Dmitri V. Logunov


Dmitri Viktorovich Logunov is a Russian arachnologist.

Biography

In 1979, he graduated from school in Batumi. In 1985, he graduated from the Faculty of Biology of Leningrad State University, defending a dissertation on spiders, which became his main field of study.
From 1996 to 2001, he was curator of the arachnid collection at the Zoological Museum of Novosibirsk. In 2001, he moved to Manchester, where he is curator of arthropods at the Manchester Museum of the University of Manchester. He is a member of numerous international associations in the fields of arachnology and entomology. He has authored more than 150 scientific publications, mainly on the systematics, taxonomy, and morphology of spiders, particularly the family Salticidae. He has described 296 spider species and two species of harvestmen, as well as 11 spider genera and three subgenera.

Eponyms

Nineteen spider species, four beetle species, one harvestman, one fossil neuropteran, and one fossil bird species have been named in his honour.