Tamerlan Thorell


Tord Tamerlan Teodor Thorell was a Swedish arachnologist.
Thorell studied spiders with Giacomo Doria at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale de Genoa. He corresponded with other arachnologists, such as Octavius Pickard-Cambridge, Eugène Simon and Thomas Workman.
He described more than 1,000 spider species during his time from the 1850s to 1900.
Thorell wrote: On European Spiders and Synonym of European Spiders.

Taxonomic honors

The Orb-weaver spider genus Thorellina and the jumping spider genus Thorelliola are named after him, as well as about 30 species of spiders:Araneus thorelli Gasteracantha thorelli Keyserling, 1864 Leviellus thorelli Mandjelia thorelli Clubiona thorelli Roewer, 1951 Malamatidia thorelli Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 Corinnomma thorelli Simon, 1905 Ctenus thorelli F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1897 Zelotes thorelli Simon, 1914 Hypochilus thorelli Marx, 1888 Idiops thorelli O. P.-Cambridge, 1870 Trichopterna thorelli Lycosa thorelli Lycosula thorelli Pardosa thorelli Mecicobothrium thorelli Holmberg, 1882 Miturga thorelli Simon, 1909 Spermophora thorelli Roewer, 1942 Cispius thorelli Blandin, 1978 Bavia thorelli Simon, 1901 Pancorius thorelli Talavera thorelli Pseudopoda thorelli Jäger, 2001 Afroblemma thorelli Mesida thorelli Chilobrachys thorelli Pocock, 1900 Cyriopagopus thorelli Helvibis thorelli Keyserling, 1884 Theridion thorelli L. Koch, 1865 Tmarus thorelli Comellini, 1955

