According to Wikipedia, Valerie Todd Davies was an arachnologist who described many species of spider. Early life Valerie Ethel Todd was born 29 September 1920 in Makirikiri, near Wanganui, in New Zealand. She attended Wanganui Girls' College and then studied her BSc at Victoria University in Wellington in 1939. She continued her studies toward a MSc at Otago University in Dunedin, graduating in 1943. Her thesis researched trap-door spiders. Upon graduation she worked as a research assistant and later an assistant lecturer in zoology at Otago University.
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Published Works
An illustrated guide to the genera of orb-weaving spiders in Australia (1988) (54)
Illustrated Keys to the Genera of Jumping Spiders (Araneae : Salticidae) in Australia (1989) (52)
The huntsman spiders Heteropoda Latreille and Yiinthi gen. nov. (Araneae: Heteropodidae) in Australia (1994) (40)
A redescription and renaming of the Tasmanian spider Amphinecta milvina (Simon, 1903), with descriptions of four new species (Araneae: Amaurobioidea: Amaurobiidae) (1998) (9)
Inola nov. gen., a web-building pisaurid (Araneae: Pisauridae) from northern Australia with descriptions of three species (1982) (9)
Neopurcellla capricornia, a new opilionid (Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi: Sironidae: Sironinae) from Queensland, Australia (1977) (8)
Megadolomedes nov. gen. (Araneae: Pisauridae) with a description of the male of the type-species, Dolomedes australianus Koch 1865 (1980) (5)
Tangana a new spider genus from Australia (Amaurobioidea: Amphinectidae: Tasmarubriinae) (2003) (4)
Arachnida: Mygalomorphae, Araneomorphae in part, Pseudoscorpionida, Amblypygi and Palpigradi. (1985) (4)
A new spider genus lAraneaec Amaurobioideac Amphinectidaer from the wet tropics of Australia (1995) (4)
The spinning field and stridulating apparatus of penultimate male Macrogradungula moonya (Araneae: Austrochiloidea: Gradungulidae) (1993) (3)
