Zdeněk Bouček
Zdeněk Rudolf Jan Bouček (born January 8, 1924 in Hradec Králové , Czechoslovakia ; died July 17, 2011 in Prague ) was a Czech entomologist and parasitologist who primarily dealt with the systematics of the ore wasps . He has more than 1,100 taxa described , including 46 families , subfamilies and tribes and 281 genera and subgenera.
Life
Zdeněk Bouček grew up with two younger siblings on a farm near Hradec Králové . After the end of the Second World War , he began to study natural sciences at Charles University in Prague , which he completed in 1949 with a doctorate in RNDr. completed. After two years of military service, he began working in the plant protection department of an agricultural research facility in Prague. In 1960 he became an employee of the entomological department of the National Museum , which was initially housed in the main building in the city center and was later moved to the Kunratice district on the southern outskirts of Prague. In 1969 the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences awarded him the title of Doctor of Life Sciences (DrSc.) For his dissertation, published in 1952, a revision of the European ore wasps. In the same year, a few months after the crackdown on the Prague Spring , Bouček decided not to return to the ČSSR from an approved trip to Turin. His daughter was at that time on a semester abroad in London and his wife was able to follow him on a pretext and with the help of a certificate from the National Museum.
From January 1970, Bouček was temporarily employed part-time in the Hope Department of Entomology at Oxford University Museum of Natural History . In June 1970, he was given a full-time position at the Commonwealth Institute of Entomology, which later became the Center for Agriculture and Bioscience International (CABI) and was housed in the Natural History Museum in London. He worked there until he retired in 1989. After the Velvet Revolution at the end of the same year, Bouček and his wife moved to a country house in Velký Vřešťov , very close to his birthplace, Hradec Králové , but returned annually to Great Britain for visits.
Boučeks scientific interest was the jewel wasps (Chalcidiodea), paying particular families with larger species such as the Leucospidae , Chalcididae , Pteromalidae , Torymidae and Eulophidae . He is considered the founder of the modern classification of jewel wasps and has more than 1,100 taxa described , including 46 families , subfamilies and tribes and 281 genera and subgenera.
Bouček's life's work is the systematic processing of the Austro-Asian ore wasps, published in 1988, of which it is claimed that an editor was busy for two months with the inclusion of their taxonomic changes in the Zoological Record . His more than 150 scientific publications include numerous revisions of higher taxa that are considered standard works in his field.
In 2004 Bouček was elected Honorary Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society of London . The following year the International Society of Hymenopterists awarded him their medal for his research.
Dedication names (selection)
- Bouceka Koçak & Kemal , 2008 (replacement for the homonym Tenka Boucek , 1988 nec Tenka Barrande , 1881)
- Boucekastichus Andriescu , 1971
- Boucekelimus Kim & La Salle , 2005
- Boucekiana De Santis , 1975
- Boucekiella Hoffer , 1954
- Boucekina Szelényi , 1974
- Boucekinini Jansta , Cruaud , Delvare , Genson , Heraty , Křížková & Rasplus , 2018
- Boucekinus Jansta & Hanson , 2011
- Boucekiola Narendran , 2005
- Boucekius Gibson , 2003
- Bouceklytinae Yoshimoto , 1975
- Bouceklytus Yoshimoto , 1975
- Nomada bouceki Kocourek , 1985
Initial descriptions (selection)
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Rotoitidae Bouček & Noyes , 1987
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Rotoita Bouček & Noyes , 1987
- Rotoita basalis Bouček & Noyes , 1987
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Rotoita Bouček & Noyes , 1987
Publications (selection)
- Zdeněk Bouček: The first revision of the European species of the family Chalcididae (Hymenoptera) . In: Sborník Entomologického Oddělení Národního Musea v Praze 1952, Volume 27, Supplement 1, pp. 1–108 (also dissertation, Prague 1952).
- Zdeněk Bouček: A Revision of the Leucospidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) of the world . Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Supplement 23. Trustees of the British Museum, London 1974.
- Zdeněk Bouček and John S. Noyes : Rotoitidae, a curious new family of Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) from New Zealand . In: Systematic Entomology 1987, Volume 12, No. 4, pp. 407-412, doi : 10.1111 / j.1365-3113.1987.tb00212.x .
- Zdeněk Bouček: Australasian Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera). A biosystematic revision of a genera of fourteen families, with a reclassification of species . CAB International, Wallingford 1988, ISBN 0-85198-607-2 .
- Zdenek Bouček and Jean-Yves Rasplus : Illustrated key to West-Palearctic genera of Pteromalidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) . Institut National de la recherche agronomique, Paris 1991. ISBN 2-7380-0343-5 .
literature
- José Luis Nieves-Aldrey and Isabel Izquierdo Moya: In memoriam Zdenek Boucek (1924–2011) . In: Graellsia 2011, Volume 67, No. 2, pp. 245–250, digitized version (Spanish, with bibliography).
