María Elena Galiano

María Elena Galiano (1928 – October 30, 2000)[1] was an Argentine arachnologist.

She was one of the leading taxonomists of Neotropical jumping spiders.

[2] Galiano worked at the Bernardino Rivadavia Natural Sciences Museum in Buenos Aires.

[4] The genera Galianora and Galianoella are named in her honor.

[2][5] Galiano described numerous species and genera of spiders.

Portrait of the Argentinian arachnologist María Elena Galiano, specialist in subtropical spiders.