Volker W. Framenau

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{{short description|German-born Australian arachnologist}}

Volker W. Framenau (born 1965, Cologne){{citation needed|date=September 2023}} is a German-born Australian arachnologist and entomologist.

He earned his M.Sc. in 1995 from Philipps-University Marburg (Populationsökologie und Ausbreitungsdynamik von Arctosa cinerea (Araneae, Lycosidae) in einer alpinen Wildflußlandschaft), and a Ph.D from Melbourne University in 2002 with the thesis Taxonomy, life history characteristics, and ecology of riparian wolf spiders (Araneae, Lycosidae) in the Victorian Alps, south-east Australia.{{Cite web|title=Volker W Framenau|url=http://publicationslist.org/volker.framenau|access-date=2021-10-28|website=publicationslist.org}}

His zoological author abbreviation is Framenau.{{Cite web |title=Genus Telaprocera Harmer & Framenau, 2008 |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/Telaprocera |access-date=2023-09-24 |website=Australian Faunal Directory |publisher=Australian Government}} He has authored over 70 taxa, initially specialising in wolf spiders,{{Cite Q|QQ59678080}}{{Cite Q|Q56166790}} but later in many other spider families including: tube web spiders (Segestriidae),{{cite Q|Q116674244}} leaf curling orb-weaving spiders,{{cite Q|Q114729591)|doi-access=free}} and orb-weaving spiders (Araneidae).{{cite Q|Q122451297)|doi-access=free}}

He is currently a senior lecturer at Murdoch University in the centre for Biosecurity and One Health, Harry Butler Institute, Murdoch University, where his specialities are listed as: Animal systematics and taxonomy, Biosecurity, Arachnida, Myriapoda and Macrophotography.{{Cite web |title=Volker W. Framenau |publisher=Murdoch University |url=https://researchportal.murdoch.edu.au/esploro/profile/volker_framenau/overview |access-date=2023-09-24}}