Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Stackelberg (sometimes Shtakel'berg; russian: Александр Александрович Штакельберг; 1897–1975) was a Russian

entomologist Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...

. Stackelberg was born in St. Petersburg and specialised on Diptera, notably Syrphidae. He joined the staff of the Zoological Museum of the Academy of Sciences in 1920, and in 1929 he was made the Director of the Diptera Division. From 1942 he was the Head of the Department of Entomology. He taught entomology to I. A. Rubtsov, B. B. Rohdendorf, Ye. N. Savchenko, and N. A. Violovitch. He wrote over 160 scientific papers.

Selected works

Fauna USSR series

*1970 Family Milichiidae. ''Keys to the Insects of the European Part of the USSR; Diptera and Siphonaptera''. [In Russian; English translation published in 1988 by the Smithsonian Institution Libraries and the National Science Foundation. New Delhi: Amerind Publishing Comp., Pvt. Ltd.. 5(2):593-601. *1970. Family Tethinidae. ''Keys to the Insects of the European Part of the USSR; Diptera and Siphonaptera''. [In Russian; English translation published in 1988 by the Smithsonian Institution Libraries and the National Science Foundation. New Delhi: Amerind Publishing Comp., Pvt. Ltd.. 5(2):355-356. *1970. Family Canacidae. ''Keys to the Insects of the European Part of the USSR; Diptera and Siphonaptera''. [In Russian; English translation published in 1988 by the Smithsonian Institution Libraries and the National Science Foundation. New Delhi: Amerind Publishing Comp., Pvt. Ltd.. 5(2):602-603 *Gutsevich, A. V., A. S. Monchadsky and A. A. Stackelberg 1974. ''Fauna of the U.S.S.R. Diptera'' Volume III No. 4 Mosquitoes Family Culicidae. 408 pp. Translated and reprinted from Akad. Nauk SSSR Zool. Inst. No. 100. 1971, 384 pp. [Translation by Rose Lavoott, ed by Prof. O. Theodor. Israel Program for Scientific Translations, Jerusalem, 1974.]

Other

*Stackelberg, A.A. (1924) Syrphidarum novarum palaearcticarum diagnoses. ''Wiener entomologische Zeitung'' 41, 25-29. *Stackelberg, A (1929): Beiträge zur Kenntnis der paläarktischen Syrphiden. I. ontributions for the knowledge of the Palearctic Syrphiden. I.''Rev. Rusa. Entom.'' XXIII. nos. 3-4 *Stackelberg, A (1930): Beiträge zur Kenntnis der paläarktischen Syrphiden. II. ontributions for the knowledge of the Palearctic Syrphiden. II.''Zool. Anzeiger'' Bd. 90. Heft 3/4 *Stackelberg, A (1930): Beiträge zur Kenntnis der paläarktischen Syrphiden. III. ontributions for the knowledge of the Palearctic Syrphiden. III.''Konowia'' Bd. IX. Heft 3.

References

*Thompson, F. C. & Sabrosky, C. W. 1977. Aleksandr Aleksandrovitsh Stackelberg - 1897-1975. ''Proc. Entomol. Soc. Washington'' 78: 499-500. bituary

External links

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Taxa described by Stackelberg {{DEFAULTSORT:Stackelberg, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Russian entomologists 1897 births 1975 deaths Soviet entomologists Aleksandr Aleksandrovich