Herbert Walter Levi (January 3, 1921 – November 3, 2014) was professor emeritus of zoology and curator of arachnology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University.
He was born in Germany, and was educated there and at Leighton Park School, Reading in England. He then received his higher education at the University of Connecticut and the University of Wisconsin. Levi authored about 150 scientific papers on spiders and on biological conservation. He is the author of the popular Golden Guide Spiders and their Kin, with Lorna Rose Levi (his wife) and Herbert Zim.
Levi received the 2007 Eugene Simon Award from the International Society of Arachnology "for his immense influence on US spider research".ISA awards , International Society of Arachnology. Accessed June 29, 2011 He was an elected honorary member of the American Arachnological Society.Honorary Members of the American Arachnological Society , American Arachnological Society. Accessed June 29, 2011
Levi was an editorial board member for the Journal of Arachnology.Editors and Editorial Board , Journal of Arachnology, American Arachnological Society. Accessed June 29, 2011
The pseudoscorpion genus Levichelifer,C. Clayton Hoff (1946). The pseudoscorpion tribe Cheliferini. Bulletin of the Chicago Academy of Sciences vol. 7, pp. 485–490 the spider species Anisaedus leviiArthur M. Chickering, New Species of Palpimanidae (Araneae) from the West Indies, Psyche, vol. 73 (1966), pp. 208-216 and the whip spider species Phrynus leviiD. Quintero, The amblypygid genus Phrynus in the Americas (Amblypygi, Phrynidae) , Journal of Arachnology, vol. 9 (1981), no. 2, pp. 117-166; p. 143 are named in his honor.
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External links Herb Levi , Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University