Alexander Georgievich Ponomarenko

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Elena D. Lukashevich, Alexandr G. Ponomarenko, Dmitry E. Shcherbakov and Alexey S. Bashkuev in front of Mespelbrunn Palace in April 2013

Alexander Georgijewitsch Ponomarenko ( Russian Александр Георгиевич Пономаренко ; born January 16, 1938 in Moscow ) is a Russian paleontologist and entomologist who specialized in fossil insects (paleoentomology). His author's abbreviation as a biologist is Ponomarenko .

Life

Ponomarenko graduated from Lomonosov University in 1960 and then worked in the Arthropod Laboratory of the Paleontological Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences under Boris Borissowitsch Rohdendorf . There he specialized in fossil beetles (Coleoptera). In 1962 he wrote the chapter beetles in a Russian manual of palaeontology with Rohdendorf and in 1967 he received his doctorate with a thesis on archostemata , primitive Mesozoic water beetles. This resulted in a monograph published in 1969. In 1983 his habilitation (historical development of the order Coleoptera) appeared.

From 1969 to 1989 he took part in many expeditions to Mongolia (insects of the Permian and Mesozoic Era), where he also began to be interested in the reconstruction of paleo-biotopes. From the late 1970s he studied the evolution of ecosystems on land (insect faunas, terrestrial aquatic systems) and their species splitting, where he coined terms such as angiospermization and arthropodization . From the 1990s he also turned to early microbe evolution and evolution of microbiota.

In addition to beetles, he also dealt with fossil reticulated winged (Neuroptera), for example from the Jura of the Solnhofen limestone, large winged (Megaloptera), fleas, beaked flies (Mecoptera, for example scorpion flies).

He is Associate Editor of Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Associate Editor of the Paleontological Journal . He publishes the electronic catalog of extinct beetles at the Russian Academy of Sciences.

He was in Japan in the 1970s and did research in Vietnam.

Initial descriptions (selection)

Ponomarenko is the lead author of a wide variety of genera and species of fossil insects.

  • Genera
    • Larvula PONOMARENKO, 1985
    • Protonectes PROKIN & PONOMARENKO, 2013
  • species
    • Larvula triassica PROKIN & PONOMARENKO, 2013
    • Protonectes germanicus PROKIN & PONOMARENKO, 2013

Fonts (selection)

  • Historical Development of Archostemata Beetles, Transactions of the Paleontological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Volume 125, 1962, pp. 1–240 (Russian)
  • On nomenclature of the beetle wing venation (Coleoptera). Entomological Review, Volume 51, 1972, pp. 454-458
  • On the subdivision of the order Coleoptera into suborders. In: Problems of the Insect Palaeontology. Lectures on the 24th Annual Readings in Memory of NA Kholodkovsky, April 1-2, 1971. Leningrad: Nauka, 1973, pp. 78-89 (Russian).
  • Super order Myrmeleontidea. Neuropteroids. In: Historical Development of the Class Insecta. Transactions of the Paleontological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences 175, 1980, pp. 84-99
  • The geological history of beetles. In: J. Pakaluk, SA Slipiński (ed.), Biology, Phylogeny and Classification of Coleoptera. Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A. Crowson. Warsaw: Mus. i Inst. Zool. PAN, 1995, pp. 155-171.
  • Evolution of continental aquatic ecosystems. Paleontological Journal 30, 1996, pp. 705-709
  • Paleobiology of angiospermization, Paleontological Journal 32, 1998, pp. 325-331.
  • Superorder Scarabaeidae Laicharting, 1781. Order Coleoptera Linne, 1758. The beetles. In: AP Rasnitsyn, DLJ Quicke (ed.), History of insects, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2002, pp. 164–176.
    • therein also V. Yu. Dmitriev, A. Ponomarenko: Dynamics of insect taxonomic diversity.
  • LV Arnoldi, VV Zherikhin, LM Nikritin, AG Ponomarenko: Mesozoic Coleoptera, New Delhi: Oxonian Press 1991
  • Ecological evolution of beetles, Acta zoologica cracoviensia 46 (suppl.-Fossil Insects), 2003, pp. 319-328
  • Beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera) of the Late Permian and Early Triassic. Paleontological Journal 38 (Suppl. 2), 2004, pp 185-p 196.
  • Paleontological data on the arthropod origin. In: Evolutionary Factors Shaping the Animal Diversity. Moscow: KMK, 2005, pp. 146–155. (Russian)
  • Changes in terrestrial biota before the Permian-Triassic ecological crisis. Paleontological Journal 40 (Suppl. 4), 2006, pp. 468-474.
  • Ecological consequences of arthropodization. In: Ecosystem transformations and the evolution of the biosphere. Moscow, Paleontological Institute ,. 6, 2004, pp. 7-22. (Russian, with English summary)
  • VV Zherikhin, AG Ponomarenko, AP Rasnitsyn : Introduction to Paleoentomology. Moscow: KMK Press 2008 (Russian) (therein by Ponomarenko: Early Stages of Arthropod Evolution)
  • with A. Bashkuev, J. Sell , D. Aristov, N. Sinitshenkova and H. Mahler : Insects from the Buntsandstein of Lower Franconia and Thuringia, In: Paläontologische Zeitschrift 86, 2012, pp. 175-185
  • with AA Prokin, KV Makarov and AS Bashkuev: New beetle larvae (Coleoptera: Coptoclavidae, Caraboidea, Polyphaga) from the Upper Triassic of Germany. In: Russian Entomological Journal 22, (4), 2013, pp. 259-274

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AG Kirejtschuk: Alexander Georgievich Ponomarenko . www.Zin.ru. June 2000. Retrieved February 4, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Ponomarenko, Alexander Georgievich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Пономаренко, Александр Георгиевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian paleontologist and entomologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow