Volker W. Framenau (born 1965, Cologne) is a German-born Australian arachnologist and entomologist.

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]

Publications

See also

  • Category:Taxa named by Volker W. Framenau

References

  1. ↑ "Volker W Framenau". publicationslist.org. Retrieved 28 October 2021.
  2. ↑ "Genus Telaprocera Harmer & Framenau, 2008". Australian Faunal Directory. Australian Government. Retrieved 24 September 2023.
  3. ↑ Volker W. Framenau (2002). "Review of the wolf spider genus Artoria Thorell (Araneae : Lycosidae)". Invertebrate Systematics. 16 (2): 209. doi:10.1071/IT01028. ISSN 1445-5226. Wikidata Q59678080.
  4. ↑ Volker W. Framenau; Eileen A. Hebets (April 2007). "A Review of Leg Ornamentation in Male Wolf Spiders, With the Description of a New Species From Australia, Artoria Schizocoides (Araneae, Lycosidae) (English)". Journal of Arachnology. 35 (1): 89–101. doi:10.1636/ST06-15.1. ISSN 0161-8202. Wikidata Q56166790.
  5. ↑ Jessica R. Marsh; Mark Stevens; Volker W. Framenau (3 March 2022). "A taxonomic revision of the tube-web spiders of the genus Ariadna (Araneae: Segestriidae) in Tasmania". Zootaxa. 5105 (2): 151–201. doi:10.11646/ZOOTAXA.5105.2.1. ISSN 1175-5334. Wikidata Q116674244.
  6. ↑ Volker W. Framenau; Matjaž Kuntner (13 July 2022). "The new Australian leaf-curling orb-weaving spider genus Leviana (Araneae, Araneidae)". Evolutionary Systematics. 6 (2): 103–133. doi:10.3897/EVOLSYST.6.83573. ISSN 2535-0730. Wikidata Q114729591.
  7. ↑ Giullia de F. Rossi; Pedro de Souza Castanheira; Renner Luiz Cerqueira Baptista; Volker W. Framenau (4 September 2023). "Venomius, a new monotypic genus of Australian orb-weaving spiders (Araneae, Araneidae)". Evolutionary Systematics. 7 (2): 285–292. doi:10.3897/EVOLSYST.7.110022. ISSN 2535-0730. Wikidata Q122451297.
  8. ↑ "Volker W. Framenau". Murdoch University. Retrieved 24 September 2023.
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