Oleg Leonidovich Kryzhanovsky (28 May 1918, Ekaterinburg – 15 June 1997) was a Soviet entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera especially Carabidae and Histeridae. Kryzhanovsky published more than 250 scientific works including 6 monographs (for list see External Link). He described 135 new species of beetles.
Kryzhanovskiana olegi (Kataev et al., 2019), an extinct species of ground beetle from the Cretaceous Burmese amber, is named after Kryzhanovsky.[1]
References
edit- ^ Boris M. Kataev, Alexander G. Kirejtshuk, Andranik R. Manukyan, Boris A. Anokhin (2019). "Kryzhanovskiana olegi gen. et sp. nov., a remarkable eyeless representative of the tribe Metriini (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Paussinae) from Upper Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar". Cretaceous Research. 103 (104168). Elsevier Ltd.: 1–13. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2019.06.014. ISSN 0195-6671.
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Further reading
edit- Anonym 2000 [Kryzhanovskij, O. L.] Trudy Russk. ent. Obsc. 71 54-55, Portr. (Caricature)
- Medvedev, G. S.; Korotyaev, B. A. & Tanasijtschuk, V. N. 1998 [Kryzhanovskij, O. L.] Entomologitscheskoje Obozrenije 77(1) 250-257. Portrait
- Turin, H.; Penev, L. & Casale, A. [Hrsg.] 2003 The Genus Carabus in Europe. A Synthesis. Sofia-Moscow, Pensoft Publishers : XV+1-511 p. [V].
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