M.G. Volkovich: Curriculum Vitae (Englich version)

 
Mark G. Volkovitsh 
Senior Research Scientist 
Affiliation & contact information: 
Laboratory of Insect Systematics 
Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences 
Universitetskaya Embankment 1 
St.Petersburg, 199034 Russia 
Tel.: +7(812) 328 12 12, +7(812) 114 51 67 
FAX: +7(812) 114 04 44 
E-mail: polycest@zin.ru 
 
Date & place of birth: 
October 28, 1950 
Leningrad (St.Petersburg), Russia 
 
Research intersets: 
 
Systematics and faunistics of metallic wood borers (Coleoptera, 
Buprestidae), adult and larval morphology, zoogeography, and ecology 
of buprestids of the Palaearctic and the World; 
 
Computer databases in systematics and faunistics of Buprestidae; 
 
Biological control of weeds using phytopathogenic microorganisms and 
phytophagous insects 
 
Education: 
*1979 - Ph.D., Zoology & Entomology 
(Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences, Leningrad/St. 
Petersburg) 
*1972 - M.Sc., Zoology & Entomology 
(Leningrad State University, Leningrad/St.Petersburg) 
 
Post-graduate & post-doctoral training: 
*1992 - Training course in phythopathology 
(Department of Plant Pathology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA) 
*1976-1979 - Post-graduate course 
(Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences, Leningrad/St. 
Petersburg) 
 
Professional experience: 
*1990 - present - Senior Research Scientist, Research Scientist, 
Senior Research Scientist, Laboratory of Insect Systematics, 
Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences St.Petersburg, 
Russia 
*1979 - 1990 - Junior Research Scientist, Research Scientist, 
Senior Research Scientist, Laboratory of Insect Systematics, 
Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences St.Petersburg, 
Russia 
*1972-1979 - Laboratory assistant, Laboratory of Insect Systematics, 
Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences St.Petersburg, 
Russia 
 
Computer skills: 
Proficient at a variety of phylogenetic (Hennig86), database 
processing (dBASE/FoxPro), word processing and graphic (MS Word, WP, 
Adobe Photoshop) programs; scanners, digital camera 
 
The main results: data base processing on systematics, type specimens, 
distribution, host-plant range and bibliography of metallic wood 
borers of the Russia and adjacent states, Palearctic and the World. 
Processing of digital images of buprestid larval structures. 
 
Professional affiliations: 
* 1993 - present Entomological Society of America 
* 1993 - European Association of Coleopterology 
* 1990 - Coleopterists Society, USA 
* 1971 - Russian (All-Union) Entomological Society 
 
Invited lectures and seminars: 
*1978 - Agricultural Entomology. Special course in Agricultural 
Institute, Orel, Russia 
*1972-1976 - Systematics and identification of Coleoptera. Seminars on 
Department of Entomology, Leningrad State University 
 
International conferences and workshops 
(with oral presentations): 
* 1995 - Volkovitsh M. Present state of knowledge on the tribe 
Acmaeoderini. 1st International Symposium on Buprestidae, Visegrag, 
Hungary, 18-23 September 1995. 
* 1995 - Volkovitsh M. Comparative morphology, evolutionary trends, 
and taxonomic value of antennal sensory formations in Buprestidae. 1st 
International Symposium on Buprestidae, Visegrag, Hungary, 18-23 
September 1995. 
* 1995 - Volkovitsh M. Comparative morphology, evolutionary trends, 
and taxonomic value of buprestid larvae 1st International Symposium on 
Buprestidae, Visegrag, Hungary, 18-23 September 1995. 
* 1994 - Volkovitsh M.G. & Lobanov A.L. Data bank on the host plants 
associations of buprestid-beetles of the tribe Acmaeoderini 
(Coleoptera, Buprestidae) of the Palaearctic. International Symposium 
"Data bases and computer graphics in zoological investigations". 
Zoological Institute RAS, St.Petersburg, April 1994 
* 1988 - Volkovitsh M.G. & Alexeev A.V. Comparative characteristics of 
the fauna of buprestids (Coleoptera, Buprestidae) of the Northern 
Eurasia. Soviet-Finish Symposium "The connections between entomofauna of the North Europe and Siberia. Zoological Institute AN USSR, 
Leningrad/St.Petersburg, March 1987. 
 
