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Yurij G. Verves |
I was born in Kyiv in 1946 and began to study Diptera in 1966, as a student at the Biological Faculty of
Kyiv Taras Shevchenko University. The head of the Zoological Department Prof. A. Kryshtal' suggested
taking up the Sarcophagidae. My first teacher in dipterological research was Prof. Boris B. Rohdendorf (1904-1977)
from the Paleontological Institute (Moscow), and I visited him during 1968-1977.
I am PhD (since 1974, the name of my thesis was "Sarcophagid flies of the Mid-Dnieper region"),
Dr. Sci. (since 1989, the name of my thesis was "Sarcophagid flies of the Old World:
The system, ecology, distribution") and full professor (since 1991).
In 1973-2004 I took up step by step the positions as assistant professor, docent, full professor,
head of Zoological Department of Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University,
and from 2004 I have been the head of the Department of Ecology and Nature Protection of State Academy
of Housing and Communal Services (Kyiv).
I am also a member of the Academy of Sciences of the High School of Ukraine (since 1995),
and a Soros Professor (since 1998).
I have an interest in the taxonomy, systematics, faunistic and biology of two-winged flies
of the families Sarcophagidae, Calliphoridae, and Rhinophoridae of all continents.
I like field work just as much as curatorial work on museum collections,
and I have collected flies in all parts of Ukraine, in Gruzia, Kazakhstan, and Siberia (Altai).
I have published more than 250 scientific and tutorial works, among them more than
130 dipterological works, which have been published in Brazil, Czech Republic, Germany,
Hungary, Finland, India, Japan, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Seychelles, Sweden, and Ukraine.
One tribe, 10 subtribes, 54 genera and subgenera, and 159 species of sarcophagids
have been described as new, and a Catalogue of Palaearctic Sarcophagidae was published (1986).
One subfamily (Helicoboscinae) has been designated for the first time,
and five species of calliphorids have been described, and three new dipteran infraorders
(Conopomorpha Verves & Narchuk, 1992, Platypezomorpha Verves & Narchuk, 1992,
Syrphomorpha Verves & Narchuk, 1992) have been designed.
I am (together with Prof. Emilyia Narchuk, St Petersburg) an author of an hypothesis
of the historical development of trophic connections of the larvae of the higher Diptera.
My other scientific interests are in evolution, where I formed the original hypothesis
on the identity of evolutionary and ecological factors, and in paleontology,
where I have designated three new Cambrian classes of Chelicerata
(Hebeliamorpha Verves, 1996, Molariomorpha Verves, 1996, Saratroceromorpha Verves, 1996).
Prof. Yuriy G. Verves
Post Box 23
03118 Kyiv-118
Ukraine
verves@kiev.ua
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