Barbara Maria Patoleta

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Barbara Maria Patoleta
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

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]

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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]

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Cytaea taveuniensis is a jumping spider species in the genus Cytaea. The male was first identified in 2010 by Barbara Maria Patoleta and Joanna Gardzińska. The female has not been described.

Pristobaeus taveuniensis is a jumping spider species in the genus Pristobaeus. The male was first identified in 2008 by Barbara Maria Patoleta. The species was initially placed in the genus Palpelius but was renamed Pristobaeus taveuniensis when Palpelius was accepted as the junior synonym for Pristobaeus.

Pristobaeus vanuaensis is a jumping spider species in the genus Pristobaeus. The female was first identified in 2008 by Barbara Maria Patoleta. The species was initially placed in the genus Palpelius but was renamed Pristobaeus vanuaensis when Palpelius was accepted as the junior synonym for Pristobaeus.

Pristobaeus vitiensis is a jumping spider species in the genus Pristobaeus. The female was first identified in 2008 by Barbara Maria Patoleta. The species was initially placed in the genus Palpelius but was renamed Pristobaeus vitiensis when Palpelius was accepted as the junior synonym for Pristobaeus.

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Trite caledoniensis is a jumping spider species in the genus Trite. The male was first identified in 2014 by Barbara Maria Patoleta.

Proszynellus nasalis is a jumping spider species in the genus Proszynellus. The male was first identified in 2015 by Barbara Maria Patoleta and Marek Michał Żabka.

Proszynellus occidentalis is a jumping spider species in the genus Proszynellus. The male was first identified in 2015 by Barbara Maria Patoleta and Marek Michał Żabka.

Proszynellus wandae is a jumping spider species in the genus Proszynellus. The species was first identified in 2015 by the Polish aracnologists Barbara Maria Patoleta and Marek Michał Żabka. The species is named in honour of Wanda Wesołowska.

Rhondes atypicus is an endemic species of jumping spider in the genus Rhondes that lives in New Caledonia. First described in 2016 by Barbara Patoleta, the species has been found on both Grande Terre and Isle of Pines, living in rainforests. It is small and slender, with a wide brown hairy cephalothorax and thinner abdomen. The abdominal markings differ between the male and female, which gives rise to the species name. The male light and dark patches on its abdomen, and has a longer and thicker embolus than other species in the genus. The female, which is larger, has a striped abdominal pattern, which distinguishes the species from the similar Rhondes flexibilis.

Rhondes berlandi is an endemic species of jumping spider in the genus Rhondes that lives in New Caledonia. First described in 2016 by Barbara Patoleta, the species has been found on both Grande Terre and Isle of Pines, living in rainforests. Only the female has yet to be described. It is small and slender, with a wide brown hairy cephalothorax and thinner abdomen that is patterned with light and dark patches. The species can be distinguished from the related Rhondes flexibilis by its wide epigynal pocket.

Rhondes flexibilis is an endemic species of jumping spider in the genus Rhondes that lives in New Caledonia. First described in 2016 by Barbara Patoleta, the species is common across the island, living in rainforests. It is small and slender, with a wide brown hairy cephalothorax and thinner abdomen that has a pattern of light and dark patches. The male, which is slightly larger, has a variably-shaped sclerite on the palpal bulb, after which the species is named. The female has a slightly less distinctive abdominal pattern and an epigyne with a relatively long and narrow pocket.

References

  1. 1 2 "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.