Willis John Gertsch

Willis John Gertsch (1906–1998), U. S. arachnologist.

Taxon names authored

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• 488 taxon names authored by Willis John Gertsch

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1928

• Chamberlin, R.A. & Gertsch, W.J. 1928. Notes on spiders from southeastern Utah. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 41: 175-188. Reference page. .

1933

• Gertsch, W.J. 1933. Notes on American spiders of the family Thomisidae. American Museum Novitates 593: 1-22. Reference page. 
• Gertsch, W.J. 1933a. Diagnoses of new American spiders. American Museum Novitates 637: 1-14. Reference page. 
• Gertsch, W.J. 1933b. New genera and species of North American spiders. American Museum Novitates 636: 1-28. Reference page. 

1934

• Gertsch, W.J. 1934. Further notes on American spiders. American Museum Novitates 726: 1-26. Reference page. 

1935

• Gertsch, W.J. 1935: Spiders from the southwestern United States. American Museum Novitates 792: 1-31. Reference page. 
• Gertsch, W.J. 1935a: New American spiders with notes on other species. American Museum Novitates 805: 1-24. Reference page. 

1936

• Gertsch, W.J. 1936: Further diagnoses of new American spiders. American Museum Novitates 852: 1-27. full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Gertsch, W.J. & Davis, L.I. 1936: New spiders from Texas. American Museum Novitates 881: 1-21. full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Gertsch, W.J. & Ivie, W. 1936: Descriptions of new American spiders. American Museum Novitates 858: 1-25. full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Gertsch, W.J. & Mulaik, S.B. 1936. Diagnoses of new southern spiders. American Museum Novitates 851: 1-21. Reference page. 

1939

• Gertsch, W.J. 1939. A new genus in the Pholcidae. American Museum Novitates 1033: 1-4. Reference page. 
• Gertsch, W. J. & Jellison, W. L.. 1939. Notes on a collection of spiders from Montana. American Museum Novitates 1032: 1–13. [7, f. 4-6] PDF Reference page. 

1940

• Chamberlin, R.V. & Gertsch, W.J. 1940. Descriptions of new Gnaphosidae from the United States. American Museum Novitates 1068: 1-19. Reference page. 
• Gertsch, W.J. 1940. Five new wolf-spiders from Florida. The Florida Entomologist 23: 17–23. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Gertsch, W.J. & Davis, L.I. 1940: Report on a collection of spiders from Mexico. III. American Museum Novitates 1069: 1-22. full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Gertsch, W.J. & Davis, L.I. 1940a. Report on a collection of spiders from Mexico. II. American Museum Novitates 1059: 1-18. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Gertsch, W.J. & Mulaik, S.B. 1940: The spiders of Texas. I. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 77: 307-340. Reference page. 

1941

• Gertsch, W.J. 1941: New American spiders of the family Clubionidae. I. American Museum Novitates 1147: 1-20. Reference page. 
• Gertsch, W.J. 1941a: Report on some arachnids from Barro Colorado Island, Canal Zone. American Museum Novitates 1146: 1-14. Reference page. .
• Gertsch, W.J. 1941b. New American spiders of the family Clubionidae. II. American Museum Novitates 1148: 1-18. Reference page. 

1942

• Gertsch, W.J. 1942. New American spiders of the family Clubionidae III. American Museum Novitates 1195: 1-18. Reference page. 
• Gertsch, W.J. & Davis, L.I. 1942: Report on a collection of spiders from Mexico. IV. American Museum Novitates 1158: 1-19. full article (PDF). Reference page. 

1946

• Gertsch, W.J. & Davis, L.I. 1946: Report on a collection of spiders from Mexico V. American Museum Novitates 1313: 1-11. full article (PDF). Reference page. 

1955

• Lowrie, D.C. & Gertsch, W.J. 1955. A list of the spiders of the Grand Teton Park area, with descriptions of some new North American spiders. American Museum Novitates 1736: 1-29. Reference page. 

