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Ev Schlinger - Evert Schlinger died on October 8, 2014. Ev's specialty was the Acroceridae, flies that are the obligate parasitoids of spiders. In studying their biogeography and systematics, Ev collected and reared thousands of immature spiders from around the world. Those spiders that became adults often found their way into major collections and then into revisionary works. Even before his professional career, Ev had a strong interest in spiders. As a teenager he was acknowledged for his contributions in the main text of two papers published in the 1940s. At U.C. Berkeley, Ev was on the dissertation committees for several arachnologists including Matt Greenstone, Ken Yeargan, Jack Fraser and Sue Hydhorn. He was the major professor for Mike Bentzien, Charles Griswold and Lenny Vincent. Ev further contributed to Arachnology through the Schlinger Foundation, which endowed a chair in Arachnology at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco and a chair in systematics at Berkeley held by Rosie Gillespie. (Obituary provided by Lenny Vincent - a personal tribute by Mike Irwin is available here.) |
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