Volker W. Framenau

Volker W. Framenau (born 1965, Cologne) is a German-born Australian arachnologist and entomologist.

He earned his M.Sc. in 1995 from Philipps-University Marburg (Populationsökologie und Ausbreitungsdynamik von Arctosa cinerea (Araneae, Lycosidae) in einer alpinen Wildflußlandschaft), and a Ph.D from Melbourne University in 2002 with the thesis Taxonomy, life history characteristics, and ecology of riparian wolf spiders (Araneae, Lycosidae) in the Victorian Alps, south-east Australia.

His zoological author abbreviation is Framenau. He has authored over 70 taxa, initially specialising in wolf spiders, but later in many other spider families including: tube web spiders (Segestriidae), leaf curling orb-weaving spiders, and orb-weaving spiders (Araneidae).

He is currently a senior lecturer at Murdoch University in the centre for Biosecurity and One Health, Harry Butler Institute, Murdoch University, where his specialities are listed as: Animal systematics and taxonomy, Biosecurity, Arachnida, Myriapoda and Macrophotography.

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