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 1850 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.