Yvonne Kranz-Baltensperger

Yvonne Kranz-Baltensperger, born in 1973 in Innsbruck, is a Swiss arachnologist and entomologist.

Biography Yvonne Kranz-Baltensperger attended the University of Bern, where she studied biology, completing her Ph.D. thesis entitled Systematics of the Oonopid spider genera Xyphinus, Ischnothyreus and Trilacuna (Araneae, Oonopidae) in 2014. Since 1997, she has held a scientific assistant position at the Natural History Museum of Bern, where she works on the Planetary Biodiversity Inventory (PBI) with six-eyed spiders (Oonopidae). She specializes in the study of arachnofauna, including pseudoscorpions and arachnids from the Indomalayan region. Her zoological abbreviation is Kranz-Baltensperger.

Eponym Prethopalpus kranzae, a species of goblin spider (Oonopidae) endemic to Sumatra, Baehr, 2012

Selected taxa described

Selected publications Nentwig, W., Ansorg, J., Cushing, P. E., Kranz-Baltensperger, Y., & Kropf, C. (2024). Understanding and recognizing spiders. In W. Nentwig, J. Ansorg, P. E. Cushing, Y. Kranz-Baltensperger, & C. Kropf (Eds.), House spiders – Worldwide(pp. 3–9). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42834-4_1

Hänggi, A., Bobbitt, I., Kranz-Baltensperger, Y., Bolzern, A., & Gilgado, J. D. (2021, September 30). Spiders (Araneae) from Swiss hothouses, with records of four species new for Switzerland. Arachnologische Mitteilungen: Arachnology Letters, 62(1), 67–74. https://doi.org/10.30963/aramit6207

Baur, H., Kranz-Baltensperger, Y., Cruaud, A., et al. (2014). Morphometric analysis and taxonomic revision of Anisopteromalus Ruschka (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae) – An integrative approach. Systematic Entomology, 39(6), 601–709. https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12095

Platnick, N. I., Berniker, L., & Kranz-Baltensperger, Y. (2012). The goblin spider genus Ischnothyreus (Araneae, Oonopidae) in the New World. American Museum Novitates, 3759, 1–32. https://doi.org/10.1206/3759.2

Platnick, N. I., Dupérré, N., Ott, R., & Kranz-Baltensperger, Y. (2011, April 29). The goblin spider genus Brignolia(Araneae, Oonopidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 2011(349), 1–131. https://doi.org/10.1206/349.1

Kranz-Baltensperger, Y., Platnick, N. I., & Dupérré, N. (2009, August 28). A new genus of the spider family Caponiidae (Araneae, Haplogynae) from Iran. American Museum Novitates, 2009(3656), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1206/3656.1