Božidar Ćurčić

Božidar Petar Milorad Ćurčić ( Serbian - Cyrillic Божидар Петар М. Ћурчић ; born July 3, 1946 in Belgrade , Yugoslavia ; † November 12, 2015 ) was a Yugoslav or Serbian biologist.

Life

From 1965 to 1969 he studied biology at the University of Belgrade . In 1976 he received his doctorate and became an assistant professor at the Faculty of Biology at the University of Belgrade. There he was associate professor from 1981 and full professor from 1988.

He is (partly together with other biologists) the first to describe numerous species of pseudoscorpions , including mainly native species in south-eastern Europe, but also the species Ayyalonia dimentmani , endemic to Israel , as well as several species of pipods .

In 2001 he was elected a foreign member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences .

Publications (selection)

Books

Arachnoidea , Volume 3.4.2. of the Catalogus faunae jugoslaviae , 1974
Cave-dwelling pseudoscorpions of the Dinaric Karst , 1988
(with Christo Deltschew and Gergin Blagoew): The spiders of Serbia , 2003, ISBN 86-7078-020-8

Articles in books and magazines

A new cavernicolous species of the pseudoscorpion genus Roncus L. Koch, 1873 (Neobisiidae, Pseudoscorpiones) from the Balkan Peninsula , in: International Journal of Speleology , vol. 5.1973, pp. 127-134.
(with Walter Sudhaus et al.): Rhabditophanes schneideri ( Rhabditida ) phoretic on a cave pseudoscorpion , in: Journal of Invertebrate Pathology , vol. 99.2008, p. 254ff

Web links

CV (Serbian)
Article about Ćurčić in the Montenegrin newspaper Vijesti , March 16, 2014
Rajko Dimitrijević, In memoriam: Prof. Dr. Božidar Ćurčić (1946–2015) , in: Acta entomologica serbica , vol. 20.2015, pp. 173–175

Individual evidence

↑ with Slobodan E. Makarov and others: Roncus Meledae n. Sp. and Neobisium oculatum n. sp., from the Island of Mljet , Dalmatia (Neobisiidae, Pseudoscorpiones) , in: Archives of Biological Sciences ( ISSN 0354-4664 ), vol. 64.2012, pp. 1567-1576; with Tonći Rađa ao: On Two New Cave Pseudoscorpions, Chthonius (Chthonius) pagus n. sp. ( Chthoniidae ) and Roncus navalia n. Sp. (Neobisiidae), from the Island of Pag , Croatia , ibid. Pp. 1555-1565; with Tonći Rađa ao: On Two new Cave Pseudoscorpions from Dalmatia, Croatia (Chthoniidae and Neobisiidae, Pseudoscorpiones) , ibid. pp. 1099–1108; with Rajko Dimitrijević ao: A New epigean pseudoscorpion from east serbia: Chthonius (Ephippiochthonius) timacensis n. sp. (Chthoniidae, Pseudoscorpiones) , ibid. Pp. 1093-1098; with Rajko Dimitrijević and others: Chthonius (chthonius) makirina (Chthoniidae, Pseudoscorpiones), a New Species from Croatia , ibid. pp. 713–714; etc.
↑ z. B. sv: Leptoiulus ivanjicae (see http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=328234 )
^ Bulgarian Academy of Sciences: Foreign Members

personal data
SURNAME	Ćurčić, Božidar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ćurčić, Božidar Petar M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Yugoslav or Serbian biologist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 3, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH	Belgrade
DATE OF DEATH	November 12, 2015

[1] with Slobodan E. Makarov and others: Roncus Meledae n. Sp. and Neobisium oculatum n. sp., from the Island of Mljet , Dalmatia (Neobisiidae, Pseudoscorpiones) , in: Archives of Biological Sciences ( ISSN 0354-4664 ), vol. 64.2012, pp. 1567-1576; with Tonći Rađa ao: On Two New Cave Pseudoscorpions, Chthonius (Chthonius) pagus n. sp. ( Chthoniidae ) and Roncus navalia n. Sp. (Neobisiidae), from the Island of Pag , Croatia , ibid. Pp. 1555-1565; with Tonći Rađa ao: On Two new Cave Pseudoscorpions from Dalmatia, Croatia (Chthoniidae and Neobisiidae, Pseudoscorpiones) , ibid. pp. 1099–1108; with Rajko Dimitrijević ao: A New epigean pseudoscorpion from east serbia: Chthonius (Ephippiochthonius) timacensis n. sp. (Chthoniidae, Pseudoscorpiones) , ibid. Pp. 1093-1098; with Rajko Dimitrijević and others: Chthonius (chthonius) makirina (Chthoniidae, Pseudoscorpiones), a New Species from Croatia , ibid. pp. 713–714; etc.

[2] z. B. sv: Leptoiulus ivanjicae (see http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=328234 )

[3] Bulgarian Academy of Sciences: Foreign Members