Nadine Dupérré

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Nadine Dupérré is a Canadian arachnologist and scientific illustrator. She is a known for her scientific illustrations and has been involved in numerous taxonomic revisions of spiders.

Nadine Dupérré was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec. She completed her undergraduate studies in biology at the Université of Montréal in biology. After graduation she worked on beetle biodiversity and ecology in Québec boreal forests with Dr. Pierre Paquin. During this work, they also collected over 25,000 spiders, and in 1999, they took the spider identification class from Fred Coyle and Bill Shear in North Carolina[1] to aid in spider identification. In 2003, Paquin and Dupérré published Guide d’identification des Araignées du Québec, a comprehensive guide to identify all spider species in Quebec.[2]

Dupérré worked as a free-lance arachnologist and illustrator for more than 10 years, completing contracts for government agencies and researchers. She was the principal illustrator for Spiders of North America: An identification manual, published in 2005, as a guide to all spider families and genera in North America. Dupérré was responsible for over 2000 original taxonomic illustrations. In 2008, she began working at the American Museum of Natural History, where she was served as an assistant to Norman I. Platnick and participated in the Oonopid Spider Planetary Biodiversity Inventory (PBI) project.[3][2] Currently, Dupérré is a researcher at the Arachnida and Myriapoda Research Center of the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB) in Hamburg, Germany.[4]

In 2025, she was featured in The Museum Makers exhibition at LIB.[5][6]

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