International conferences and workshops 
(posters, abstracts): 
* 1999 - Volkovitsh M, R.Dolgovskaya, S.Reznik, M.Cristofaro, and 
A.Konstantinov. The life history and Biology of Aphthona russica 
sp.nov., a new potential biologiccal control agent of Euphorbia esula 
L. X International Symposium on Biological Control of Weeds. Bozeman, 
Montana, USA, July 4-14, 1999 (poster, abstract) 
* 1999 - Konstantinov A., M.Cristofaro, and M.Volkovitsh. Leafy Spurge 
biological control exploration for natural enemies from the leaf 
beetle genus Aphthona Chevrolat (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: 
Alticinae). X International Symposium on Biological Control of Weeds. 
Bozeman, Montana, USA, July 4-14, 1999 (poster, abstract) 
* 1999 - Dolgovskaya M.Yu., S.A.Podlipaev, S.Ya.Reznik, 
M.G.Volkovitch, A.Pilgeram, and D.C.Sands. Preliminary results of the 
sccreening of Euphorbia esula pathogens collected in Russia. X 
International Symposium on Biological Control of Weeds. Bozeman, 
Montana, USA, July 4-14, 1999 (poster, abstract) 
*1998 - Volkovitsh M. & Ruicanescu A. Rectification in the species 
list of subfamily Acmaeoderinae (Coleoptera, Buprestidae) from the 
Romanian fauna. VIth European Congress of Entomology, Ceske 
Budejovice, Czech Republic, August 23-29 (poster, abstract) 
*1996 - Volkovitsh M.G. The larval characters of buprestid beetles and 
their taxonomical value (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). XX International 
Congress of Entomology. Firenze, Italy, August 25-31 (abstract) 
* 1994 - Dolgovskaya M.Yu., Podlipaev S.A., Reznik S.Ya., Volkovitch 
M.G. Preliminary results of the isolation of pathogenic fungi 
associated with Eurasian Water Milfoil. 9th International Symposium on 
Aquatic weeds. 12-16 September 1994, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland 
(poster, abstract) 
* 1986 - Volkovitsh M.G. Holzfressende Kafer (Prachtkafer, Bockkafer, 
Borkenkafer) des Schonreviers "Wald an der Worskla". XI. 
Internationales Symposium uber die Entomofaunistik Mitteleuropas, 
Gotha, 18-24 Mai 1986 (abstract) 
* 1986 - Alexeev,A.V & Volkovitsh,M.G. Biogeographic delineation of 
the fauna of buprestid beetles (Coleoptera, Buprestdae) of the 
Mongolian People's Republic. International conference "Prirodnye usloviya i biologicheskiye resursy Mongol'skoi Narodnoi Respubliki". 
Moscow, October 1886. 
 
Total number of publications: more 80 
 
Selected publications: 
 
Volkovitsh M.G. 1979. A review of Palaearctic groups of the tribe 
Acmaeoderini (Coleoptera, Buprestidae). Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 
58(2): 333 -354 (In Russian) /English translation: Entomological 
Review, Washington 1979 (1980) 58(2): 78-99/. 
Volkovitsh M.G. 1979. On the larval morphology of buprestid beetles of 
the genus Acmaeoderella Cobos (Coleoptera, Buprestidae). In: 
Medvedev, G.S. (Ed.). Morfologiya i sistematika nasekomykh. Trudy 
Zoologicheskogo Instituta, Akademiya Nauk SSSR 83: 21-38 (In 
Russian). 
Volkovitsh M.G. 1986. Review of the buprestid tribe Acmaeoderini 
(Coleoptera, Buprestidae) of the fauna of the USSR and adjacent 
countries]. In: Kirejtshuk, A.G. (Ed.). Morfologiya, sistematika i 
faunistika maloizuchennykh grupp nasekomykh. Trudy Zoologicheskogo 
Instituta, Akademiya Nauk SSSR 140: 16-43 (In Russian with English 
summary). 
Alexeev A.V., Volkovitsh M.G. 1989. A review of buprestid-beetles 
(Coleoptera, Buprestidae) of the Mongolian People's Republic. 
Nasekomye Mongolii, 10: 301-368 (In Russian). 
Alexeev A.V., Volkovitsh M.G., Kabakov O.N. Material on the fauna of 
the buprestid beetles (Coleoptera, Buprestidae) of Afghanistan. 
1990. Part 1. In: Kirejtshuk A.G. (Ed.). Problemy sistematiki 
zhestkokrylykh nasekomykh. Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta, 
Akademia Nauk SSSR 211: 59-83 (In Russian); 1991. Part 2. 
Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 70(4): 852-865; 1992. Part 3. 
Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 71(2): 372-391 (In Russian with English 
summary). 
Volkovitsh M.G. & Alexeev A.V. 1992. Buprestid beetles (Coleoptera, 
Buprestidae) of the Badghyz. In: Atamuradov A.Kh. (Ed.). Priroda 
Badkhyza. Okhrana prirody Turkmenistana, vypusk 9. Ashkhabad, 
"Turkmenistan": 146-170 (In Russian). 
Volkovich M.G. & Alexeev A.V. Buprestid beetles (Coleoptera: 
Buprestidae) from Kopetdagh and the adjacent regions of Southern 
 
