Wesolowska, Prof. Dr. W.

• Polish taxonomist, engaged in research on Salticidae.
• Born in 1950, studied biology at Poznan University; as a student she was interested in ornithology, her early works were devoted to birds.
• Begun profesional employment at Teaching College in Siedlce she has shifted her interest to jumping spiders and remains true to them.
• She later moved to Wroclaw University where she is employed now.
• She received her PhD for thesis deling with taxonomy of large Salticidae genus Heliophanus containing over 100 species
• She has also reconstructed the evolutional history of this genus on the base of the recent species distribution.
• She wrote later papers on salticids of Eastern Palaearctic (Korean Peninsula, northern Mongolia, the Russian Far East, the last together with D. Logunov, and Turkmenistan).
• The main areas of her interests are now faunistic and taxonomic studies on Salticidae of Palaearctic and Afrotropical Regions.
• Recently majority of her research dealt with jumping spiders of Africa: Maltecora, Festucula, Massagris and Harmochirus are among African genera she revised taxonomically.
• She described numerous new species from many parts of Africa.
• The spider biodiversity is also part of her interests.
• African ant-mimicking jumping spiders are her newest interest.

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