Octavius Pickard-Cambridge FRS (3 November 1828 – 9 March 1917) was an English clergyman and zoologist. He was a keen arachnologist who described and named...
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Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge (3 November 1860 – 9 February 1905) was an English arachnologist. He is sometimes confused with his uncle, Octavius Pickard-Cambridge...
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Pickard-Cambridge is a surname that may refer to: Sir Arthur Wallace Pickard-Cambridge (1873–1952), an English classicist Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge...
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half of the 20th century. Pickard-Cambridge was born in Bloxworth Rectory, the son of the Reverend Octavius Pickard-Cambridge (1828–1917), a naturalist...
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Tetrablemma is a widespread genus of armored spiders first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1873. It only has four eyes; an unusual trait for spiders,...
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(1837–1896), Welsh politician Octavius Oakley (1800–1867), English artist Octavius Pickard-Cambridge (1828–1917), English zoologist Octavius Radcliffe (1859–1940)...
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Apollophanes (spider) (category Taxa named by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge)
is a genus of running crab spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1898. As of September 2022[update] it contains fourteen species...
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type species of the genus Eriauchenus. It was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge. It is endemic to Madagascar. The genus name has also been incorrectly...
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Dictynidae (category Taxa named by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge)
cribellate, hackled band-producing spiders first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1871. Most build irregular webs on or near the ground, creating...
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species in the monotypic genus Florinda. It was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1896, and has only been found in Mexico, the West Indies, and...
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Tinus (spider) (category Taxa named by Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge)
of nursery web spiders that was first described by Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1901. As of June 2019[update] it contains eleven species, found...
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as the French Thélyphone, by Latreille in 1804, and later by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1872 (with the spelling Thelyphonidea). The alternative name...
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Acanthopelma (category Taxa named by Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge)
is a genus of tarantulas that was first described by Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1897. As of December 2019[update] it contains two species,...
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visible and the ultraviolet range. The English arachnologist Octavius Pickard-Cambridge described the species. It was transferred to the genus Maratus...
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Metacyrba (category Taxa named by Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge)
genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1901. The name is combined from Ancient Greek μετά "after,...
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(born 1966), biochemist Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge (1860–1905), entomologist Octavius Pickard-Cambridge (1828–1917), entomologist Henry Piddington...
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Phycosoma (category Taxa named by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge)
is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1880. As of May 2024[update] it contains twenty-eight species...
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Latrodectus indistinctus (category Taxa named by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge)
and mild tachycardia. "Taxon details Latrodectus indistinctus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved...
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Nilus (spider) (category Taxa named by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge)
is a genus of nursery web spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1876. As of June 2019[update] it contains eighteen species...
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by Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1900. As of April 2019[update] it contains ten species: Sillus attiguus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896) — Mexico...
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Elaver is a genus of sac spiders first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1898. As of March 2019[update] it contains fifty-three species: Elaver...
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Metabus (spider) (category Taxa named by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge)
a genus of long-jawed orb-weavers that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1899. As of October 2019[update] it contains four species,...
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gallery music" from his father Octavius Pickard-Cambridge, who had been Rector in a Dorset parish. The Rev. Pickard-Cambridge had often overseen the "singing...
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described was Hadronyche cerberea, by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1873. Octavius Pickard-Cambridge described another atracid species, A. robustus, four years later...
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Robertus (spider) (category Taxa named by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge)
is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1879. It is considered a senior synonym of Garritus. As of...
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Misumenops (category Taxa named by Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge)
(Keyserling, 1880) – Colombia to Argentina Misumenops pascalis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1891) – Panama Misumenops punctatus (Keyserling, 1880) – Peru Misumenops...
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Theridiosoma (category Taxa named by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge)
Theridiosoma is a genus of ray spiders that was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1879. They use their web as a high speed slingshot to actively...
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Ariston (spider) (category Taxa named by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge)
Ariston is a genus of cribellate orb-weavers first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1896. As of April 2019[update] it contains five species: Ariston...
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Cheliferoides (category Taxa named by Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge)
genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1901. As of June 2019[update] it contains only three species...
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Huttonia (category Taxa named by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge)
inhabited dead fronds of rainforest ferns. It was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1880. Originally placed with the ant spiders, it was moved...
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