Vasily Yakovlev (zoologist)

Vasily Evgrafovich Yakovlev (Russian: Василий Евграфович Яковлев; also transliterated Vasiliy Ewgrafowitsch Jakovlev; 9 February 1839 – 15 August 1908) was a Russian entomologist. He is not to be confused with Alexander Ivanovich Yakovlev, another entomologist. 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 Yakovlev also worked on Hemiptera and Lepidoptera.

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[1864]:109–129 (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)