Wolfgang Bucherl, German-born Brazilian zoologist and toxinologist (Haberzeigen, close to Regensburg, Lower Bavaria 27 April 1911 – São Paulo 14 January 1985)
Descendent from a German-Hungarian family
Authored about 150 works
ACHIEVEMENTS
Developed electro stimulation for obtaining spiders and scorpions venoms
Novo processo de obtenção de veneno seco, puro de Phoneutria nigriventer (Keyserling, 1891) e titulação da DL 50 em camundongos. Mem. Inst. Butantan 25(1):153-7, 1953
Contribuição ao estudo dos órgãos sexuais externos das espécies do gênero Scolopendra Linne, mais frequentes no Brasil. Um novo método morfo-comparado para a sua sistematização. Mem. Inst. Butantan 16:37, 1942
Prepared anti Loxosceles venom (1953)
Developed techniques to keep scorpions in captivity
Imagined nurseries for scorpions and spiders
Described poison gland of a number of scolopendrids (1946)
With E. Buckley edited the three volume book Venomous Animals and their Venoms by Academic Press, 1971
DESCRIBED TAXA
1 Arachnida subfamily Phoneutriinae (1969)
1 Arachnida Genus (Andibothriurus 1964)
5 Myriapoda Genera
Brasilophora 1939
Brasiloscutigera 1939
Chilenarea 1942
Coxopleurotostigmus 1939
Thereuoquima 1949
137 Species and 25 subspecies between Arachnida and Myriapoda