Wikipedia:WikiProject Spiders/List of Arachnologists

This is an incomplete list of people that appear as first describers in the World Spider Catalog. You can use these to wikify the names in the taxon pages. Please expand the list if you find more.

You might also check these two lists, and synchronize them:
 * List of authors of names published under the ICZN
 * German list of zoologists
 * French list of zoologists
 * List of Taxon Authorities on Wikispecies

The list is in alphabetic order by surname. The World Spider Catalog often omits diacritics so that, e.g., "Wesołowska" may appear as "Wesolowska".

A–B

 * Agnarsson – [[Ingi Agnarsson|Agnarsson]]
 * Ekaterina Andreeva – [[Ekaterina Andreeva (arachnologist)|Ekaterina Andreeva]]
 * Archer – [[Allan Frost Archer|Archer]]
 * Audouin – [[Jean Victor Audouin|Audouin]]
 * Ausserer – [[Anton Ausserer|Ausserer]]
 * Balogh – [[Péter Balogh|Balogh]]
 * Banks – [[Nathan Banks|Banks]]
 * Beier – [[Max Beier|Beier]]
 * Benjamin – [[Suresh P. Benjamin|Benjamin]]
 * Benoit – [[Pierre L.G. Benoit|Benoit]]
 * Berland – [[Lucien Berland|Berland]]
 * Bertani – [[Rogério Bertani|Bertani]]
 * Bertkau – [[Philipp Bertkau|Bertkau]]
 * Blackwall – [[John Blackwall|Blackwall]]
 * Bond – [[Jason Bond|Bond]]
 * Brady – [[Allen R. Brady|Brady]]
 * Brescovit – [[Antônio Brescovit|Brescovit]]
 * Brignoli – [[Paolo Brignoli|Brignoli]]
 * Bristowe – [[W. S. Bristowe|Bristowe]]
 * Butler – [[Arthur Gardiner Butler|Butler]]

C–E

 * Camargo – [[Hélio Ferraz de Almeida Camargo|Camargo]]
 * Canestrini – [[Giovanni Canestrini|Canestrini]]
 * Caporiacco – [[Ludovico di Caporiacco|Caporiacco]]
 * J.C. Chamberlin – [[Joseph Conrad Chamberlin|J.C. Chamberlin]]
 * Chamberlin – [[Ralph Vary Chamberlin|Chamberlin]]
 * Charitonov – [[Dmitry Kharitonov|Charitonov]]
 * Chickering – [[Arthur M. Chickering|Chickering]]
 * Churchill – [[Tracey Churchill|Churchill]]
 * Chrysanthus – [[Father Chrysanthus|Chrysanthus]]
 * Clerck – [[Carl Alexander Clerck|Clerck]]
 * Coddington – [[Jonathan A. Coddington|Coddington]]
 * Cooke – [[Caleb Cooke|Cooke]]
 * Dahl – [[Friedrich Dahl|Dahl]]
 * de Geer – [[Charles De Geer|de Geer]]
 * Deeleman-Reinhold – [[Christa L. Deeleman-Reinhold|Deeleman-Reinhold]]
 * Doleschall – [[Carl Ludwig Doleschall|Doleschall]]
 * G.B. Edwards – [[G. B. Edwards (arachnologist)|G.B. Edwards]]
 * R.J. Edwards – [[R. J. Edwards|R.J. Edwards]]
 * Eichwald – [[Karl Eichwald|Eichwald]]
 * Emerton – [[James Henry Emerton|Emerton]]

F–J

 * Fabricius – [[Johan Christian Fabricius|Fabricius]]
 * Fage – [[Louis Fage|Fage]]
 * Fet – [[Victor R. Fet|Fet]]
 * Forsskål – [[Peter Forsskål|Forsskål]]
 * Forster – [[Raymond Robert Forster|Forster]]
 * Fukushima – [[Caroline Sayuri Fukushima|Fukushima]]
 * Galiano – [[María Elena Galiano|Galiano]]
 * Gardzińska – [[Joanna Gardzińska|Gardzińska]]
 * Gerstäcker – [[Carl Gerstäcker|Gerstäcker]]
 * Gertsch – [[Willis J. Gertsch|Gertsch]]
 * Goloboff – [[Pablo A. Goloboff|Goloboff]]
 * Graveley – [[Frederic Henry Gravely|Graveley]]
 * Gray – [[Michael R. Gray|Gray]]
 * Griswold – [[Charles Edward Griswold|Griswold]]
 * Hahn – [[Carl Wilhelm Hahn|Hahn]]
 * Harvey – [[Mark Stephen Harvey|Harvey]]
 * Hentz – [[Nicholas Marcellus Hentz|Hentz]]
 * Hirst – [[A.S. Hirst|Hirst]]
 * D. Hirst – [[David Hirst (arachnologist)|D. Hirst]]
 * Hogg – [[Henry Roughton Hogg|Hogg]]
 * Holm – [[Åke Holm|Holm]]
 * Holmberg – [[Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg|Holmberg]]
 * Hormiga – [[Gustavo Hormiga|Hormiga]]
 * Ivie – [[Wilton Ivie|Ivie]]
 * Jäger – [[Peter Jäger|Jäger]]
 * Jocqué – [[Rudy Jocqué|Jocqué]]

