Barbara Baehr

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Barbara Baehr, (née Barbara C. Hoffmann) born 25th of February, 1953, from Pforzheim, Germany. Is an internationally recognised research scientist, entomologist, arachnologist, and spider taxonomist, with major contributions to the discovery of biodiversity, describing 600 new spider species – most of them from Australia.

Life and Education

Barbara Baehr obtained both her Staatsexamen and PhD in Zoology / Ecology at the University of Tuebingen, Germany.

She worked as a scientific associate at the Zoologischen Staatssammlung in Munich, Germany from 1984 to 1998. During this time (1996 - 1998) she also taught invertebrate zoology at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU) from 1996 to 1998, and conducted spider excursions for students.

Following several research visits to Australia (Western Australian Museum Perth, 1994; Queensland Museum & Australian Museum, Sydney, 1999), she took a research fellow position at the Queensland Museum, Brisbane in January 2000. Her work here focused on an interactive key to spider subfamilies, and was funded by the Australian Biological Resources Study.

Following that, she pursued her research in the taxonomy of the Ant spider family Zodariidae, the Long-tailed Bark spider family Hersiliidae and the Long-spinnereted Ground Spider family Prodidomidae.

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2010

• Baehr, B.C. & Ubick, D. 2010. A review of the Asian goblin spider genus Camptoscaphiella (Araneae, Oonopidae). American Museum novitates 3697: 1–65. full article (PDF) reference page

2016

• Baehr, B.C. & Whyte, R. 2016. The Peacock Spiders (Araneae: Salticidae: Maratus) of the Queensland Museum, including six new species. Zootaxa 4154(5): 501–525. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4154.5.1. reference page
• Baehr, B.C. & Whyte, R. 2016. The first described male Tube-web Spider for mainland Australia: Ariadna kiwirrkurra sp. nov. (Araneae: Segestriidae). Zootaxa4189(3): 595–599. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4189.3.11. Reference page.
• Framenau, V.W. & Baehr, B.C. 2016. Revision of the Australian Union-Jack wolf spiders, genus Tasmanicosa (Araneae, Lycosidae, Lycosinae). Zootaxa 4213(1): 1–82. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4213.1.1. Reference page.