KIRILL Y. ESKOV

TITLE:

Senior Scientific Worker, Arthropod Laboratory, Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.

EDUCATION:

Dipl. Biol., Department of Entomology, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, 1979.

Ph.D., Entomology, Institute of Evolutionary Morphology and Ecology of Animals, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, 1986.

POSITIONS:

Scientific Worker, Arthropod Laboratory, Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, 1986.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

Eurasian Arachnological Society (Vice-President), European Arachnological Society, Russian Entomological Society, Centre International Documentation of Arachnology.

FIELD EXPERIENCE:

Numerous expeditions in Siberia and the Russian Far East: middle Ob River, 1972; southern Taimyr Peninsula, 1976; middle Yenisei River, 1977-1979; upper Yenisei River, 1980; middle Siberian Table-Land, 1982; Putorana Plateau , 1983; upper Kolyma River, 1984; Yakutia, Vilyui River, 1988, Yakutia, lower Lena River, 1989; East Kazakhstan, Saur Mt. Range, 1990; Sakhalin Island, Naiba River, 1991; southern Kuril Islands (Kunashir, Zelionyi, Shikotan, Iturup), 1994.

PUBLICATIONS:

Since 1980, 71 scientific publications on the taxonomy and distribution of the spiders of Siberia, the Russian Far East, and adjacent territories.

Five publications most relevant to the present proposal:

• ESKOV, K. Y. 1992. A review of the generic composition of the linyphiid spider fauna of the Russian Far East (Araneida Linyphiidae). Ent. Scand., 23(2):153-168.

• Marusik, Y. M., K. Y. ESKOV, D. V. Logunov, and A. M. Basarukin. 1992. A check-list of spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) from Sakhalin and Kurile Islands. Arthropoda Selecta, 1(4):73-85.

• ESKOV, K. Y. 1993. Several new linyphiid spider genera (Araneida Linyphiidae) from the Russian Far East. Arthropoda Selecta, 2(3):43-60.

• ESKOV, K. Y., and Y. M. Marusik. 1993. New data on the taxonomy and faunistics of North Asian linyphiid spiders (Araneida Linyphiidae). Arthropoda Selecta, 2(4):41-79.

• ESKOV, K. Y. 1994. Catalogue of the linyphiid spiders (Araneida Linyphiidae) of Northern Asia. Pensoft Publ., Sofia-Moscow, 144 pp.