Tord Tamerlan Teodor Thorell (May 3, 1830 - December 22, 1901) was a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 arachnologist.

Thorell studied spiders with Giacomo Doria

Giacomo Doria

Marquis Giacomo Doria was an Italian naturalist and politician.He was the founder of the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Genoa in 1867, and director from then until his death...

 at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale de Genoa

Genoa

Genoa |Ligurian]] Zena ; Latin and, archaically, English Genua) is a city and an important seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria....

. He corresponded with other arachnologists, such as Octavius Pickard-Cambridge

Octavius Pickard-Cambridge

The Reverend Octavius Pickard-Cambridge FRS was an English clergyman and zoologist.Pickard-Cambridge was born in Bloxworth rectory, Dorset, the fifth son of Revd George Pickard, rector and squire of Bloxworth: the family changed their name to Pickard-Cambridge in 1848...

, Eugène Simon

Eugène Simon

Eugène Simon was a French arachnologist. His many taxonomic contributions include categorizing and naming many spiders, as well as creating genera such as Anelosimus, Psellocoptus and Phlogius....

 and Thomas Workman

Thomas Workman

Thomas Workman was an Irish entomologist and arachnologist who travelled widely collecting butterflies and studying spiders. He is best known for his book Malaysian Spiders, published in 1896, in which he described several new species....

.

He described more than 1,000 spider species during his time from the 1850 to 1900.

Thorell wrote two significant works: On European Spiders (1869) and Synonym of European Spiders (1870-73).

Taxonomic honors

The Orb-weaver spider

Orb-weaver spider

The "typical" orb-weaver spiders are the most common group of builders of spiral wheel-shaped webs often found in gardens, fields and forests...

 genus Thorellina and the jumping spider

Jumping spider

The jumping spider family contains more than 500 described genera and about 5,000 described species, making it the largest family of spiders with about 13% of all species. Jumping spiders have some of the best vision among invertebrates and use it in courtship, hunting and navigation...

 genus Thorelliola

Thorelliola

Thorelliola is a spider genus of the Salticidae family .-Species:* Thorelliola biapophysis Gardzinska & Patoleta, 1997 * Thorelliola cyrano Szüts & De Bakker, 2004...

are named after him, as well as about 30 species of spiders:

• Araneus thorelli (Roewer, 1942) (Myanmar) (Araneidae)
• Gasteracantha thorelli Keyserling, 1864 (Madagascar) (Araneidae)
• Leviellus thorelli (Ausserer, 1871) (Europe) (Araneidae)
• Mandjelia thorelli (Raven, 1990) (Queensland) (Barychelidae
  Barychelidae
  The Brushed trapdoor spiders are a spider family with about 300 species in 44 general. This family is the only family in superfamily Barycheloidea....
  
  )
• Clubiona thorelli Roewer, 1951 (Sumatra) (Clubionidae)
• Malamatidia thorelli Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 (Sulawesi) (Clubionidae)
• Corinnomma thorelli Simon, 1905 (Java) (Corinnidae)
• Ctenus thorelli F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1897 (Sri Lanka) (Ctenidae)
• Zelotes thorelli Simon, 1914 (Southern Europe) (Gnaphosidae)
• Hypochilus thorelli Marx, 1888 (USA) (Hypochilidae)
• Idiops thorelli O. P.-Cambridge, 1870 (South Africa) (Idiopidae
  Idiopidae
  Idiopidae Idiopidae Idiopidae (superfamily Idiopoidea are a mygalomorph spider family. They have a large body that often looks rather like a tarantula.-Description:In some species the males have a spur on their legs, which they will show if provoked....
  
  )
• Trichopterna thorelli (Westring, 1861) (Palearctic) (Linyphiidae
  Linyphiidae
  Linyphiidae is a family of spiders, including more than 4,300 described species in 578 genera worldwide. This makes Linyphiidae the second largest family of spiders after the Salticidae. New species are still being discovered throughout the world, and the family is poorly known...
  
  )
• Lycosa thorelli (Keyserling, 1877) (Colombia to Argentina) (Lycosidae)
• Lycosula thorelli (Berland, 1929) (Samoa, Marquesas Is.) (Lycosidae)
• Pardosa thorelli (Collett, 1876) (Norway) (Lycosidae)
• Mecicobothrium thorelli Holmberg, 1882 (Argentina, Uruguay) (Mecicobothriidae)
• Miturga thorelli Simon, 1909 (Western Australia) (Miturgidae)
• Spermophora thorelli Roewer, 1942 (Myanmar) (Pholcidae)
• Cispius thorelli Blandin, 1978 (Congo) (Pisauridae)
• Bavia thorelli Simon, 1901 (Sulawesi) (Salticidae)
• Pancorius thorelli (Simon, 1899) (Sumatra) (Salticidae)
• Talavera thorelli (Kulczyn'ski, 1891) (Palearctic) (Salticidae)
• Pseudopoda thorelli J�er, 2001 (Myanmar) (Sparassidae)
• Afroblemma thorelli (Brignoli, 1974) (Angola, Tanzania) (Tetrablemmidae
  Tetrablemmidae
  The Tetrablemmidae are a spider family with 126 described species in 29 genera that occur throughout the world tropics. They are sometimes called armored spiders....
  
  )
• Mesida thorelli (Blackwall, 1877) (Seychelles) (Tetragnathidae)
• Chilobrachys thorelli Pocock, 1900 (India) (Theraphosidae)
• Cyriopagopus thorelli (Simon, 1901) (Malaysia) (Theraphosidae)
• Helvibis thorelli Keyserling, 1884 (Peru, Brazil) (Theridiidae
  Theridiidae
  Theridiidae is a large family of spiders, also known as the tangle-web spiders, cobweb spiders and comb-footed spiders. The diverse family includes over 2200 species in over 100 genera) of three-dimensional space-web-builders found throughout the world...
  
  )
• Theridion thorelli L. Koch, 1865 (New South Wales) (Theridiidae
  Theridiidae
  Theridiidae is a large family of spiders, also known as the tangle-web spiders, cobweb spiders and comb-footed spiders. The diverse family includes over 2200 species in over 100 genera) of three-dimensional space-web-builders found throughout the world...
  
  )
• Tmarus thorelli Comellini, 1955 (Congo) (Thomisidae)