Alexander Petrunkevitch

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According to Wikipedia, Alexander Ivanovitch Petrunkevitch was a Russian arachnologist. From 1910 to 1939 he described over 130 spider species. One of his most famous essays was "The Spider and the Wasp." In it he uses effective word choices and some comic touch.

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Alexander Petrunkevitch's Published Works

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A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greenland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. / by Alexander Petrunkevitch. (100)
A Study of Palaeozoic Arachnida. (1949) (80)
A monograph of the terrestrial palaeozoic arachnida of North America (72)
A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America : with all adjacent islands, Greenland, Burmuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 29. (58)
An inquiry into the natural classification of spiders, based on a study of their internal anatomy (1933) (52)
On differential staining (1937) (39)
ON FAMILIES OF SPIDERS (1920) (36)
Contributions to Our Knowledge of the Anatomy and Relationships of Spiders. (1909) (35)
THE VALUE OF INSTINCT AS A TAXONOMIC CHARACTER IN SPIDERS (1926) (25)
Tarantula versus tarantula-hawk: A study in instinct† (1926) (22)
Tertiary Spiders and Opilionids of North America (21)
The circulatory system and segmentation in arachnida (1922) (20)
Principles of Classification as Illustrated by Studies of Arachnida (1952) (19)
Studies of chimpanzee vision by Ladygin-Kohts. (1925) (18)
Fossil spiders in the collection of the American Museum of Natural History (1946) (17)
Calcitro fisheri, a new fossil arachnid [Arizona] (1945) (17)
SOME NEW OR LITTLE KNOWN AMERICAN SPIDERS. (1909) (11)
Studies in adaptation. I. The sense of sight in spiders (1907) (11)
Studies of the phalangid fauna of Central America. American Museum novitates ; no. 1340 (1947) (10)
Descriptions of New Or Inadequately Known American Spiders (1925) (10)
XLVI.—The status of the genus Eurypelma (Order Araneæ, Family Theraphosidæ) (1939) (7)
The Status of the Family Archaeidae and the Genus Landana (1939) (7)
Trigonotarbus arnoldi, a new species of fossil arachnid from southern France (1955) (7)
Descriptions of New Or Inadequately Known American Spiders. (Second Paper) (1929) (6)
The Spider and the Wasp (1952) (6)
The Shape of the Sternum in Scorpions as a Systematic and a Phylogenetic Character (1916) (6)
Striated Muscles of an Amber Insect (1935) (5)
Natural and Artificial Parthenogenesis (1905) (5)
External reproductive organs of the common grass spider, agelena naevia walckenaer (1925) (4)
COURTSHIP IN DYSDERA CROCATA (1910) (4)
The case of Phalangiotarbus subovalis (Woodward) (1948) (4)
The Spider Fauna of Panama and Its Central American Affiliation (1929) (3)
Some curious effects of salts of metals and other chemicals on fixation (1943) (3)
On the relative acidity of histological fixing fluids (1936) (3)
New Observations on Moulting and Mating in Tarantulæ (1934) (3)
Part P, Arthropoda 2, ch. 2, p. 42-162 (1956) (3)
Description of Orchestina saltitans Banks. (Arachnida) (2)
Intraspecific Biological Groups of Acipenserines and Their Reproduction in the Lower Regions of Rivers with Regulated Flow (1955) (2)
The evolution of the class Insecta (1931) (1)
Spiders Collected by Mr. C. William Beebe in Burma and Borneo. With Plate XXVI. (1914) (1)
The Embryology of the Honey Bee (1916) (1)
The pseudoscorpion genus Albiorix Chamberlin. American Museum novitates ; no. 1277 (1945) (1)
Russia and the Baltic States (1924) (0)
August WEISMANN. Personal reminiscences. (1963) (0)
THE RÔLE OF THE INTELLECTUALS IN THE LIBERATING MOVEMENT IN RUSSIA (1918) (0)
Standardized Microphotography Second Contribution: The Object Factor (1921) (0)
Russia and the Baltic States (1924) (0)
Standardized microphotography (1920) (0)
Morphology of invertebrate types, by Alexander Petrunkevitch. (0)
Russia and the Baltic States (1924) (0)
Some parasitic Hymenoptera from Vera Cruz, Mexico. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 28, article 8. (0)
An Introduction to Acarology (1952) (0)

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