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Dictynidae is a family of cribellate, hackled band-producing spiders first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1871. Most build irregular webs on or near the ground, creating a tangle of silken fibers among several branches or stems of one plant.
Tetrablemmidae, sometimes called armored spiders, is a family of tropical araneomorph spiders first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1873. It contains 126 described species in 29 genera from southeast Asia, with a few that occur in Africa and Central and South America. Pacullidae was incorporated into this family in 1981, but was later restored as a separate family in a 2016 phylogenetic study.
Octavius was the birth name of Augustus, the first Roman emperor.
Sillus is a genus of anyphaenid sac spiders first described by Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1900.
Zygoballus tibialis is a species of jumping spider native to Central America. It was first described by the arachnologist Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1901. The type specimens are housed at the Natural History Museum in London.
Aetius is a genus of Asian corinnid sac spiders, first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1897. As of March 2019 it contains only three species.
Maro is genus of sheet web spiders from the family Linyphiidae, the genus was named by the English zoologist Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1906. 'The species in the genus Maro have a Holarctic distribution. The type species is Maro minutus.
Shepherds Arise! Be Not Afraid, often known simply as Shepherds Arise, is a Christmas carol first recorded in a 19th-century manuscript from the parish of Winterborne Zelston, Dorset, England. It has Roud number 1207.
Menemerus animatus is a jumping spider first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in Egypt. It is found in an area that includes the Mediterranean Sea and the northern part of Afrotropical Region. It is related to Menemerus davidi, Menemerus guttatus, Menemerus modestus and Menemerus silver.
Coleosoma is a widespread genus of tangle-web spiders first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1882.
Silometopus elegans is a species of spiders in the Linyphiidae family found in Europe. It was first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1873, as Erigone elegans. It was transferred to the genus Silometopus by Eugène Simon in 1884.
Zygoballus maculatus is a species of jumping spider which occurs in Guatemala. It is known only from a single female specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London. The species was first described in 1901 by the English arachnologist Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge:
Zygoballus maculatus, sp. n.
Type, female, in coll. Godman and Salvin. Total length 3 millim.
Hab. Guatemala (Sarg).
This species is black, with a few white dorsal and marginal spots on the abdomen, and the legs i. brown, and ii., iii., and iv. yellow, annulated with black. It is probably recognizable by the form of the vulva only, for the coloration in these spiders is very variable, the general pattern being common to many of them.
Witica is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1895. As of April 2019 it contains only three species.
Harmonicon is a genus of South American curtain web spiders first described by Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1896.
Myro is a genus of South Pacific araneomorph spiders in the Toxopidae family, first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1876.
Ariston is a genus of cribellate orb-weavers first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1896.
Palaestina is a genus of ant spiders first described by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1872. As of April 2019 it contains only three species:
