Tord Tamerlan Teodor Thorell (3 May 1830 – 22 December 1901) was a Swedish arachnologist.
Thorell studied spiders with Giacomo Doria at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale de Genoa. He corresponded with other arachnologists, such as Octavius Pickard-Cambridge, Eugène Simon and Thomas Workman.
He described more than 1,000 spider species during his time from the 1850s to 1900.
Thorell wrote: On European Spiders (1869) and Synonym of European Spiders (1870-73).
Taxonomic honors
The Orb-weaver spider genus Thorellina and the jumping spider genus Thorelliola 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) 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) Trichopterna thorelli (Westring, 1861) (Palearctic) (Linyphiidae) 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 Jäger, 2001 (Myanmar) (Sparassidae) Afroblemma thorelli (Brignoli, 1974) (Angola, Tanzania) (Tetrablemmidae) 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) Theridion thorelli L. Koch, 1865 (New South Wales) (Theridiidae) Tmarus thorelli Comellini, 1955 (Congo) (Thomisidae)