Dmitry A. Gapon

ResearcherID: https://publons.com/researcher/S-1299-2017
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ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4927-9845
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Academic degree: Candidate of Biological Sciences
Academic title: No title
Position: Senior Researcher
E-mail: Dmitry.Gapon@zin.ru
Contact phone: +7 (812) 328-12-12, ext. 337
Educational background: Rostov State University, Saint Petersburg State University, 2004
Dissertations: “Taxonomic review of the world fauna of shield bugs (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) from the subfamilies Asopinae and Podopinae” (PhD).
Research interests: Morphology, phylogenetics, taxonomy, ecology and faunistics of the true bugs (Heteroptera), mainly the infraorder Pentatomomorpha.
Field studies: Abkhazia, Altai, Armania, Bulgaria, Canary Islands, France, Indonesia (Sumatra, Java, Bali, Sulawesi, Flores, New Guinea), Laos, Malaysia (Borneo), Morocco, Myanmar, North Caucasus, Thailand, Turkey, Uzbekistan.
Professional membership: Russian Entomological Society, https://www.zin.ru/societies/res/
Editorial activity: Editor-in-Chief of the journal Zoosystematica Rossica, https://www.zin.ru/journals/zsr/
Scientific projects and grants:
  • RFBR 15-34-50999. PI D.A. Gapon. “Species criteria and phylogenetic relationships in the Polymerus genus group (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae)”.
  • RFBR 13-04-90800. PI D.A. Gapon. “Ecology, morphology, zoogeography and taxonomy of Palaearctic species of the genus Peritrechus (Insecta: Heteroptera: Lygaeidae). Scientific project of Elena V. Sofronova from Institute of Geography named after. V.B. Sochava, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Irkutsk), Zoological Institute, RAS (Saint-Petersburg)”.
  • RFBR 14-34-50275. PI D.A. Gapon. “Fauna, ecology and zoogeography of the true bugs (Heteroptera) of the Baikal-Lena Nature Reserve (Irkutsk Prov.)”.
  • RFBR 15-34-50999. PI D.A. Gapon. “Species diversity and zonal-landscape distribution of the true bugs (Heteroptera) in the Komi Republic”.
  • RFBR 13-04-00660. PI N.N. Vinokurov. “Fauna, taxonomy and zoogeography of the order Heteroptera of the European part of Russia and the Ural”.
Selected Publications:
  • Gapon D.A. 2001. Inflation of heteropteran aedeagi using microcapillaries (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae). Zoosystematica Rossica (2000), 9(1): 157–160.
  • Константинов Ф.В., Гапон Д.А. 2005. К строению эдеагуса клопов щитников (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae). I. Discocephalinae и Phyllocephalinae. Энтомологическое обозрение, 84(2): 334–352. [Konstantinov F.V., Gapon D.A. 2005. On the structure of the aedeagus in shield bugs (Heteroptera, Pentatomidae): I. Subfamilies Discocephalinae and Phyllocephalinae. Entomologicheskoe obozrenie, 84(2): 334–352. In Russian; English translation in: Entomological Review, 85(3): 221–235].
  • Гапон Д.А., Константинов Ф.В. 2006. К строению эдеагуса клопов щитников (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae). II. Podopinae. Энтомологическое обозрение, 85(1): 13–34. [Gapon D.A., Konstantinov F.V. 2006. On the structure of the aedeagus in shield bugs (Heteroptera, Pentatomidae): II: Podopinae. Entomologicheskoe obozrenie, 85(1): 13–34. In Russian; English translation in: Entomological Review, 86(2): 149–167].
  • Гапон Д.А., Константинов Ф.В. 2006. К строению эдеагуса клопов щитников (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae). III. Asopinae // Энтомологическое обозрение, 85(3): 491–507. [Gapon D.A., Konstantinov F.V. 2006. On the structure of the aedeagus in shield bugs (Heteroptera, Pentatomidae): III. Asopinae. Entomologicheskoe obozrenie, 85(3): 491–507. In Russian; English translation in: Entomological Review, 86(7): 806–819].
  • Гапон Д.А. 2007. Строение, функционирование и морфологическое соответствие гениталий самцов и самок клопов рода Pyrrhocoris (Heteroptera: Pyrrhocoridae). Энтомологическое обозрение, 86(4): 729–741. [Gapon D.A. 2007. Structure, function, and morphological conformity of the male and female genitalia in the true bug genus Pyrrhocoris Fall. (Heteroptera, Pyrrhocoridae). Entomologicheskoe obozrenie, 86(4): 729–741. In Russian; English translation in: Entomological Review, 87(9): 1099–1108].
  • Gapon D.A. 2008. New subtribes and a new genus of Podopini (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Podopinae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 48(2): 523–532.
  • Гапон Д.А. 2012. Первые находки североамериканского клопа Leptoglossus occidentalis Heid. (Heteroptera, Coreidae) на территории России и Украины, закономерности его распространения и возможности расширения ареала в Палеарктике. Энтомологическое обозрение, 91(3): 559–568. [Gapon D.A. 2012. First records of the western conifer seed bug Leptoglossus occidentalis Heid. (Heteroptera, Coreidae) from Russia and Ukraine, regularities in its distribution and possibilities of its range expansion in the Palaearctic region. Entomologicheskoe obozrenie, 91(3): 559–568. In Russian; English translation in: Entomological Review, 2013, 93(2): 174–181].
  • Gapon D.A. 2014. Revision of the genus Polymerus (Heteroptera: Miridae) in the Eastern Hemisphere. Part 1: Subgenera Polymerus, Pachycentrum subgen. nov. and new genus Dichelocentrum gen. nov. Zootaxa (Monograph), 3787: 1–87. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3787.1.1
  • Gapon D.A. 2018. Morphology of male and female terminalia and taxonomic revision of the burrower bugs genus Canthophorus (Heteroptera: Cydnidae). Annales de la Société entomologique de France (N.S.), 54(3): 183–228. https://doi.org/10.1080/00379271.2018.1467788
  • Gapon D.A. 2019. An instance of intergeneric copulation in the family Rhopalidae (Heteroptera): structure, functioning and congruence of the genitalia in two different species from the standpoint of the lock-and-key hypothesis. Zoosystematica Rossica, 28(1): 3–18. https://doi.org/10.37520/aemnp.2021.007
  • Gapon D.A. 2021. Revision of the genus Exosehirus (Heteroptera: Cydnidae), with the description of two new species. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 61(1): 133–161. https://doi.org/10.31610/zsr/2019.28.1.3
  • Gapon D.A., Kuznetsova V.G. & Maryańska-Nadachowska A. 2021. A new species of the genus Rhaphidosoma Amyot et Serville, 1843 (Heteroptera, Reduviidae), with data on its chromosome complement. Comparative Cytogenetics, 15(4): 467–505. https://doi.org/10.3897/CompCytogen.v15.i4.78718