Günter Schmidt (arachnologist)

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Günter E. W. Schmidt
Born	(1926-05-10)10 May 1926 Lübeck
Died	23 December 2016(2016-12-23) (aged 90) Deutsch Evern
Nationality	German
Scientific career
Fields	Arachnology

For the sexologist, psychotherapist, and social psychologist, see Gunter Schmidt.

Günter E. W. Schmidt (born 10 May 1926 in

He studied biology and mostly worked in the pharmaceutical industry until his retirement.^[citation needed]^[3] In 1975, he graduated with a PhD thesis on the arachnid fauna of the Canary Islands ^[3].^{[citation needed]} From 1986, his scientific work was concentrated mainly on tarantulas. The World Spider Catalog lists 234 species names of which he is the author or co-author (not all currently accepted),^[4] of which 69 are in the family Theraphosidae (tarantulas).^[5]

Books

His books include:

• Schmidt, Günter (1986), Vogelspinnen : Lebensweise, Bestimmungsschlüssel, Haltung und Zucht, Minden: A. Philler,
  ISBN 978-3-7842-0484-0
• Schmidt, Günter (2000), Giftige und gefährliche Spinnentiere, Westarp Wissenschaften,
  ISBN 978-3-89432-405-6
• Schmidt, G. (2003), Die Vogelspinnen: Eine weltweite Übersicht, Neue Brehm-Bücherei, Hohenwarsleben: Westarp Wissenschaften,
  ISBN 978-3-89432-899-3

• Haplopelma schmidti von Wirth, 1991[6] (now Cyriopagopus schmidti)
• Aphonopelma schmidti Smith, 1995^[7] (now a synonym of Aphonopelma chalcodes)
• Cyrtopholis schmidti Rudloff, 1996^[8]

References