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CURRICULUM VITAE Dr. Dmitry А. Dubovikoff (Dmitrii Dubovikov) Associate Professor St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Biology Department of Applied Ecology, 16-line of Vasilevskiy Island, 29, fl.5, St. Petersburg 199178 Russia +7 921 180 07 60 (cell, Russia) [email protected] [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0931-6277 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dmitry_Dubovikoff https://scholar.google.ru/citations?hl=ru&pli=1&user=_NdozfIAAAAJ https://www.mendeley.com/profiles/dmitry-dubovikoff/?viewAsOther=true Birth date and place: 30 October 1978; Rostov-on-Don, Russia Family: married, one daughter. Languages: Russian (native), Spanish (fluent), English (fluent), German (basic) Education and PhD in Biology (Entomology) Degrees: Saint-Petersburg State University St. Petersburg, Russia – January 18, 2007 "The composition, ecological and geographical characteristics and the main stages of the history of ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Caucasian Isthmus”, MSс in Biology, Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia – graduated in November 25, 2003 Work December 2017 – current time, Associate Professor (full time), at Department Experience: of Applied Ecology, St. Petersburg State University July 2013 – November 2017, Senior Lecturer (full time) at Department of Applied Ecology, St. Petersburg State University September 2010 – July 2013, Senior Lecturer (full time) at Department of Entomology, St. Petersburg State University February 2007 – August 2010, Assistant Professor (full time) at Department of Entomology Vice dean (students accommodation) of Faculty of Biology, St. Petersburg State University January 2003 – February 2007, Junior research scientist and PhD student at Laboratory of Entomology, Biological Institute of St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia Developed (original) courses and teaching Saint Petersburg State University, Russia: Basics of paleoecology (26h) (2018- current time) Biogeography of terrestrial ecosystems (26h) (2014 - current time) Social arthropods in ecosystems (26h) (2014 - current time) Urban Ecology (supervisor, 56h) (2014 - current time) Introduction to biodiversity (module 2 - terrestrial Arthropods) (10h) (2014 - current time) Arachnology (36h, with practices) (2010-2013) Systematics of Myriapoda (26 h, with practices) (2010-2013) Introduction to Biology (for Chemistry students) (36 h) (2009, 2010) Terrestrial Arthropods (field course), (80 h) (2004-2013) Methods of preparation and management of entomological collections (24 h) (2007-2009) Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico: “Sistematica, Ecologia y tecnicas de campo de grupos selectos de himenoptersos” Curso de posgrado en ciencias biologicas. Field course on Hymenoptera taxonomy, September 2016 Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas (UAT), Mexico: Introducción a la Taxonomía moderna de Insectos, April 2012 “Formicidae” (Taller Internacional sobre Enemigos Naturales, 25 h, 21- 23 September 2016) Entomología Económica (Feb – May 2017) Seminario II, May 2017 Research Phylogeny, Taxonomy and Ecology of ants (Formicidae) Interests: (especially tropical diversity of odor-ants (Dolichoderinae) Paleontology of ants Biodiversity of ants and other terrestrial Arthropods of Mexico Other Teaching in Zoology (Systematic Entomology, Social Insects, professional Arachnology, Myriapodology, Biogeography, Ecology) interests: Maintenance and development of museum collections Current Ants of Mexico, Mexico (collaborators: Dr. A. Zaldívar Riveron, CNIN, projects: IB UNAM; Drs. E. Ruiz Cancino, J.M. Coronado Blanco, UAT; M.G. Torres Delgado, UJED) Data base of type specimens of ant in collection of Zoological Institute of RAS, St. Petersburg Fossil ants (collaborator Dr. Kseniya Perfilieva, Moscow State University; collaborator Dr. U. Kotthoff, University of Hamburg) Taxonomy and phylogeography of ant genus Ectatomma in Mexico (collaborators: Dr. A. Zaldivar R., UNAM, Mexico; Chantal Poteaux, Un. Paris 13, France; Jean-Paul Lachaud, ECOSUR, Mexico) Revising of some ant genera of Russia and Mexico (or/and Central America) Described new taxa of ants: 2 new tribes (Iridomyrmecini, Bothriomyrmecini) 4 new genera (Arnoldius, Nebothriomyrmex – Australia, Usomyrma – Danish amber, Yantaromyrmex – European Late Eocene amber) New ant species from Afghanistan, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Costa Rica, Madagascar, Mexico, India, Russia, Vietnam, Late Eocene amber, Miocene sediments and African copals. Professional