Johann Kaspar Füssli
Swiss entomologist
Died when: 43 years 56 days (517 months)Star Sign: Pisces
Johann Kaspar Füssli, also written Johann Caspar Fuesslins or Fuessly (9 March 1743 – 4 May 1786), was a Swiss painter, entomologist and publisher.
He was born in Zurich, the son of Johann Caspar Füssli (1706–1782) and Anna Elisabeth Waser.He was thus the brother of Henry Fuseli (Johann Heinrich Füssli, 1745–1825).He married twice: to Verena Störi in 1770, and Anna Elisabeth Kilchsperger in 1774.
The only spider species he described (as Fuesslin, 1775) is the "daddy long-legs spider", Pholcus phalangioides, also known as "cellar spider".
He died, aged 43, in Winterthur.
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