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Hugo Albert Tullgren (7 September 1874, in

Stockholm Stockholm (; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, most populous city of Sweden, as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in the Nordic countries. Approximately ...

– 1 July 1958) was a Swedish

entomologist Entomology (from Ancient Greek ἔντομον (''éntomon''), meaning "insect", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study") is the branch of zoology that focuses on insects. Those who study entomology are known as entomologists. In ...

and

arachnologist Arachnology is the scientific study of arachnids, which comprise spiders and related invertebrates such as scorpions, pseudoscorpions, harvestmen, ticks, and mites. Those who study spiders and other arachnids are arachnologists. More narrowly ...

. In 1899 he received his

bachelor's degree A bachelor's degree (from Medieval Latin ''baccalaureus'') or baccalaureate (from Modern Latin ''baccalaureatus'') is an undergraduate degree awarded by colleges and universities upon completion of a course of study lasting three to six years ...

from

Uppsala University Uppsala University (UU) () is a public university, public research university in Uppsala, Sweden. Founded in 1477, it is the List of universities in Sweden, oldest university in Sweden and the Nordic countries still in operation. Initially fou ...

, then from 1902 worked as an assistant at the National Entomological Institute. From 1907 he was associated with the entomology department of the ''Centralanstalten för försöksväsendet på jordbruksområdet'' (Central Institute for Experimental Agriculture), of which, he became a professor in 1913. The

jumping spider Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family (biology), family Salticidae. , this family contained over 600 species description, described genus, genera and over 6,000 described species, making it the largest family of spide ...

genus '' Tullgrenella'' was named in his honor by

Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão (July 17, 1886 – December 14, 1948) was a Brazilian zoologist who is considered the founder of Arachnology in South America, publishing 198 papers on the Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy of Arachnida. He was als ...

. The eponymous "

Tullgren funnel A Berlese funnel or Berlese trap is a device used to extract desiccation-intolerant invertebrates from samples of soil or leaf litter. It works by creating a desiccation gradient over the sample such that mobile organisms will move away from th ...

" is a modified Berlese funnel, a device used to extract small insects and arthropods from soil samples.

Selected works

* "On the spiders collected in Florida by Dr. Einar Lönnberg, 1892-93" (in English, 1901). * "Spiders collected in the Aysen Valley in South-Chile by P. Dusén" (in English, 1902). * "On some species of the genus Scolia (s.1.) from the East-Indies collected by Carl Aurivillius" (in English, 1904). * ''Einge Chelonethiden aus Java'', 1905 – Chelonethida from

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. * "Aranedia from the Swedish expedition through the Gran Chaco and the Cordilleras" (in English, 1905). * ''Zur kenntnis schwedischer coniopterygiden'', 1906 – On

Coniopterygidae The dustywings, Coniopterygidae, are a family (biology), family of Pterygota (winged insects) of the net-winged insect order (biology), order (Neuroptera). About 460 living species are known.Engel & Grimaldi (2007) These tiny insects can usually ...

. * ''Zur Kenntnis aussereuropäischer Chelonethiden des Natürhistorischen Museums in Hamburg'', 1907 – Non-European Chelonethida at the Natural History Museum in Hamburg. * ''Skadeinsekter i trädgården och på fältet, en kortfattad handbok för trädgårdsodlare och landtmän'', 1908 – Insect pests in the garden and field. * ''Aphidologische studien'', 1909 –

Aphid Aphids are small sap-sucking insects in the Taxonomic rank, family Aphididae. Common names include greenfly and blackfly, although individuals within a species can vary widely in color. The group includes the fluffy white Eriosomatinae, woolly ...

ology studies. * ''Trädgårdsväxternas fiender och vänner bland de lägre djuren'', 1915. * ''Vȧra insekter sȧsom sjukdomsspridare; pȧ uppdrag av Kungl. Medicinalstyrelsen'', 1918. * ''Apelmärgmalen (Blastodacna putripennella Hell) : ett i vårt land föga beaktat, men tvivelsutan viktigt skadedjur'', 1918. * ''Svenska insekter, en orienterande handbok vid studiet av vårt lands insektfauna'', 1920. – Swedish insects, an introductory guide to the study of our country's insect fauna. * ''Svenska fjärilar : systematisk bearbetning av sveriges storfjärilar, Macrolepidoptera'' (with Frithiof Nordström and Einar Wahlgren, 1934) – Swedish butterflies; systematic processing of Sweden's large butterflies,

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. * ''Svensk spindelfauna. 3. Egentliga spindlar. Araneae. Fam. 1-4. Salticidae, Thomisidae, Philodromidae, och Eusparrassidae'', 1944 – Swedish spider fauna. 3. Southwest spiders.

Araneae Spiders ( order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight limbs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude silk. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species ...

. Families 1–4.

Salticidae Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family (biology), family Salticidae. , this family contained over 600 species description, described genus, genera and over 6,000 described species, making it the largest family of spide ...

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 ...

, Philodromidae, and Eusparrassidae. * ''Våra spindlar och hur man känner igen dem; illustrerad handbok'', 1949 – Sweden's spiders and how to recognize them; illustrated guide. ---- Tullgren edited the

exsiccata Exsiccata (Latin, ''gen.'' -ae, ''plur.'' -ae) is a work with "published, uniform, numbered set of preserved specimens distributed with printed labels". Typically, exsiccatae are numbered collections of dried herbarium Biological specimen, spe ...

-like series ''Islas Canaries 1896: Musci''.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tullgren, Albert 1874 births 1958 deaths Scientists from Stockholm Uppsala University alumni Swedish entomologists Swedish arachnologists 20th-century Swedish zoologists