Boris Borisovich Rohdendorf (russian: link=no, Борис Борисович Родендорф, 12 July 190421 November 1977) was a Soviet

entomologist Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...

and curator at the Zoological Museum at the

University of Moscow M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...

. He attained the position of head of the Laboratory of Arthropods,

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, Academy of Sciences of the USSR (now

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) in

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. A student of Andrey Martynov, he was a prolific

taxonomist In biology, taxonomy () is the scientific study of naming, defining ( circumscribing) and classifying groups of biological organisms based on shared characteristics. Organisms are grouped into taxa (singular: taxon) and these groups are given ...

who described numerous new

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, including fossil

Diptera Flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name being derived from the Greek δι- ''di-'' "two", and πτερόν ''pteron'' "wing". Insects of this order use only a single pair of wings to fly, the hindwings having evolved into advanced ...

, and published important syntheses on fossil insects. His work is being extensively revised by the current generation of Russian paleoentomologists.

Partial bibliography

* Rohdendorf, B.B. 1937. ipteran insects, Vol. 19, No. 1: Fam. Sarcophagidae (Part 1), Fauna of the USSR, New Series,No. 12 Moscow & Leningrad, 501pp. (In Russian and German) * Rohdendorf, B.B. 1962. Order Diptera. In B.B. Rohdendorf (editor), ''Fundamentals of Paleontology'', vol. 9, Arthropoda-Tracheata and Chelicerata: 444–502. 991 English translation of Russian original, Smithsonian Institution Libraries and National Science Foundation* Rohdendorf, B.B. 1964. istorical development of dipterous insects ''Trudy Paleontol. Inst.'' 100, 311 pp. **Rohdendorf, B.B. 1974. ''The historical development of Diptera''. University of Alberta Press, Edmonton. 360 pp. (English translation) * Rohdendorf, B.B. 1967. 'Directions in the historical development of sarcophagids (Diptera, Sarcophagidae)''Moscow, 92pp. (In Russian) * Rohdendorf, B.B. and Rasnitsyn, A.P. (Editors) 1980. 'A historical development of the class of insects'' Moscow, 269pp. (In Russian).

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1904 births 1977 deaths Soviet paleontologists Soviet entomologists {{zoologist-stub