Herbert Walter Levi

He was born in Germany, and was educated there and at Leighton Park School, Reading in England.

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".

[5] The pseudoscorpion genus Levichelifer,[6] the spider species Anisaedus levii[7] and the whip spider species Phrynus levii[8] are named in his honor.

Herbert Walter Levi at his scope