Hans Henderickx (1961–2016) was a Belgian entomologist specializing in Invertebrates born in Mol, Belgium.
Biography
He started in 1984 as researcher in the Life Sciences electron microscope department of Janssen Pharmaceutica (Johnson & Johnson). Initially, he trained in the spearheading technologies regarding digital medical imaging. In 2003 he became department manager. Under the guidance of Dr Narcisse Leleup (Brussels, Belgium) he focused on invertebrate morphology and faunistics. He authored 81 publications on invertebrate palaeontology, biospeleology and faunistics, many of them pivoting around his unrivaled skills in micro-photography. He described 25 new species from different invertebrate groups, including some extinct species from fossils. Already in 2006 he published -as first one- a paper describing a new arachnid and its external and internal morphology with the novel application of X-ray micro-CT in opaque amber. As researcher, he remained connected to the University Antwerp and the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, until his death in November 2016.
Taxa named by him
Pseudobankesia keersmaekersi Arnscheid, W. & Henderickx, H., 2016
Protofeaella peetersae Henderickx, H. & Boone, M., 2016
Feaella (Tetrafeaella) groehni Henderickx 2014
Eocenoxenos palintropos Henderickx & Bosselaers 2013
Palaeogrosphus jacquesi Lourenço & Henderickx, 2012
Pseudogarypus synchrotron Henderickx, 2012
Allochernes struyvei Henderickx, 2011
Feaella jocquei Henderickx, 2009
Roncus elbulli Zaragoza & Henderickx, 2009
Caenocholax groehni Kathirithamby & Henderickx, 2008
Pseudogarypus pangaea Henderickx, 2006
Geogarypus gorskii Henderickx, 2005
Palaeospinobuthus cenozoicus Lourenco & Henderickx, 2005
Allochernes deceuninckorum, Henderickx & Vets 2003
Savignia naniplopi Bosselaers & Henderickx 2002
Larca bosselaersi Henderickx 2002
Pseudobankesia aphroditae Weidlich & Henderickx 2002
Neobisium epirensis Henderickx & Vets 2000
Neobisium schawalleri Henderickx 2000
Eudarcia verkerki Gaedike & Henderickx, 1999
Pseudobankesia hauseriella Henderickx, 1998
Lasiochernes cretonatus Henderickx 1998
Chthonius minotaurus Henderickx 1997
Pseudobankesia leleupiella Henderickx 1996
Eudarcia atlantica Henderickx 1995
Taxa named after him
Bosselaers, J., 1998: :nl:Nesticus henderickxi (Araneae, Nesticidae), a new blind troglobitic spider from Crete., in Bull. Br. Arachnol. Soc. 11(1): 9–14. Gaedike, R. & Karsholt, O., 2001: Contribution to the Lepidoptera fauna of the Madeira Islands. Part 2. Tineidae, Acrolepiidae, Epermeniidae. — Beiträge zur Entomologie 51 (1): 161–213. (:nl:Monopis henderickxi). Judson, M.L.I., 2003 – Baltic amber pseudoscorpions (Arachnida, Chelonethi): a new species of Neobisium (Neobisiidae) and the status of Obisium rathkii Koch & Berendt. Geodiversitas 25, vol 3 : 445-450 (Neobisium henderickxi :fr:Neobisium) Lourenço, W. 2009. A new sub-fossil scorpion of the genus Microcharmus Lourenço, 1995 from Malagasy copal (Scorpiones, Microcharmidae). Boletin Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa 44: 135–137. (:nl:Microcharmus henderickxi) (http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=287006) Bosselaers, J. 2012. Two interesting new ground spiders (Araneae) from the Canary Islands and Greece." SERKET 13(1/2): 83–90. (:fr:Zelotes (genre)) Hlavac, P., Skuhrovec, J., 2016. Endogean and cavernicolous Coleoptera of the Balkans. XV. A new species of the genus Ioniorhynchus Magrini, Meoli & Abbazzi, 2005 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Entiminae) from Greece. ZOOTAXA 4092 (1): 129–138. (:nl:Ioniorhynchus henderickxi) (https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:Hlav%C3%A1%C4%8D_%26_Skuhrovec,_2016) Arnscheid, W.R., 2016 Taleporia henderickxi sp.n., a new psychid species of the subfamily Taleporiinae from Crete (Lepidoptera, Psychidae). NOTA LEPID.
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