Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge
Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge (born November 3, 1860 in Warmwell , Dorset , † February 9, 1905 in Wimbledon ) was an English arachnologist . He is the nephew of Octavius Pickard-Cambridge . Both became known through the description of spider species .
Life
He went to school in Sherborne and studied at Exeter College , Oxford . He graduated in 1883 with a bachelor's degree in philosophy . After graduating, he worked in Carlisle as an assistant chaplain. But he was already working as a scientific illustrator and drew many different species of animals, such as various species of spiders and reptiles. Between 1890 and 1895 he revised many genera of British spider species, often with the help of his uncle. He met Reginald Innes Pocock at the British Museum and illustrated various of his publications on spiders and scorpions . The tarantula species Psalmopoeus cambridgei was named after him by Pocock in 1895.
His friends distanced themselves from him because he stood out for his strict theological and political views. He eventually had to give up his ministry. He then only worked as a draftsman and arachnologist. In 1895 he went on an expedition to the lower Amazon and discovered many new species of spiders there. In 1905 he was to take up a job as curator of the British Museum. But before that he took his own life at Wimbledon .
Works
Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge has particularly improved the systematics of the spiders, for example the families Diguetidae , Tetrablemmidae , Zoridae . But it also has new genera (for example: Filistatoides , Harmonicon , Tenedos , Tetrablemma ) and new types (eg Brachypelma smithi , Diguetia albolineata , Diguetia propinqua , Idiops santaremius , Phidippus albulatus , Phidippus bidentatus , Phidippus cruentus , Tenedos lautus described) . Its author abbreviation is "FOP-Cambridge" or "FO Pickard-Cambridge".
He published about his expedition to the Amazon in 1896 and 1897. In 1899 a publication on Chilean and Peruvian spider species followed. In 1901 a publication followed on spider species from the Bahamas and in 1901 and 1903 on the revision of various genera. In 1902 he published two papers on real widows . In 1903 he described new species in the families of the predatory spiders and the wolf spider- like Senoculidae . Also in 1903 he published a list of the spider species from the Channel Islands .
Web links
- Literature by and about Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Günter Schmidt: The tarantulas. A global overview. 1st edition 2003, Westarp Wissenschaften-Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, ISBN 3-89432-899-1 , pp. 330–331
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pickard-Cambridge, Frederick Octavius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British zoologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 3, 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Warmwell , Dorset |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 9, 1905 |
| Place of death | Wimbledon , London |