1958

• Chamberlin, R.V. & Gertsch, W.J 1958. The spider family Dictynidae in America north of Mexico. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 116: 1–152. Reference page. 
• Gertsch, W.J. 1958. The spider genus Loxosceles in North America, Central America, and the West Indies. American Museum Novitates 1907: 1-46. Reference page. 
• Gertsch, W.J. 1958a. The spider family Hypochilidae. American Museum Novitates 1912: 1-28. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Gertsch, W.J. 1958b. The spider family Plectreuridae. American Museum Novitates 1920: 1-53. Reference page. 

1960

• Gertsch, W.J. 1960. Descriptions of American spiders of the family Symphytognathidae. American Museum Novitates 1981: 1-40. Reference page. 

1964

• Gertsch, W.J. 1964. A review of the genus Hypochilus and a description of a new species from Colorado (Araneae, Hypochilidae). American Museum Novitates 2203: 1-14. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Muma, M.H. & Gertsch, W.J. 1964. The spider family Uloboridae in North America north of Mexico. American Museum Novitates 2196: 1-43. Reference page. 

1967

• Gertsch, W.J. 1967. A new liphistiid spider from China (Araneae: Liphistiidae). Journal of The New York Entomological Society 75: 114-118. Reference page. 
• Gertsch, W.J. 1967a. The spider genus Loxosceles in South America (Araneae, Scytodidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 136: 117-174. Reference page. 

1971

• Gertsch, W.J. 1971. A Report on Some Mexican Cave Spiders. Bulletin of the Association for Mexican Cave Studies 4: 47–111. PDF. Reference page. 

1973

• Gertsch, W.J. 1973. A report on cave spiders from Mexico and Central America. Bulletin of the Association for Mexican Cave Studies 5: 141–163. full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Gertsch, W.J. 1973. The cavernicolous fauna of Hawaiian lava tubes, 3. Araneae (spiders). Pacific insects 15: 163–180. Reference page. 

1975

• Gertsch, W.J. & Platnick, N.I. 1975. A revision of the trapdoor spider genus Cyclocosmia (Araneae, Ctenizidae). American Museum novitates 2580: 1-20. Reference page. 

1976

• Gertsch, W.J. & Riechert, S.E. 1976. The spatial and temporal partitioning of a desert spider community, with descriptions of new species. American Museum Novitates 2604: 1-25. Reference page. 

1977

• Gertsch, W.J. 1977. On two ricinuleids from the Yucatan Peninsula (Arachnida: Ricinulei). Bulletin of the Association for Mexican Cave Studies 6: 133-138. Reference page. 
• Gertsch, W.J. 1977a. Report on cavernicole and epigean spiders from the Yucatan peninsula. Association for Mexican Cave Studies Bulletin 6: 103-131. Reference page. 

1979

• Gertsch, W.J. & Platnick 1979. A revision of the spider family Mecicobothriidae (Araneae, Mygalomorphae). American Museum Novitates 2687: 1-32. Reference page. 

1980

• Gertsch, W.J. & Platnick, N.I. 1980. A revision of the American spiders of the family Atypidae (Araneae, Mygalomorphae). American Museum novitates 2704. Handle. Reference page. 

1982

• Gertsch, W.J. 1982. The troglobitic mygalomorphs of the Americas (Arachnida, Araneae). Association for Mexican Cave Studies Bulletin 8: 79–94. full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Gertsch, W.J. 1982a. The spider genera Pholcophora and Anopsicus (Araneae, Pholcidae) in North America, Central America and the West Indies. Association for Mexican Cave Studies Bulletin 8: 95–144. full article (PDF). Reference page. 

1983

• Gertsch, W.J. & Ennik, F. 1983. The spider genus Loxosceles in North America, Central America, and the West Indies (Araneae, Loxoscelidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 175: 264-360. Reference page. 

1984

• Gertsch, W.J. 1984. The spider family Nesticidae (Araneae) in North America, Central America, and the West Indies. Bulletin of the Texas Memorial Museum 31: 1–91. Abstract and full article (PDF). Reference page. 

1986

• Gertsch, W.J. 1986. The spider genus Metagonia (Araneae: Pholcidae) in North America, Central America and the West Indies. Texas Memorial Museum, speleological monographs 1: 39-62. Reference page. 

1992

• Gertsch, W.J. & Peck, S.B. 1992. The pholcid spiders of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador (Araneae: Pholcidae). Canadian Journal of Zoology 70: 1185–1199. Reference page.