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Educated at Rostov State University and St Petersburg State University (Russia). Since 2004, a PhD student at the Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences under the supervision of Prof. I.M. Kerzhner. Defended his PhD thesis "Taxonomic review of the world fauna of true bugs (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) from the subfamilies Asopinae and Podopinae" in 2008. Research interests: morphology, phylogenetics, systematics, ecology and faunistics of the true bugs (Heteroptera), mainly the infraorder Pentatomomorpha; zoological nomenclature and zoological Latin. He proposed an original method for preparation of the heteropteran aedeagi (inflation using glass microcapillaries), which gives new characters for systematics and phylogenetics. Author of over 60 publications, including articles on morphology and systematics of genera from the families Miridae, Rhopalidae, Pyrrhocoridae, Cydnidae, Scutelleridae and Pentatomidae.

Affiliation: Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Position, academic degree, rank: Senior Researcher, Candidate of Biological Sciences (PhD)

Address: 1 Universitetskaya Emb., Saint-Petersburg, 199034, Russia

Personal page; e-mail: dag@zin.ru

Graduated from St Petersburg State University in 1994. Research interests: (1) Biodiversity, taxonomy and ecology of Diptera (Insecta) inhabiting aquatic and shoreline habitats; (2) Different-level adaptations of immature Diptera to the colonization of aquatic and semiaquatic environments, particularly extreme habitats; (3) Communities and ecosystems in shallow aquatic and semiaquatic habitats, with special attention to extreme conditions. More than 150 scientific publications including 30 papers in the journals included in WoS and Scopus. Since 2009, he headed 4 grants of Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) and was a PI in 2 RFBR grants and in one Russian Scientific Foundation grant.

Affiliation: Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Position, academic degree, rank: Senior Researcher, Candidate of Biological Sciences (PhD)

Address: 1 Universtitetskaya Emb., 199034 St Petersburg, Russia

Personal page; e-mail: dipteran@mail.ru

Kjell R. Bjørklund received his degree in Marine biology from the University of Bergen in 1972. Research interests: micropaleontology; Quaternary and Tertiary radiolarian taxonomy and biostratigraphy; radiolarian fauna in the Arctic Ocean with special attention to morphology and speciation; relationship between radiolarians through molecular techniques. In recent years, in collaboration with Dr. Jane K. Dolven, he has prepared a catalog of radiolarians, including more than 500 species and containing their descriptions, illustrations, distribution, synonyms and references to literature.

Affiliation: University of Oslo, Natural History Museum

Position, academic degree, rank: Professor Emeritus, DSc

Address: Sars' gate 1, 0562 Oslo, Norway

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Graduated from Humboldt University in Berlin, obtained his PhD degree in 1972 and DSc degree in 1980. In 1986, received a university professorship in Humboldt University. From 1993 to 2010, he was a director of the German Entomological Institute. Until 2013, he was editor of the journals Contributions to Entomology and Nova Supplementa Entomologica. Since 1994, G. Dathe has worked at the successor institutions of the German Entomological Institute, whose re-establishment he organised, and which he was head of until 2010. Research intrests: systematics, zoogeography and species protection in Hymenoptera, especially the bees of the Palaearctic and Africa.

Affiliation: Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut

Position, academic degree, rank: Honorary staff member, DSc, Professor

Address: Eberswalder Str. 90, 15374 Müncheberg, Germany

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Graduated from University if Bergen, Norway in 2002. Full professor at NTNU, Norway since 2015. Main interest: evolution, systematics and biogeography, in particular of non-biting midges of the family Chironomidae (Diptera). Research is focused on taxonomy, biology, phylogeny, zoogeography and molecular systematics of genera and species in the tribe Tanytarsini, but also encompasses other groups of animals and plants such tardigrades. In total 75 published or in press peer reviewed scientific papers and book chapters; 4 scientific reports; >50 presentations at international conferences and symposia; 30 popular science papers, popular reports, chronicles and editorials. Since 2010 leading the Norwegian Barcode of Life Network (NorBOL), and 5 additional major research projects funded by the Research Council of Norway and the Norwegian Biodiversity Information Centre.

