The Sector staff

Vladimir Yurievich Savitsky

Head of the Entomology Sector, Senior Researcher, curator of collections of Coleoptera, Orthopteroidea, Neuropteroidea, Hemiptera, and other small insect orders. PhD, member of the Moscow Society of Naturalists and the Russian Entomological Society. Participant of numerous expeditions to the Lower Volga, North Caucasus, Altai, Transbaikalia, Primorye, Abkhazia, Armenia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Iran and Mongolia.

Specialist in weevil beetles (Coleoptera, Curculionoidea) and straight-winged insects (Orthoptera). Main research interests are in morphology, systematics, and ecology of beetles and grasshoppers, the latter’s acoustic communication. He described more than 70 new species of weevil beetles. One of the authors of the "Great Workshop on Entomology" (2019). Participated in preparing a collective monograph on the Red Data Book species of the European orthopterans (European Red List of Grasshoppers, Crickets and Bush-crickets. Luxembourg, 2016). Wrote a number of articles (2010-2017) for the "Great Russian Encyclopedia" with descriptions of beetle families.

Alexander Valentinovich Antropov

Senior researcher, curator of the Hymenoptera collection.

PhD, member of the Editorial Board of the Russian Entomological Journal, the International Society of Hymenopterists, the Commission on Fossil Arthropods of the Scientific Council on Paleobiology and Evolution of the Surrounding World.

Specialist on the extant and extinct burrowing wasps and social folded-winged wasps. His main research interests are in taxonomy, distribution, ecology, and paleontology of stinging hymenopterans. One of the focuses of his research involves morphology of preimaginal stages, as well as the hunting and nesting behavior of burrowing wasps of the tribe Trypoxylini, and nesting behavior of social folded-winged wasps.

Participated in expeditions to a number of poorly studied areas of the Far East. Author of several world revisions of the wasp genera (Aulacophilus, Pisoxylon, Brimocelus, Pseudomicroides, and others). Published 120 research and popular papers. Described 191 new taxa, including 4 subfamilies, 8 tribes, 35 genera and 144 species.
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Alexey Anatolyevich Gusakov

Zoologist, curator of the Coleoptera collection.

Specialist on the lamellate beetles (Scarabaeoidea), saw beetles (Byrrhidae), and shade-loving beetles (Melandryidae).

Studies taxonomy, fauna, biology, and geographical distribution of the beetles of Russia and adjacent territories. He described 40 new species, including several from Southeast Asia and Iran. Author of two small books (2002, 2004) on fauna, taxonomy, and new species of the lamellate beetles. Specialist on the methods of collecting insects in nature, their preparation and storage.
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Georgy Yurievich Lyubarsky

 

Senior Researcher. PhD, specialist on several beetle families (Cryptophagidae, Phalacridae, Erotylidae) of the world fauna. His main research interests are in taxonomy, paleontology, and phylogeny of beetles. He actively collected beetles with window traps, participated in the faunal survey of a number of regions of the Far East.

He is the author of several monographs on systematics of cryptophagids (1998, 2002), on the history of science ("History of the Zoological Museum of Moscow State University", 2009; "The Birth of Science", 2015; "The Origin of Hierarchy: the History of taxonomic rank", 2018), as well as on the problems of education ("Education of the future. The University myth and the structure of opinions about education of the XXI century", 2020). One of the main topic of his research includes the problems of typology, including an analysis of its main concepts, such as archetype, morphotype, biological style, rank, and others. The results of this research are summarized in his monograph "Archetype, style and rank in biological systematics", 1996.

Described about 90 Recent species in several beetle families. He also studied Baltic, Rivne, Yakut, and Burmese amber of the Eocene and Cretaceous periods, and described several dozens of genera and species of the families Cryptophagidae, Phalacridae, Erotylidae.
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Andrey Leonidovich Ozerov

Leading researcher, curator of collections of Diptera and Odonata. PhD, member of the Moscow Society of Naturalists and the Russian Entomological Society.

Participant of many expeditions to the Far East (Amur Region, Khabarovsk Territory, Primorye), including entomological survey of the Baikal-Amur Mainline construction area. Collected insects in the Murmansk and Arkhangelsk regions, in Karelia, in the North Caucasus, as well as in Turkmenistan, and also in Vietnam, Nepal, Thailand, Turkey.

