Dr. Sci. Roman Viktorovich Yakovlev Date of birth: November 30, 1974 Key words: fauna, entomology, systematics, Altai, Mongolia, Lepidoptera, Cossidae, Papilionoidea. Short biography Born in the city of Barnaul in the family of doctors. Graduated from school with a silver medal. 1996 - graduated from Altai State Medical Institute with the qualification "doctor". Worked as a child psychiatrist in the Altai Regional Psychoneurological Clinic. At the same time worked as a research associate in the South-Siberian Botanical Garden of Altai State University. Since 2014 - Doctor of Biological Sciences (specialty "Entomology", the theme of the dissertation: "Carpenter-Moths (Lepidoptera, Cossidae) of the Old World”); place of defense: Saint-Petersburg State University. 2008−2012 — Head of the Department at the Altai Regional Institute of Advanced Teachers Training. 2013−2014 − the vice-rector for the development of international activities of Altai State University. At present – senior researcher of Laboratory of Biodiversity and Ecology and assistant professor of the Department of Ecology, Biochemistry and Biotechnology at the Altai State University. Scientific specialization: systematics, faunistics and biogeography. Specialist in the following groups of Insecta: Papilionoidea, Sphingidae, Cossidae. Author of over 170 scientific papers (more than 30 of them indexed in Web of Science and Scopus. Described over 250 biological species as new for science. The first to have described the fauna of Cossidae of the following regions of the Earth: Russia, Vietnam, Mongolia, the Andaman Islands, the Korean Peninsula, Thailand, the Canary Islands, the island of Socotra, Zambia, Zimbabave, Malawi. Author of essays in the Red Book of the Altai Territory, the Altai Republic and the Republic of Khakassia. Has more than 100 co-authors from Russia and foreign countries: Australia, Britain, Germany, Kazakhstan, Korea, Latvia, USA et al. Participant and organizer of more than 40 expeditions in Siberia, Mongolia, the Far East, South Africa (South Africa, Mozambique, Malawi, Zimbabwe), Peru. Trained in a number of research centers: BMNH – British Museum (London, GB) IRSN – Institute Royal Science Nature (Bruxelles, Belgium) ITZ – Instituut voor Taxonomisch Zoölogie, Universiteit van Amsterdam (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) LNK – Landessammlungen für Naturkunde (Karlsruhe, Germany) MNHW - Naturhistorisches Museum (Wien, Austria) MNHT – Natural History Museum (Tokyo, Japan) MHUB - Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Univerität (Berlin, Germany) MWM - Museum of Thomas Witt (Munich, Germany) RMNH – Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum (Leiden, The Netherlands) SZMN - Siberian zoological Museum, Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals (Novosibirsk, Russia) ZISP - Zoological Institute of Russian Academy of Science (St. Petersburg, Russia) ZMKU - Zoological Museum at Kiev National University (Kiev, Ukraine) ZMMU - Zoological Museum at Moscow State University (Moscow, Russia) ZFMK – Zoologisches Forschungsistitut und Museum Alexander Koenig (Bonn, Germany) ZSSM – Zoologische Staatssammlung der Bayerischen Staaten (Munich, Germany) The world's leading expert in taxonomy, phylogeny and faunistics of carpenters (Cossidae); one of the leading experts in the fauna of Altai and Western Mongolia; the first to have made a detailed scheme of zoogeographic zoning of the Mongolian Altai. Supported by RFBR and Thomas Witt Stifftung. LIST OF PUBLICATIONS OF ROMAN V. YAKOVLEV Monographs 1. Yakovlev R.V. 2006. Review of Carpenter Moth of Genus Holcocerus Staudinger, 1884 (s. l.) // Eversmannia. Suppl. 