Fred Wanless

Fred R. Wanless (1940 – 15 December 2017) was a British arachnologist. Active in the field especially in the 1970s and 1980s, he described several dozen taxa, in particular among the spiders of the Salticidae family. Wanless played a significant role in the British Arachnological Society being its member in 1969–1973, 1974–1976 and 1986–1989, and Meetings Secretary in 1973–1978. From 1973 to 1988 he described 137 new species and 13 new genera.

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