Nadine Dupérré

Nadine Dupérré is a Canadian arachnologist and scientific illustrator. She is a known for her scientific illustrations and has been involved in numerous taxonomic revisions of spiders.

Nadine Dupérré was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec. She completed her undergraduate studies in biology at the Université of Montréal in biology. After graduation she worked on beetle biodiversity and ecology in Québec boreal forests with Dr. Pierre Paquin. During this work, they also collected over 25,000 spiders, and in 1999, they took the spider identification class from Fred Coyle and Bill Shear in North Carolina^[1] to aid in spider identification. In 2003, Paquin and Dupérré published Guide d’identification des Araignées du Québec, a comprehensive guide to identify all spider species in Quebec.^[2]

Dupérré worked as a free-lance arachnologist and illustrator for more than 10 years, completing contracts for government agencies and researchers. She was the principal illustrator for Spiders of North America: An identification manual, published in 2005, as a guide to all spider families and genera in North America. Dupérré was responsible for over 2000 original taxonomic illustrations. In 2008, she began working at the American Museum of Natural History, where she was served as an assistant to Norman I. Platnick and participated in the Oonopid Spider Planetary Biodiversity Inventory (PBI) project.^[3][2] Currently, Dupérré is a researcher at the Arachnida and Myriapoda Research Center of the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB) in Hamburg, Germany.^[4]

In 2025, she was featured in The Museum Makers exhibition at LIB.^[5][6]

Dupérré, N., & Tapia, E. (2023). Discovery of a new eye pattern in Araneoid spiders, with the description of two new species of Testudinaria from the Ecuadorian Amazon (Araneae: Araneidae). Annales de La Société Entomologique de France (N.S.), 59(5), 337–362. https://doi.org/10.1080/00379271.2023.2244455

Dupérré, N. (2022). Araneae (spiders) of South America: a synopsis of current knowledge. New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 50(1), 3–117. https://doi.org/10.1080/03014223.2021.2022722

Dupérré, N. & Tapia, E. (2015) Descriptions of four kleptoparasitic spiders of the genus Mysmenopsis (Araneae, Mysmenidae) and their potential host spider species in the genus Linothele (Araneae, Dipluridae) from Ecuador. Zootaxa, 3972 (3), 343–368. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3972.3.3

Dupérré, N. (2015) Descriptions of twelve new species of ochyroceratids (Araneae, Ochyroceratidae) from mainland Ecuador. Zootaxa, 3956 (4), 451–475. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3956.4.1

Dupérré, N. (2013) Taxonomic revision of the spider genera Agyneta and Tennesseellum (Araneae, Linyphiidae) of North America north of Mexico with a study of the embolic division within Micronetinae sensu Saaristo & Tanasevitch 1996. Zootaxa, 3674 (1), 1–189. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3674.1.1

Paquin, Pierre, 1965- & Vink, C. J. (Cornelis Jacob) & Dupérré, N. (Nadine). (2010). Spiders of New Zealand : annotated family key & species list / Pierre Paquin, Cor J. Vink and Nadine Dupérré ; illustrations by Nadine Dupérré. Lincoln, N.Z. : Manaaki Whenua Press

Dondale, C. D. (2006). Two new species of wolf spiders in the Pardosa modica group (Araneae, Lycosidae) from North America. Journal of Arachnology, 34(3), 506–511.

Ubick, D., Paquin, P., Cushing, P. E., & Roth, V. (Eds.). (2005). Spiders of North America: An identification manual. American Arachnological Society. 377 pp.

Hedin, M., & Dellinger, B. (2005). Description of a new species and previously unknown males of Nesticus(Araneae: Nesticidae) from caves in Eastern North America, with comments on species rarity. Journal of Arachnology, 33(1), 1–10.

Bond, J. E. (2004). The Californian euctenizine spider genus Apomastus: The relationship between molecular and morphological taxonomy (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Cyrtaucheniidae). Invertebrate Systematics, 18, 361–376.