Christa Laetitia Deeleman-Reinhold (born 23 November 1930)[1] is a Dutch arachnologist.

[2] In addition to numerous articles, she has written the book Forest Spiders of South East Asia (2001).

Her family returned to the Netherlands in 1935, and she entered Leiden University in 1949. after three years she began working at entered the Dutch National Museum of Natural History, studying mantises under museum director Hilbrand Boschma.

She was married to businessman Paul Robert Deeleman, who accompanied her on multiple collecting expeditions to Yugoslavia and Southeast Asia.

[1] Her husband died in 1989,[4] and she spent the next decade working on her mangum opus, Forest Spiders of South East Asia (2001), a nearly-600 page work in which she revised six spider families, describing 18 new genera and 115 new species.