K–L

 * Kaderka – [[Radan Kaderka|Kaderka]]
 * Karsch – [[Friedrich Karsch|Karsch]]
 * Kaston – [[B. J. Kaston|Kaston]]
 * Keyserling – [[Eugen von Keyserling|Keyserling]]
 * Kishida – [[Kyukichi Kishida|Kishida]]
 * C.L. Koch – [[Carl Ludwig Koch|C.L. Koch]]
 * L. Koch – [[Ludwig Carl Christian Koch|L. Koch]]
 * Kulczyński – [[Wladislaus Kulczyński|Kulczyński]]
 * Kuntner – [[Matjaž Kuntner|Kuntner]]
 * Latreille – [[Pierre André Latreille|Latreille]]
 * Leach – [[William Elford Leach|Leach]]
 * Lehtinen – [[Pekka T. Lehtinen|Lehtinen]]
 * Lenz – [[Heinrich Lenz (arachnologist)|Lenz]]
 * Levi – [[Herbert Walter Levi|Levi]]
 * Li – [[Shuqiang Li|Li]]
 * Linnaeus – [[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]]
 * Locht – [[Arturo Locht|Locht]]
 * Logunov – [[Dmitri V. Logunov|Logunov]]
 * Lucas – [[Hippolyte Lucas|Lucas]]

M–P

 * Macleay – [[Alexander Macleay|Macleay]]
 * Maddison – [[Wayne P. Maddison|Maddison]]
 * Main – [[Barbara York Main|Main]]
 * Marples – [[Brian J. Marples|Marples]]
 * Marusik – [[Yuri M. Marusik|Marusik]]
 * Marx – [[George Marx|Marx]]
 * McCrone – [[John D. McCrone|McCrone]]
 * Mello-Leitão – [[Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão|Mello-Leitão]]
 * Menge – [[Anton Menge|Menge]]
 * Millidge – [[A. F. Millidge|Millidge]]
 * Mirza – [[Zeeshan A. Mirza|Mirza]]
 * Molur – [[Sanjay Molur|Molur]]
 * Nicolet – [[Hercule Nicolet|Nicolet]]
 * F.O. P-Cambridge – [[Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge|F.O. P-Cambridge]]
 * O. P-Cambridge – [[Octavius Pickard-Cambridge|O. P-Cambridge]]
 * Panzer – [[Georg Wolfgang Franz Panzer|Panzer]]
 * Patoleta – [[Barbara Maria Patoleta|Patoleta]]
 * Peckham & Peckham – [[George and Elizabeth Peckham|Peckham & Peckham]]
 * Pérez-Miles – [[Fernando Pérez-Miles|Pérez-Miles]]
 * Perty – [[Maximilian Perty|Perty]]
 * Petrunkevitch – [[Alexander Petrunkevitch|Petrunkevitch]]
 * Platnick – [[Norman I. Platnick|Platnick]]
 * Pocock – [[Reginald Innes Pocock|Pocock]]
 * Prószyński – [[Jerzy Prószyński|Prószyński]]
 * Purcell – [[William Frederick Purcell|Purcell]]

R–S

 * Raven – [[Robert Raven|Raven]]
 * Reimoser – [[Eduard Reimoser|Reimoser]]
 * Richardson – [[Barry J. Richardson|Richardson]]
 * Rix – [[Michael Gordon Rix|Rix]]
 * Roewer – [[Carl Friedrich Roewer|Roewer]]
 * Rossi – [[Pietro Rossi (scientist)|Rossi]]
 * Ruiz – [[Gustavo Rodrigo Sanches Ruiz|Ruiz]]
 * Saaristo – [[Michael Saaristo|Saaristo]]
 * Sanap – [[Rajesh V. Sanap|Sanap]]
 * Schmidt – [[Günter Schmidt (arachnologist)|Schmidt]]
 * Schwendinger – [[Peter J. Schwendinger|Schwendinger]]
 * Scopoli – [[Giovanni Antonio Scopoli|Scopoli]]
 * Siliwal – [[Manju Siliwal|Siliwal]]
 * Simon – [[Eugène Simon|Simon]]
 * Smith – [[Andrew Smith (arachnologist)|Smith]]
 * Smithers – [[Reay H.N. Smithers|Smithers]]
 * Sørensen – [[William Sørensen|Sørensen]]
 * Stoliczka – [[Ferdinand Stoliczka|Stoliczka]]
 * Strand – [[Embrik Strand|Strand]]
 * Stumkat – [[Kylie S. Stumkat|Stumkat]]
 * Sulzer – [[Johann Heinrich Sulzer|Sulzer]]
 * Sundevall – [[Carl Jakob Sundevall|Sundevall]]
 * Szombathy – [[Kálmán Szombathy|Szombathy]]

T–Z

 * Taczanowski – [[Władysław Taczanowski|Taczanowski]]
 * Templeton – [[Robert Templeton|Templeton]]
 * Tesmoingt – [[Marc Tesmoingt|Tesmoingt]]
 * Thorell – [[Tamerlan Thorell|Thorell]]
 * Tikader – [[Benoy Krishna Tikader|Tikader]]
 * Tullgren – [[Albert Tullgren|Tullgren]]
 * Wagner – [[Johann Andreas Wagner|Wagner]]
 * Walckenaer – [[Charles Athanase Walckenaer|Walckenaer]]
 * Wanless – [[Fred R. Wanless|Wanless]]
 * Wesołowska – [[Wanda Wesołowska|Wesołowska]]
 * Westring – [[Niklas Westring|Westring]]
 * Yoshida – [[Hajime Yoshida|Yoshida]]
 * Żabka – [[Marek Michał Żabka|Żabka]]
 * Zamani – [[Alireza Zamani|Zamani]]
 * M.S. Zhu – [[Ming-Sheng Zhu|M.S. Zhu]]