Igor Grichanov

Igor Yakovlevich Grichanov Игорь Яковлевич Гричанов
Born	(1958-09-10) September 10, 1958 Voronezh, USSR
Alma mater	Voronezh State University, Russia
Known for	entomologist, dipterologist
Awards	Member of Russian Entomological Society Presidium, 2012
Scientific career
Fields	Entomologist, ecologist
Institutions	All-Russian Institute of Plant Protection, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Igor Yakovlevich Grichanov is a Russian entomologist and ecologist. As a taxonomist, he specialised on Diptera notably Dolichopodidae. 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. He wrote over 470 scientific papers (1979-2016). Не has described 26 new genera and over 400 new species of flies.

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 p.[2]
• Grichanov I. Ya. A checklist and keys to North European genera and species of Dolichopodidae (Diptera). St.Petersburg: VIZR, 2006. 120 p.[3]
• Grichanov I. Ya. A checklist and keys to Dolichopodidae (Diptera) of the Caucasus and East Mediterranean. St.Petersburg: VIZR, 2007. 160 p.[4]
• 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 figs.[5]
• Grichanov I. Ya., Negrobov O. P. (Eds.). Fauna and taxonomy of Dolichopodidae (Diptera). Collection of papers. St.Petersburg: VIZR, 2013. 96 p.[6]
• Grichanov I. Ya., Negrobov O. P. Palaearctic species of the genus Sciapus Zeller (Diptera: Dolichopodidae). St.Petersburg, VIZR, 2014. 84 p.[7].
• Grichanov I. Ya. Alphabetic list of generic and specific names of predatory flies of the epifamily Dolichopodoidae (Diptera). St.Petersburg, VIZR, 2014. 544 p.[8].

References

• Foreword. In: Гричанов И.Я. Русско-английский и англо-русский словарь для энтомологов. Санкт-Петербург: ВИЗР РАСХН, 2004, 116 p. [Russian]
• К юбилею И. Я. Гричанова. Вестник защиты растений, 2008, No 3, p. 78 [9]. [Russian]

External links

• Profile, Voronezh State University [Russian]
• Profile, All-Russian Institute of Plant Protection [Russian]
• Profile, Google Scholar
• EOL New taxa described by Grichanov