Fedor V. Konstantinov

Web of Science ResearcherID: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/I-1221-2012
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RSCI: https://www.elibrary.ru/author_profile.asp?authorid=146756
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7013-5686
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.ru/citations?user=sn1G0n4AAAAJ
Academic degree: Candidate of Biological Sciences
Academic title: No title
Position: Senior Researcher
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Educational background: 1997 – Mgs. Sci. Saint-Petersburg State University
1995 – B. Sci. Saint-Petersburg State University
Dissertations: “Structure of the male genitalia in Miridae (Heteroptera) and suprageneric classification of the family.” (PhD)
Research interests: Taxonomy, phylogeny, morphology, biogeography and host associations of Heteroptera, with emphasis on the plant bug family Miridae.
Field studies: More than 20 collecting trips across the Caucasus, Central Asia, Russian Far East, Australia, Mediterranean countries, Southeastern Asia, and South America.
Professional membership:
Editorial activity: ZooKeys, subject editor, https://zookeys.pensoft.net
Pedagogical activity: Courses on Evolutionary Biology, Biogeography, Phylogenetic Inference, field practice on entomology taught at the Faculty of Biology; selected special courses at the Department of Entomology, St. Petersburg State University.
Scientific projects and grants:
  • RFBR 16-04-01682а: Phylogeny of the plant bug family Miridae (Insecta: Heteroptera) based on morphological and molecular data, 2016–2018 (Project leader).
  • RFBR 18-04-00065а: Molecular phylogeny and evolution of the subtribe Issina (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Fulgoroidea: Issidae), 2018–2020 (Partnership, project leader – V.M. Gnezdilov).
  • RFBR 16-34-50184 mol_nr: Species diversity and spatial distribution of True Bugs (Heteroptera) from the Denezhkin Kamen Nature Reserve (North Ural), 2016 (Project leader).
  • Norwegian Centre for International Cooperation in Education (SIU): HNP-2013/10118: “Biodiversity of the High North: DNA barcoding and phylogeography of Arctic insects – student training in molecular methods and analyses (DNARCT)”, 2014-2018 (Project coordinator).
  • RFBR 13-04-01832a: Taxonomic structure and faunogenesis of Plant Bugs (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae) from Central Asia and Caucasus: a cybertaxonomic approach, 2013–2015 (Project leader).
Selected Publications:
  • Konstantinov F.V., Namyatova A.A., Cassis G. 2018. A synopsis of the bryocorine tribes (Heteroptera: Miridae: Bryocorinae): key, diagnoses, hosts and distributional patterns. Invertebrate Systematics, 32(4): 864-889. https://doi.org/10.1071/IS17087
  • Konstantinov F.V., Simov N. 2018. Review of the subgenus Plumiger of Myrmecophyes, with description of a new species (Heteroptera, Miridae, Halticini). ZooKeys, 796: 215-239. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.796.21877
  • Konstantinov F.V., Neimorovets V.V., Korzeev A.I. 2016. Review of Campylomma from Russia, Caucasus, and Central Asia with description of two new species (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae). Entomologica Americana, 122(1): 115-155. https://doi.org/10.1664/15-RA-046
  • Namyatova A.A., Konstantinov F.V., Cassis G. 2016. Phylogeny and systematics of the subfamily Bryocorinae based on morphology with emphasis on the tribe Dicyphini sensu Schuh. Systematic Entomology, 41(1): 3-40. https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12140
  • Konstantinov F.V., Knyshov A.A. 2015. The tribe Bryocorini (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae: Bryocorinae): phylogeny, description of a new genus, and adaptive radiation on ferns. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 175(3): 441-472. https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12283