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The relatives of spiders

Petar Beron

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Year of Publication: 2022

Cover Type: Soft

Category: Biodiversity, Bioresources and Ecology

Edition: First Edition

Pages: 140

Format: n/a

Language: Bulgarian

Summary

The class Arachnida includes 16 orders – 6 orders of mites, one order of spiders (over 100,000 species in total) and 9 smaller orders that most people know little about – scorpions, pseudoscorpions, opiliones, palpi, solifugids, schizomids, uropygids, amblypygids, and ricinuleids (about 14,700 known species). Most of these "spider relatives" live in tropical countries and have unique biology and zoogeography. This is what makes them important to science, and new knowledge about them is constantly being accumulated. The author, Prof. Dr. Peter Beron, is the long-time director of the National Museum of Natural History at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. There, he has arranged the specimens of all these little-known animals that have been collected over many years. The book provides an overview of the latest taxonomy of the orders, their ecology and biology, the most poisonous scorpions, and the myths and beliefs about them. Research on these animals in Bulgaria is traced, and maps of the ranges of many families have been drawn up. Some of the most distinguished arachnologists are also presented as examples for students and other curious people. The book is richly illustrated and accompanied by the most important literature.

Аbout The Author

• Petar Beron: Petar Beron graduated from the Faculty of Biology, Geology and Geography at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski". Until 1969 he worked as a biologist at the Institute of Zoology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Specializations in biospeleology in France and parasitology in Prague. From 1969 to 1978 he was a research associate at the Institute of Zoology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He has been a doctor of biological sciences since 1975. In 1978 he became a senior research associate at the same institute and head of the Zoology section at the National Museum of Natural History at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Leader and participant in many expeditions and solo trips to more than 80 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America, New Guinea and others. From 1993 to 2005 he was director of the National Museum of Natural History at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He has taught zoogeography at the Faculty of Biology at Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" and acarology at Plovdiv University "Paisii Hilendarski". The research of Assoc. Prof. Dr. Peter Beron is most often focused on the cave fauna, the fauna (mostly mites) of the high mountains in the world, the bats and their ectoparasites, the history of zoology. He is the author of a large number of scientific and journalistic works.