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Alexander G. Kirejtshuk
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ORCID ID:	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8826-0258
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Academic degree:	Doctor of Biological Sciences
Academic title:	No title
Position:	Principal Researcher
E-mail:	Alexander.Kirejtshuk@zin.ru
Contact phone:	+7 (812) 328-12-12, ext. 257
Educational background:	Higher. Kharkov State University, 1974
Dissertations:	“Sap-beetles of the subfamily Meligethinae (Coleoptera, Nitidulidae) of the fauna of the USSR.” (PhD) “Significance of anthophagy in the historical development of the order of beetles (mainly on example of the family of sap-beetles).” (PhD habilitation)
Research interests:	Zoology, entomology, coleopterology, systematics, evolutionary biology, paleontology, biodiversity.
Field studies:	Ukraine, European part of Russia, Caucasus, Middle Asia, Altay, Russian Far East, Mongolia, Australia.
Professional membership:	Russian Entomological Society, http://www.zin.ru/societies/res/ Kharkov Entomological Society (honorary member), http://entomol.kharkov.trizub.net/ Українське ентомологічне товариство - - Ukranian Entomological Society, https://sites.google.com/site/entomologicnetovaristvo/ European Association of Coleopterology - Asociación Europea de Coleopterologia, http://www.ub.edu/aec/ St. Petersburg Association of Scientists and Scholars, http://www.spass-sci.ru Wiener Coleopterologen Verein, http://www.coleoptera.at Magyar Entomológiai Társaság, http://www.magyarrovartanitarsasag.hu Verein zur Förderung des Geologisch-Paläontologischen Museums der Universität Hamburg e.V. “Arbeitskreis Bernstein”, http://www.arbeitskreis-bernstein.eu Linnean Society of London, https://www.linnean.org International Palaeoentomological Society, http://fossilinsects.net Société entomologique de France, http://www.lasef.org
Editorial activity:	“Beetles (Coeleoptera) and coleopterists”(scientific editor) https://www.zin.ru/animalia/coleoptera/rus/index.html ZooKeys – member of Editory Board https://zookeys.pensoft.net
Pedagogical activity:	Preparation of the course “Origin and evolution of insects”
Scientific projects and grants:	RFBR - 15-04-02971-a - 2015-2017 гг., leader; RFBR - 12-04-00663-а - 2012-2014 гг., leader; Presidium of RAS – “Evolution of organic world and planetary process” - 2015-2017; Presidium of RAS – “Problems of origin and formation of biosphere” - 2012-2014; Programmes of University of Sorbonne (Programme d'Accueil de Chercheurs de Haut Niveau) - 2016 г.; Mairie de Paris “Research in Paris” - 2011-2012 гг
Selected Publications:	Kirejtshuk A.G. 1991. Evolution of mode of life as the basis for division of the beetles into groups of high taxonomic rank. In: M. Zunino, X. Belles, M. Blas (Eds.). Advances in Coleopterology, AEC, Barcelona: 249-262. [http://www.zin.ru/animalia/Coleoptera/rus/evollife.htm] Кирейчук А.Г. 1992. Определительная таблица надсемейств Cucujoidea и Tenebrionoidea.; Определительная таблица семейств надсемейства Cucujoidea.; Сем. Блестянки - Nitidulidae.; Сем. Катеретиды - Kateretidae. В кн.: Определитель насекомых Дальнего Востока, Ст-Петербург, Наука, Т. 3, часть 2: 107-216. [http://www.zin.ru/animalia/Coleoptera/rus/identfe1.htm], [http://www.zin.ru/animalia/Coleoptera/rus/identfe2.htm], [http://www.zin.ru/animalia/Coleoptera/rus/identfe3.htm], [http://www.zin.ru/animalia/Coleoptera/rus/identfe4.htm] Кирейчук А.Г. 1994. Система, эволюция образа жизни и филогения отряда жуков (Coleoptera). I. Энтомологическое обозрение, 73 (2): 266-288. [http://www.zin.ru/animalia/Coleoptera/rus/kircole1.htm] Кирейчук А.Г. 1996. Система, эволюция образа жизни и филогения отряда жуков (Coleoptera). II. Энтомологическое обозрение, 75 (1): 39-62. [перевод - 1997. System, evolution of mode of life, and phylogeny of the order Coleoptera. II. Entomological review, 76 (1): 1-20] [http://www.zin.ru/animalia/Coleoptera/rus/kircole2.htm] Kirejtshuk A.G. 1998/1999. Nitidulidae (Coleoptera) of the Himalayas and Northern Indochina. Part 1: subfamily Epuraeinae. Koeningstein, Koeltz Scientific Books (Theses Zoologicae, Vol. 28): 1-489. Кирейчук А.Г. 2001 (некоторые разделы с соавторами Беньковский А.О., Грамма В.Н., Шавердо Е.В., Шатровский А.Г.). Coleoptera, жесткокрылые, или жуки. Ключ для определения семейств (по имаго). Ключ для определения семейств (по личинкам). Ключ для определения семейств (по куколкам). В кн: (ред. С.