FNZ 70 - Periegopidae (Arachnida: Araneae) - Contributor notes
Vink, CJ; Dupérré, N; Malumbres-Olarte, J 2013. Periegopidae (Arachnida: Araneae). Fauna of New Zealand 70, 41 pages.
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ISSN 0111-5383 (print),
ISSN 1179-7193 (online)
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no.
70.
ISBN 978-0-478-34740-1 (print),
ISBN 978-0-478-34741-8 (online)
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Published 7 Mar 2013
ZooBank: http://zoobank.org/References/E8D9D21A-46FD-4E6B-9E79-DBE67BAE57D1
Contributor Cor Vink was born and educated in Christchurch, New Zealand. He completed a Ph.D. at Lincoln University on the taxonomy and systematics of New Zealand Lycosidae, a major part of which was published as a revision in Fauna of New Zealand 44. After completing his thesis he spent nine months at AgResearch as a postdoctoral research fellow investigating the genetics of hymenopteran parasitoids of weevil pests. From 2003 to 2005, Cor was a postdoctoral associate at San Diego State University, U.S.A., where he worked on developing new molecular markers for inferring deep phylogenetic relationships in spiders. At the end of 2005 he returned to New Zealand and joined the Biosecurity Group at AgResearch, Lincoln as a scientist. Cor is especially interested in the systematics of New Zealand spiders and is the adjunct curator of spiders at the Entomology Research Museum at Lincoln University. In 2013, Cor was appointed as Curator Natural History at Canterbury Museum, Christchurch.
Contributor Nadine Dupérré is from Québec, Canada. She completed a Bachelor of Science at Université de Montréal in 1997. She began illustrating spiders in 1998 and to date has produced over 5000 illustrations. Nadine is probably best known amongst arachnologists for her illustrations in the book “Spiders of North America: an Identification Manual”. Nadine has published on the taxonomy of spiders and has also produced illustrations for publications on beetles and harvestmen. Nadine was a research assistant at the American Museum of Natural History, New York from 2008–2012 where she worked on Oonopidae with Norman Platnick. She is now living in Quito, Ecuador, working on a revision of the genus Agyneta (Linyphiidae) from North America, and is planning to continue her work on Linyphiidae in South America.
Contributor Jagoba Malumbres-Olarte is from the Basque Country, Spain. He completed a Ph.D. at Lincoln University on the ecology and diversity of spider communities in New Zealand native tussock grasslands in 2011. After he completed his thesis, he worked as a teaching assistant at Lincoln University and Imperial College London, UK. In the last six years Jagoba has been involved in numerous research projects on diverse topics, including the ecology of spider communities in sand dunes, conservation genetics of the Chatham Islands coxella weevil, the systematics of the New Zealand Clubiona, and the invasibility of spiders and plants in New Zealand. Jagoba is particularly interested in ecological and environmental processes that drive speciation and shape the diversity and composition of communities, and is currently developing new projects in this field.