Yvonne Kranz-Baltensperger
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Yvonne Kranz-Baltensperger, born in 1973 in Innsbruck, is a Swiss arachnologist and entomologist.
Yvonne Kranz-Baltensperger attended the University of Bern, where she studied biology, completing her Ph.D. thesis entitled Systematics of the Oonopid spider genera Xyphinus, Ischnothyreus and Trilacuna (Araneae, Oonopidae) in 2014.[1] Since 1997, she has held a scientific assistant position at the Natural History Museum of Bern, where she works on the Planetary Biodiversity Inventory (PBI)[2][3] with six-eyed spiders (Oonopidae).[4][5] She specializes in the study of arachnofauna, including pseudoscorpions and arachnids from the Indomalayan region. Her zoological abbreviation is Kranz-Baltensperger.[6]
Eponym
Prethopalpus kranzae, a species of goblin spider (Oonopidae) endemic to Sumatra, Baehr, 2012[7]
Selected taxa described
- Brignolia ankhu Platnick, Dupérré, Ott & Kranz-Baltensperger, 2011
- Brignolia assam Platnick, Dupérré, Ott & Kranz-Baltensperger, 2011
- Brignolia bengal Platnick, Dupérré, Ott & Kranz-Baltensperger, 2011
- Brignolia cardamom Platnick, Dupérré, Ott & Kranz-Baltensperger, 2011
- Brignolia chumphae Platnick, Dupérré, Ott & Kranz-Baltensperger, 2011
- Brignolia cobre Platnick, Dupérré, Ott & Kranz-Baltensperger, 2011
- Brignolia dasysterna Platnick, Dupérré, Ott & Kranz-Baltensperger, 2011
- Brignolia diablo Platnick, Dupérré, Ott & Kranz-Baltensperger, 2011
- Brignolia elongata Platnick, Dupérré, Ott & Kranz-Baltensperger, 2011
- Brignolia gading Platnick, Dupérré, Ott & Kranz-Baltensperger, 2011
- Brignolia jog Platnick, Dupérré, Ott & Kranz-Baltensperger, 2011
- Brignolia kaikatty Platnick, Dupérré, Ott & Kranz-Baltensperger, 2011
- Brignolia kapit Platnick, Dupérré, Ott & Kranz-Baltensperger, 2011
- Brignolia karnataka Platnick, Dupérré, Ott & Kranz-Baltensperger, 2011
- Brignolia kodaik Platnick, Dupérré, Ott & Kranz-Baltensperger, 2011
- Brignolia kumily Platnick, Dupérré, Ott & Kranz-Baltensperger, 2011
- Brignolia mapha Platnick, Dupérré, Ott & Kranz-Baltensperger, 2011
- Brignolia nilgiri Platnick, Dupérré, Ott & Kranz-Baltensperger, 2011
- Brignolia palawan Platnick, Dupérré, Ott & Kranz-Baltensperger, 2011
- Brignolia ratnapura Platnick, Dupérré, Ott & Kranz-Baltensperger, 2011
- Brignolia rothorum Platnick, Dupérré, Ott & Kranz-Baltensperger, 2011
- Brignolia schwendingeri Platnick, Dupérré, Ott & Kranz-Baltensperger, 2011
- Brignolia sinharaja Platnick, Dupérré, Ott & Kranz-Baltensperger, 2011
- Brignolia sukna Platnick, Dupérré, Ott & Kranz-Baltensperger, 2011
- Brignolia suthep Platnick, Dupérré, Ott & Kranz-Baltensperger, 2011
- Brignolia valparai Platnick, Dupérré, Ott & Kranz-Baltensperger, 2011
- Iraponia Kranz-Baltensperger, Platnick & Dupérré, 2009
- Iraponia scutata Kranz-Baltensperger, Platnick & Dupérré, 2009
- Ischnothyreus balu Kranz-Baltensperger, 2011
- Ischnothyreus barus Kranz-Baltensperger, 2011
- Ischnothyreus danum Kranz-Baltensperger, 2011
- Ischnothyreus deelemanae Kranz-Baltensperger, 2011
- Ischnothyreus elvis Kranz-Baltensperger, 2011
- Ischnothyreus falcifer Kranz-Baltensperger, 2011
- Ischnothyreus flabellifer Kranz-Baltensperger, 2011
- Ischnothyreus flippi Kranz-Baltensperger, 2011
- Ischnothyreus florifer Kranz-Baltensperger, 2011
- Ischnothyreus fobor Kranz-Baltensperger, 2011
- Ischnothyreus hooki Kranz-Baltensperger, 2011
- Ischnothyreus jojo Kranz-Baltensperger, 2011
- Ischnothyreus kalimantan Kranz-Baltensperger, 2011
- Ischnothyreus matang Kranz-Baltensperger, 2011
- Ischnothyreus mulumi Kranz-Baltensperger, 2011
- Ischnothyreus namo Kranz-Baltensperger, 2012
- Ischnothyreus rex Kranz-Baltensperger, 2011
- Ischnothyreus serapi Kranz-Baltensperger, 2011
- Ischnothyreus tekek Kranz-Baltensperger, 2012
- Ischnothyreus tioman Kranz-Baltensperger, 2012
- Pelicinus churchillae Platnick, Dupérré, Ott, Baehr & Kranz-Baltensperger, 2012
- Pelicinus damieu Platnick, Dupérré, Ott, Baehr & Kranz-Baltensperger, 2012
- Pelicinus deelemanae Platnick, Dupérré, Ott, Baehr & Kranz-Baltensperger, 2012
