Igor Yakovlevich Grichanov (russian: link=no, Игорь Яковлевич Гричанов; born 10 September 1958) is 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 ...

and

ecologist Ecology () is the study of the relationships between living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment. Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere level. Ecology overlaps wi ...

. As a taxonomist, he specialised on

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 ...

notably

Dolichopodidae Dolichopodidae, the long-legged flies, are a large, cosmopolitan family of true flies with more than 7,000 described species in about 230 genera. The genus ''Dolichopus'' is the most speciose, with some 600 species. Dolichopodidae generally are ...

. He joined the staff of the All-Russian Institute of Plant Protection in 1981. From 1990 he is the Head of the Laboratory of Phytosanitary Diagnostics and Forecasts.К юбилею И. Я. Гричанова // '' Вестник защиты растений'', 2008, № 3, с. 7

He wrote over 470 scientific papers (1979-2016). Не has described 26 new genera and over 400 new species of flies.EOL
New taxa described by Grichanov.

Selected works

* Sigvald R., Grichanov I. Ya. (Eds.). Crop Protection Conference - Pests, Diseases and Weeds, May 28–30, 2002. Conference Report 01, Uppsala: SLU, 2003. 292 p. * Grichanov I. Ya. Review of Afrotropical Dolichopodinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae). St.Petersburg: VIZR, 2004. 245

* Grichanov I. Ya. A checklist and keys to North European genera and species of Dolichopodidae (Diptera). St.Petersburg: VIZR, 2006. 120

* Grichanov I. Ya. A checklist and keys to Dolichopodidae (Diptera) of the Caucasus and East Mediterranean. St.Petersburg: VIZR, 2007. 160

* Grichanov I. Ya. An illustrated synopsis and keys to afrotropical genera of the epifamily Dolichopodoidae (Diptera: Empidoidea). Priamus Supplement, Ankara, 2011, v. 24. 98 p., 305 fig

* Grichanov I. Ya., Negrobov O. P. (Eds.). Fauna and taxonomy of Dolichopodidae (Diptera). Collection of papers. St.Petersburg: VIZR, 2013. 96

* Grichanov I. Ya., Negrobov O. P. Palaearctic species of the genus Sciapus Zeller (Diptera: Dolichopodidae). St.Petersburg, VIZR, 2014. 84

* Grichanov I. Ya. Alphabetic list of generic and specific names of predatory flies of the epifamily Dolichopodoidae (Diptera). St.Petersburg, VIZR, 2014. 544

References

* Foreword. In: ''Grichanov I. Ya. Russian-English and English-Russian vocabulary for entomologists. Saint-Petersburg: VIZR, 2004, 116 p.'' ussian* To the jubilee of Grichanov I. Ya. ''Plant Protection News'', 2008, No 3, p. 7

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