Barbara Maria Patoleta

Barbara Maria Patoleta
CitizenshipPolish
Alma materSiedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities
Scientific career
FieldsArachnology
InstitutionsAmerican 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 advisorMarek Michał Żabka

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]

Education

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

As of April 2017, the World Spider Catalog lists the following taxa described by Patoleta:[3]

References

  1. ^ a b "Barbara Maria Patoleta". Arachnologia Polska (in Polish). Retrieved 8 April 2017.
  2. ^ Proszynski, Jerzy (2000). "Salticidae: Diagnostic Drawings Library". Retrieved 8 April 2017.
  3. ^ World Spider Catalog (2017). "World Spider Catalog". 18.0. Bern: Natural History Museum. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
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