Russian Entomological Society, since 1997 (Member of Presidium, associations: since 2012) ANeT (Network for the Study of Asian Ants), Committee member, since 2011 Student supervision and Current students: thesis reviewing: Daria Nikiforova (St. Petersburg University, Russia), MS student, Biological diversity of ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of the Lower Svir Natural Reserve, supervisor Mikhail Cheban (St. Petersburg University, Russia), MS student, Monitoring of settlements ants of the genus Formica (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) on the example of the natural monument “Komorovsky beach,” supervisor C. Naylea Rivera Tovias (UAT, Mexico), graduate student, Formicidae (Hymenoptera) colectados en trampa Malaise del Ej. Acahuales, Tula, Tamaulipas, México, co-supervisor Former students: Vasiliy Bastaev (St. Petersburg University, Russia), MS student, Spiders of Natural Protected Areas of the Astrakhan region, (2018), supervisor Vasiliy Bastaev (Russia), BS student, Spiders of Bogdinsko-Baskunchakskiy Natural Reserve (Astrakhan region) (2016), supervisor Arseny Shudrick (Russia), MS student, Ants-plant relations on example of the ant genus Pseudomyrmex and Acacias in Mexico (2016), supervisor Zhuydzyuan Duan (China), MS student, Ants of Lower Svir' Natural Reserve and their role in monitoring of natural protected areas (2016), supervisor Tetiana Shoshura (Ukraine), MS student, The ecological requirements for wintering of pond bat in Leningrad region (2016), supervisor Alina Terekhova (Russia), BS student, Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Miocene deposits of Germany and Japan (2015), supervisor Tatiana Shauro (Russia), MS student, Methods of Bat Community protection in Sablinskie caves from human influence (2015), supervisor Aguilar Velasco Reina Gabriela (Mexico), UNAM, MS student, Phylogeography of ant genus Ectatomma in Mexico, counseling Marilyn Mendoza Ramirez (Mexico), UNAM, PhD student, Phylogeography of ant genus Neoponera in Mexico, counseling Vasilisa Chemyreva (Russia), MS student, Fauna and system of the tribe Spilomicrini (Hymenoptera,Proctotrupoidea, Diapriidae) of Russia (2013), supervisor PhD thesis reviewing: Konstantin Samartzev (Russia), True cyclostome braconid wasp (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) of the Middle and Lower Volga territories of Russia. Zoological Institute RAS, St. Petersburg, 2014. Ekaterina Egorenkova (Russia), Fauna and ecological features of parasitic wasps of subfamily Tetrastichinae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Eulophidae) of Middle Volga region, Institute of the Problem of Ecology and Evolution, Moscow, 2009. Vladimir Perepechaenko (Russia), Braconid wasp of the tribe Dacnusini (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Alysiinae) of Ukraine, Zoological Institute RAS, St. Petersburg, 2009. Konstantin Nadeyn (Ukraine), Beetles of the genus Psilliodes Latreile, 1825 (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae) of Russia and adjacent countries, Zoological Institute RAS, St. Petersburg, 2007. Doctor of Science thesis reviewing: Tatiana Novgorodova (Russia), Ecological and etiological aspects of the interaction of ants with aphids and aphidophages at different levels of social organization, Novosibirsk, 2016 Editorial work: Caucasian Entomological Bulletin, (RSCI WoS, Russia), editor. Halteres, (Scopus, India), editor Journal of the Entomological Research Society, (Scopus, Turkey), advisory board Expeditions Mexico: field trips to 16 Mexican states during 2012-2017 and field works: India, Punjab, October 2017 European part of Russia (1995 – 2018) Siberian Russia (Novosibirsk Reg.), August 2017 Sri Lanka, October 2015 Guatemala: Guatemala, Escuintla, Chimaltenango, Sacatepéquez, Sololá, Santa Rosa (September 2014) Malaysia: Borneo, Sabah (October 2013) Finland, May 2010, August 2011, August-September 2012 Caucasian Isthmus, (1996 – 2010), long term expeditions (Russian part, Azerbaijan, Abkhazia). Lower Volga: Astrakhan and Volgograd Provinces of Russia (June 2004); Astrakhan Province (20 June – 3 July 2014) Japan: Osaka Pref., Kioto Pref., Mie Pref. (October 2009) Thailand: Bangkok, Songkla Prov. (October 2011) Zoological Institute RAS, St. Petersburg, Russia, since 2001 – Work at museums: current time (as volunteer curator of Formicidae collection) Collección Nacional de Insectos, Instituto de Biologia, UNAM, Cd. de Mexico, D.F., Mexico, (2012, 2014, 2016, 2017) (maintenance of ants collection, study of ants taxonomy) Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas, Cd. Victoria, Mexico, 2012 (5 months), 2014 (one week), 2016 (one month), 2017 (4 months) (organizing of ants study, maintenance and work with collection) Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango, Mexico, Colección de Invertebrados terrestres, March, 2017 Punjabi University Patiala, India, October 2017 (work with ants collection) Institute of Zoology NAS, Kiev, Ukraine, May 2001, January 2007 (work with collection) Zoological Institute Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan, Baku, June 2003 (work with collection) Osaka City University, Osaka, Japan 6 October – 6 November 2009 (academic exchange program) Osaka Natural
