Barbara Maria Patoleta is a Polish arachnologist who specialises in the taxonomy, evolution and zoogeography of jumping spiders (family Salticidae) in the Pacific Islands.[1]
Barbara Maria Patoleta | |
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| Citizenship | Polish |
| Alma mater | Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Arachnology |
| Institutions | American Museum of Natural History, New York City Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris Queensland Museum, Brisbane Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart Australian Museum, Sydney |
| Thesis | Salticidae of New Caledonia and Fidji (2002) |
| Doctoral advisor | Marek Michał Żabka |
Education edit
Patoleta studied biology and chemistry at high school before studying biology at the Faculty of Agriculture at Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities between 1988 and 1993.[1] She obtained her master's degree in the Department of Anatomy and Vertebrate Morphology in 1993, and subsequently her doctorate in 2002.[2]
Taxa described edit
As of April 2017, the World Spider Catalog lists the following taxa described by Patoleta:[3]
- Cytaea taveuniensis Patoleta & Gardzińska, 2010
- Lagnus monteithorum Patoleta, 2008
- Phintella caledoniensis Patoleta, 2009
- Pristobaeus taveuniensis (Patoleta, 2008)
- Pristobaeus vanuaensis (Patoleta, 2008)
- Pristobaeus vitiensis (Patoleta, 2008)
- Proszynellus nasalis Patoleta & Żabka, 2015
- Proszynellus occidentalis Patoleta & Żabka, 2015
- Proszynellus wandae Patoleta & Żabka, 2015
- Rhondes atypicus Patoleta, 2016
- Rhondes berlandi Patoleta, 2016
- Rhondes flexibilis Patoleta, 2016
- Rhondes sarasini Patoleta, 2016
- Rhondes zofiae Patoleta, 2016
- Trite caledoniensis Patoleta, 2014
- Trite guilberti Patoleta, 2014
- Trite simoni Patoleta, 2014
- Xenocytaea stanislawi Patoleta, 2011
- Xenocytaea taveuniensis Patoleta, 2011
- Xenocytaea victoriensis Patoleta, 2011
- Xenocytaea vonavonensis Patoleta, 2011
References edit
- ^ a b "Barbara Maria Patoleta". Arachnologia Polska (in Polish). Retrieved 8 April 2017.
- ^ Proszynski, Jerzy (2000). "Salticidae: Diagnostic Drawings Library". Retrieved 8 April 2017.
- ^ World Spider Catalog (2017). "World Spider Catalog". 18.0. Bern: Natural History Museum. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
External links edit
Scholia has a profile for Barbara Patoleta (Q21387754).