Works

  • 1856: . N. Act. reg. Soc. sci. Upsal. 2: 61-176.
  • 1858: Om Clercks original-spindelsammlung. Öfvers. Kongl. vet. Akad. Förh. 15: 143–154.
  • 1858: Till kännedomen om slägten a Mithras och Uloborus. Öfvers. Kongl. vet. Akad. Förh. 15: 191–205.
  • 1859: Nya exotiska Epeirider. Öfvers. Kongl. vet. Akad. Förh. 16: 299–304.
  • 1868: Arachnida. In Eisen, G. & A. Stuxberg, Bidrag till kännedomen om Gotska-Sandön. Öfvers. Kongl. vet. Akad. Förh. 25: 379.
  • 1868: Araneae. Species novae minusve cognitae. In Virgin, C. A., Kongliga Svenska Fregatten Eugenies Resa omkring Jorden. Uppsala, Zoologi, Arachnida, pp. 1–34.
  • 1869: On European spiders. Part I. Review of the European genera of spiders, preceded by some observations on zoological nomenclature. Nova Acta reg. Soc. sci. Upsaliae 7: 1–108.
  • 1870: Remarks on synonyms of European spiders. Part I. Uppsala, pp. 1–96.
  • 1870: On European spiders. Nov. Act. reg. Soc. sci. Upsaline 7: 109–242.
  • 1870: Araneae nonnullae Novae Hollandie, descriptae. Öfvers. Kongl. vet. Akad. Förh. 27: 367–389.
  • 1871: Remarks on synonyms of European spiders. Part II. Uppsala, pp. 97–228.
  • 1871: Om Arachnider fran Spitsbergin och Beeren-Eiland. Öfvers. Kongl. vet. Akad. Förh. 28: 683-702
  • 1872: Remarks on synonyms of European spiders. Part III. Upsala, pp. 229–374.
  • 1872: Om några Arachnider från Grönland. Öfvers. Kongl. vet. Akad. Förh. 29: 147–166.
  • 1873: Remarks on synonyms of European spiders. Part IV. Uppsala, pp. 375–645.
  • 1875: . Tijdschr. Ent. 18: 81-108.
  • 1875: Verzeichniss südrussischer Spinnen. Horae Soc. ent. Ross. 11: 39-122.
  • 1875: Descriptions of several European and North African spiders. Kongl. Svenska. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 13: 1–203.
  • 1875: Notice of some spiders from Labrador. Proc. Boston Soc. nat. Hist. 17: 490–504.
  • 1875: On some spiders from New-Caledonia, Madagascar and Réunion. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond. 1875: 130–149.
  • 1877: Due ragni esotici descritti. Ann. Mus. civ. stor. nat. Genova 9: 301–310.
  • 1877: Studi sui Ragni Malesi e Papuani. I. Ragni di Selebes raccolti nel 1874 dal Dott. O. Beccari. Ann. Mus. civ. stor. nat. Genova 10: 341–637.
  • 1877: Descriptions of the Araneae collected in Colorado in 1875, by A. S. Packard jun., M.D. Bull. U. S. geol. Surv. 3: 477–529.
  • 1878: Notice of the spiders of the 'Polaris' expedition. Amer. Natural. 12: 393–396.
  • 1878: Studi sui ragni Malesi e Papuani. II. Ragni di Amboina raccolti Prof. O. Beccari. Ann. Mus. civ. stor. nat. Genova 13: 1–317.
  • 1881: Studi sui Ragni Malesi e Papuani. III. Ragni dell'Austro Malesia e del Capo York, conservati nel Museo civico di storia naturale di Genova. Ann. Mus. civ. stor. nat. Genova 17: 1–727.
  • 1887: Viaggio di L. Fea in Birmania e regioni vicine. II. Primo saggio sui ragni birmani. Ann. Mus. civ. stor. nat. Genova 25: 5–417.
  • 1890: . IV, 1. Ann. Mus. civ. stor. nat. Genova 28: 1–419.
  • 1890: . Ann. Mus. civ. stor. nat. Genova 30: 5–106.
  • 1890: Diagnoses aranearum aliquot novarum in Indo-Malesia inventarum. Ann. Mus. civ. stor. nat. Genova 30: 132–172.
  • 1890: Arachnidi di Pinang raccolti nel 1889 dai Signori L. Loria e L. Fea. Ann. Mus. civ. stor. nat. Genova 30: 269–383.
  • 1891: Spindlar från Nikobarerna och andra delar af södra Asien. Kongl. Svenska. Vet.-Acad. Handl. 24: 1–149.
  • 1892: Novae species aranearum a Cel. Th. Workman in ins. Singapore collectae. Boll. Soc. ent. ital. 24: 209–252.
  • 1892: On some spiders from the Andaman Islands, collected by E. W. Oates, Esq. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. 9: 226–237.
  • 1892: . IV, 2. Ann. Mus. civ. stor. nat. Genova 31: 1–490.
  • 1894: Förteckning öfver arachnider från Java och närgrändsande öar, insamlade af Carl Aurivillius; jemte beskrifningar å några sydasiatiska och sydamerikanska spindlar. Bih. Svenska. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 20: 1-63.
  • 1894: Decas aranearum in ins. Singapore a Cel. Th. Workman inventarum. Boll. Soc. ent. ital. 26: 321–355.
  • 1895:
  • 1897, with J. Castelnau: Notes sur Hyptiotes anceps. Feuille jeun. Natural. 27: 107–111.
  • 1897: Viaggio di Leonardo Fea in Birmania e regioni vicine. LXXIII. Secondo saggio sui Ragni birmani. I. Parallelodontes. Tubitelariae. Ann. Mus. civ. stor. nat. Genova 17: 161–267.
  • 1897: Araneae paucae Asiae australis. Bih. Svenska. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 22: 1-36.
  • 1898: Viaggio di Leonardo Fea in Birmania e regioni vicine. LXXX. Secondo saggio sui Ragni birmani. II. Retitelariae et Orbitelariae. Ann. Mus. civ. stor. nat. Genova 19: 271–378.
  • 1899: Araneae Camerunenses quas anno 1891 collegerunt Cel. Dr Y. Sjöstedt aliique. Bih. Svenska. Vet.-Akad. Handl. 25: 1–105.