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64  NachrufeIn memoriam RNDr. Ing. Ludĕk J. Dobroruka, 1933-2004Arachnological BibliographyDOBRORUKA L.J. (1995): Utilization of silk, use of webs, and predatory behaviour of the jumping spider Pseud-icius encarpatus (Araneida: Salticidae). - Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem. 59: 141-144DOBRORUKA L.J. (1997): Predatory behaviour of four species of jumping spiders of the genus Evarcha (Araneae: Salticidae). - Acta Soc. Zool. Bohem. 61: 279-285DOBRORUKA L.J. (2001a): Notes on the occurrence of the jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) in the Podyjí National Park. - Klapalekiana 37: 37-39DOBRORUKA L.J. (2001b): Pseudicius epiblemoides (Ara-neae: Salticidae) in Central Europe. - Arachnol. Mitt. 22: 50-54DOBRORUKA L.J. (2002a): Notes on a collection of jumping spiders from Greece, mainly from Crete (Araneae: Salticidae). - Biologia Gallo-hellenica 28: 5-26DOBRORUKA L.J. (2002b): Zajímavé a vzácné nálezy ská-kavek (Araneae: Salticidae) okolí Brna. Interesting and rare records of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of the vicinity of Brno. - Sborník Přírodovĕdného klubu v Uh. Hradišti 7: 89-90 (in Czech, English summary)DOBRORUKA L.J. (2004a): Notes on Croatian jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from Dalmatia and from the Kvarner. - Nat. Croat. 13: 35-45DOBRORUKA , L. J. (2004b): One new species and one new record of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from India. - Acta Arachnologica Sinica 13: 14-17Vlastimil Růžička, ISA correspondent,České Budĕjovice, Czech RepublicLudĕk Dobroruka was born on the 20th October, 1933 in Prague. He was educated in the Faculty of Natural Sciences, Charles University, and sub-sequently in the Faculty of Agronomy, University of Agriculture, Prague. Ludĕk was a very compre-hensive zoologist whose research interests included both vertebrates and invertebrates.  Ludĕk Dobroruka worked in the zoo in Prague and Dvůr Králové nad Labem for thirty-ﬁve years. He was especially keen on studying ungulates, primates, and leopards. Dobroruka took part in several expeditions to Africa, where he organised the capture of wild animals for the Zoo. He gave many lectures, translated and wrote several books, etc. Dobroruka was also interested in the study of centipedes (description of 37 new species), Sym-phyla, and Pauropoda.  Ludĕk was interested in the jumping spiders (or salticids), particularly their ethology. He studied the predatory behaviour of several Evarcha species and also the building of prey-capture webs by Pseudicius encarpatus. Ludĕk was the ﬁrst to record Pseudicius epiblemoides from the spider fauna of the Czech Republic. In the new millenium, Ludĕk began ex-amining specimens from his own collecting trips to Spain, Corsica, Croatia, Greece, Crete, and Tunisia. He described three new salticid species from Greece and Crete (DOBRORUKA 2002a) and one new salticid species from India (DOBRORUKA 2004b). Unfortunately, this work remained unﬁ-nished. Ludĕk Dobroruka died suddenly on the 4 July, 2004 in Dvůr Králové nad Labem. His spider collection will be deposited in the National Muse-um in Prague.

In memoriam RNDr. Ing. Ludek J. Dobroruka, 1933 - 2004

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