Rudy Jocqué

Rudy Jocqué
Born1946 (1946)
Belgium
Known forResearch on Afrotropical spiders
Scientific career
FieldsArachnology
InstitutionsRoyal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren

Rudy Jocqué, abbreviated Jocqué, (born 1946) is a Belgian arachnologist.

He worked at the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren. He is a specialist in spiders of the Afrotropical realm.[1]

Field studies

Part of his arachnological taxonomy studies are focused mainly on the families Zodariidae and Linyphiidae. He has also participated in numerous revisions of genera belonging to the families Ctenidae, Lycosidae, and Corinnidae, and evaluates the habitat consistency of numerous references.[2]

In the field of ethology, he has studied the degree of adaptation of spiders to changing forest conditions in Central Africa and their influence on biological diversity.[2]

Expeditions

In the last decade, he has frequently visited Central Africa, particularly the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where he founded the Mikembo Sanctuary near Lubumbashi. The sanctuary serves as a school for the study of invertebrate biodiversity and promotes education on collection methods and local awareness of the ecological importance of invertebrates.[1]

Taxa named in his honour

  • Hahnia jocquei Bosmans, 1982
  • Gallieniella jocquei Platnick, 1984
  • Afrilobus jocquei Griswold & Platnick, 1987
  • Thomisus jocquei Dippenaar-Schoeman, 1988
  • Xevioso jocquei Griswold, 1990
  • Evippa jocquei Alderweireldt, 1991
  • Setaphis jocquei Platnick & Murphy, 1996
  • Goleba jocquei Szüts, 2001
  • Oedignatha jocquei Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001
  • Raecius jocquei Griswold, 2002
  • Cheiramiona jocquei Lotz, 2003
  • Garcorops jocquei Corronca, 2003
  • Habronestes jocquei Baehr, 2003
  • Spermophora jocquei Huber, 2003
  • Selenops jocquei Corronca, 2005
  • Zelotes jocquei FitzPatrick, 2007

Described taxa

References

  1. ^ a b "Spedizioni in Africa". Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 17 April 2012.
  2. ^ a b American Museum of Natural History – Oonopidae Project
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