Niklas Westring (13 November 1797, in Gothenburg – 28 January 1882) was a Swedish entomologist and arachnologist.
[1] He is best known for his book Araneae suecicae descriptae in 1862 in which he described 308 species of spider found in Sweden.
He appears to have been something of a mentor to Tamerlan Thorell who lived in Gothernborg until he went to university at Uppsala and was familiar with Westring's collection of spiders and how to identify them since he had been a schoolboy.
He did not have any children but appears to have fostered a relative of his wife, Johan Peterson, to whom he left the bulk of his estate.
When he died he bequeathed his collections of specimens and library to the Göteborg Natural History Museum.