Я. Цалолихин) Определитель пресноводных беспозвоночных России и сопредельных территорий. Т. 5, Высшие насекомые, 80-103, табл. 36-38, 62-64. [http://www.zin.ru/animalia/Coleoptera/rus/hydrkey.htm] Kirejtshuk A.G. 2008. A current generic classification of sap beetles (Coleoptera, Nitidulidae). Zoosystematica Rossica, 17 (1): 107-122. [http://www.zin.ru/animalia/coleoptera/pdf/kirejtsh_2008_1.pdf] Kirejtshuk A.G., Ponomarenko A.G., Prokin A.A., Chang H., Nikolajev G.V. & Ren D. 2010. Current knowledge on Mesozoic Coleoptera from Daohugou and Liaoning (North East China). Acta Geologica Sinica, 84 (4): 783-792. < DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00253.x> [http://www.zin.ru/animalia/Coleoptera/rus/kirppcnr.htm], [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1755-6724.2010.00253.x/pdf] Kirejtshuk A.G. & Couturier G. 2010. Sap beetles of the tribe Mystropini (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) associated with inflorescences of the palms cultivated in South America. Annales de la Societe entomologique de France, 46 (3-4): 367-421. < DOI: 10.1080/00379271.2010.10697676> [http://www.zin.ru/animalia/Coleoptera/rus/kircout0.htm], [http://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/divers12-09/010051466.pdf] Kirejtshuk A.G. & A.G. Ponomarenko. 2010. A new coleopterous family Mesocinetidae fam. nov. (Coleoptera, Scirtoidea) from Late Mesozoic and notes on fossil remains from Shar-Teg (Upper Jurassic, South-Western Mongolia). Zoosystematica Rossica, 19 (2): 301-325. [http://www.zin.ru/animalia/Coleoptera/rus/kirpo301.htm], [http://www.zin.ru/journals/zsr/pdf/2010-2/ZooSys_19%282%29_301-325_Kirejtshuk_Ponomarenko.pdf] Kirejtshuk A.G. & Nel A. 2013. Current knowledge of Coleoptera (Insecta) from the Lowermost Eocene Oise amber. Insect Systematics & Evolution, 44: 175-201. [http://www.zin.ru/animalia/Coleoptera/rus/kirnel13.htm], [http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/10.1163/1876312x-04402007] Kirejtshuk A.G. & Azar D. 2013. Current knowledge of Coleoptera (Insecta) from the Lower Cretaceous Lebanese amber and taxonomical notes for some Mesozoic groups. Terrestrial Arthropod Reviews, 6 (1-2): 103-134. [http://www.zin.ru/animalia/Coleoptera/rus/kiraza13.htm], [http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/10.1163/18749836-06021061] Kirejtshuk A.G., Poschmann M., Prokop J., Garrouste R. & Nel A. 2013. Evolution of the elytral venation and structural adaptations in the oldest Palaeozoic beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera: Tshekardocoleidae). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 12 (5): 575-600. [Journal of Systematic Palaeontology on-line, 2013 - DOI:10.1080/14772019.2013.821530.]. [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14772019.2013.821530], [http://www.zin.ru/animalia/Coleoptera/rus/novpdf10.htm] Nel A., Roques P., Nel P., Prokin A.A., Bourgoin T., Prokop J., Szwedo J., Azar D., Desutter-Grandcolas L., Wappler T., Garrouste R., Coty D., Huang D., Engel M.S., Kirejtshuk A.G. 2013. The earliest-known holometabolous insects. Nature, Research Letters, 503, 14 November 2013: 257-261 [doi:10.1038/nature12629, 5 pp. + Supplementary Information, 14 pp.]. [http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature12629.html], [http://www.zin.ru/animalia/Coleoptera/rus/nelkir13.htm] Kirejtshuk A.G. & Nel A. 2013. Skleroptera, a new order of holometabolous insects (Insecta) from the Carboniferous. Zoosystematica Rossica, 22 (2): 247-257. [http://www.zin.ru/animalia/Coleoptera/pdf/Kirejtshuk_Nel_2013_Skleroptera_Zoosystematica.pdf] Kirejtshuk A.G., Chetverikov Ph.E. & Dany Azar D. 2014. Libanopsinae, new subfamily of the family Sphindidae (Coleoptera, Cucujoidea) from Lower Cretaceous Lebanese amber, with remarks on using confocal microscopy for the study of amber inclusions. Cretaceous Research, 52 (2015): 461-479.[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667114000159#],[http://www.zin.ru/Animalia/Coleoptera/pdf/kirejtshuk_chetverikov_azar_2014.pdf] Kirejtshuk A.G. & Mantič M. 2015. On systematics of the subfamily Cybocephalinae (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) with description of new species and generic taxa. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS, 319, 2: 196-214. [https://www.zin.ru/journals/trudyzin/doc/vol_319_2/TZ_319_2_Kirejtshuk.pdf], [http://www.zin.ru/animalia/coleoptera/pdf/zhao_et_al_2014_epuraea_china_zk.pdf] Kirejtshuk A.G., Chetverikov Ph.E., Azar D. & Kirejtshuk P.A. 2015. Ptismidae fam. nov. (Coleoptera, Staphyliniformia) from the Lower Cretaceous Lebanese amber. Cretaceous Research, 59: 201-213.[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667115301063] Kirejtshuk A.G., Nel A., Kirejtshuk P.A. 2016. Taxonomy of the reticulate beetles of the subfamily Cupedinae (Coleoptera, Archostemata), with a review ofthe historical development. Invertebrate Zoology. 13, 2: 61-190. [doi: 10.15298/invertzool.13.2.01]