Vsevolod Vladimirovich Gussakovskiy (11 October 1911 in

Tsarskoye Selo Tsarskoye Selo ( rus, Ца́рское Село́, p=ˈtsarskəɪ sʲɪˈlo, a=Ru_Tsarskoye_Selo.ogg, "Tsar's Village") was the town containing a former residence of the Russian imperial family and visiting nobility, located south from the cen ...

– September, 1948) was a Soviet

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

Hymenoptera Hymenoptera is a large order (biology), order of insects, comprising the sawfly, sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants. Over 150,000 living species of Hymenoptera have been described, in addition to over 2,000 extinct ones. Many of the species are Par ...

. He described many new species. His collections from

Turkestan Turkestan, also spelled Turkistan ( fa, ترکستان, Torkestân, lit=Land of the Turks), is a historical region in Central Asia corresponding to the regions of Transoxiana and Xinjiang. Overview Known as Turan to the Persians, western Turke ...

are held (ex parte) by the

Zoological Museum of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences The Zoological Museum of the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences is a Russian museum devoted to zoology. It is located in Saint Petersburg, on Universitetskaya Embankment. It is one of the ten largest nature history museums ...

Works

*Gussakovskiy, V. V., 1930. Novyie i malo izvestnyie vidy rodov Ammophila Kby. I Sphex L. (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae) Species novae vel parum cognitae generum Ammophila Kby. et Sphex L. (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae). ''Russkoye Entomologicheskoye Obozreniye'' 24 : 1 99-211 . *Gussakovskiy, V. V., 1933 (1932). Sphecidae i Psammocharidae (Hymenoptera), sobrannyie N. Zarudnym v vostochnoy Persii Sphecidae et Psammocharidae (Hymenoptera), a cl. N. Zarudnyi in Persia orientali collectae. ''Trudy Zoologischeskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR'' (= ''Travaux de l'Institut Zoologique de l'Académie des Sciences de l'URSS'') 1:369-104 (misprinted as 269-304). *Gussakovskiy, V. V., 1934.''Schwedisch-Chinesische Wissenschaftliche Expedition nach den nordwestlichen Provinzen Chinas unter Leitung von Dr. Sven Hedin und Prof. Sii Ping-Chang. Insekten gesammelt vom Schwedischen Arzt der Expedition Dr.David Hummel'' 1927-1930. 41. Hymenoptera. 6. Sphegidae. Arkiv for Zoologi 27A(21): 1-15. *Gussakovskiy, V. V., 1935. K faune os (Hymenoptera, Sphecodea et Vespodea) Tadzhikistana Sphecodea und Vespodea von Tadjikistan. ''Trudy Tadzhikskoy Bazy Akademii Nauk SSSR'' (= ''Travaux de la Filiale de l'Académie des Sciences de l'URSS et Tadjikistan'') 5:409-467. *Gussakovskiy, V.V. 1937 Obzor palearkticheskikh vidov rodov Didineis Wesm., Pison Latr. i Psen Latr. (Hymenoptera, Sphecodea).''Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR'', 4, 599–698. late. I

References

*Anonym 1970: ussakovskiy, V. V.''Entomologishskoye obozreniye, Leningrad'' 49 (2): 502-507. *Narzikulov, M. N. 1969: ussakovskiy, V. V.''Izv. Odd. Biol. Nauk. Akad. Nauk Tadzhikskoy SSR'' (4) 34 (1): 111-119. *Pesenko, Yu. A.; Astafurova, Y. V. 2003: Annotated Bibliography of Russian and Soviet Publications on the Bees 1771 - 2002 (Hymenoptera: Apoidea; excluding Apis mellifera). ''Denisia'', Linz 11, 1-616, pp. 539 1948 deaths 1911 births Soviet entomologists {{entomologist-stub