Affiliation: NTNU University Museum, Department of Natural History

Position, academic degree, rank: Professor, DSc

Address: Erling Skakkes gate 47A, NO-7019 Trondheim, Norway

Personal page; e-mail: torbjorn.ekrem@ntnu.no

Mark J. Grygier received his PhD at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1984. He then spent 13 years in many countries, pursuing research on the phylogenetic relationships among maxillopodan crustaceans as revealed by comparative morphology and ontogeny; and associated and parasitic organisms of marine invertebrates. Along the way he took up the taxonomic study of, in particular, monstrilloid copepods and the Myzostomida. Entering the Lake Biwa Museum in 1997, M. Grygier directed international collaborative projects on the large branchiopod crustaceans of ricefields and the parasitofauna of Lake Biwa. Now he continues to work in taxonomy and is is studying one more marine crustacean group, the Facetotecta. He has long served as English editor for several Japanese journals, notably the taxonomic journal Species Diversity. Currently, M. Grygier is a commissioner of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) and an associate editor of Journal of Crustacean Biology.

Affiliation: Center of Excellence for the Oceans, National Taiwan Ocean University

Position, academic degree, rank: Research Fellow, PhD

Address: No. 2, Beining Road, Zhongzheng District, Keelung City, Taiwan 202

e-mail: mjgrygier@mail.ntou.edu.tw

Graduated from Leningrad State University in 1984, PhD in 1988, ScD in 2007. In 2007–2010, Vice President of the International Society of Arachnology. Member of editorial boards in the journals Arthropoda Selecta, ZooKeys, Zoology in the Middle East, Acta Zoologica Bulgarica, and Acta Biologica Sibirica. Research interests: taxonomy, faunistics and zoogeography of all spider groups of the Old World; general zoogeographical divisions of the entire Holarctic Region, and subdivisions of the East Palaearctic; importance of the Beringian land bridge in the Siberian and northwestern North American spider faunogenesis; palaeontology of spiders. Published 9 monographs, and over 500 scientific papers. Described more than 600 new spider species and 50 supraspecific taxa.

Affiliations: Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia); Department of Zoology & Entomology, University of the Free State (South Africa); Zoological Museum, Biodiversity Unit, University of Turku (Finland)

Position, academic degree, rank: Head Research Fellow, Doctor of Biological Sciences (DSc)

Addresses: Institute of Biological Problems of the North FEB RAS, 18 Portovaya str, Magadan 685000, Russia; Department of Zoology & Entomology, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa; Zoological Museum, Biodiversity Unit, University of Turku, FI-20014, Finland

Personal page; e-mail: yurmar et mail.ru

Research interests: taxonomy, zoogeography and ecology of Diptera, mostly the families Muscidae and Fanniidae; history of entomology. Author of some 330 research papers and books.

Affiliation: Oxford University Museum of Natural History

Position, academic degree, rank: Honorary Associate, DSc

Address: Parks Rd, Oxford OX1 3PW, United Kingdom

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Graduated from the Biological Faculty of Moscow State University in 1960. Received his PhD with the thesis "The Mesozoic Hymenoptera Symphyta and the early evolution of Xyelidae" in 1967; defended in 1978 his DSc thesis "The origin and evolution of Hymenoptera". Between 2001 and 2005 A. Rasnitsyn served as President of the International Palaeoentomological Society. One of the world’s leading paleoentomologists and one of the foremost authorities on the systematics of Hymenoptera, whose ideas have formed the foundation of the modern classification of that order. He suggested his own hypothesis on the origin of insect flight and develops an original approach to biological systematics, called “phyletics”. A. Rasnitsyn described ca. 250 new genera and over 800 new species of fossil insects from various orders.

