General Oktawiusz Wincenty Bourmeister-Radoszkowski (variously spelt as Radochkoowsky, Radoszkowski, Radoszkowsky etc. and in Polish sources as Oktavij Vikentij Burmejster-Radoškovski) (russian: Октавий Иванович Радошковский; 7 August 1820, in

Łomża Łomża (), in English known as Lomza, is a city in north-eastern Poland, approximately 150 kilometers (90 miles) to the north-east of Warsaw and west of Białystok. It is situated alongside the Narew river as part of the Podlaskie Voivodeship si ...

– 13 May 1895, in

Warszawa Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officiall ...

) was a Polish

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 ...

who specialised in

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and worked in the

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. He was one of the founding members of the Russian Entomological Society. He published very many scientific papers describing new

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and on the structure and taxonomic significance of the genitalia of

Aculeate Aculeata is a subclade of Hymenoptera containing ants, bees, and stinging wasps. The name is a reference to the defining feature of the group, which is the modification of the ovipositor into a stinger. However, many members of the group cannot ...

Hymenoptera. Radoshkovsky was born in

in a noble family and was trained in the army, serving as an artillery officer who retired as a Lieutenant-General in 1879. He described numerous species of

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, many of which were collected by others such as

Alexei Pavlovich Fedchenko Alexei Pavlovich Fedchenko (russian: Алексей Павлович Федченко; 31 August/15 September 1873), a.k.a. Alexei Pavlovich Fedtschenko, was a Russian naturalist and explorer well known for his travels in central Asia. Alternat ...

(1844–1873). He served as a president of the Russian Entomological Society from 1865 to 1866. He died in Warsaw. Most of his specimens, nearly 40000 at the time of transfer, finally went to the Polish Academy of Sciences in Krakow, Jagellonian University and the

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Works

Partial list (later works) *Révision des armures copulatrices des mâles Bombus.'' Bulletin de la Société impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou'', 60: 51- (1884) *Révision des armures copulatrices des mâles de Mutillides. ''Horae societatis entomologicae rossicae'' 19:3-49 (1885) *Révision des armures copulatrices des mâles de la tribu des Chrysides. ''Horae soc. entom. ross.'' (1888/89) *Genitalanhänge der Hymenopteren. ''Biol. Centralb.'' vol 9: 539 and 543-544 and vol 10: 221-222 (1889–91) *Essai sur la classe des Sphégides d'après la structure des armures copulatrices, ''Bull soc impér des Nat de Moscou'' (1891)

References

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*Anonym 1896 adoszkowski, O. I. B.''Trudy Russk. ent. Obsc. v S. Peterburge'' 30I-VI, Portrait. *Bogdanov, A. P. 1888 Materialy dlja istorii nautschnoj i prikladnoj d'jatel'nosti v Rossii po zoologii i soprikasajuschtschimsja s' neju otrasljam' znanija, priimuschtschestvenno za posl'dneje tridcatipjatil'tie (1850–1887g.) Materialien zur Geschichte der wissenschaftlichen und angewandten Tätigkeit in Russland in der Zoologie und der angerenzenden Wissensgebiete vorwiegend in den letzten fünfundreißig Jahren (1850–1887)''Izv. imp. Obshch. Ljubit. Estest. Antrop. Etnogr''. 55(=Zool. 3). *Essig, E. O. 1931 ''A History of Entomology''. New York, Macmillan Company : VI+1-1029 735-737, Portrait *Medvedev, G. S. 2000 adoszkowski, O. I. B. ''Trudy Russk. ent. Obsc''. 716-22, Portrait. *Pesenko, Yu. A. & Astafurova, Yu. V. 2003 ''Annotated Bibliography of Russian and Soviet Publications on the Bees 1771 - 2002'' (Hymenoptera: Apoidea; excluding Apis mellifera).''Denisia'' 11 1-616, 532-533. 1820 births 1895 deaths People from Łomża People from Congress Poland Polish generals in the Imperial Russian Army Russian entomologists Polish entomologists Biologists from the Russian Empire Hymenopterists {{entomologist-stub