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Isoctenus Corymbus
''Isoctenus'' is a genus of South American Ctenidae, wandering spiders first described by Philipp Bertkau in 1880. Species it contains fifteen species found in Brazil and Argentina: *''Isoctenus areia'' Polotow & Antônio Brescovit, Brescovit, 2009 – Brazil *''Isoctenus charada'' Polotow & Brescovit, 2009 – Brazil *''Isoctenus corymbus'' Polotow, Brescovit & Pellegatti-Franco, 2005 – Brazil *''Isoctenus coxalis'' (Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902) – Brazil *''Isoctenus eupalaestrus'' Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão, Mello-Leitão, 1936 – Brazil *''Isoctenus foliifer'' Bertkau, 1880 (Type species, type) – Brazil *''Isoctenus griseolus'' (Mello-Leitão, 1936) – Brazil *''Isoctenus herteli'' (Mello-Leitão, 1947) – Brazil *''Isoctenus janeirus'' (Charles Athanase Walckenaer, Walckenaer, 1837) – Brazil *''Isoctenus malabaris'' Polotow, Brescovit & Ott, 2007 – Brazil *''Isoctenus minusculus'' (Eugen von Keyserling, Keyserling, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philipp Bertkau
Philipp Bertkau (11 January 1849 – 22 October 1894) was a German zoologist born in Cologne. He studied natural sciences at the University of Bonn, where in 1872 he earned his doctorate. In 1873, he became an assistant at the botanical institute in Munich, and during the following spring was an assistant at the zoological institute at Bonn. In 1882 he was appointed professor at the Agricultural Academy of Poppelsdorf, and in 1890 became curator at the Institute of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy. Bertkau is remembered for his work involving the anatomy and physiology of spiders, research on sense of smell in butterflies, and anatomical studies of hermaphroditic arthropods. At Bonn he was secretary of ''Bonner Gesellschaft für Naturgeschichte'' (Bonn Society of Natural History). He is the taxonomic authority of the families Anyphaenidae, Hahniidae, Sparassidae and Zoropsidae, and of the genera '' Ancylometes'', ''Chalcoscirtus'', '' Comaroma'' and '' Diplocephalus''. Selected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |