Raymond Comte de Dalmas

Raymond de Dalmas (5 February 1862 - 4 February 1930) was a French voyager, arachnologist, and ornithologist.

Life He was raised in Croatia. During his youth he visited many parts of Europe, Algeria and Iceland. He was only 21 years old when in 1882 he undertook a westward journey around the world.

On September 5, 1882, he left with a friend doctor of Glasgow and arrived in New York on September 14. He traveled across the continent via the Niagara Falls, Chicago, Cheyenne, the Rockies, Ogden, Salt Lake, the Sierra Nevada and San Francisco, where he embarked an American liner Le Gaëlic whose crew was entirely Chinese and arrived on October 19 in Yokohama.

Both entered Tokyo where Dalmas obtained from Governor Tricou the authorization to explore the interior mountains. He then hired a pulled rickshaw that led him to Uruwa, Kumagaya and Takasaki. He climbed Mount Asama to observe Mount Fuji before returning to Komoro and reaching the Shimosuwa thermal station at Lake Suwa. He then crossed the provinces of Mino and Omi and joined Lake Biwa and via a small steam train reached Otsu.

He then visited Kyoto before traveling to Osaka and Kobe. After a three-month stay, he embarked on January 20, 1883, for Hong Kong. He reached Victoria Harbour and Kowloon then fared up the Pearl River to Guangzhou.

He then stopped in Saigon, Singapore and Colombo and returned to Paris on March 6, 1883.

In April–May 1894, he made a trip to the Mediterranean and returned with an album of sixty-four photographs of Greece and Turkey preserved today at the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Works

Les Japonais, leur pays et leur mœurs. Voyage autour du monde, préface d'Henri Duveyrier, Plon-Nourrit, 1885 Japon et Japonais, H. Gautier, 1895 Croisière du yacht Chazalie en Méditerranée orientale, Alcan-Lévy, 1895

Taxa

Taxa described , the World Spider Catalog listed one spider family with Dalmas as the author: Stiphidiidae Dalmas, 1917 It listed 22 spider genera, accepted or synonyms, with Dalmas as the author.

Anzacia Dalmas, 1919 Berlandia Dalmas, 1921 Berlandina Dalmas, 1922 Gohia Dalmas, 1917 Heteroonops Dalmas, 1916 Hypodrassodes Dalmas, 1919 Ixeuticus Dalmas, 1917 Laperousea Dalmas, 1917 Matachia Dalmas, 1917 Microdrassus Dalmas, 1919 Minosia Dalmas, 1921 Minosiella Dalmas, 1921 Nemesiothele Dalmas, 1920 Nomisia Dalmas, 1921 Paramatachia Dalmas, 1918 Prodida Dalmas, 1919 Proxysticus Dalmas, 1922 Pterotrichina Dalmas, 1921 Scotognapha Dalmas, 1920 Smionia Dalmas, 1920 Stiphidiellum Dalmas, 1917 Zimirina Dalmas, 1919

Spider species, accepted or synonyms, described by Dalmas include:

Anoteropsis albovestita (Dalmas, 1917) Anoteropsis arenivaga (Dalmas, 1917) Anzacia gemmea (Dalmas, 1917) Arangina cornigera (Dalmas, 1917) Arangina nigella (Dalmas, 1917) Ariadna bellatoria Dalmas, 1917 Asemesthes modestus Dalmas, 1921 Asemesthes nigristernus Dalmas, 1921 Asemesthes perdignus Dalmas, 1921 Berlandina atlantica (Dalmas, 1921) Berlandina deserticola (Dalmas, 1921) Berlandina meruana (Dalmas, 1921) Berlandina punica (Dalmas, 1921) Brachythele varrialei (Dalmas, 1920) Cambridgea annulata Dalmas, 1917 Camillina europaea Dalmas, 1922 Cozyptila nigristernum (Dalmas, 1922) Evarcha nigricans (Dalmas, 1920) Habrocestum algericum Dalmas, 1920 Habrocestum graecum Dalmas, 1920 Habrocestum ibericum Dalmas, 1920 Habrocestum lepidum Dalmas, 1920 Habrocestum nigristernum Dalmas, 1920 Habrocestum simoni Dalmas, 1920 Harpactocrates intermedius Dalmas, 1915 Hemicloea alacris Dalmas, 1917 Hemicloea celerrima Dalmas, 1917 Hemicloea tasmani Dalmas, 1917 Holoplatys senilis Dalmas, 1917 Hypodrassodes maoricus (Dalmas, 1917) Laperousea arenaria Dalmas, 1917 Laperousea occidentalis Dalmas, 1917 Lathys simplicior (Dalmas, 1916) Leptodrassex algericus (Dalmas, 1919) Leptodrassex simoni (Dalmas, 1919) Leptodrassus croaticus Dalmas, 1919 Leptodrassus fragilis Dalmas, 1919 Leptodrassus licentiosus Dalmas, 1919 Leptodrassus punicus Dalmas, 1919 Leptodrassus tropicus Dalmas, 1919 Leptopilos pupa (Dalmas, 1919) Matachia ramulicola Dalmas, 1917 Minosia pharao Dalmas, 1921 Minosia santschii Dalmas, 1921 Minosia senegaliensis Dalmas, 1921 Minosiella mediocris Dalmas, 1921 Minosiella perimensis Dalmas, 1921 Minosiella pharia Dalmas, 1921 Nomisia australis Dalmas, 1921 Nomisia castanea Dalmas, 1921 Nomisia fagei Dalmas, 1921 Nomisia fortis Dalmas, 1921 Nomisia mauretanica Dalmas, 1921 Nomisia notia Dalmas, 1921 Nomisia orientalis Dalmas, 1921 Nomisia perpusilla Dalmas, 1921 Nomisia soror Dalmas, 1921 Nomisia tingitana Dalmas, 1921 Nomisia transvaalica Dalmas, 1921 Oonops amoenus Dalmas, 1916 Oonops domesticus Dalmas, 1916 Oonops lubricus Dalmas, 1916 Oonops placidus Dalmas, 1916 Oonops rusticulus Dalmas, 1916 Oonops tubulatus Dalmas, 1916 Orchestina algerica Dalmas, 1916 Orchestina arabica Dalmas, 1916 Orchestina longipes Dalmas, 1922 Orchestina paupercula Dalmas, 1916 Orchestina pilifera Dalmas, 1916 Orchestina setosa Dalmas, 1916 Orchestina simoni Dalmas, 1916 Paramatachia decorata Dalmas, 1918 Phonognatha pallida (Dalmas, 1917) Plexippoides gestroi (Dalmas, 1920) Prasonica plagiata (Dalmas, 1917) Prodidomus djibutensis Dalmas, 1919 Prodidomus geniculosus Dalmas, 1919 Prodidomus hispanicus Dalmas, 1919 Prodidomus longiventris (Dalmas, 1919) Prodidomus robustus Dalmas, 1919 Prodidomus rodolphianus Dalmas, 1919 Prodidomus simoni Dalmas, 1919 Prodidomus tigrinus Dalmas, 1919 Pterotricha aegyptiaca Dalmas, 1921 Pterotricha algerica Dalmas, 1921 Pterotricha djibutensis Dalmas, 1921 Pterotricha fanatica Dalmas, 1921 Pterotricha insolita Dalmas, 1921 Pterotricha isiaca Dalmas, 1921 Pterotricha lesserti Dalmas, 1921 Pterotricha punctifera Dalmas, 1921 Pterotricha simoni Dalmas, 1921 Pterotricha somaliensis Dalmas, 1921 Pterotricha syriaca Dalmas, 1921 Pterotricha vicina Dalmas, 1921 Pterotrichina elegans Dalmas, 1921 Scotognapha atomaria Dalmas, 1920 Scotognapha gravieri Dalmas, 1920 Setaphis algerica (Dalmas, 1922) Smionia capensis Dalmas, 1920 Talanites santschii Dalmas, 1918 Tegenaria tyrrhenica Dalmas, 1922 Tetragnatha nigricans Dalmas, 1917 Trite urvillei (Dalmas, 1917) Xysticus doriai (Dalmas, 1922) Zelotes funereus (Dalmas, 1921) Zelotes insulanus Dalmas, 1922 Zimirina deserticola Dalmas, 1919 Zimirina transvaalica Dalmas, 1919 Zimiris guianensis Dalmas, 1919

Taxa named in his honour

Dalmasula Camponotus dalmasi Hypodrassodes dalmasi Misumenops dalmasi Mogrus dalmasi Myrmelachista dalmasi Neolana dalmasi Orchestina dalmasi Prodidomus dalmasi Pterotricha dalmasi Sertularia dalmasi Thomisus dalmasi Walckenaeria dalmasi Xanthodaphne dalmasi Zoroides dalmasi Tangara lavinia dalmasi