The Arachnology Lab, headed by Lorenzo Prendini, Associate Curator (Arachnids and Myriapods), includes permanent specialists, various laboratory assistants, postdoctoral fellows, and Ph.D. students. Every year, the Group accommodates several visiting scientists, undergraduate students, high school students, and volunteers.


2019
AMNH Arachnology Lab Group, fall 2019. From Left to Right: George Tsinias, Jairo Moreno, Lorenzo Prendini, Stephanie Loria, Valentin Ehrernthal, Eleanor Goetz, Pio Colmenares, Miryam Trujillo, Ricardo Botero-Trujillo.







2015
AMNH Arachnology Lab Group, July 2019. From Left to Right: Elena Babicz, Andria Santos da Silva, Stephanie Loria, Pio Colmenares, Colby Sain, Lorenzo Prendini, Jairo Andres Moreno, Ricardo Botero-Trujillo.







2015
AMNH Arachnology Lab Group, August 2018. From Left to Right: Stephanie Loria, Max Roppo, Lorenzo Prendini, Diogo Casellato, Lou Sorkin, Pio Colmenares, Deborah Chin, Victoria Long, Jayson Slovak.







2015
AMNH Arachnology Lab Group, September 2017. From Left to Right: Pio Colmenares, Ivan Magalh�es, Lorenzo Prendini, Tebogo Lebwada, Lou Sorkin, Gerardo Contreras, Rodrigo Monjaraz-Ruedas.





2015
AMNH Arachnology Lab Group, August 2017. From Left to Right: Stephanie Loria, Lorenzo Prendini, Pio Colmenares, Jayson Slovak, Deborah Chin.



2015
AMNH Arachnology Lab Group, August 2015. From Left to Right: Lorenzo Prendini, Gustavo Miranda, Debbie Alwill, Diogo Casellato (back), Stephanie Loria, Bastian-Jesper Klu�mann-Fricke (back), Michelle Locke, Chelsea Silva, and Billy Conlan.



2015
AMNH Arachnology Lab Group, January 2015. From Left to Right: Michelle Locke, Lorenzo Prendini and Stephanie Loria.



2013
AMNH Arachnology Lab Group, August 2013. From Left to Right: Pam Horsely, Stephanie Loria, Lorenzo Prendini, Massimiliano Roppo and Muhammad Tahir.



2011
AMNH Arachnology Lab Group, August 2011. From Left to Right: Stephanie Loria, Adam Getzler, Ofelia Delgado, Edmundo Gonzalez, Carlos Santibanez, Lorenzo Prendini, and Randy Mercurio.



our group
AMNH Arachnology Lab Group, 2006. Clockwise from top left: Jeremy Huff, Erich Volschenk, Lionel Monod, Edmundo Gonzalez, Lorenzo Prendini, Valerio Vignoli, Ofelia Delgado, Monica Mosier, Lauren Esposito, Camilo Mattoni, and Randy Mercurio.



Scorpion Biologists ICA 2007
Scorpion Biologists ICA, 2007. Clockwise from top left: Carsten Kamenz, Mingsheng Zhu, Edmundo Gonzalez, Roger Farley, Erich Volschenk, Lauren Esposito, Camilo Mattoni, Lorenzo Prendini, Oscar Francke, Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha, Warren Savary, Jeremy Huff, and Jason Dunlop.



BSI Solifugae Meeting at DMNS 2007

BSI Solifugae Meeting at DMNS (October 2007). From left to right: Kristie Reddick (TAMU), Bob Wharton (TAMU), Warren Savary (CAS), Aaron Spriggs (DMNS), Tharina Bird (NMNW/CSU), Paula Cushing (DMNS), Lorenzo Prendini (AMNH), Sasha Gromov (IZAK), Jack Brookhart (DMNS).



AToL Morphology Scoring Party

AToL Morphology Scoring Party at Smithsonian USNM (December 2008). From left to right: Petra Sierwald (FMNH), Jonathan Coddington (USNM), Lorenzo Prendini (AMNH), Gustavo Hormiga (GWU), Charles Griswold (CAS).