Eugène Simon (April 30, 1848 - November 17, 1924) was a French arachnologist. Events 313 - Roman emperor Licinius unifies the entire Eastern Roman Empire under his rule Year 1848 ( MDCCCXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap Events 284 - Diocletian is proclaimed emperor by his soldiers Year 1924 ( MCMXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Arachnology (from Greek grc ἀράχνη arachnē, "spider" and grc -λογία -logia) is the scientific study of His many taxonomic contributions include categorizing and naming many spiders, as well as creating genera such as Anelosimus, Psellocoptus and Phlogius. Taxonomy is the practice and science of classification The word comes from the Greek, taxis (meaning 'order' 'arrangement' and, nomos Spiders are Predatory Invertebrate Animals that have two body segments, eight legs no chewing mouth parts and no wings A genus (plural genera from Γένος Latin genus "descent family type gender" is a low-level Taxonomic Anelosimus is a Genus of tangle-foot spiders ( Theridiidae) described by Eugène Simon, in 1891 from Venezuela to include the South American Social Psellocoptus is a genus of running spiders (family Corinnidae, formerly Clubionidae) that is endemic to Venezuela.