His main research interests are in taxonomy of the dipterans. Specialist on a number of families of the brachyceran flies (Micropezidae, Dryomyzidae, Sepsidae, Pallopteridae, Piophilidae, Scathophagidae, Calliphoridae). Took part in an international team preparing the "Contribution to a Manual of Palaearctic Diptera" (1998:), "Manual of Central American Diptera" (2010) and "Manual of Afrotropical Diptera, Volume 3. Brachycera–Cyclorrhapha, excluding Calyptratae" (2021). He revised the dipteran family Sepsidae (results published in the Proceedings of the Zoological Museum, 2003, vol. 45, 182 p.), Scathophagidae, Dryomyzidae of the Russian fauna. He described more than new 200 dipteran species.

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Andrey Valentinovich Sviridov

Senior Researcher, curator of the Lepidoptera collection, PhD. Scientific editor of three journals and several monographs, awarded a medal by the President of Russia (1997). Member of the Moscow Society of Naturalsis, the Russian Entomological Society, the European Society of Lepidopterologists, and several others. He is a specialist on taxonomy and geographical distribution of the scoops (Noctuidae), as well as several butterfly families of Heterocera. Author of a number of monographs, including a book on the theory of keys in taxonomy (1994). One of the authors of the "Catalog of Lepidoptera of Russia" (2008). Coordinator and participant of lepidopterological surveys of the Baikal-Amur Mainline construction area (1976-1983). He works a lot for the insect protection, including participation in writing and editing the Red Data Book of the RSFSR (1983), the Red Data Book of the USSR (1984), insects of the Red Data Book of the USSR (1987), the Red Data Book of the Moscow Region (2008).
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Elena Borisovna Fedoseeva

Senior Researcher, curator of the ant collection (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), Doctor of Biological Sciences, specialist in ant morphology.

Area of professional interests includes evolutionary morphology, anatomy, physiology, ecology, and sctructure of the ant families. Participant of the expeditions to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, the Solovetsky Islands. One of the authors of the monograph "Insect Evolution and the Cretaceous Biocenotic crisis" (1988). Among the most important works are "Morphology of Formicidae: history, problems, and prospects (2007), "Technological approach in the study of the structure and evolution of insects" (2008, 2015), "Comparative study of the anatomy of the apparatus of thoracic spiracles of ants" (2017) and "Comparative anatomical study of the ant species with different ways of founding families" (2020). Supervised a complex program of monitoring anthills on the territory of the Zvenigorod Biological station of Moscow State University. A map of the nests of the red forest and thin-headed ants in the Kenozersky National Park (Arkhangelsk Region) has been elaborated.

One of the authors of two editions of the collective monograph "Monitoring of ants of the genus Formica" (2013, 2019). Member of the organizing committees and editorial boards of four All-Russian symposia "Ants and forest protection", member of the Dissertation Council of Moscow State University.03.07 (specialty 03.02.05 — Entomology).
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Anatoly Ivanovich Shatalkin

Senior researcher, curator of a number of the groups of Diptera. Doctor of Biological Sciences, member of the Moscow Society of Naturalsis, the Russian Entomological Society. Participated in expeditions to Turkmenistan and the North Caucasus, headed a number of expeditions to the Far East, including many years of work on the botanical and zoological survey of the Baikal-Amur Mainline construction areas (1977-1987).

Specialist on a number of families of the brachyceran flies (Platypezidae, Syrphidae, Pseudopomyzidae, Strongylophthalmyiidae, Psilidae, Lauxaniidae). His main research interests are in taxonomy and phylogeny of flies. In these areas, he published the "Identification Manual of Palearctic flies of the family Lauxaniidae (Diptera)" (2000), the books "Biological Systematics" (1988) and "Taxonomy. Grounds, principles and rules" (2012). Took part in the international team of authors of the " Contribution to a Manual of Palearctic Diptera" (1998) and the "Manual of Afrotropical Diptera, Volume 3. Brachycera–Cyclorrhapha, excluding Calyptratae " (2021). He described about 170 species.
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