Turkmenistan. In: Fet, V. and Atamuradov, H. (Eds.). Biogeography 
and Ecology of Turkmenistan. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 
Dordrecht, The Netherlands. 1994: 419-449. 
Bily S. & Volkovitsh M.G. Revision, reclassification and larval 
morphology of the genus Paratassa (Coleptera: Buprestidae: 
Paratassini tribus n.). Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemiae, 1996, 
60: 325-346. 
Volkovitsh M.G. & Bily S. A new species of Chalcogenia from Israel, 
and notes on the systematic position of the genus (Coleoptera: 
Buprestidae: Annthaxiini). Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemiae. 
61: 249-263. 
Volkovitsh M.G. & Hawkeswood T.J. The larvae of Prospheres 
aurantiopicta (Laporte & Gory) with comments on larval 
characteristics of Polycestoid taxa (Insecta, Coleoptera, 
Buprestidae) (in press). 
Volkovitsh M.G. Results of Russian entomological expeditions to Israel 
in 1994 and 1996. Buprestidae (Coleoptera). Israel Journal of 
Entomology (in press). 
Volkovitsh M.G. The comparative morphology of antennal structures 
in Buprestidae (Coleoptera): evolutionary trends, taxonomic and 
phylogenetic implications. Part 1. Proceedings of the 1st 
International Symposium on Buprestidae. Vysegrad, 1995. 
115 pp., 37 tabl. (220 microphotogrphs) (in press). 
 
Work in foreign Museums: 
* Sithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. U.S.A., (1999) (2 months) 
* Department of Zoology, Tel-Aviv University, Israel (1994, 1996) (3-5 
days) 
* Narodni Museum v Praze, Prague, Czech Repubic (1990, 1991, 1993-1996, 
1999) (1-2 weeks) 
* Museum of Zoology, Helsinki University, Finland (1992, 1993, 1994) 
(5-14 days) 
* Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland 
(1990) (2 weeks) 
* Institute of Zoology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria 
(1988) (2 weeks) 
* Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary (1987) (2 weeks) 
 
Collecting trips (USSR, Russia): 
* 1990-1999 - International and Russian expeditions for exploration 
and field testing of micropathogenes and insects promising for 
biological control of weeds (Krasnodar and Stavropol ter., Central 
Asia, Kazakhstan, Armenia, West and East Siberia) (14-30 days); 
expeditional leader. 
* 1973-1991 - mainly route expeditions to Central Asia, Kazakhstan and 
Transcaucasia (1.5-4 months); expeditional leader from 1981. 
* 1969, 1971 - zonal student expeditions to Crimea (14-16 days) 
* 1969-1971 - "Forest on the Vorskla river" reserve, Belgorod prov., 
pregraduate practice (2.5-3 months) 
* 1968 - Astrakhan reserve, Astrakhan prov. (1 month) 
 
Foreign collecting trips: 
* 1999 - U.S.A., Montana, Rocky Mountains (1 week) 
* 1998 - Canary Islands, Tenerife (2 weeks) 
* 1997, 1999 - Turkey (2-3 weeks) 
* 1994, 1996 - Israel (1-2 months) 
* 1992 - Mexico (2 weeks) 
* 1988 - Bulgaria (1 month) 
 
Professional awards and Research Grants: 
* 1998-2000 - Long-term research grant No. 98-04-49763, 
the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) (Research leader - 
Prof. G.S.Medvedev), investigator. 
* 1994-1995 - Grant, International Science Foundation, Long-term 
research grants program - The Buprestidae (Insecta, Coleoptera) of the 
Former Soviet Union, Principal Investigator. 
* 1993 - Grant, International Science Foundation, Short-term research 
grants program. 
* 1992 - Stipend, International Science Foundation, Biodiversity.