ARKADY LELEJ

TITLE:

Head, Laboratory of Entomology, Institute of Biology and Pedology, Vladivostok-22, 690022, Russia

EDUCATION:

Ph.D., Entomology, Department of Biology, Kazakh State University, Alma-Ata, Russia, 1970.

Doctor of Sciences, Entomology, Zoological Institute, Sankt-Petersburg, Russia, 1993.

POSITIONS:

Entomologist, Quarantine inspection, Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, 1970.

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

Russian Entomological Society, since 1969

FIELD EXPERIENCE:

Middle Asia (1966-1990), Ukraine (1979), Belarus (1979, 1987), Transbaikalia (1976, 1984), Russian Far East (1973-1998), South China (1990), Japan (1991, 1993), International Kuril Island Project (1996-1999)

PUBLICATIONS:

Five publications most relevant to the present proposal:

• Lelej A.S. The velvet ants (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae) of the USSR and Neighbouring Countries. Leningrad: Nauka. 268 p. (In Russian).
• Lelej A.S. Order Hymenoptera. Introduction. Key to suborder, superfamilies and families. In: Key to the Insects of Russian Far East. St. Petersburg: Nauka. 1995. Vol. 4, part 1: 82-149. (In Russian).
• Lelej A.S. Fam. Mutillidae. Fam. Pompilidae. In: Key to the Insects of Russian Far East. St. Petersburg: Nauka. 1995. Vol. 4, part 1: 202-264. (In Russian).
• Lelej A.S., Saigusa T., Chang Eon Lee. Spider wasps (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae) of Korea // Russian Entomol. Journal. 1994. Vol. 3, N 1-2. P. 135-148.
• Lelej A.S. To the knowledge of East Asian species of the tribe Smicromirmini Bischoff, 1920) (Hymenoptera, Mutillidae) with description of four new genera and eight new species // Far Eastern Entomologist. 1995. N 13. P. 1-28.