1. 104 p. 2. Yakovlev R.V. 2014. System and zoogeography of Cossidae (Lepidoptera) of Old World. Barnaul: AltGU-Press. 394 p. [in Russian] 3. Balasova V.A., Bochkareva E.N., Burmistrov M.A., Volynkin A.V., Votinov A.G., Garms O.Ya., Goretovskaya O.S., Zhuravlev V.B., Zinchenko V.K., Inozemzev A.G., Irisova N.L., Konnov P.V., Kosterin O.E., Kudryashova I.V., Legalov A.A., Perunov Yu.E., Petrov V.Yu., Plotnikov V.N., Pozhidaeva L.V. Ryzhkov D.V., Chupin I.I., Shapetko E.V., Shutova Yu.V., Sherbinin K.S., Yakovlev R.V. 2006. Red book of Altai Krai. Rare species of Animals. Vol. 2. Barnaul: Azbuka. 211 p. [in Russian] 4. Zolotov D.V., Votinov A.G., Chernykh D.V., Yakovlev R.V., Nozhinkov A.E., Pisarenko O.Yu. 2007. Red book of Bystryj Istok district of Altai Krai. Rare plants and animals. Barnaul. 147 p. [in Russian] 5. Bondarenko A.V., Bubnova T.V., Voznijchuk O.P., Dubatolov V.V., Ivonin V.V., Kosterin O.E., Lebedeva M.A., Malkov P.Yu., Omelchanko L.V., Sergeev M.G., Kharitonov A.Yu., Chesnokova S.V., Yakovlev R.V. 2007. ARTHROPODA // Red book of Altai Republic. Animals. Gorno-Altaisk. P. 45–114. [in Russian] 6. Anikin V.V., Baryshnikova S.V., Belyaev E.A., Bogdanov P.V., Budashkin Yu.I., Vasilenko S.V., Gorbunov O.G., Devyatkin A.L., Dubatolov V.V., Efetov K.A., Zolotuhin V.V., Ignatiev N.N., Kovtunovich V.N., Kozlov M.V., Kononenko V.S., Lovzova Yu.A., Lukhtanov V.A., Lvovsky A.L., Matov A.Yu., Mironov V.G., Morgun D.V., Nedoshivina S.V., Ponomarenko M.G., Sviridov A.V., Sinev S.Yu., Ustjuzhanin P.Ya., Churkin S.V., Yakovlev R.V. 2008. Catalogue of Lepidoptera of Russia. SPb–М: «КМК-Press». 424 p. [in Russian] 7. Averin A.A., Antonov A.I., Barbarich A.A., Barma A.Yu., Bezborodov V.G., Belyaev E.A., Burik V.N., Budilov P.V., Vshivkova T.S., Guskova E.V., Dubatolov V.V., Zinchenko Yu.N., Ignatenko E.V., Kalinin A.Yu., Kapitonova L.V., Kovtunovich V.N., Koshkin E.S., Kryukov V.Kh., Lantukhova I.A., Lelej A.S., Loktionov V.M., Lvovsky A.L., Makarenko V.P., Malikova E.I., Martynenko O.N., Mikhaleva E.V., Mutin V.A., Osipov P.E., Pittius U., Ponomarenko M.G., Proshalykin M.Yu., Rostova S.A., Rubzova T.A., Storozhenko S.Yu., Streltsov A.N., Ustjuzhanin P.Ya., Yakovlev R.V. 2012. Animal World of Bastak Reserve. Blagoveshensk: Izd-vo Blagoveshensk State Pedagogical University. 242 p. [in Russian] 8. Tshikolovets V.V., Yakovlev R.V., Kosterin O.E. 2009. The Butterflies of Altai, Sayans and Tuva (South Siberia). Kyiv-Pardubice. 374 p. 9. Tshikolovets V.V., Yakovlev R.V., Balint Z. 2009. The Butterflies of Mongolia. Kyiv-Pardubice. 320 p. 10. Yakovlev R.V. 2011. Catalogue of the Family Cossidae of the Old World (Lepidoptera) // Neue Entomologische Nachrichten Bd. 66. P. 1−130. Schoolbooks 1. Tyumaseva Z.I., Guskova E.V., Yakovlev R.V. 2008. Biology with basics of ecology for Students of pedagogical Universities. Chelyabinsk. 91 p. [in Russian] 2. Guskova E.V., Yakovlev R.V. 2008. Concepts of modern science. Chelyabinsk. 88 p. [in Russian] 3. Tyumaseva Z.I., Guskova E.V., Dukhin V.V., Yakovlev R.V. 2009. Zoology of Invertebrates. Sankt-Peterburg. 