Anton Polenec (1910 to 2000) was a Slovene zoologist and specialist arachnologist, born in Pustal near Skofja Loka. He studied at the University of Ljubljana, later taught zoology there and headed the Natural History Museum of Slovenia from 1955 to 1980. He studied and described over 500 species of spiders, including a new genus Centrophantes, and the spider genus Polenecia is named after him. Besides his scientific work he wrote many popular science books for young readers and twice won the Levstik Award, in 1950 for The Lives of Insects and in 1952 for The Life of Spiders.
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