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]

Barbara Baehr
Born
Barbara C. Hoffmann

25 February 1953 (1953-02-25) (age 67)
Pforzheim, Germany
OccupationResearch Scientist
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Tübingen
Academic work
DisciplineArachnology
InstitutionsQueensland Museum

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 there 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 (since transferred to Gnaphosidae as the subfamily Prodidominae).[1][4][5]

Publications

Filmography
  • The Nature of Things (TV Series documentary). Herself – Queensland Museum
  • Tarantula: Australia's King of Spiders (2005) ... Herself – Queensland Museum[6]
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References
  1. "Dr Barbara Baehr". www.qm.qld.gov.au. Queensland Museum. Retrieved 2018-07-17.
  2. "Barbara Baehr". thinkable.org. Archived from the original on 2018-07-17. Retrieved 2018-07-17.
  3. "AAS – Australasian Arachnologists – Dr Barbara Baehr". Australasian Arachnological Society. Retrieved 2018-07-17.
  4. "Discovery of ant-eating spider with 'lock and key' genitals". ABC News. Australia. 2017-02-14. Retrieved 2018-07-17.
  5. "NMBE - World Spider Catalog". wsc.nmbe.ch. Retrieved 2019-06-04.
  6. Barbara Baehr on IMDb
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