Georgy Sergeevich Zolotarenko (August 8, 1922

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, Ukraine - April 6, 2002), ScDr., professor, was a Russian

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 ...

specialized in

Lepidoptera Lepidoptera ( ) is an order (biology), order of insects that includes butterfly, butterflies and moths (both are called lepidopterans). About 180,000 species of the Lepidoptera are described, in 126 Family (biology), families and 46 Taxonomic r ...

, mainly

Noctuidae The Noctuidae, commonly known as owlet moths, cutworms or armyworms, are a family of moths. They are considered the most controversial family in the superfamily Noctuoidea because many of the clades are constantly changing, along with the other f ...

: Noctuinae. Zolotarenko graduated from the Department of Biology and Pedology,

Tomsk State University The National Research Tomsk State University, TSU (russian: Национа́льный иссле́довательский То́мский госуда́рственный университе́т) is a public research university located in Tom ...

in 1951. From 1951, he worked in the Biological Institute of West Siberian Branch of the Academy of Science of the U.S.S.R. (now the Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences) where he was the chief of the Zoological Museum (1983-1987), then the chief scientific worker in the same museum (1987-2002). His main scientific interests were faunal distribution, biology and

systematics Biological systematics is the study of the diversification of living forms, both past and present, and the relationships among living things through time. Relationships are visualized as evolutionary trees (synonyms: cladograms, phylogenetic tre ...

of Macroheterocera, mainly

: Noctuinae. Zolotarenko had many pupils (T.V. Bubnova, N.V. Mastshenko, N.A. Utkin, S.V. Vasilenko, V.V. Dubatolov, V.Yu. Kryukov, etc.).

Publications

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which gives further details and two portrait photographs.

Most important publications

* , 1970: Type collections in Zoological Museum of the Biological Institute, Siberian Branch, AS USSR. ''In'': ''Fauna Sibiri'': 10-17, Novosibirsk (in Russian). * , 1970: Agrotinae (Noctuidae) of West Siberia: 1-436, Novosibirsk (in Russian). * , 1975: Species of the genus ''Actias'' Leach (Lepidoptera, Saturniidae) from the USSR fauna. ''In'': ''Taksonomiya i ekologiya zhivotnykh Sibiri'': 53-61, Novosibirsk (in Russian). (Series: ''New and little known species of Siberian fauna'', No 9). * , 1976: For a knowledge of the Noctuidae fauna (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) of Kamchatka and Sakhalin. ''In'': ''Fauna gelmintov i chlenistonogikh Sibiri'': 366-381, Novosibirsk (in Russian). (Proceedings of Biological Institute, SB AS USSR, No 18). * , 1976: Hawk-moths (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae) of West Siberia. ''In'': ''Chlenistonogie Sibiri'': 192-224, Novosibirsk (in Russian). (Proceedings of Biological Institute, SB AS USSR, No 34). * , 1987: On the biology and developmental stages of the Palaearctic species of the genus ''Stamnodes'' Guenee (Lepidoptera Geometridae). ''Annales Entomologici Fennici'' 53: 23-29. * , 1993: A new noctuid species of the genus ''Dasypolia'' Gn. (Lepidoptera, Cuculliinae) from Altai. ''Siberian biological journal'' 1993 (3): 42-43 (in Russian). * , 1995: Moths from Southern Sakhalin and Kunashir, collected in 1989. Part 6. Noctuidae. ''Japan Heterocerists' J.'' 184: 140-150. * , 1995: A new species of the genus ''Maliattha'' Walker, 1863 from South Primorye (Russian Far East) (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae). ''Atalanta'' 26 (1/2): 299-301. * , 2000: A check-list of Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) of the Russian part of the West Siberian plain. ''Far Eastern Entomologist'' 94: 1-23.

New taxa of Noctuidae described

* '' Graphiphora obscura'' Zolotarenko, 1970; ''New and little known species of the fauna of Siberia'' 3: 33 (=''Xestia vidua'' ( Staudinger, 1892)) * '' Dasypolia tuektiensis'' Zolotarenko, 1993; ''Siberian Biological Journal'' 1993 (3): 42 * '' Maliattha khasanica'' Zolotarenko et Dubatolov, 1995; ''Atalanta'' 26 (1/2): 299 * '' Cryphia reservata'' Zolotarenko et Dubatolov, 1995

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''Actias'' 2 (1/2): 33 (=''Victrix fabiani'' Varga & L.Ronkay, 1989) * '' Acronicta major atritaigensa'' Dubatolov et Zolotarenko, 1995

''Actias'' 2 (1/2): 34 {{DEFAULTSORT:Zolotarenko, Georgy Sergeevich Russian lepidopterists Tomsk State University alumni 1922 births 2002 deaths Soviet entomologists Scientists from Kropyvnytskyi 21st-century Russian scientists