Jäger is a German arachnologist, and current Head of Arachnology at the Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum in Frankfurt, Germany. He has named several spiders after celebrities; in 2008, he named '' Heteropoda davidbowie'' after British singer David Bowie, and '' Heteropoda ninahagen'' after German singer Nina Hagen. In 2013, he named '' Ctenus monaghani'' (currently in the genus '' Bowie'') after actor Dominic Monaghan, to honor his work in the documentary series ''Wild Things with Dominic Monaghan''. In 2020, Jäger named a new genus and species of huntsman spiders from Madagascar after Greta Thunberg. The new spider is named ''Thunberga greta''. In 2022, he named 54 species of huntsman spiders from across Asia under the new genus '' Bowie'' in commemoration of the musician David Bowie David Robert Jones (8 January 194710 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie ( ), was an English singer-songwriter and actor. A leading figure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barylestis Saaristoi
''Barylestis'' is a genus of huntsman spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1910. Species it contains ten species, all found in Africa, except ''B. saaristoi'', from Thailand and Myanmar: *'' Barylestis blaisei'' (Simon, 1903) (type) – Gabon *'' Barylestis fagei'' (Lessert, 1929) – Congo, Rwanda *'' Barylestis insularis'' Simon, 1910 – Equatorial Guinea (Bioko) *'' Barylestis manni'' (Strand, 1906) – Nigeria - Nomen dubium *'' Barylestis montandoni'' (Lessert, 1929) – Congo, Uganda *'' Barylestis nigripectus'' Simon, 1910 – Congo *'' Barylestis occidentalis'' (Simon, 1887) – Congo, Uganda, Sudan *'' Barylestis peltatus'' (Strand, 1916) – Central Africa *'' Barylestis saaristoi'' Jäger, 2008 – China, Thailand, Myanmar *'' Barylestis scutatus'' (Pocock, 1903) – Cameroon *'' Barylestis variatus'' (Pocock, 1900) – West Africa. Introduced to Northern Ireland, Britain, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Czech Rep. See also * List of Sparas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Africa
Central Africa is a subregion of the African continent comprising various countries according to different definitions. Angola, Burundi, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Rwanda, and São Tomé and Príncipe are members of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS). Six of those states (the Central African Republic, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon) are also members of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC) and share a common currency, the Central African CFA franc. The African Development Bank defines Central Africa as the Central African Republic, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon. Middle Africa is an analogous term used by the United Nations in its geoscheme for Africa. It includes the same countries as the African Development Bank's definiti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barylestis Peltatus
''Barylestis'' is a genus of huntsman spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1910. Species it contains ten species, all found in Africa, except ''B. saaristoi'', from Thailand and Myanmar: *'' Barylestis blaisei'' (Simon, 1903) (type) – Gabon *'' Barylestis fagei'' (Lessert, 1929) – Congo, Rwanda *'' Barylestis insularis'' Simon, 1910 – Equatorial Guinea (Bioko) *'' Barylestis manni'' (Strand, 1906) – Nigeria - Nomen dubium *'' Barylestis montandoni'' (Lessert, 1929) – Congo, Uganda *'' Barylestis nigripectus'' Simon, 1910 – Congo *'' Barylestis occidentalis'' (Simon, 1887) – Congo, Uganda, Sudan *'' Barylestis peltatus'' (Strand, 1916) – Central Africa *''Barylestis saaristoi'' Jäger, 2008 – China, Thailand, Myanmar *'' Barylestis scutatus'' (Pocock, 1903) – Cameroon *'' Barylestis variatus'' (Pocock, 1900) – West Africa. Introduced to Northern Ireland, Britain, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Czech Rep. See also * List of Sparass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
