Vladimir Viktorovich Dubatolov
Vladimir Viktorovich Dubatolov (born 1958) () is a Russian entomologist, lepidopterist, Doctor of Biological Sciences, full member of the Russian Entomological Society (since 1979), member of the European Lepidopterological Society (since 1998), curator of the insect collection of the Siberian Zoological Museum, leading researcher at the Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals SB RAS (Novosibirsk), leading researcher of the Federal State Budgetary Institution "Zapovednoye Priamurye" (Khabarovsk). He Has described a number of zoological taxa. The names of these taxa (for attribution) are accompanied by the author abbreviation "Dubatolov". Dubatolov was born on September 2, 1958 in Leningrad . His father was Viktor Nikolaevich Dubatolov (1924-2011), Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, paleontologist, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation. His mother was Yulia Afanasyevna Dubatolova (1926-2005) - paleontologist, stratigrapher, candidate of geological and mineralogical sciences. There are three daughters: Svetlana, Elizabeth and Valeria. In 1980 he graduated from the Faculty of Natural Sciences of Novosibirsk State University. He defended his thesis on the topic "Quantitative analysis of changes in the blade line of ammonoids in the process of evolution." Since 1980 he has been working in Novosibirsk at the Zoological Museum of the Biological Institute of the Siberian  Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences (now - the Siberian Zoological Museum of the Institute of Animal Systematics and Ecology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences). In 1993 he defended his Ph.D. thesis on the topic: "Diurnal Lepidoptera (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea, Papilionoidea) of the mountains of Turkmenistan". In 2007 he defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic: "Lepidoptera subfamilies Arctiinae (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae) of the Palaearctic". He is the curator of the collection of insects of the Siberian Zoological Museum of the Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Scientific  interests. Research interests include taxonomy and faunistics, faunogenesis and biogeography of the Palaearctic butterflies Arctiinae, Papilionoidea, Russian butterflies from the families Hesperioidea , Geometroidea (without Geometridae), Bombycoidea, Sphingoidea, Noctuoidea; faunistics of Siberian butterflies from the families Tortricidae, Ethmiidae, and some other Microlepidoptera . Since 2003 he has been studying Lepidoptera of the Amur region. He also works with some other insects: Neuropteroidea , Plecoptera , Vespoidea (Hymenoptera). From the late 1980s to 1991, he collected spiders in Central Asia, which were processed by D.V. Logunov and his colleagues. Taxa named after Dubatolov. Genus: Aranea, Salticidae: Acarina, Parholaspididae Coleoptera: Lepidoptera: Subspecies: