Barbara Baehr

Barbara Baehr (born Hoffmann; 25 February 1953) is a research scientist, entomologist, arachnologist, and spider taxonomist. She has described over 400 new spider species, mostly from Australia.^[1] She is originally from Pforzheim, Germany.^[2]

Education and work

Barbara Baehr obtained both her Staatsexamen and PhD in Zoology / Ecology at the University of Tübingen, Germany.

She worked as a scientific associate at the Bavarian State Collection of Zoology in Munich, Germany, from 1984 to 1998. During this time she also taught invertebrate zoology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) from 1996 to 1998, and conducted spider excursions for students.^[3]

Tapinesthis inermis (Araneae, Oonopidae), Arnaud Henrard, Rudy Jocqué, Barbara C. Baehr

Following several research visits to Australia (Western Australian Museum, Perth, 1994; Queensland Museum, Brisbane, and Australian Museum, Sydney, 1999), she took a research fellow position at the Queensland Museum in January 2000. Her work here focused on an interactive key to spider subfamilies, and was funded by the Australian Biological Resources Study.^[3]

Her subsequent research focused on the taxonomy of the ant spider family Zodariidae,^[4] the long-tailed bark spider family Hersiliidae and the long-spinnereted ground spider family Prodidomidae.^[1][4]

She is married to Martin Baehr, who is also a German entomologist and arachnologist.

Publications

• Baehr, B.; Ubick, D., 2010. "A review of the Asian goblin spider genus Camptoscaphiella (Araneae, Oonopidae)", American Museum Novitates, no. 3697
• Baehr, B.; Harvey, M. S.; Smith, H. M. (Helen Motum), 2010. "The goblin spiders of the new endemic Australian genus Cavisternum (Araneae, Oonopidae)", American Museum Novitates, no. 3684
• Baehr, B. C.; Whyte, R. 2016. "The Peacock Spiders (Araneae: Salticidae: Maratus) of the Queensland Museum, including six new species", Zootaxa, 4154(5): 501–525.
• Baehr, B. C.; Whyte, R. 2016. "The first described male Tube-web Spider for mainland Australia: Ariadna kiwirrkurra sp. nov. (Araneae: Segestriidae)", Zootaxa, 4189(3): 595–599.
• Framenau, V. W.; Baehr, B. C. 2016. "Revision of the Australian Union-Jack wolf spiders, genus Tasmanicosa (Araneae, Lycosidae, Lycosinae)", Zootaxa, 4213(1): 1–82.

Filmography

• The Nature of Things (TV Series documentary). Herself – Queensland Museum
• Tarantula: Australia's King of Spiders (2005) ... Herself – Queensland Museum^[5]

References

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