Affiliation: Borissiak Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Position, academic degree, rank: Principal Researcher, DSc, Professor

Address: 123 Profsoyuznaya st., Moscow, 117647, Russia

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Graduated from Leningrad State University in 1982, the Biological Faculty, Department of Vertebrate Zoology and got Master's degree as a biologist-zoologist. From 1983 to 1986 PhD student at the Zoological Institute under the supervision of Prof. I.M. Gromov. Defended PhD thesis “True lemmings (Lemmini, Cricetidae, Rodentia): systematic position and evolution” in 1989. Since 2004, deeply involved in studies of molecular systematics and phylogeography. The head of the Laboratory of Molecular systematics of the Zoological Institute RAS from 2006 to 2018; the head of the Group of Molecular Systematics of Mammals in the Laboratory of Theriology since 2018. Main scientific interests related to issues of taxonomy and phylogeny of rodents, resolving rapid radiations, relative power of molecular and morphological techniques, phylogeography and evolutionary history of mammals, etc.

Affiliation: Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Position, academic degree, rank: Leading Researcher, Candidate of Biological Sciences (PhD), Senior Researcher

Address: 1 Universitetskaya Emb., Saint-Petersburg, 199034, Russia

Personal page; e-mails: Natalia.Abramson@zin.ru; Natalia_abr@mail.ru

Graduated from Far East State University (Vladivostok) in 1980. Defended a PhD degree (Zoological Institute, Leningrad) in 1984 and a DSc degree (Zoological Institute, St Petersburg) in 1995. He has a special interest in parasitoid wasps of the family Braconidae (Hymenoptera) of the World fauna: systematics, phylogeny, paleontology, distribution, biological control. Main advances: new classification of the subfamily Doryctinae (Braconidae), based on morphological features; preparation and publication of three books of the keys to Braconidae of the Russian Far East; publication of the original monograph “Doryctinae of Japan”; publication of the first comprehensive catalogues of Braconidae of the Russian fauna; publications on the molecular phylogeny of several suprageneric taxa of the cyclostome Braconidae.

Affiliation: Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Position, academic degree, rank: Principal Researcher, Doctor of Biological Sciences (DSc)

Address: 1 Universtitetskaya Emb., 199034 St Petersburg, Russia

Personal page; e-mail: sergei.belokobylskij@zin.ru

Graduated from Rostov State University in 2000. Obtained his PhD in 2003 with the thesis "Mysids (Crustacea, Mysidacea) of the Azov Sea basin". Conducted postdoctoral research at the Finnish Museum of Natural History in 2006-2014, with a major project on systematics and biogeography of Lake Baikal Amphipoda. Further contributions include taxonomic revisions of various mysid and amphipod genera, identification keys and conservation assessments. Since 2015 primarily concentrated on the Australian fauna of Mysida and Lophogastrida. The subject area includes systematics and biogeography of malacostracan crustaceans.

Affiliation: University of Helsinki, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences

Position, academic degree, rank: Visiting Scholar, PhD

Address: Molecular Ecology and Systematics Laboratory, Faculty of Biosciences, Viikinkaari 1, FI-00014, University of Helsinki, Finland

Personal page; e-mail: mdaneliya@gmail.com

Defended PhD thesis "Scleractinia of Poritidae Family of Vietnam: species diversity and distribution" at the Institute of Marine Biology FEB RAS, Vladivostok, Russia in 1993. Coordinator of the International Vietnam-Russian Laboratory of Marine Biology and Ecology; Head of the Museum Council and Curator of Cnidaria Department of the Museum of the Institute of Marine Biology (MIMB) FEB RAS, Vladivostok; Coordinator of the International Russia-Vietnam Laboratory of the Marinу Biology and Ecology (established at the base of the Institute of Marine Biology FEB RAS, Russia, and Institute of Oceanography VAST, Vietnam) in 2009. Professional diver with scientific diving experience. Research interests: taxonomy and ecology of Octocorallia and Hexacorallia, especially Scleractinia (Cnidaria); life of coral reefs.

Affiliation: A.V. Zhirmunsky National Scientific Center of Marine Biology, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Position, academic degree, rank: Senior Research Scientist, Advisor (Head) of the Laboratory of Deep-Sea Research, Candidate of Biological Sciences (PhD)

Address: 17 Palchevsky str, Vladivostok 690041, Russia

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In 1997, graduated from Voronezh State University (Russia). In 2001, got doctoral degree from the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (St Petersburg). From 2001, D. Dmitriev works as research scientist in the Illinois Natural History Survey, University of Illinois (USA); a commissioner of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN). He studies systematics, morphology, ecology, and biogeography of leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha). Author of numerous publications on morphology of leafhopper nymphs, as well as several revisionary publication dedicated to large genera of the family Cicadellidae. He is the author of the “3i World Auchenorrhyncha Database”. Developer of 3i and co-developer of TaxonWorks, two applications designed for taxonomists and biodiversity scientists. The applications are intended to help scientist to build nomenclatural databases, interactive identification keys, collection data management, and to simplify work of practicing taxonomists.