102 p. [in Russian] Articles 2015 1. Yakovlev R.V. 2015. Patterns of geographical distribution of Carpenter-Moths (Lepidoptera: Cossidae) in the Old World // Siberian ecological journal. № 1. P. 45−62. [in Russian] 2. Ustjuzhanin P., Kovtunovich V., Danchenko A., Yakovlev R. 2015. The Pterophoridae fauna (Lepidoptera) of Armenia // Entomologist’s Gazette 66: 219–226 3. Ustjuzhanin P.Ya., Kovtunovich V.N., Yakovlev R.V. 2015. New data on the plume moths of Mongolia (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae) // SHILAP Revta. lepid. 43 (170): 309-313. 4. Yakovlev R.V. 2015. Patterns of Geographical Distribution of Carpenter Moths (Lepidoptera: Cossidae) in the Old World // Contemporary Problems of Ecology, 8, No. 1, pp. 36–50. 5. Yakovlev R.V. 2015. A new species of Isocossus Roepke, 1957 (Lepidoptera: Cossidae) from Vietnam, including a world catalogue of the genus // Zootaxa 3990 (1): 141–146. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3990.1.9 6. Yakovlev R.V. 2015. A new species of Isoceras Turati, 1924 (Lepidoptera: Cossidae) from Armenia // Zootaxa 3990 (1): 147–150. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3990.1.10 7. Yakovlev R.V., Kostyunin A.T. 2015. Range expansion of Apatura iris (Linnaeus, 1758) in Siberia (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) // SHILAP Revta. lepid. 43 (170): 305−308. 8. Yakovlev R.V., Pljustch I.G., Skrylnik Yu., Pak O., Witt Th. 2015. The Cossidae (Lepidoptera) of Afghanistan with description of three new species and special notes on the fauna of Bande-Amir National Park // Zootaxa 3990 (1): 41–72. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3990.1.3 9. Yakovlev R.V., Saldaitis A., Rimsaite J., Ivinskis P. 2015. A new species of Camellocossus Yakovlev, 2011 (Lepidoptera: Cossidae) from Southern Oman // Zootaxa 4013 (1): 147–150. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4013.1.12 10. Yakovlev R.V., Witt Th. 2015. Orientozeuzera martinii sp. nov., a new species of Carpenter-Moths (Lepidoptera: Cossidae) from Borneo // Zootaxa 3990 (1): 138–140. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3990.1.8 2014 11. Yakovlev R.V. 2014. Russian entomologists in Africa // Science in Russia. № 1. P. 107−112. [in Russian] 12. Yakovlev R.V. 2014. Carpenter-Moths (Cossidae) of Altai Mountains Country // Zoological Journal. Vol. 93 (5). P. 651−661. [in Russian] 13. Yakovlev R.V., Pljustch I.G. 2014. Dieida Strand, 1911 – new Genus of Cossidae (Lepidoptera) for Fauna of Afghanistan // Amurian Zoological Journal. Vol. 6 (1). P. 75−76. [in Russian] 14. Yakovlev R.V. 2014. Redescription of the genus Miacora Dyar, 1905 from South America (Lepidoptera, Cossidae) // SHILAP Revista de lepidopterologia. Vol. 42 (165). P. 57−60. 15. Yakovlev R.V. 2014. A new species of Afroarabiella Yakovlev, 2008 (Lepidoptera, Cossidae) from the Republic of South Africa, including a world catalogue of the genus // Zootaxa. Vol. 3793 (2). P. 297–300. 16. Yakovlev R.V. 2014. Descriptions of three new species of Cossidae (Lepidoptera) from Vietnam, with an updated annotated checklist // Zootaxa. Vol. 3802 (2). P. 240–256. 17. Yakovlev R.V. 2014. Cossidae (Lepidoptera) of Zambia // Check List. Vol. 10 (4). P. 724–728. 18. Yakovlev R., Naidenov A., Perunov Yu., Artemiev R. 2014. First record of Apatura iris (Linnaeus, 1758) in Altai Krai, Russia (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) // Entomologist’s Gazette. N 65. 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