Elizabeth B. Bryant

Elizabeth Bangs Bryant (April 7, 1875 – January 6, 1953) was an American arachnologist. She worked at the Museum of Comparative Zoology in Cambridge, Massachusetts and was a close acquaintance of James Henry Emerton.[1] She is best known for her studies of the spiders of New England and the Caribbean.

Taxa described

Bryant named and described the following spider taxa:

• Allodecta Bryant, 1950
• Anasaitis Bryant, 1950
• Antillognatha Bryant, 1945
• Hispanognatha Bryant, 1945
• Dinattus Bryant, 1943
• Modisimus fuscus Bryant, 1948
• Paradecta Bryant, 1950

Taxa named in her honor

• Bryantella (Chickering, 1946)
• Bryantina (Brignoli, 1985)

Publications

• 1908 List of Araneina in Fauna of New England, 9. Occ. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 7, pp. 1–105.
• 1923 Report on the spiders collected by the Barbados-Antigua Expedition from the University of Iowa in 1918. Univ. Iowa Stud. in Nat. Hist., vol. 10, pp. 10–16.
• 1930 A revision of the American species oi the genus Ozyptila. Psyche, vol. 37, pp. 375–391.
• 1930 New species of the genus Xysticus, (Arachnida). Psyche, vol. 37, pp. 132–140.
• 1931 Notes on North American Anyphaeninae in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Psyche, vol. 38, pp. 102–126.
• 1933 New and little known spiders from the United States. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 74, pp. 171–193.
• 1933 Notes on types of Urquhart’s spiders. Rec. Canterbury Mus., vol. 4, pp. 1–27.
• 1934 New Lycosidae from Florida. Psyche, vol. 41, pp. 38–41.
• 1935 Notes on some of Urquhart’s species of spiders. Rec. Canterbury Mus., vol. 4, pp. 53–70.
• 1935 Some new and little known species of New Zealand spiders. Rec. Canterbury Mus., vol. 4, pp. 71–94.
• 1935 A few southern spiders, Psyche, vol. 42, pp. 73–83.
• 1935 A rare spider. Psyche, vol. 42, pp. 163–166.
• 1936 New species of southern spiders. Psyche, vol. 43, pp. 87–100.
• 1936 Descriptions of some new species of Cuban spiders. Mem. Soc. Cubana Hist. Nat., vol. 10, pp. 325–332.
• 1938 Spiders in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard Alumni Bull., Feb. 25.
• 1940 Notes on Epeira pentagona Hentz. Psyche, vol. 47, pp. 60–65 (with A. F. Archer).
• 1940 Cuban spiders in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 86, pp. 247–532.
• 1941 Notes on the spider fauna of New England. Psyche, vol. 48, pp. 129–146.
• 1942 Notes on the spiders of the Virgin Islands. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 89, pp. 317–363.
• 1942 Additions to the spider iauna of Puerto Rico. Jour. Agr. Univ. Puerto Rico, vol. 26, pp. 1–19.
• 1942 Descriptions of certain North American Phidippus (Araneae). Amer. Midland Nat., vol. 28, pp. 693–707.
• 1943 The salticid spiders of Hispaniola. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 92, pp. 443–522.
• 1943 Notes on Dictyolathys maculata Banks (Araneae: Dictynidae). Psyche, vol. 50, pp. 83–86.
• 1944 Three species of Coleosoma from Florida (Araneae: Theridiidae). Psyche, vol. 51, pp. 51–58.
• 1945 The Argiopidae of Hispaniola. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol 95, pp. 357–418.
• 1945 Notes on some Florida spiders. Trans. Connecticut Acad. Sci., vol. 36, pp. 199–213.
• 1945 Some new and little known southern spiders, Psyche, vol. 52, pp. 178–192.
• 1946 The genotype of Mimetus Hentz. Psyche, vol. 53, p. 48.
• 1947 A list of spiders from Mona Island with descriptions of new and little known species. Psyche, vol. 54, pp. 86–89.
• 1947 Notes on spiders from Puerto Rico. Psyche, vol. 54, pp. 183–193.
• 1948 The spiders of Hispaniola. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 100, pp. 329–447.
• 1948 Some spiders from Acapulco, Mexico. Psyche, vol. 55, pp. 55–77.
• 1949 The male of Prodidomus rufus Hentz (Prodidomidae, Araneae). Psyche, vol. 56, pp. 22–25.
• 1949 A new genus and species of Theridiidae rom eastern Texas (Araneae). Psyche, vol. 56, pp. 66–69.
• 1949 The "Iris spider" of Kent Island. Bull. Ninth Annual Rep., Bowdoin Sci. Sta. no. 11, pp. 14–15
• 1949 Acanthepeira venusta (Banks) (Araneae). Psyche, vol. 56, pp. 175–179.
• 1950 The salticid spiders of Jamaica. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 103, pp. 161–209.
• 1951 Redescription of Cheiracanthium mildei L. Koch, a recent spider immigrant from Europe. Psyche, vol. 58, pp. :20-123.

References

1. Deichmann, Elisabeth (1958). "Elizabeth Bangs Bryant", Psyche, 65, pp. 3-13.