Affiliation: Illinois Natural History Survey

Position, academic degree, rank: Associate Research Scientist, PhD

Address: 1816 S. Oak st., Champaign, IL 61874, USA

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Graduated from M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University and defended her PhD with the thesis "Nephtyidae (Polychaeta) of the Arctic Ocean. Species composition, distribution and ecology" in 2007. The subject area includes taxonomy of polychaetes especially Nephtyidae of the Arctic, North Atlantic and Far Eastern seas of Russia; systematics of Echinodermata of the Arctic.

Affiliation: M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Biology

Position, academic degree, rank: Scientific Senior Researcher, Candidate of biological sciences (PhD)

Address: Department of General Ecology and Hydrobiology, Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, 1, building 12, Moscow, 119234, Russia

Personal page; e-mail:ndnestro@mail.ru

Education: 2007-2013 specialist program (MS equivalent), Moscow State University; 2013-2017 PhD program, Moscow State University. PhD thesis: “Morphology, systematics and phylogeny of the nudibranch molluscs family Denronotidae (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia). Current projects: systematics, morphology and phylogeny of nudibranch molluscs (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia); functioning of nudibranch cnidosacs and dynamics of nematocysts sequestration; speciation and phylogeography of boreal and Arctic species in different groups of marine invertebrates.

Affiliation: M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Biology

Position, academic degree, rank: Senior Researcher, Candidate of biological sciences (PhD)

Address: Invertebrate zoology Department, Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, 1, building 12, Moscow, 119234, Russia

Personal page; e-mail: irenekimova@gmail.com

Specialist in morphology, taxonomy, evolution, reproductive biology and cytogenetics of the scale insects (Homoptera: Coccinea), and related groups of Paraneoptera. Author or coauthor of more than 70 scientific publications, including 3 monographs, Editor-in-Chief of the journal Comparative Cytogenetics, supervisor or participant of various research projects of RFBR, fund of the president of the Russian Federation, INTAS, fund of the government of St Petersburg, etc., an organiser and participant of numerous expeditions in different regions of the world.

Affiliation: Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Position, academic degree, rank: Leading Researcher, Doctor of Biological Sciences (DSc)

Address: 1 Universtitetskaya Emb., 199034 St Petersburg, Russia

Personal page; e-mail: coccids@gmail.com

Graduated from M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Biology, in 1984. Defended his DSc degree with the thesis "Revision of the system and history of the fauna of the clearwing moths (Lepidoptera, Sesiidae) of the Palaearctic" in 2004. Oleg Gorbunov is engaged in a comprehensive study of the clearwing moths (Lepidoptera, Sesiidae) of the world fauna; an author of over 150 publications. He described 2 tribes, 25 genera and 157 species of the family Sesiidae.

Affiliation: A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences

Position, academic degree, rank: Leading Researcher, Doctor of Biological Sciences (DSc)

Address: 33 Leninsky prospekt, Moscow 119071, Russia

e-mail: gorbunov.oleg@mail.ru

Graduated from Yerevan State University (Armenia) in 1980. Defended his PhD thesis at the Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (now Russian Academy of Sciences) in 1987. The fields of scientific interest includes first of all taxonomy and faunistics of insects, primarily beetles, as well as some issues of ecology and nature protection (red-listing, protected areas, ecological expertise, etc.). Mark participated in preparation of National Reports and Communications of Armenia to the UN Conventions (Convention on Biological Diversity, Framework Convention on Climate Change) and in elaboration of the Emerald Network of the country. As a responsible editor and author of fact-sheets, he participated in the preparation of the Red Book of the Republic of Armenia (“Invertebrates” Section). Author of 202 publications, including 130 articles in per-reviewed journals.

