You can join the project (on the member page) and support us with informations of any kind: observations, collection data, fotos... Of special interest would be new records of spiders of the genus from South America, with sincere informations on the locality, coordinates, and identification of the species.
But remember that collecting and exporting spiders (and other organisms) is not at all allowed without special permissions in most of the countries. Rules and laws should always be respected.
We will include you in the members list, please send us a photo and some basic informations about you and your interest.
Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe
Erbprinzenstr. 13
D-76133 Karlsruhe, Germany
Contact:
hubert.hoefer@smnk.de
www.smnk.de
- Diploma and Ph.D. in biology from the university of Ulm
- 20 years of research in the Brazilian Amazon
- head of department zoology and
- curator of invertebrates at SMNK
- arachnology, biodiversity, soil fauna, applied ecology
Kirchrimbach 6
D-96152 Burghaslach
- Diploma in biology (Erlangen, Prof. Dr. Otto von Helversen)
- Thesis: "Die Springspinnen Griechenlands", finished and published in 1999
- 2 years of scientific volontary work at the SMNK together with Dr. Hubert Höfer
- specialized in european and neotropical salticidae
- field trips to Brazil (Dr. Hubert Höfer) and Argentina (Prof. Maria Elena Galiano)
- since 1999 emloyed in advertising companies as teamleader interactive
www.jumping-spiders.com