ARACHNIDA (ARANEAE, RICINULEI) DESCRIBED BY NORMAN I. PLATNICK

摘要

A list of the 2,196 arachnid taxa (Araneae: 2181, Ricinulei: 13) described by the late Norman I. Platnick, is presented: two families (in synonymy); 159 genera (2 homonyms, 1 synonym), 2,035 species (6 synonyms).Dr. Norman Ira Platnick, Curator Emeritus at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, passed away on April 8, 2020 in Philadelphia, PA, after a tragic accident. Norm, as he was known to friends and colleagues, was the second most prolific arachnologist in history, after Eugene Simon(Platnick and Raven, 2013). He described 158 new genera and 2,023 new species of spiders (Araneae) and a new genus and 12 new species of hooded tick-spiders (Ricinulei) over the course of his four-and-a-half-decade career, an average of 50 names and 46 species annually (Fig. 1, Table 1).