Affiliation: Scientific Center of Zoology and Hydroecology, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia

Position, academic degree, rank: Head of Laboratory of Entomology and Soil Zoology, PhD

Address: Paruyr Sevak str, 7, Yerevan, 0014, Armenia

E-mail: mkalashian1@gmail.com

Graduated from Leningrad State University, Faculty of Biology, in 1977. Post-graduate school at the Zoological Institute AS USSR in 1981–1984. Research interests: systematics, zoogeography, and phylogeny of the ground-beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae), mainly the tribe Harpalini, with special interest in the Palaearctic and Oriental faunas. Author of more than 150 publications.

Affiliation: Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences

Position, academic degree, rank: Leading Researcher, Doctor of Biological Sciences (DSc)

Address: 1 Universtitetskaya Emb., 199034 St Petersburg, Russia

Personal page; e-mail: harpal@zin.ru

MSC in Biology (Kaliningrad State University, Russia, 1999). Defended PhD thesis at the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg in 2003, and continue working in this institute as researcher. Full-time Professor in the Autonomous University of Tamaulipas (Mexico) since 2008. Scientific interests: systematics, morphology and zoogeography of Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera). Author of 165 scientific publications and over 370 described taxa in Ichneumonidae

Affiliation: Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Autonomous University of Tamaulipas

Position, academic degree, rank: Senior Researcher, Professor, PhD

Address: 1 Universtitetskaya Emb., 199034 St Petersburg, Russia; Faculty of Engineering and Sciences, Autonomous University of Tamaulipas, Matamoros SN, Zona Centro Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, C.P. 87000, Mexico

Personal page; e-mail: ptera@mail.ru

Graduated from Rostov State (now Southern Federal) University, Faculty of Biology, Department of Zoology, in 1996. Defended PhD thesis "Terrestrial molluscs of the Lagonaki Mountains (Northwestern Caucasus)" at the Zoological institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2000. Research interests: morphology, systematics, phylogeny, zoogeography of terrestrial and freshwater molluscs; fauna and taxonomy of terrestrial molluscs of the Caucasus, Asia Minor and Southeast Asia.

Affiliation: Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences

Position, academic degree, rank: Leading Researcher, Candidate of Biological Sciences (PhD)

Address: 1 Universtitetskaya Emb., 199034 St Petersburg, Russia

Personal page; e-mail: Pavel.Kijashko@zin.ru

Graduated from the Department of Entomology of Leningrad (now St Petersburg) State University in 1981; a degree of Candidate of Biological Sciences (PhD) was awarded in 1987, a degree of Doctor of Biological Sciences (ScD) was awarded in 2002. Scientific interests: systematics of Ephemeroptera, general system and phylogeny of insects, principles of zoological nomenclature. Elaborated the principles of cladoendesis and the dual system of rank-free nomenclatures compatible with the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature. Besides journal articles, have published the monographs “The phylogenetic system of Ephemeroptera” (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004) and “Insect systematics and principles of cladoendesis” (KMK Scientific Press, 2020). Have compiled the electronic catalogue of non-typified names of arthropods “Nomina Circumscribentia Insectorum" and the electronic catalogue of literature data about mayflies “Ephemeroptera of the World” (both available from the website Cladoendesis)

Affiliation: Saint Ptersburg State University

Position, academic degree, rank: Professor, Doctor of Biological Sciences (DSc), Docent

Address: Department of Entomology, Saint Petersburg State University, 7/9 Universitetskaya Emb., Saint Petersburg 199034, Russia

Personal page 1; Personal page 2; e-mail: n.kluge@spbu.ru

Graduated from the Faculty of Geography of Moscow State Pedagogical University in 1986. Ddefended a PhD degree with the thesis "Comprehensive analysis of the ecological and morphological diversity of the buntings(Emberizidae, Aves) of the Old World" in 1997. Research interests: ornithology, taxonomy, biogeography. Author of 374 publications (including 28 books), several academic courses, participant in 13 research projects (including grants, international projects), member of 4 scientific societies.

