Yuri Alexandrovich Popov

Yuri Popov (1997)

Yuri Alexandrowitsch Popow ( Russian Юрий Александрович Попов , English Yuri Alexandrovich Popov ; born March 5, 1936 in Moscow , † November 16, 2016 in Lobnja ) was a Russian paleoentomologist and entomologist .

Life

Popov went to school in Moscow and graduated from Lomonosov University in 1959 with a degree in entomology with the thesis The Heteroptera Fauna of the Western Tian-Shan , based on finds he collected on an expedition to the Moscow Botanical Garden in 1957/58. From 1959 he was in the paleoentomology department (arthropod laboratory) at the Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. In 1969 he received his doctorate there ( on the historical development of water beetles of the infraorder Nepomorpha (Heteroptera) ). From 1981 he was a senior scientist there. He is a professor and curator (mainly responsible for bedbugs) at the Zoological Museum of Lomonosov University.

He is known for contributions to the higher taxonomy of bedbugs (Heteroptera), in which he introduced three out of seven infraorders ( Nepomorpha 1968, Gerromorpha 1971, Leptopodomorpha 1971). In total, he introduced over 20 new families, subfamilies and tribes of insects, evaluating compression fossils and amber inclusions from the Mesozoic and Cenozoic times from around the world. He took part particularly frequently in Soviet-Mongolian expeditions to Mongolia and led them for many years from the Soviet side (1975 to 1981). In addition to bed bugs, he also dealt with a few other groups, such as sheaths (coleorrhyncha).

Around 150 scientific publications originate from him.

From 1971 to 1975 he was secretary for international scientific contacts at the Soviet Academy of Sciences.

Fonts (selection)

Towards the knowledge of the terrestrial Hemiptera fauna of the southern regions of the Western Tian-Shan (USSR, Mid-Asia), Acta Entom. Mus. Nat. Pragae, 36, 1965, pp. 169-292
Historical development of bugs of the infraorder Nepomorpha (Heteroptera), Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta AN SSSR 129, 1971, pp. 1–230 (Russian, dissertation, also translated into English: The historical development of Hemiptera infraorder Nepomorpha (Heteroptera) )
with DE Shcherbakov: Mesozoic Peloridioidea and their ancestors (Insecta: Hemiptera, Coleorrhyncha), Geologica et Palaeontologica, Volume 25, 1991, pp. 215-235.
with DE Shcherbakov : Order Hemiptera Linné, 1758. The bugs, cicadas, plantlice, scale insects, etc., in: AP Rasnitsyn , DLJ Quicke (ed.), History of Insects, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002, pp. 143–157 .
with WR Dolling, PES Whalley: British Upper Triassic and Lower Jurassic Heteroptera and Coleorrhyncha (Insecta: Hemiptera), Genus, 5 (4), 1994, pp. 307-347
R. Kulicka, A. Herczek: Heteroptera in the Baltic amber, Prace Muz. Ziemi, Volume 44, Warsaw 1996, pp. 19-23
Remnants of insects (Hemiptera: Belostomatidae; Coleoptera) from the Upper Jura ("Kimmeridgian") of Nettelstadt (Wiehengebirge, NW Germany), New Yearbook Geology Paläontologie, Monatshefte, 2, 2000, pp. 83-92.
Fossil piesmatids from Baltic amber (Heteroptera: Pentatomomorpha, Piesmatidae), Mitt.Geol.-Paläont. Inst. Univ. Hamburg, 85 ,. 2001, pp. 227-236

literature

Aleksander Herczek: Yuri Alexandrovich Popov, 75th Birthday, Polish Journal of Entomology, Volume 80, 2011, p. 603.

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References and comments

↑ Russian candidate title. He did not complete his habilitation (corresponding to the Russian doctorate)
↑ Senior Research Worker , Alexander Herczek on his 75th birthday in 2011, see literature.

personal data
SURNAME	Popov, Yuri Alexandrovich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian entomologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH	March 5, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH	Moscow
DATE OF DEATH	November 16, 2016
Place of death	Lobnya

[1] Russian candidate title. He did not complete his habilitation (corresponding to the Russian doctorate)

[2] Senior Research Worker , Alexander Herczek on his 75th birthday in 2011, see literature.