Saulius Pakalniškis (born 15 June 1958 in Staškūniškis,

Anykščiai district municipality Anykščiai (; see #Name, other names) is a ski resort city in Lithuania, west of Utena, Lithuania, Utena. The Roman Catholic Church of St. Matthias in Anykščiai is the tallest church in Lithuania, with spires measuring in height. Anykščia ...

-21 February 2006) was a

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n zoologist,

entomologist Entomology (from Ancient Greek ἔντομον (''éntomon''), meaning "insect", and -logy from λόγος (''lógos''), meaning "study") is the branch of zoology that focuses on insects. Those who study entomology are known as entomologists. In ...

and dipterologist (researcher of

flies Flies are insects of the Order (biology), order Diptera, the name being derived from the Ancient Greek, Greek δι- ''di-'' "two", and πτερόν ''pteron'' "wing". Insects of this order use only a single pair of wings to fly, the hindwin ...

Biography

In 1976, Saulius graduated from Jonava 3rd Middle School in

Jonava Jonava () is the ninth largest city in Lithuania with a population of . It is located in Kaunas County in central Lithuania, north east of Kaunas, the second-largest city in Lithuania. It is served by Kaunas International Airport. ''Achema'', t ...

and in 1985 -

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, Faculty of

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. For a time he worked at

furniture factory, and then served in the

Soviet Army The Soviet Ground Forces () was the land warfare service branch of the Soviet Armed Forces from 1946 to 1992. It was preceded by the Red Army. After the Soviet Union ceased to exist in December 1991, the Ground Forces remained under th ...

. After returning from her, attended preparatory courses, preparing to enroll in the Vilnius University. Viewed nature, vegetation (although it attracted more small fauna). Acquainted with the employees of invertebrate zoology sector at Institute of

Zoology Zoology ( , ) is the scientific study of animals. Its studies include the anatomy, structure, embryology, Biological classification, classification, Ethology, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinction, extinct, and ...

and

Parasitology Parasitology is the study of parasites, their host (biology), hosts, and the relationship between them. As a List of biology disciplines, biological discipline, the scope of parasitology is not determined by the organism or environment in questio ...

. From 1979 to 1989 he was technician, senior technician, junior research fellow at Institute of Zoology and Parasitology of Lithuanian Academy. From 1990 he was Assistant Research Fellow at Institute of Ecology. In 1994, defended he at

Ecology Ecology () is the natural science of the relationships among living organisms and their Natural environment, environment. Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, community (ecology), community, ecosystem, and biosphere lev ...

Institute his doctoral thesis about flies. He was a researcher at Institute of Ecology of Vilnius University, member of Lithuanian Entomological Society. Saulius Pakalniškis first described a new kind of science leafminers: ''Liriomyza labanoro'', ''Liriomyza lituanica'' and ''Pseudonapomyze stanionyteae''.Liriomyza labanoro Pakalniskis, 1992
/ref> He described the Lithuanian mining dipteran insect fauna. Wrote the book "Plants insects discriminatory manner" (1985, With other authors. Publications " Žuvintas reserve" (1993, in Russian), The Lithuanian state reserves of flora and fauna" (1997) with others. He published research articles and participated in a number of scientific expeditions in Lithuania,

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and other countries.

References

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