Affiliation: Zoological museum of M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University

Position, academic degree, rank: Senior Researcher, Candidate of Biological Sciences (PhD)

Address: 6 Bol’shaya Nikitskaya st, 125009 Moscow, Russia

E-mail: koblik@zmmu.msu.ru

Graduated from the Faculty of Biology and Soil at St Petersburg State University in 2002; defended PhD thesis "Conflict of morphological and molecular phylogenetic approaches in the systematics of Trypanosomatidae" at the Zoological institute RAS in 2013. Main research interests: various aspects of the biology of parasitic flagellates of the family Trypanosomatidae. As of the end of 2020, published 55 articles.

Affiliation: Zoological institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences; University of Ostrava, Department of Biology and Ecology

Position, academic degree, rank: Senior Research Fellow, PhD

Address: 1 Universitetskaya Emb., Saint-Petersburg, 199034, Russia; 10 Chittussiho, Slezská Ostrava 710 00, Czech Republic

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Graduated from the Biological Faculty of Moscow State University in 1991, PhD thesis was defended in 1998 and DSc thesis, in 2008. Employed by A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution since 1994, the author of 186 papers (h-index=33) in the journals represented in WOS Core Collection and five monographs. The Secretary General of the International Union of Biological Sciences (since 2019). The President of the Russian Crustacean Society. Academic editor of the following journals: Scientific Reports, Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, BMC Ecology & Evolution, Biologia, Invertebrate Zoology. Main scientific interest: general problems of the freshwater biodiversity inventory and conservation; Cladocera (Branchiopoda, Crustacea): all aspects of morphology, systematics, biology, phylogenetics, phylogeography and palaeontology; Pleistocene – early Holocene remains of different invertebrates in the permafrost, i.e. associated with remains of large mammals of the "mammoth fauna".

Affiliation: A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Position, academic degree, rank: Principal Researcher, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Address: 33 Leninsky prospekt, Moscow 119071, Russia

Graduated from Penza State University in 2001. Defended a PhD degree in 2005 (A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Moscow). Research interests: biodiversity, evolution and taxonomy of fishes, phylogeny and phylogeography of the cypriniform fishes (Teleostei: Cypriniformes); adaptive radiation, hybridisation and speciation in freshwater fishes. Author of over 60 publications.

Affiliation: Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Position, academic degree, rank: Leading Researcher, Candidate of Biological Sciences (PhD)

Address: 1 Universtitetskaya Emb., 199034 St Petersburg, Russia

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Higher education, PhD in entomology; PhD thesis: "The jumping spiders (Aranei: Salticidae) of northern Asia". Research interests: taxonomy, systematics and comparative morphology of spiders (Aranei). To date, has published 237 papers on spider taxonomy, museological papers, personaliae, and book reviews.

Affiliation: Manchester Museum, University of Manchester

Position, academic degree, rank: Honorary Research Fellow, PhD

Address: Manchester Museum, University of Manchester, Oxford Rd, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK

E-mail: dmitri.v.logunov@manchester.ac.uk

Graduated from the Department of Hydrobiology and Ichthyology of the Far East State University in 1992. PhD thesis: “The Holocene molluscan fauna of Peter the Great Bay, Sea of Japan: history and conditions of formation”. Research Interests: biodiversity, malacology, taxonomy, Quaternary paleontology and paleoclimatology, taphonomy of shelly faunas, archaeomalacology, actuopaleontology, biogeography, global change studies, benthic ecology, zoology collections management. Author of more than 160 scientific publications and three books. Editorial service: Bulletin of the Russian Far East Malacological Society (Editor-in-Chief), Ruthenica (Russian Malacological Journal), Malacologia (USA), Russian Journal of Marine Biology, Korean Journal of Malacology (Republic of Korea); editor of 13 books and proceedings of conferences.

Affiliation: A.V. Zhirmunsky National Scientific Center of Marine Biology, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Position, academic degree, rank: Leading Research Scientist, Advisor (Head) of the Laboratory of Systematics and Morphology, Candidate of Biological Sciences (PhD)

Address: 17 Palchevsky str, Vladivostok 690041, Russia

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Graduated from Komsomolsk on Amur Pedagogical State University, Russia in 2002, defended a PhD degree in 2005. Research interests: systematics, distribution and ecology of Aculeata (Hymenoptera). Author of more than 200 publications including four monographs.

