Aleš Smetana

Aleš Smetana (born April 6, 1931 in Hradec Králové , Czechoslovakia ) is a Czechoslovak- Canadian entomologist .

Life

After his promotion to Doctor of Medicine at the Charles University in 1956, he joined the Institute of Parasitology of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences at (ČSAV). In 1959 he received his doctorate there as a candidate for science in biology . He continued his work as a research fellow at this institute until he began his research at the Entomology Research Institute in Ottawa in 1967 with a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Research Council of Canada . In autumn 1969 he returned to Czechoslovakia, where he became a research assistant at the entomological department at the National Museum in Prague . In 1971 he went back to Canada, where he worked as a scientific director at the Entomology Research Institute in Ottawa until his retirement in 1999. He then became a volunteer research fellow at the Canadian Department of Agriculture (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, AAFC). He was also curator of the beetle collection at the Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids, and Nematodes (CNC) at the Ottawa Research and Development Center.

Smetana is an internationally recognized experts in the classification, the phylogeny and bionomy the rove beetles (Staphylinidae) in Eurasian and North America , in particular for the subfamily Staphylininae and the subtribe Quediina and Philo Tina . In May 2007 Smetana and Ivan Löbl received the Medal of Honor for outstanding achievements in the field of entomofaunistics at the 20th International Symposium for Entomofaunistics in Central Europe in Cluj-Napoca . He is a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society of London and an honorary member of the Česká společnost entomologická in Prague.

Together with Ivan Löbl, he published the eight-volume Catalog of Palaearctic Coleoptera between 2003 and 2013 .

Dedication names

The beetle species Dihammatus smetanai , Leistus smetanai , Hybridolinus smetanai , Senorius smetanai and Decuria smetanai are named after Smetana .

literature

• Miloslav Rechcigl Jr .: Encyclopedia of Bohemian and Czech-American Biography , Volume 3, AuthorHouse 2016, ISBN 978-1-52461-991-6 (short biography)