Igor Grichanov

Russian entomologist and ecologist

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Igor Yakovlevich Grichanov Игорь Яковлевич Гричанов
Born	(1958-09-10) September 10, 1958 (age 66) Voronezh, USSR
Citizenship	Soviet Union, Russia
Alma mater	Voronezh State University, Russia
Known for	entomologist, dipterologist
Awards	Member of Russian Entomological Society Presidium, 2012
Scientific career
Fields	Entomologist, ecologist
Institutions	All-Russian Institute of Plant Protection, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Igor Yakovlevich Grichanov (Russian: Игорь Яковлевич Гричанов; born 10 September 1958) 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. In 1990, he became the Head of the Laboratory of Phytosanitary Diagnostics and Forecasts.^[1] He wrote over 470 scientific papers (1979-2016). Не has described 26 new genera and over 400 new species of flies.^[2]

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].

References

^ К юбилею И. Я. Гричанова // Вестник защиты растений, 2008, № 3, с. 78 [1].
^ EOL New taxa described by Grichanov.

Foreword. In: Grichanov I. Ya. Russian-English and English-Russian vocabulary for entomologists. Saint-Petersburg: VIZR, 2004, 116 p. [Russian]
To the jubilee of Grichanov I. Ya. Plant Protection News, 2008, No 3, p. 78 [9]. [Russian]