Affiliation: Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Position, academic degree, rank: Senior Scientist, Candidate of Biological Sciences (PhD)

Address: 159 Prospect 100-letiya Vladivostoka, Vladivostok 690022, Russia

Personal page; e-mail: proshchalikin@biosoil.ru

Graduated from the Faculty of Biology and Soil Science of Leningrad State University in 1976, defended a DSc degree in 2009. Main focus of research: migratory root lesion nematodes of the family Pratylenchidae (up to 2000) and wood-inhabiting nematodes involved in associations causing dangerous forest diseases vectored by beetles (since 2001 and up to now); Polar biodiversity research on the free-living and plant parasitic nematodes of Arctic and Antarctic regions. Special attention is given to combine the classical morphology and life cycle studies with the molecular phylogeny modeling, particularly in the host switch and coevolution aspects. Author of more than 190 scientific papers, one monograph and 11 chapters in parasitological and biodiversity research books. One of the founders of the Russian Society of Nematologists and the first of its President (1994–1995). Member of editorial boards of the periodicals: Russian Journal of Nematology and Parazitologiya.

Affiliation: Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Position, academic degree, rank: Principal Researcher, Doctor of Biological Sciences (DSc)

Address: 1 Universtitetskaya Emb., 199034 St Petersburg, Russia

Personal page; e-mail: nema@zin.ru

In 1993, graduated from the Biological faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University. Candidate of Biological Sciences since 2004. Basic scientific interests: (1) systematics and ecology of weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea); (2) systematics, acoustic communication and ecology of grasshoppers and katydids (Orthoptera: Acridoidea, Tettigonioidea). Author of more than 50 scientific articles.

Affiliation: Zoological Museum of M.V. Lomonosov State University

Position, academic degree, rank: Senior Researcher, Candidate of Biological Sciences (PhD)

Address: Bolshaya Nikitskaya, 2, Moscow, 125009 Russia

E-mail: alophus@gmail.com

Graduated from Leningrad (now St Petersburg) State University in 1978. Defended a DSc degree (Zoological Institute, St Petersburg) in 1992. Main scientific interests: phylogeny and systematics of the order Lepidoptera, methodology of taxonomic investigations. Author of more than 300 publications (including 11 monographs) on biodiversity, morphology, ecology, zoogeography, taxonomy and evolution of the micromoths. Head of the St Petersburg School of Entomotaxonomy, holder of more than 30 grants of both Russian and international scientific funds and organisations. Many times was invited to the largest European and Asian museums as a leading expert for taxonomy of the gelechioid moths. Scientific duties: Staff Member of the Russian Entomological Society (1992); Full Member of the European Lepidopterological Society (1992); Honorary Member of the Societas Hispano-Luso-Americano de Lepidopterologia (2012); Member of Dissertation Council at the Zoological Institute RAS (1993); Member of Scientific Council of the Zoological Institute RAS (2002); Member of Dissertation Council at the All-Russian Institute of Plant Protection (2009); Federal Expert for Science and Technology (2014); Executive Editor of the monograph series “Fauna of Russia and adjacent territories” and “Keys to the fauna of Russia issued by Zoological Institute RAS” (2008); member of the editorial boards of 6 scientific journals.

Affiliation: Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Position, academic degree, rank: Deputy Director for Science, Senior Researcher, Doctor of Biological Sciences (DSc), Docent

Address: 1 Universtitetskaya Emb., 199034 St Petersburg, Russia

Personal page; e-mail: sergey.sinev@zin.ru

Graduated from Far Eastern State University in 1978. Defended PhD in 1982 (Moscow) and ScD degree in 1997 (Zoological Institute, St Petersburg). Research Interests: taxonomy, phylogeny, evolution, distribution and ecology of the orthopteroid insects. Author of more than 300 publications including five monographs.