- John S. Noyes: In celebration of the 80th birthday of Zdeněk Bouček: father of modern Chalcidoidea systematics . In: Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemoslovenicae 2005, Volume 69, No. 1-2, pp. 1-10, digitized version (with bibliography).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d John S. Noyes : In celebration of the 80th birthday of Zdeněk Bouček: father of modern Chalcidoidea systematics . In: Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemoslovenicae 2005, Volume 69, No. 1-2, pp. 1-10, digitized .
- ^ John S. Noyes: Zdeněk Bouček (1924-2011) . In: Hamuli. The Newsletter of the International Society of Hymenopterologists 2011, Volume 2, No. 2, pp. 1 and 3, digitized .
- ↑ José Luis Nieves-Aldrey and Isabel Izquierdo Moya : In memoriam Zdenek Boucek (1924-2011) . In: Graellsia 2011, Volume 67, No. 2, pp. 245-250, digitized .
- ^ John S. Noyes: RES Honorary Fellow scoops a further award. Dr. Zdeněk Bouček, winner of the International Society of Hymenopterists Distinguished Research Medal . In: Antenna. Bulletin of the Royal Entomological Society of London 2005, Vol. 29, No. 4, pp. 286-290.
- ↑ Ahmet Ömer Koçak and Muhabbet Kemal: Nomenclatural notes on the genus group names in the order Hymenoptera (Chalcidoidea) . Miscellaneous Papers, CESA, 143. Center for Entomological Studies Ankara, Ankara 2008, digitized .
- ↑ Ionel Andriescu: nov.gen Boucekastichus homocerus. nov.sp. un eulophide (Insecta, Hym. Chalcidoidea) nouveau de Roumanie . In: Lucrarile Statiunii 'Stejarul' (Ecologie Terestra si Genetica) 1971, Volume 4, pp. 412-413, digitized .
- ^ Il-Kwon Kim and John La Salle: Boucekelimini trib. nov., with genera Boucekelimus gen. nov. amd Tatiana called nov. (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) from Western Australia . In: Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemoslovenicae 2005, Volume 69, No. 1-2, pp. 185-192, digitized .
- ↑ Luis De Santis: Two new Eurytomidae of Argentina (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) . In: Boletín de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias en Córdoba 1975, Volume 51, No. 1/2, pp. 182-183, ZDB -ID 127059-x .
- ↑ Augustin Hoffer: Encyrtidae našich státních prírodních reservací II (Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera - Chalcidoidea, qua in reservationibus natures in Czechoslovakia occurunt Pars II)... . In: okhrana Prirody 1954 Volume IX, No. 6, pp 173,. Digitalisat .
- ^ Gusztáv Szelényi: Description of new pteromalids from Hungary (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) . In: Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici 1974, Volume 66, pp. 347-351, digitized .
- ↑ Petr Janšta, Astrid Cruaud, Gérard Delvare, Guénaëlle Genson, John Heraty, Barbora Křížková and Jean ‐ Yves Rasplus: Torymidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) revised: molecular phylogeny, circumscription and reclassification of the family with discussion of its biogeography -History traits . In: Cladistics 2018, Volume 34, No. 6, pp. 627-651, doi : 10.1111 / cla.12228 .
- ↑ Petr Janšta, Jitka Vilímová and Paul Hanson: Description of a new genus, Boucekinus (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Torymidae), with two new species and a discussion of its placement . In: Zootaxa 2011, Volume 2762, p. 50, doi : 10.11646 / zootaxa.2762.1.4 .
- ↑ TC Narendran: Boucekiola malabarica gen. Nov. et sp. nov. (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Eulophidae) from India . In: Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemoslovenicae 2005, Volume 69, No. 1-2, pp. 199-200, ZDB -ID 919573-7 .
- ^ Gary AP Gibson: Phylogenetics and classification of Cleonyminae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae) . International Memoirs on Entomology, Volume 16. Associated Publishers, Gainesville, FL 2003, ISBN 1-56665-075-5 , pp. 62-63, digitized .
- ^ Carl M. Yoshimoto: Cretaceous chalcidoid fossils from Canadian amber . In: The Canadian Entomologist 1975, Vol. 107, No. 5, pp. 499-527, doi : 10.4039 / Ent107499-5 .
- ↑ Miroslav Kocourek : Nomada bouceki sp.n., a new Nomada species from the CSSR (Hymenoptera, Apidae) In: Entomofauna. Zeitschrift für Entomologie 1985, Volume 6, No. 14, pp. 189-194, PDF on ZOBODAT .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bouček, Zdeněk |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bouček, Zdeněk Rudolf Jan (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Czech entomologist and parasitologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 8, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hradec Králové , Czechoslovakia |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 17, 2011 |
| Place of death | Prague |