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The life and times of Africa's First Lady of Arachnology, Ansie Dippenaar-Schoeman

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Haddad, Charles, Foord, Stefan H. (2015): The life and times of Africa's First Lady of Arachnology, Ansie Dippenaar-Schoeman. African Invertebrates 56 (2): 269, DOI: 10.5733/afin.056.0203, URL: http://www.bioone.org/doi/10.5733/afin.056.0203

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  • MUELELWA, M.I., FOORD, S.H., DIPPENAAR-SCHOEMAN, A.S. & STAM, E.M. 2010. Towards a standardized and optimized protocol for rapid assessments: spider species richness and assemblage composition in two savanna vegetation types. African Zoology 45: 273-290.
  • MUKHERJEE, A., WILSKE, B., NAVARRO, R.A., DIPPENAAR-SCHOEMAN, A.S. & UNDERHILL, L.G. 2010. Association of spiders and lichen on Robben Island, South Africa: a case report. Journal of Threatened Taxa 2: 815-819.
  • MULLER, G.J., KRIEGLER, A.B., VAN ZYL, J.M., VAN DER WALT, B.J., DIPPENAAR, A.S. & VAN JAARSVELD, P.P. 1992. Comparison of the toxicity, neuro-transmitter releasing potency and polypeptide composition of the venom from Steatoda foravae, Latrodectus indistinctus and L. geometricus (Araneae: Theridiidae). South African Journal of Science 88: 113-116.
  • NEL, E., KELLY,J. & DIPPENAAR-SCHOEMAN,A.S. 2014. Notes on the biology of the wasp, Chalybion spinolae (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae), an obligatory predator of Latrodectus (Araneae: Theridiidae) spiders in South Africa. Journal of Natural History 48: 1585-1593.
  • OKUMA, C. & DIPPENAAR-SCHOEMAN, A.S. 1988. Tetragnatha (Araneae: Tetragnathidae) in the collection of the Plant Protection Research Institute, Pretoria with a description of a new species. Phytophylactica 20: 219-232.
  • RAYNER, R.J., BAMFORD, M.K., BROTHERS, D.J., DIPPENAAR-SCHOEMAN, A.S., MCKAY, I.J., OBERPRIELER, R.G. & WATERS, S.B. 1997. Cretaceous fossils from the Orapa Diamond Mine. Palaeontologica Africana 33: 56-65.
  • RAYNER, R.J. & DIPPENAAR-SCHOEMAN, A.S. 1995. A fossil spider (superfamily Lycosoidea) from the Cretaceous of Botswana. South African Journal of Science 91: 98-100.
  • ROBERTSON, M.P., HARRIS,K.R., COETZEE, J., FOXCROFT, L., DIPPENAAR-SCHOEMAN,A.S. & VAN RENSBURG, B.J. 2011. Assessing local scale impacts of Opuntia stricta (Cactaceae) invasion on beetle and spider diversity in the Kruger National Park, South Africa. African Zoology 46: 205-223.
  • ROFF, J. & DIPPENAAR-SCHOEMAN,A.S. 2005. Description of a new species of Cladomelea bolas-spider from South Africa, with notes on its behaviour (Araneae: Araneidae). African Invertebrates 45: 1-6.
  • VAN DEN BERG, A. & DIPPENAAR-SCHOEMAN, A.S. 1991. Ground-living spiders from an area where the harvester termite Hodotermes mossambicus occurs in South Africa. Phytophylactica 23: 247-253
  • ------1994.A revision of the Afrotropical species of the genus Tibellus (Araneae: Philodromidae). Koedoe 37: 67-114.
  • VAN DEN BERG,A.M. & DIPPENAAR-SCHOEMAN,A.S. 1988. Spider communities in a pine plantation at Sabie, eastern Transvaal: a preliminary survey. Phytophylactica 20: 293-296.
  • VAN DEN BERG, A.M. & DIPPENAAR-SCHOEMAN,A.S. 1991. Spiders, predacious insects and mites on South African cotton. Phytophylactica 23: 85-86.
  • VAN DEN BERG, A.M., DIPPENAAR-SCHOEMAN, A.S. & SCHOONBEE, H.J. 1990. The effect of two pesticides on spiders in South African cotton fields. Phytophylactica 22: 435-441.
  • VAN DEN BERG, M.A., DIPPENAAR-SCHOEMAN, A.S., DEACON V.E. & ANDERSON, S.H. 1992. Interaction between citrus psylla, Trioza erytreae (Hem.Triozidae), and spiders in an unsprayed citrus orchard in the Transvaal Lowveld. Entomophaga 37: 599-608.
  • VAN DER MERWE, M., DIPPENAAR-SCHOEMAN, A.S. & SCHOLTZ, C.H. 1996. Diversity of ground-living spiders at Ngome State Forest, KwaZulu/Natal: a comparative survey in indigenous forest and pine plantations. African Journal of Ecology 34: 342-350.
  • VAN NIEKERK, P. & DIPPENAAR-SCHOEMAN, A.S. 1994. A revision of the Afrotropical species of Peucetia (Araneae:Oxyopidae).Entomology Memoirs of the Department of Agricultural Technical Services of the Republic of South Africa 89: 1-50.
  • ------2010. Revision of the spider genus Simorcus in the Afrotropical Region (Araneae, Thomisidae). African Entomology 18: 66-86.
  • ------2013.A revision of the spider genus Heriaeus Simon, 1875 (Araneae:Thomisidae) of the Afrotropical Region. African Invertebrates 54: 447-476.
  • VASCONCELLOS-NETO, J., ROMERO, G.Q., SANTOS, A.J. & DIPPENAAR- SCHOEMAN, A.S. 2007. Associations of spiders of the genus Peucetia (Oxyopidae) with plants bearing glandular hairs. Biotropica 39: 221-226.
  • WHITMORE, C., SLOTOW, R., CROUCH, T.E. & DIPPENAAR-SCHOEMAN, A.S. 2001. Checklist of spiders (Araneae) from savanna ecosystem, Northern Province, South Africa: including a new family record. Durban Museum Novitates 26: 10-19.
  • ------2002. Diversity of spiders (Araneae) in a savanna reserve, Northern Province, South Africa. Journal of Arachnology 30: 344-356.