Barbara Maria Patoleta | |
Citizenship: | Polish |
Fields: | Arachnology |
Workplaces: | American Museum of Natural History, New York City Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris Queensland Museum, Brisbane Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart Australian Museum, Sydney |
Alma Mater: | Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities |
Thesis Title: | Salticidae of New Caledonia and Fidji |
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Thesis Year: | 2002 |
Doctoral Advisor: | Marek Michał Żabka |
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Barbara Maria Patoleta is a Polish arachnologist who specialises in the taxonomy, evolution and zoogeography of jumping spiders (family Salticidae) in the Pacific Islands.[1]
Patoleta studied biology and chemistry at high school before studying biology at the Faculty of Agriculture at Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities between 1988 and 1993. She obtained her master's degree in the Department of Anatomy and Vertebrate Morphology in 1993, and subsequently her doctorate in 2002.[2]
As of April 2017, the World Spider Catalog lists the following taxa described by Patoleta:[3]