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Nazar A. Shapoval
Web of Science ResearcherID: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/P-4411-2015
Scopus Author ID: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=24071805300
RSCI: https://www.elibrary.ru/author_profile.asp?authorid=180844
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4735-2209
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.ru/citations?user=raJjtOwAAAAJ
Academic degree: Candidate of Biological Sciences
Academic title: No title
Position: Senior Researcher
E-mail: Nazar.Shapoval@zin.ru
Contact phone: +7 (812) 651-71-95
Educational background: Saint-Petersburg State University, 2008
Dissertations: “Interspecific hybridization and hybrid speciation in Agrodiaetus blue butterflies (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae).” (PhD)
Research interests: Lepidoptera, molecular biology, evolution and speciation.
Field studies: Russia, South Europe, Iran, Turkey, Central Asia.
Professional membership: Russian Entomological Society, https://www.zin.ru/societies/res/
Editorial activity:
Pedagogical activity: “Basics of Cladistic Analysis” A series of lectures for students of Saint-Petersburg State University
Scientific projects and grants: Project manager:
  • RSCF 22-24-01086 “Mito-nuclear discordance in butterflies: a case study on the genus Colias (Lepidoptera: Pieridae)”.
  • RFBR 19-34-50027 “Systematics, phylogeny and evolution of Colias butterflies (Lepidoptera, Pieridae): the role of interspecific hybridization in genus formation”.
  • RFBR 18-34-00756 “Interspecific hybridization and mitochondiral introgression evolution in Lepidopterans”.
Project realizer:
  • RSCF 22-24-00265 “Cossoid Moths (Lepidoptera, Cossoidea) of tribus Endagriini Duponchel, 1844 of the World: systematic, phylogeny and evolution of the group”.
  • RSCF 19-14-00202 “Hybrid speciation without polyploidy: origin and evolution of pre- and postzygotic barriers between hybrids and parental forms”.
  • RSCF 14-04-00541 “Genetic structure and mechanisms of biological diversity formation in insects”.
  • RFBR 18-04-00263-a “Interspecific hybridization, reticular evolution and speciation in Lepidoptera”
  • RFBR 18-04-00440-a “Cossoid Lepidoptera (Cossoidea) of the World: systematics, molecular phylogeny and zoogeography”.
  • RFBR 17-04-00754-a “Biodiversity of the Lepidoptera of Russia: a review of the fauna based on the generalization of modern taxonomical, molecular and faunistic data”.
  • RFBR 17-04-00828-a “Analysis of holokinetic chromosomes and their changes in evolution of insects”.
  • RFBR 15-04-01581-a “Experimental approach to analysis of mechanisms of homoploid hybrid speciation in butterflies”.
  • RFBR 15-29-02533-ofi_m “The structure and peculiarities of the formation of taxonomic diversity in arthropods involved in co-evolutionary relationships with plants and vertebrates”.
  • RFBR 14-04-00770-a “Reveal of cryptic taxa of the palaearctic Lepidoptera using the methods of classical and molecular taxonomy”.
  • RFBR 14-04-01051-a “The regularities of genome evolution in insects with holokinetic chromosomes: the analysis of cytogenetic and molecular markers”.
  • RFBR 13-04-10025-k “Scientific project of expedition for analysis of frequency of sporadic interspecific hybridization in natural populations of blue butterflies”.
  • RFBR 13-04-92716-ind-a “Unravelling higher level phylogenetic relationships of skipper butterflies (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae), times of divergences and evolution of hostplant associations”.
Selected Publications:
  • Gorki J.L., López-Mañas R., Sáez L., Menchetti M., Shapoval N.A., Andersen A., Benyamini D., Daniels S., García-Berro A., Reich M.S., Scalercio S., Toro-Delgado E., Bataille C.P., Domingo-Marimon C., Vila R., Suchan T., Talavera G. 2024. Pollen metabarcoding reveals the origin and multigenerational migratory pathway of an intercontinental-scale butterfly outbreak. Current Biology 34(12): 2684 - 2692.e6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.05.037
  • Nazari V., Yen S.-H., Hsu Y.-F., Shapoval G.N., Shapoval N.A., Todisco V. 2024. Wiped out by an earthquake? The ‘extinct’ Taiwanese swallowtail butterfly (Lepidoptera, Papilionidae) was morphologically and genetically distinct. PLoS ONE 19(11): e0310318. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0310318
  • Krupitsky A.V., Shapoval N.A., Shapoval G.N. 2024. Description of a new species of the genus Polycaena Staudinger, 1886 (Lepidoptera, Riodinidae) from China with designation of lectotype of Polycaena lua Grum-Grshimailo, 1891. Zootaxa 5471(1): 113–124. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5471.1.7
  • Shapoval N.A., Kir’yanov A.V., Krupitsky A.V., Yakovlev R.V., Romanovich A.E., Zhang J., Cong Q., Grishin N.V., Kovalenko M.G., Shapoval G.N. 2023. Phylogeography of two enigmatic Sulphur butterflies, Colias mongola Alphéraky, 1897 and Colias tamerlana Staudinger, 1897 (Lepidoptera, Pieridae), with relations to Wolbachia infection. Insects 14(12): 943. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects14120943
  • Krupitsky A.V., Shapoval N.A., Shapoval G.N., DNA barcoding of the Palaearctic Elfin butterflies (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) with a description of four new species from Vietnam. Insects 14(4): 352. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects14040352
  • Nazari V., Cotton A., Coutsis J.G., Shapoval N.A., Todisco V., Bozano G.C. 2023. Guide to the butterflies of the Palearctic region. Papilionidae part IV; Omnes Artes: Milano, Italy. ISBN: 9788887989311
  • Shapoval N.A., Krupitsky A.V., Yakovlev, R.V., Kir'yanov A.V., Shapoval G.N. 2023. Hybridisation in Colias butterflies (Lepidoptera, Pieridae): identification of natural hybrids using unlinked molecular markers. Acta Biologica Sibirica 9: 605–616. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8353128
