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Wilton Ivie

American arachnologist

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American arachnologist

Field	Value
name	Wilton Ivie
birth_name	Vaine Wilton Ivie
caption	Wilton Ivie (right) with Howard Scott, Director-in-Chief of Technocracy Incorporated
birth_date	March 28, 1907
birth_place	Eureka, Utah, U.S.
death_date	August 8, 1969 (aged 62)
death_place	Kansas, U.S.
fields	Arachnology
workplaces	University of Utah
alma_mater	University of Utah
academic_advisors	Ralph Vary Chamberlin
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children	Larry Ivie

Vaine Wilton Ivie (March 28, 1907 – August 8, 1969) was an American arachnologist, who described hundreds of new species and many new genera of spiders, both under his own name and in collaboration with Ralph Vary Chamberlin. He was employed by the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He also was a supporter of the Technocracy movement.

Biography

Wilton Ivie was born in Eureka, Utah on March 28, 1907. He attended the University of Utah earning a BSc in 1930 and an MSc in 1932, working under Ralph V. Chamberlin. He remained at Utah as an instructor in zoology from 1932 to 1947, during which time he continued to work on spiders.

For the last nine years of his life he worked at the American Museum of Natural History. He died as a result of an auto accident in Kansas on 8 August 1969, during an expedition for the American Museum of Natural History.

Taxonomic works

Ivie published many texts of information on spiders, often with Chamberlin, for example, New tarantulas from the southwestern states, 1939, and New spiders from Mexico and Panama, in which species described or mentioned include Aphonopelma iodius, Aphonopelma moderatum, Aphonopelma radinum, Aphonopelma vorhiesi and Brachypelma embrithes.

Other works:

The Scientific Attitude
Some New Spiders from Ohio (five species described).
Journal of the New York Entomological Society 1967 New York Entomological Society by Wilton Ivie: New synonyms of one genus and twenty-four species, as well as twenty-one new combinations and a few other notes pertaining to American spiders, most of them in the family Linyphiidae, particularly the sub-family Erigoninae, are recorded.
Man and the Nature of Things: Wilton Ivie 1954

Technocracy movement

He was a member of Technocracy from 1937, serving on the staff at CHQ as Director of Publications. He was the author of Comments on the News which appeared monthly in Technocratic Trendevents, and wrote numerous articles, some under the pseudonym Techno Critic, in addition to the numerous articles under his own name.

Taxa named in his honor

Iviella Lehtinen, 1967
Aphonopelma iviei Smith, 1995 – now a synonym of Aphonopelma iodius

References

Behle, William H.. (1990). "Utah Birds: Historical Perspectives and Bibliography". Utah Museum of Natural History, University of Utah.
Smith, Andrew M.. (1995). "Tarantula Spiders: Tarantulas of the U.S.A. and Mexico". Fitzgerald Publishing.
"ALEEN IVIE Obituary (2010) Deseret News".
"Wilton Ivie".
Ivie, Wilton. "The Scientific Attitude".
(January 1942). "SOME NEW SPIDERS FROM OHIO".
Ivie, Wilton. (1 January 1967). "Some Synonyms in American Spiders". Journal of the New York Entomological Society.
Daastoel, Arno Mong. "Production Capitalism vs".
(19 August 2002). "Technocracy Incorporated".

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