Affiliation: Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Position, academic degree, rank: Leading scientist, Doctor of Biological Sciences (DSc), Professor

Address: 159 Prospect 100-letiya Vladivostoka, Vladivostok 690022, Russia

Personal page; e-mail: storozhenko@biosoil.ru

Graduated from St Petersburg State University in 2009; defended PhD thesis “Chalcids of the family Pteromalidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) of the Far East of Russia” in 2014. Research interests: systematic, morphology, zoogeography and biology of the parasitic wasps of the family Pteromalidae. Author of 37 scientific publications.

Affiliation: Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Position, academic degree, rank: Researcher, Candidate of Biological Sciences (PhD)

Address: 1 Universtitetskaya Emb., 199034 St Petersburg, Russia

Personal page; e-mail: tselikhk@gmail.com

Graduated from the Academy of Ecology, Marine Biology and Biotechnology of the Far Eastern National University, Russia in 2002. Obtained Master degree in Nematology in Ghent University, Belgium in 2005. Defended a PhD degree in 2007. Main focus of research: free-living marine nematodes: taxonomy, ecology, biogeography; cell biology and development of nematodes. Special attention in the research is paid to changes in the biodiversity of the nematofauna, as well as creation of the nematode collection and database of free-living marine nematodes of the Far Eastern Seas. Author of more than 70 scientific publications, including more than 30 papers in international journals indexed in Web of Sciences. Member of editorial board of the Russian Journal of Nematology and Executive Editor-in-Chief of the Russian Journal of Marine Biology.

Affiliation: A.V. Zhirmunsky National Scientific Center of Marine Biology FEB RAS

Position, academic degree, rank: Senior researcher, Candidate of Biological Sciences (PhD)

Address: 17 Palchevskogo str., Vladivostok, 690041, Russia

E-mail: zojulia@yandex.ru

Graduated from Oxford University in 1966, defended a PhD degree in 1969 and a ScD degree in 1994. Research interests is mainly water beetles, especially Helophorus (Helophoridae), and also Scarabaeoidea, especially dung beetles; Pleistocene fossil Coleoptera. In 1969–1970, R. Angus spent ten months working in the Soviet Union under the exchange program between the Royal Society and the Soviet Academy of Sciences. In 1975, he joined the staff of Royal Holloway, University of London, and stayed there until his retirement in 1989. R. Angus developed techniques for chromosomal analysis of species differences, especially with aquatic Coleoptera, pioneering the use of the mid-gut as a source of dividing cells in adult beetles.

Affiliation: Royal Holloway; Natural History Museum, London

Position, academic degree, rank: Emeritus Reader in Entomology; Scientific Associate, DSc

Address: Egham Hill, Egham TW20 0EX; Cromwell Rd, South Kensington, London SW7 5BD, United Kingdom

After graduating from the Leningrad Hydrometeorological Institute in 1987, Olga Bodrova continued to work there as an engineer in the research sector. From 1990 to 1992, she studied at the graduate school of the Agrophysical Research Institute. Since 1992, she has worked in the editorial offices of the newspaper Sankt-Peterburgskie vedomosti and the journal Bjulleten' nedvizhimosti. In 2010, graduated from the St Petersburg State Polytechnic University with a degree in Graphic Design.

Affiliation: Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Address: 1 Universtitetskaya Emb., 199034 St Petersburg, Russia

Graduated from St Petersburg State University, Faculty of Biology and Soil Science, in 1996 (master's thesis "Communities of periphyton ciliates in the aquatic system of the Valaam Archipelago ") and St Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts in 2001.

Affiliation: Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Position, academic degree, rank: Senior Collection Conservator

Address: 1 Universtitetskaya Emb., 199034 St Petersburg, Russia

Personal page; e-mail: Maria.Berlina@zin.ru

Educational background: St Petersburg State University, 2003. PhD thesis: “Diagnostic caracters of mosquitoes of the genus Aedes Russian fauna (Diptera, Culicidae)”, 2007. Research interests: morphology, taxonomy, biogeography of the mosquitoes. Author of 32 publications.

Affiliation: Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Position, academic degree, rank: Senior Researcher, PhD

Address: 1 Universtitetskaya Emb., 199034 St Petersburg, Russia

Personal page; e-mail: Alexei.Khalin@zin.ru