  • Lukhtanov V.A. Shapoval N.A., Dantchenko V.A., Eckweiler W. 2023. Phylogenetic structure revealed through combining DNA barcodes with multi-gene data for Agrodiaetus Blue butterflies (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Insects 14(9): 769. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects14090769
  • Shapoval N.A., Shapoval G.N., Shapoval A.P. 2022. New, rare and vagrant damselflies and dragonflies (Insecta: Odonata) in the Kaliningrad Oblast, north-western Russia. Acta Biologica Sibirica 8: 261–279. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7703376
  • Nokkala С., Kuznetsova V.G., Shapoval N.A., Nokkala S. 2022. Phylogeography and Wolbachia infections reveal postglacial recolonization routes of the parthenogenetic plant louse Cacopsylla myrtilli (W. Wagner 1947), (Hemiptera, Psylloidea). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 2022: 5458633. https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/5458633
  • Krupitsky A.V., Shapoval N.A., Schepetov D.M., Ekimova I.A., Lukhtanov V.A. 2022. Phylogeny, species delimitation and biogeography of the endemic Palaearctic tribe Tomarini (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 196: 630-646. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab055
  • Shapoval N.A., Yakovlev R.V., Kuftina G.N., Lukhtanov V.A., Knyazev S.A., Romanovich A.E., Kruptisky A.V. 2021. Identification of natural hybrids between Ahlbergia frivaldszkyi (Lederer, 1853) and Callophrys rubi (Linnaeus, 1758) (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) using mitochondrial and nuclear markers. Insects 12(12): 1124. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects12121124
  • Shapoval N.A., Nokkala S., Nokkala C., Kuftina G.N., Kuznetsova V.G. 2021. The incidence of Wolbachia bacterial endosymbiont in bisexual and parthenogenetic populations of the psyllid genus Cacopsylla (Hemiptera, Psylloidea). Insects 12(10): 853. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects12100853
  • Maresova J., Suchackova-Bartonova A., Konvicka M., Høye T.T., Gilg O., Kresse J-C, Shapoval N.A., Yakovlev R.V., Fric Z.F. 2021. The story of endurance: Biogeography and the evolutionary history of four Holarctic butterflies with different habitat requirements. Journal of Biogeography 48(3): 590–602. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14022
  • Kuznetsova V.G., Maryańska-Nadachowska A., Anokhin B.A., Shapoval N.A, Shapoval A.P. 2021. Chromosomal analysis of eight species of dragonflies (Anisoptera) and damselflies (Zygoptera) using conventional cytogenetics and fluorescence in situ hybridization: Insights into the karyotype evolution of the ancient insect order Odonata. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 59: 387–399. https://doi.org/10.1111/jzs.12429
  • Kuznetsova V.G., Maryańska-Nadachowska A., Shapoval N.A., Anokhin B.A., Shapoval A.P. 2017. Cytogenetic characterization of eight Odonata species originating from the Curonian Spit (the Baltic Sea, Russia) using C-banding and FISH with 18S rDNA and telomeric (TTAGG)n probes. Cytogenetic and Genome Research 153(3):147-157. https://doi.org/10.1159/000486088
  • Lukhtanov V.A., Shapoval N.A. 2017. Chromosomal identification of cryptic species sharing their DNA barcodes: Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) antidolus and P. (A.) morgani in Iran (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Comparative Cytogenetics 11(4): 759–768. https://doi.org/10.3897/CompCytogen.v11i4.20876
  • Shapoval n.A., Lukhtanov V.A. 2016. On the Generic Position of Polyommatus avinovi (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Folia Biologica (Krakow), 64(4): 267–273. https://doi.org/10.3409/fb64_4.267
  • Shapoval N.A., Lukhtanov V.A. 2015. Taxonomic Position and Status of Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) iphigenia (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) from the Peloponnese, Southern Greece. Folia Biologica (Krakow), 63(4): 295–300. https://doi.org/10.3409/fb63_4.295
  • Shapoval N.A., Lukhtanov V.A. 2015. Intragenomic variations of multicopy ITS2 marker in Agrodiaetus blue butterflies (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Comparative Cytogenetics, 9(4): 483–497. https://doi.org/10.3897/CompCytogen.v9i4.5429
  • Shapoval N.A., Luktanov V.A. 2015. Taxonomic interpretation of chromosomal and mitochondrial DNA variability in the species complex close to Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) dama (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). Zookeys, 538: 1–20. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.538.6559
  • Lukhtanov V.A., Shapoval N.A., Anokhin B.A., Saifitdinova A.F., and Kuznetsova V.G. 2015. Homoploid hybrid speciation and genome evolution via chromosome sorting. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 282: 20150157. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.0157
  • Lukhtanov V.A., Shapoval N.A., Dantchenko A.V. 2015. Taxonomic position of several enigmatic Polyommatus (Agrodiaetus) species (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) from Central and Eastern Iran: insights from molecular and chromosomal data. Comparative Cytogenetics, 8(4): 313–322. https://doi.org/10.3897/CompCytogen.v8i4.8939
  • Lukhtanov V.A., Shapoval N.A. 2008. Detection of cryptic species in sympatry using population analysis of unlinked genetic markers: a study of the Agrodiaetus kendevani species complex (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae). Doclady Biological Sciences, 423: 432–436. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0012496608060197

 

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