Spiders
He became a pioneering zoologist in the field of arachnology. He first described 124 spider species, and, as is custom in binomial naming, species are noted with the name and year of the person who first classified them. A few spiders of note Hentz classified are the Yellow sac spider and the Southern house spider.
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