Biography:Mikhail Borisovich Potapov

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Mikhail B. Potapov
Михаил Борисович Потапов
At the Institute of Biology and Chemistry, MPGU
Born (1963-01-07) 7 January 1963 (age 63)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR
Alma materMoscow State Pedagogical Institute
Known forSpringtail (Collembola) systematics
Scientific career
FieldsEntomology, Soil biology, Taxonomy
InstitutionsMPGU
Doctoral advisorprof. Nina Mikhailovna Chernovna

Mikhail Borisovich Potapov (Russian: Михаил Борисович Потапов; born 7 January 1963, Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian entomologist, a renowned systematist of springtails (Collembola). He has described numerous new species and 19 new genera of springtails, is the author of original methods for studying collembolans,[1] revisions of major taxa, and is a historian of collembology.[2][3] He works at the Institute of Biology and Chemistry of MPGU.[4]

Biography

Mikhail Potapov was born on 7 January 1963 in Moscow, USSR.[5]

In 1985, he graduated from the Biology and Chemistry Faculty of the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute named after V. I. Lenin (MGPI, now MPGU). Since 1981, under the guidance of Professor Nina Mikhailovna Chernova, he specialized in the systematics of springtails, studying them on expeditions to Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Mordovia, the Volga region, Lithuania, and other regions of the USSR.[6]

Since 1985, he worked in the problem laboratory "Dynamics of Populations and Reproduction of Useful Species" at MGPI, simultaneously being a postgraduate student in the Department of Zoology and Darwinism, Biology and Chemistry Faculty, MGPI. In 1989, he was inducted as a member of the Russian Entomological Society.[7]

In 1992, he defended his Candidate of Sciences dissertation on "The Structure of the Genus and Species Characteristics in Springtails of the Family Isotomidae".[8]


In 2012, he participated in the international project "Springtails of the Pacific Littoral of Asia".[9]

In January 2020, at a meeting of the Moscow Ethological Seminar, he gave a lecture on "The Sexual Behavior of Springtails".[10]

Scientific Contribution

He established the subfamily Template:Btname[11] within the family Isotomidae (Collembola).

New Genera

He described new genera of springtails:[12]

New Species

From 1985 to 2024, he participated in the identification and description of over 260 new species of springtails from various regions of Russia and the world. See the list below:

2025

Bibliography

Author of more than 150 publications,[16] among them books:

  • Babenko A. B., Kuznetsova N.A., M. B. Potapov, Stebaeva S. K., Khanislamova G. M., Chernova N. M. Opredelitel' kollembol fauny SSSR: (Biologiya, ekologiya, opredelitel' semeystv i rodov) [Key to Springtails of the USSR Fauna: (Biology, Ecology, Key to Families and Genera)]. Moscow: Nauka, 1988. 214 p.
  • Potapov M.B. Synopses on Palaearctic Collembola. Vol. 3. Isotomidae. 2001. 603 p. (Abhandlungen und Berichte des Naturkundemuseums Görlitz, Band 73, Heft 2, 2001)
  • Potapov M. B., Kuznetsova N. A. Metody issledovaniya soobshchestv mikroartropod: posobie dlya studentov i aspirantov [Research Methods for Microarthropod Communities: A Guide for Students and Postgraduates]. Moscow: KMK, 2011, 77 p.

Encyclopedias:

  • Potapov M. B. Nogokhvostki Springtails (Collembola) in the BRE.

Hirsch index in Scopus — 10[17]; in the RSCI — 12[18]

References

  1. ↑ Potapov M. B., Kuznetsova N. A. Metody issledovaniya soobshchestv mikroartropod: posobie dlya studentov i aspirantov [Research Methods for Microarthropod Communities: A Guide for Students and Postgraduates]. Moscow: KMK, 2011, 77 p.
  2. ↑ Kuznetsova N. A., Potapov M. B. Nina Mikhailovna Chernova // Russian Entomological Journal. 2010. No. 3. P. 167—174.
  3. ↑ Kuprin A. V., Potapov M. B. History of the Study of Springtails (Collembola) in the Russian Far East // Readings in Memory of A. N. Kurentsov. 2018. Issue 29. P. 23-31.
  4. ↑ Mikhail Borisovich Potapov — teaching staff of the Moscow Pedagogical State University, on the MPGU website.
  5. ↑ Vorontsov's Who is who in biodiversity sciences in Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan / 2nd ed., rev. Moscow: KMK, 2001. Page. 446.
  6. ↑ Потапов Михаил Борисович on the university website.
  7. ↑ Потапов Михаил Борисович on the university website.
  8. ↑ "The Structure of the Genus and Species Characteristics in Springtails of the Family ISOTOMIDAE". Russian Academy of Sciences 03.00.09, Entomology. Abstract, 1992.
  9. ↑ Scientists from China and Russia decided to pay tribute to the order Collembola (Springtails). Within the framework of the international project "Springtails of the Pacific Littoral of Asia", scientists surveyed the coasts of the Chinese provinces of Hainan and Shandong, Southern Primorye, Khabarovsk Krai, and Kamchatka. // Kronotsky State Natural Biosphere Reserve. 2012.
  10. ↑ Sexual Behavior of Springtails (meeting of the Moscow Ethological Seminar), on the Arkhe website.
  11. ↑ Pachyotominae - Wikispecies
  12. ↑ Checklist of the Collembola: Genera — list of springtail genera on collembola.org
  13. ↑ Potapov M. B, Gao Y., Deharveng L. Taxonomy of the Cryptopygus complex. I. Pauropygus — a new worldwide littoral genus (Collembola: Isotomidae) // Zookeys. 2013. Vol. 304. P. 1-16.
  14. ↑ Potapov M. B. Description of a new genus of the family Isotomidae (Collembola) from mountain regions of the USSR // Zoologicheskii Zhurnal. 1988. No. 3. P. 144—148.
  15. ↑ Potapov M., Stebaeva S. Sibiracanthella and Sahacanthella new genera of Anurophorinae (Collembola, Isotomidae) with anal spines from continental Asia // Misc. Zool. 1995. Vol. 17. P. 129—139.
  16. ↑ Publications by M. B. Potapov in the RSCI.
  17. ↑ Mikhail Potapov h-index in Scopus.
  18. ↑ M. B. Potapov Hirsch Index for all publications on eLIBRARY.ru.



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