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Reginald F. Lawrence
Lawrence
Reginald F. Lawrence, from OmniPaper Project.

Nationality

South African

Birthplace

George, South Africa

Life Span

1897-1987

Publication Span

1931-1965

Reginald Frederic Lawrence was a South African arachnologist born in 6 March 1897 in George, South Africa. He died in 9 October 1987 in Pietermaritzburg.

Notable contributions[]

Lawrence published a monumental work reviewing all Opiliones from South Africa [1].

He proposed the subfamily Neopilioninae Lawrence, 1931, today Neopilionidae.

He described numerous Assamiidae , Phalangiidae and Triaenonychidae from Subsaharian Africa, mostly from South Africa.

References[]

  1. Lawrence, R.F. (1931) The harvest-spiders (Opiliones) of South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum, 29 (2), 341–508.

External resources[]

OmniPaper Article on Lawrence, including opilio-publication list [1]

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