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V.V. Dubatolov on the Mr.A.Bondarenko's PhD. thesis defence,
Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology, Novosibirsk, January, 1999

Graduated from Department of Natural Sciences, Novosibirsk State Univesity in 1980. Diploma work: "Quantative analysis of the suture line of Ammonoidea in evolution" (in Russian).

From 1980: a member of the stuff of  Zoological Museum of Biological Institute, Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (now - Siberian Zoological Museum, Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences), Novosibirsk.
1980-1982 - graduated student;
1982-1992 - junior researcher;
1992-1993 - researcher;
1993-2000 - senior researcher;
2000- now - leading researcher.

Curator of the dry entomological collection in Siberian Zoological Museum, Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology, SB RAS, Frunze street, 11, Novosibirsk, 630091, RUSSIA. Main curator of Lepidoptera (excluding Geometridae); Orthopteroidea, including Plecoptera; Neuropteroidea, Mecoptera, Hymenoptera (Vespoidea), Trichoptera, Ephemeroptera.

PhD thesis: "Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea, Papilionoidea) of the mountains of Turkmenistan".
Defended in 1993 in the Biological Institute (now - Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology), Novosibirsk.

Fields of scientific interest: systematics and faunistics, faunogenesis and biogeography of the Palearctic Arctiinae, Papilionoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera), Russian Hesperioidea, Geometroidea (excluding Geometridae), Bombycoidea, Sphingoidea, Noctuoidea; faunistics of Siberian Tortricidae, Ethmiidae, some other Microlepidoptera; in the Museum also work with some other Insecta: Neuropteroidea, Plecoptera, Vespoidea (Hymenoptera).
Particular interest: Eurasian Lepidoptera range formation in Holocene and Pleistocene.

In recent years collaborate with Dr. O.E. Kosterin, Institute of Cytology & Genetics of Siberian Branch of Russ. Acad. Sci., Novosibirsk, whose nice site with numerous pictures of Lepidoptera, flowers and landscapes can be found here.

List of scientific papers (including 100 names) is here.
Among them there are:
reviews of:
Arctiinae (Arctiidae) of the former USSR,
Lithosiinae (Arctiidae) of the former USSR,
Lasiocampidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera) of the former USSR fauna; THIS IS A NEW CORRECTED VERSION!
Ethmiidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera) of the Asian part of Russia;
an annotated check lists of:
Ethmiidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera) of the former USSR (in net only!);
Polistinae and Vespinae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) of Siberia.
Common Wasps (Insecta, Hymenoptera: Polistinae and Vespinae) of Asian Russia (in net only!).
A history of nemoral Lepidoptera fauna in Siberia with a new on dating of amphipalearctic species range disjunctions
A page on tiger-moth (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae) systematics. Here you can find check-lists on tiger moths of the Palearctic, Nearctic, China and other information.
All are available!

Pedagogical activity:
Several PhD. theses under V.V.Dubatolov supervision were defended by:
Malkov, P.Yu. (2002)
Shodotova, A.A. (2003)

Address:
Work: Siberian Zoological Museum, Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology, SB RAS, Frunze street, 11, Novosibirsk, 630091, RUSSIA.
Phone (work): +7(3832)170426, or +7(3832)170633, or +7(3832)170285
Phone (home): +7(3832)333192
FAX (work): +7(3832)170973
E-mail (work): mu@eco.nsc.ru
E-mail (home): vvdubat@online.nsk.su