Vasily Evgrafovich Yakovlev (russian: Василий Евграфович Яковлев; also transliterated Vasiliy Ewgrafowitsch Jakovlev or Vasiliy Yevgrafovich Yakovlev; 9 February 1839 – 15 August 1908) was a Russian zoologist who studied fishes, molluscs and insects. He is not to be confused with

Alexander Ivanovich Yakovlev Alexander Iwanowitsch Jakowlew

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, another

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 ...

. His name was spelled Wassily Ewgrafowitsch Jakowlew in French, in which he sometimes wrote. Yakovlev lived in Saint Petersburg, but travelled extensively collecting insects in the Crimea, Volga region and Turkestan until he finally travelled and settled in Griffin, GA. Although primarily interested in

Coleoptera 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 ...

Yakovlev also worked on

Hemiptera Hemiptera (; ) is an order (biology), order of insects, commonly called true bugs, comprising over 80,000 species within groups such as the cicadas, aphids, planthoppers, leafhoppers, Reduviidae, assassin bugs, Cimex, bed bugs, and shield bugs. ...

and

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 ...

. From around 1867 Yakovlev conducted zoological observations in the vicinity of Astrakhan. Yakovlev described Caspian roach (''Rutilus caspicus'') and Volga undermouth (''Chondrostoma variabile'').

Publications

Partial list *Description de quelques Longicornes paléarctiques nouveaux ou peu connus. ''Horae Soc. Ent. Ross''. 29: 506–514. (1895) *De speciebus novis generum Dorcadion Dalm. et Neodorcadion Ganglb.''Annuaire Mus. Zool. St.-Pétersburg'' 4: 237–244 (1899). *Etude sue les Neodorcadion da l'Asie Russe (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae)''Rev. Russ. d'Entom''. 1 (4–5): 146–166 (1901). * A new species of Neodorcadion Ganglb. (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) ''Rev. Russ. d'Entom''. 6: 1–2. (1906) * Lepidoptera palaearctica nova descripta a Gr. Grum-Grshimailo. III 290–293 Corrigenda. Auctore G. Jacobson 294–297."Trudy Russkago entomologicheskago obshchestva. Horae ( ) * Hemiptera of the Volga region fauna. Uchenye Zapiski Kazanskogo Universiteta, Otdelenie Fiziko-Matematicheskikh i Meditsinskikh Nauk 1 864109–129 (1865). * Lucanides nouveaux ou peu connus.''Horae Soc. Ent. Ross''

References

* Semenov-Tian-Shanski, A. (1910) Vasily Evgrafovich Jakovlev. ''Horae Societatis Entomologicheskago Rossicae'' 39:1–57+1 portrait (in Russian) 1839 births 1908 deaths People from Volgograd People from Tsaritsynsky Uyezd Biologists from the Russian Empire Russian lepidopterists Emigrants from the Russian Empire to France Russian zoologists Russian ichthyologists 19th-century scientists from the Russian Empire 20th-century Russian scientists {{entomologist-stub