Виллис Джон Герч (англ.Willis John Gertsch, 1906 — 1998) — американский зоолог, крупный арахнолог. Описал около 1000 новых видов пауков и других паукообразных.
Биография
Труды
1933: New genera and species of North American spiders. American Museum Novitates636: 1-28. PDF
1933: Diagnoses of new American spiders. American Museum Novitates637: 1-14. PDF
1934: Notes on American Lycosidae. American Museum Novitates693: 1-25. PDF
1934: Further notes on American spiders. American Museum Novitates726: 1-26. PDF
1935: Spiders from the southwestern United States, with descriptions of new species. American Museum Novitates792: 1-31. PDF
1935: Gertsch, Willis J., and H. K. Wallace. Further notes on American Lycosidae. American Museum Novitates794: 1-22. PDF
1936: Gertsch, Willis J., and Stanley Mulaik. Diagnoses of new Southern spiders. American Museum Novitates851: 1-21. PDF
1936: Gertsch, Willis J., and Wilton Ivie. Descriptions of new American spiders. American Museum Novitates858: 1-25. PDF
1939: Gertsch, Willis J., and William L. Jellison. Notes on a collection of spiders from Montana. American Museum Novitates1032: 1-13. PDF
1939: A revision of the typical crab-spiders (Misumeninae) of America north of Mexico. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History76(7): 277-442. PDF
1939: Report on a collection of Arachnida from the Chisos Mountains. Contrib. Baylor Univ. Mus., Waco, Texas24: 17-26.
1941: New American spiders of the family Clubionidae. I. American Museum Novitates1147: 1-20. PDF
1949: American Spiders, erste Auflage.
1955: The spider genus Neon in North America. American Museum Novitates1743: 1-17. PDF
1958: The spider family Plectreuridae. American Museum Novitates1920: 1-53. PDF
1958: Results of the Puritan - American Museum Expedition to Western Mexico. 4. The Scorpions. American Museum Novitates1903: 1-20. PDF
1960: Descriptions of American spiders of the family Symphytognathidae. American Museum Novitates1981: 1-40. PDF
1960: The fulva group of the spider genus Steatoda (Araneae, Theridiidae). American Museum Novitates1982: 1-48. PDF
1961: The spider genus Lutica. Senckenbergiana Biologia42(4): 365-374.
1964: The spider genus Zygiella in North America (Araneae, Argiopidae). American Museum Novitates2188: 1-21. PDF
1965: Gertsch, Willis J., and Allred, D. M., "Scorpions of the Nevada Test Site". Brigham Young Univ. Sci. Bull.6(4): 1-16.
1966: Gertsch, Willis J., and Soleglad, M.," The scorpions of the Vejovis boreus group (subgenus Paruroctonus) in North America (Scorpionida, Vejovidae)". American Museum Novitates2278: 1-54. PDF
1972: Gertsch, Willis J., and Soleglad, M., " Studies of North American scorpions of the genera Uroctonus and Vejovis ( Scorpionida, Vejovidae)". Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist.148(4): 551-607. PDF
1973: A report on cave spiders from Mexico and Central America. In Robert W. Mitchell and James R. Reddell, eds., Studies on the cavernicole fauna of Mexico and adjacent regions. Association for Mexican Cave Studies Bulletin5: 141-163.
1976: Gertsch, Willis J., and Susan E. Riechert. The spatial and temporal partitioning of a desert spider community, with descriptions of new species. American Museum Novitates2604: 1-25. PDF
1979: American Spiders. 2nd ed. Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., New York, 274 p. - Grundlegende Beschreibung amerikanischer Spinnenfamilien.
1982: The spider genera Pholcophora and Anopsicus (Araneae, Pholcidae) in North America, Central America, and the West Indies. In James R. Reddell, ed., Further studies on the cavernicole fauna of Mexico and adjacent regions, pp. 95-144. Association for Mexican Cave Studies Bulletin8 (also Bulletin Texas Memorial Museum28).
1984: The spider family Nesticidae (Araneae) in North America, Central America, and the West Indies. Bulletin Texas Memorial Museum31: i-viii, 1-91.
1989: Gertsch, Willis J., and Polis, G. A., " Major Arachnid orders. Scorpions. Classification". New Encyclop. Brit., 13: 920.
Литература
Kaston, 1981 : Willis J. Gertsch: A Biography and Bibliography Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, n. 170, p. 7-14.