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Igor Grichanov

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Alma mater
  
Voronezh State University

Known for
  
Entomology, Fly

Residence
  
Soviet Union, Russia

Born
  
September 10, 1958 (age 58) Voronezh, USSR (
1958-09-10
)

Fields
  
Entomologist, ecologist

Institutions
  
All-Russian Institute of Plant Protection, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Notable awards
  
Member of Russian Entomological Society Presidium, 2012

Igor Yakovlevich Grichanov is a Russian entomologist and ecologist. As a taxonomist, he specialised on Diptera notably Dolichopodidae. He joined the staff of the All-Russian Institute of Plant Protection in 1981. From 1990 he is the Head of the Laboratory of Phytosanitary Diagnostics and Forecasts. He wrote over 470 scientific papers (1979-2016). Не has described 26 new genera and over 400 new species of flies.

Selected works

  • Sigvald R., Grichanov I. Ya. (Eds.). Crop Protection Conference - Pests, Diseases and Weeds, May 28–30, 2002. Conference Report 01, Uppsala: SLU, 2003. 292 p.
  • Grichanov I. Ya. Review of Afrotropical Dolichopodinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae). St.Petersburg: VIZR, 2004. 245 p.[2]
  • Grichanov I. Ya. A checklist and keys to North European genera and species of Dolichopodidae (Diptera). St.Petersburg: VIZR, 2006. 120 p.[3]
  • Grichanov I. Ya. A checklist and keys to Dolichopodidae (Diptera) of the Caucasus and East Mediterranean. St.Petersburg: VIZR, 2007. 160 p.[4]
  • Grichanov I. Ya. An illustrated synopsis and keys to afrotropical genera of the epifamily Dolichopodoidae (Diptera: Empidoidea). Priamus Supplement, Ankara, 2011, v. 24. 98 p., 305 figs.[5]
  • Grichanov I. Ya., Negrobov O. P. (Eds.). Fauna and taxonomy of Dolichopodidae (Diptera). Collection of papers. St.Petersburg: VIZR, 2013. 96 p.[6]
  • Grichanov I. Ya., Negrobov O. P. Palaearctic species of the genus Sciapus Zeller (Diptera: Dolichopodidae). St.Petersburg, VIZR, 2014. 84 p.[7].
  • Grichanov I. Ya. Alphabetic list of generic and specific names of predatory flies of the epifamily Dolichopodoidae (Diptera). St.Petersburg, VIZR, 2014. 544 p.[8].

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