Dmytro Zajciw ( Ukr. Дмитро Зайців; 17 February 1897 – December 1976) was a

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and

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ian

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 ...

, notable for his collection and for his many

beetle Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 describ ...

discoveries. He was born in Velyka Mykhailivka, Ukraine and died in

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. He was the author of ''Two new genera and species of neotropical Longhorn beetles (Coleoptera Cerambycidae)'', 1957, ''Contribution to the study of Longhorn beetles of Rio de Janeiro (Coleoptera Cerambycidae)'', 1958, and was the first to describe the genera '' Adesmoides'' and '' Pseudogrammopsis'', as well as the species '' Beraba angusticollis'' and '' Mionochroma subaurosum'',Bezark, Larry G
A Photographic Catalog of the Cerambycidae of the World: Mionochroma subaurosum
. Retrieved on 4 July 2015. among many others.

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