- Source: Oleg Leonidovich Kryzhanovsky
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.
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Further reading
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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