Volker W. Framenau
German-born Australian arachnologist
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Volker W. Framenau (born 1965, Cologne)[citation needed] is a German-born Australian arachnologist and entomologist.
Volker W. Framenau | |
|---|---|
| Born | Cologne |
| Alma mater | Philipps-University Marburg, University of Melbourne |
| Known for | Taxonomy of spiders, especially wolf spiders |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Arachnology, Entomology |
| Institutions | Murdoch University |
| Framenau | |
He earned his M.Sc. in 1995 from Philipps-University Marburg (Populationsökologie und Ausbreitungsdynamik von Arctosa cinerea (Araneae, Lycosidae) in einer alpinen Wildflußlandschaft), and a Ph.D from Melbourne University in 2002 with the thesis Taxonomy, life history characteristics, and ecology of riparian wolf spiders (Araneae, Lycosidae) in the Victorian Alps, south-east Australia.[1]
His zoological author abbreviation is Framenau.[2] He has authored over 70 taxa, initially specialising in wolf spiders,[3][4] but later in many other spider families including: tube web spiders (Segestriidae),[5] leaf curling orb-weaving spiders,[6] and orb-weaving spiders (Araneidae).[7]
He is currently a senior lecturer at Murdoch University in the centre for Biosecurity and One Health, Harry Butler Institute, Murdoch University, where his specialities are listed as: Animal systematics and taxonomy, Biosecurity, Arachnida, Myriapoda and Macrophotography.[8]
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