Anna Sophia (Ansie) Dippenaar-Schoeman, South African arachnologist (Roodepoort, Gauteng Province 13 October 1948 –

Recognized as international leader on the family Thomisidae

Proved the importance of spiders in biological control of agrosystems (1974)

A simple technique to study feeding behaviour of spiders on mites. Bull. Brit. Arachn. Soc. 4:349, 1979

President, International Society of Arachnology (2004-7) the first woman to be  

DESCRIBED

Valid Genera

Cheiramona 1999 with Lotz

Griswoldia 1997 with Jocqué

Tyrotama 2005 with Foord

Species

96

HONORS (Arachnida)

Ansiea Lehtinen 2004

Ansienulina Wesolowska 2015

Ansistaria Sherwood 2022

Dippenaaria Wunderlich 1995