# William Frederick Purcell

William Frederick Purcell, abreviat Purcell, (Londres, 18 de setembre de 1866 - Ciutat del Cap, 3 d'octubre de 1919) fou un aracnòleg i zoòleg sud-africà. És considerat el fundador de l'aracnologia moderna dins Sud-àfrica.
Purcell Va ser el primer zoòleg sud-africà que va empendre un estudi sistemàtic d'aranyes, enginyant claus i proporcionant descripcions plenes d'espècies. Fins llavors Arthur Stanley Hirst (1883-1930), Pickard-Cambridge i R. I. Pocock del Museu britànic havien anomenat les aranyes que els enviaven ocasionalment de fonts sud-africanes. Especialment Pocock rebia espècimens desconeguts de Natal i Rhodèsia, molts provenien de Selmar Schonland, el professor de botànica a la Rhodes University.

## Tàxons anomenats en honor seu

* Dendryphantes purcelli Peckham & Peckham, 1903
* Euophrys purcelli Peckham & Peckham, 1903
* Hermacha purcelli (Simon, 1903)
* Pellenes purcelli Lessert, 1915
* Spiroctenus purcelli Tucker, 1917
* Stasimopus purcelli Tucker, 1917
* Gandanameno purcelli (Tucker, 1920)
* Asemesthes purcelli Tucker, 1923
* Drassodella purcelli Tucker, 1923
* Scotophaeus purcelli Tucker, 1923
* Theuma purcelli Tucker, 1923
* Anyphops purcelli (Lawrence, 1940)
* Trabea purcelli Roewer, 1951

## Tàxons descrits

| Avellopsis Purcell, 1904 Avellopsis capensis Purcell, 1904 Calculus Purcell, 1910 Calculus bicolor Purcell, 1910 Chelypus Purcell, 1902 Chelypus barberi Purcell, 1902 Chelypus wuehlischi Purcell, 1902 Ctenolophus Purcell, 1904 Ctenolophus cregoei (Purcell, 1902) Ctenolophus kolbei (Purcell, 1902) Ctenolophus pectinipalpis (Purcell, 1903) Ctenolophus spiricola (Purcell, 1903) Diaphractus Purcell, 1907 Diaphractus leipoldti Purcell, 1907 Diploglena Purcell, 1904 Diploglena capensis Purcell, 1904 Galeosoma Purcell, 1903 Galeosoma scutatum Purcell, 1903 Gorgyrella Purcell, 1902 Gorgyrella namaquensis Purcell, 1902 Gorgyrella schreineri Purcell, 1903 Harpactirella Purcell, 1902 Harpactirella domicola Purcell, 1903 Harpactirella helenae Purcell, 1903 Harpactirella karrooica Purcell, 1902 Harpactirella lapidaria Purcell, 1908 Harpactirella lightfooti Purcell, 1902 Harpactirella longipes Purcell, 1902 Harpactirella magna Purcell, 1903 Harpactirella schwarzi Purcell, 1904 Harpactirella spinosa Purcell, 1908 Harpactirella treleaveni Purcell, 1902 Hottentotta arenaceus (Purcell, 1902) Lepthercus Purcell, 1902 Lepthercus dregei Purcell, 1902 Lipophaga Purcell, 1903 Lipophaga trispinosa Purcell, 1903 Matundua silvatica (Purcell, 1904) Melanoblossia Purcell, 1903 Melanoblossia braunsi Purcell, 1903 Melanoblossia globiceps Purcell, 1903 Opistophthalmus ater Purcell, 1898 Opistophthalmus crassimanus Purcell, 1899 Opistophthalmus flavescens Purcell, 1898 Opistophthalmus fossor Purcell, 1898 Opistophthalmus fuscipes Purcell, 1899 Opistophthalmus gigas Purcell, 1898 | Opistophthalmus granicauda Purcell, 1898 Opistophthalmus karrooensis Purcell, 1898 Opistophthalmus laticauda Purcell, 1898 Opistophthalmus leipoldti Purcell, 1898 Opistophthalmus longicauda Purcell, 1899 Opistophthalmus pattisoni Purcell, 1899 Opistophthalmus peringueyi Purcell, 1898 Opistophthalmus schlechteri Purcell, 1898 Phrynichodamon scullyi (Purcell, 1902) Pionothele Purcell, 1902 Pionothele straminea Purcell, 1902 Proevippa Purcell, 1903 Proevippa biampliata (Purcell, 1903) Proevippa bruneipes (Purcell, 1903) Proevippa fascicularis (Purcell, 1903) Proevippa lightfooti Purcell, 1903 Proevippa schreineri (Purcell, 1903) Pterartoria Purcell, 1903 Pterartoria arbuscula (Purcell, 1903) Pterartoria fissivittata Purcell, 1903 Pterartoria flavolimbata Purcell, 1903 Pterartoria polysticta Purcell, 1903 Seothyra Purcell, 1903 Seothyra fasciata Purcell, 1904 Seothyra schreineri Purcell, 1903 Toreus Purcell, 1903 Toreus capensis (Purcell, 1899) Xerophaeus Purcell, 1907 Xerophaeus ahenus Purcell, 1908 Xerophaeus appendiculatus Purcell, 1907 Xerophaeus aridus Purcell, 1907 Xerophaeus aurariarum Purcell, 1907 Xerophaeus capensis Purcell, 1907 Xerophaeus communis Purcell, 1907 Xerophaeus crustosus Purcell, 1907 Xerophaeus exiguus Purcell, 1907 Xerophaeus flavescens Purcell, 1907 Xerophaeus hottentottus Purcell, 1908 Xerophaeus lightfooti Purcell, 1907 Xerophaeus longispinus Purcell, 1908 Xerophaeus lunulifer Purcell, 1907 Xerophaeus patricki Purcell, 1907 Xerophaeus perversus Purcell, 1923 Xerophaeus rostratus Purcell, 1907 Xerophaeus spiralifer Purcell, 1907 Xerophaeus spoliator Purcell, 1907 |