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Jan C.C. Loman
Loman
Jan Loman, image from OmniPaper.

Nationality

Dutch

Birthplace

Deventer, Netherlands

Life Span

1856-1929

Publication Span

1880-1910


Jan Cornelis Christiaan Loman (19 February 1856, Deventer, Netherlands - 14 June 1929, Amsterdam) was a Dutch arachnologist, most active with Opiliones in the decades of 1880 to 1900.

Notable contributions[]

Loman published with Opiliones of many parts of the world, on anatomy, taxonomy and biogeography.

He is the author of taxa such as Insidiatores Loman, 1900, Acumontia Loman, 1898, Cristina Loman, 1902, Guruia Loman, 1902, Larifuga Loman, 1898, numerous species of Gagrellinae.

Tributes[]

  • Gagrellula lomanii (Thorell, 1894)
  • Lomanella Pocock, 1902
  • Ibalonius lomani Hirst, 1911
  • Acumontia lomani Roewer, 1915
  • Triacumontia lomani Roewer, 1915
  • Spinimontia lomani Roewer, 1915
  • Lomanius Roewer, 1923
  • Paralomanius Goodnight & Goodnight, 1948
  • Eulomanius Roewer, 1949
  • Gnomulus lomani Schwendinger & Martens, 2002

External resources[]

OmniPaper Article on Loman [1]]

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