- Pelicinus duong Platnick, Dupérré, Ott, Baehr & Kranz-Baltensperger, 2012
- Pelicinus johor Platnick, Dupérré, Ott, Baehr & Kranz-Baltensperger, 2012
- Pelicinus khao Platnick, Dupérré, Ott, Baehr & Kranz-Baltensperger, 2012
- Pelicinus koghis Platnick, Dupérré, Ott, Baehr & Kranz-Baltensperger, 2012
- Pelicinus lachivala Platnick, Dupérré, Ott, Baehr & Kranz-Baltensperger, 2012
- Pelicinus madurai Platnick, Dupérré, Ott, Baehr & Kranz-Baltensperger, 2012
- Pelicinus monteithi Platnick, Dupérré, Ott, Baehr & Kranz-Baltensperger, 2012
- Pelicinus penang Platnick, Dupérré, Ott, Baehr & Kranz-Baltensperger, 2012
- Pelicinus raveni Platnick, Dupérré, Ott, Baehr & Kranz-Baltensperger, 2012
- Pelicinus sayam Platnick, Dupérré, Ott, Baehr & Kranz-Baltensperger, 2012
- Pelicinus schwendingeri Platnick, Dupérré, Ott, Baehr & Kranz-Baltensperger, 2012
- Pelicinus sengleti Platnick, Dupérré, Ott, Baehr & Kranz-Baltensperger, 2012
- Pelicinus tham Platnick, Dupérré, Ott, Baehr & Kranz-Baltensperger, 2012
- Trilacuna diabolica Kranz-Baltensperger, 2011
- Trilacuna merapi Kranz-Baltensperger & Eichenberger, 2011
Selected publications
Nentwig, W., Ansorg, J., Cushing, P. E., Kranz-Baltensperger, Y., & Kropf, C. (2024). Understanding and recognizing spiders. In W. Nentwig, J. Ansorg, P. E. Cushing, Y. Kranz-Baltensperger, & C. Kropf (Eds.), House spiders – Worldwide(pp. 3–9). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42834-4_1
Hänggi, A., Bobbitt, I., Kranz-Baltensperger, Y., Bolzern, A., & Gilgado, J. D. (2021, September 30). Spiders (Araneae) from Swiss hothouses, with records of four species new for Switzerland. Arachnologische Mitteilungen: Arachnology Letters, 62(1), 67–74. https://doi.org/10.30963/aramit6207
Baur, H., Kranz-Baltensperger, Y., Cruaud, A., et al. (2014). Morphometric analysis and taxonomic revision of Anisopteromalus Ruschka (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae) – An integrative approach. Systematic Entomology, 39(6), 601–709. https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12095
Platnick, N. I., Berniker, L., & Kranz-Baltensperger, Y. (2012). The goblin spider genus Ischnothyreus (Araneae, Oonopidae) in the New World. American Museum Novitates, 3759, 1–32. https://doi.org/10.1206/3759.2
Platnick, N. I., Dupérré, N., Ott, R., & Kranz-Baltensperger, Y. (2011, April 29). The goblin spider genus Brignolia(Araneae, Oonopidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 2011(349), 1–131. https://doi.org/10.1206/349.1
Kranz-Baltensperger, Y., Platnick, N. I., & Dupérré, N. (2009, August 28). A new genus of the spider family Caponiidae (Araneae, Haplogynae) from Iran. American Museum Novitates, 2009(3656), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1206/3656.1
References
- ↑ "The Swiss Book - 2015/05" (PDF). Swiss National Library. p. 46. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2024-08-15. Retrieved 2025-10-28.
- ↑ "Planetary Biodiversity Inventory: The Spider Family Oonopidae". research.amnh.org. Archived from the original on 2007-01-26. Retrieved 2025-10-28.
- ↑ "Planetary Biodiversity Inventory: Investigators - Yvonne Kranz-Baltensperger". research.amnh.org. Archived from the original on 2009-01-02. Retrieved 2025-10-28.
- ↑ Nentwig, Wolfgang; Ansorg, Jutta; Cushing, Paula E.; Kranz-Baltensperger, Yvonne; Kropf, Christian (2024). "House Spiders - Worldwide". SpringerLink. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-70448-2.
- ↑ "Dr. Yvonne Kranz-Baltensperger | Naturhistorisches Museum Bern". www.nmbe.ch (in German). Archived from the original on 2015-03-28. Retrieved 2025-10-28.
- ↑ Natural History Museum Bern. "NMBE - World Spider Catalog". wsc.nmbe.ch. Archived from the original on 2025-06-13. Retrieved 2025-10-28.
- ↑ Baehr, Barbara C.; Harvey, Mark S.; Burger, Matthias; Thoma, Marco (2012-06-21). "The New Australasian Goblin Spider Genus Prethopalpus (Araneae, Oonopidae)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 369: 1–113. doi:10.1206/763.1. ISSN 0003-0090. Archived from the original on 2025-11-30. Retrieved 2025-10-28.
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