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    Bol. Mus. Para. Emílio Goeldi. Cienc. Nat., Belém, v. 15, n. 1, p. 113-134, jan.-abr. 2020 Ant diversity studies in Acre: what we know and what we could do to know more? Estudos de diversidade de formigas no Acre: o que sabemos e o que devemos fazer para saber mais? Fernando Augusto SchmidtI | Marília Maria Silva da CostaI, II | Felipe MartelloI | Amanda Batista de OliveiraIII | Andressa Silvana MenezesI | Luane Karoline FonteneleII | Elder Ferreira MoratoI | Marco Antônio OliveiraIV IUniversidade Federal do Acre. Rio Branco, Acre, Brasil IIUniversidade Federal de Lavras. Lavras, Minas Gerais, Brasil IIIUniversidade Federal do Amazonas. Manaus, Amazonas, Brasil IVUniversidade Federal de Viçosa. Florestal, Minais Gerais, Brasil Abstract: Brazil counts with one the largest ant diversity in the world. But, given its continental dimension and uneven scientific development process, there are still several gaps in the knowledge of this biodiversity. This fully applies to research on ant diversity in the state of Acre, southwestern Brazilian Amazon. Since 2014, in Acre, ants are being sampled by Rede BIA project, which aims to cover this gap. Thus, our main goal is to present the status of ant diversity studies in Acre regarding their progress and their contribution to the ant fauna knowledge, based on scientific papers and grey literature. We found 17 studies to Acre, which encompass a time range of 10 years, and a total of 338 species recorded. The studies are concentrated mainly in the southern and eastern parts of the state. Ground pitfall trap is the most used sampling technique. We point out that adding more sites to Rede BIA’s collecting efforts, plus focusing samplings in poorly studied habitats and ecosystems, especially in the western and eastern parts of the state will provide a lot of new data on ant species occurrence to Acre and to Brazil.
  • Formicidae: Catalogue of Family-Group Taxa

    Formicidae: Catalogue of Family-Group Taxa

    FORMICIDAE: CATALOGUE OF FAMILY-GROUP TAXA [Note (i): the standard suffixes of names in the family-group, -oidea for superfamily, –idae for family, -inae for subfamily, –ini for tribe, and –ina for subtribe, did not become standard until about 1905, or even much later in some instances. Forms of names used by authors before standardisation was adopted are given in square brackets […] following the appropriate reference.] [Note (ii): Brown, 1952g:10 (footnote), Brown, 1957i: 193, and Brown, 1976a: 71 (footnote), suggested the suffix –iti for names of subtribal rank. These were used only very rarely (e.g. in Brandão, 1991), and never gained general acceptance. The International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ed. 4, 1999), now specifies the suffix –ina for subtribal names.] [Note (iii): initial entries for each of the family-group names are rendered with the most familiar standard suffix, not necessarily the original spelling; hence Acanthostichini, Cerapachyini, Cryptocerini, Leptogenyini, Odontomachini, etc., rather than Acanthostichii, Cerapachysii, Cryptoceridae, Leptogenysii, Odontomachidae, etc. The original spelling appears in bold on the next line, where the original description is cited.] ACANTHOMYOPSINI [junior synonym of Lasiini] Acanthomyopsini Donisthorpe, 1943f: 618. Type-genus: Acanthomyops Mayr, 1862: 699. Taxonomic history Acanthomyopsini as tribe of Formicinae: Donisthorpe, 1943f: 618; Donisthorpe, 1947c: 593; Donisthorpe, 1947d: 192; Donisthorpe, 1948d: 604; Donisthorpe, 1949c: 756; Donisthorpe, 1950e: 1063. Acanthomyopsini as junior synonym of Lasiini: Bolton, 1994: 50; Bolton, 1995b: 8; Bolton, 2003: 21, 94; Ward, Blaimer & Fisher, 2016: 347. ACANTHOSTICHINI [junior synonym of Dorylinae] Acanthostichii Emery, 1901a: 34. Type-genus: Acanthostichus Mayr, 1887: 549. Taxonomic history Acanthostichini as tribe of Dorylinae: Emery, 1901a: 34 [Dorylinae, group Cerapachinae, tribe Acanthostichii]; Emery, 1904a: 116 [Acanthostichii]; Smith, D.R.