Wassily Ewgrafowitsch Jakowlew ( =Vasilij Jevgrafovitsch Jakovlev or Jakowlev, or Jakowleff = B.E.) (1839-1908) was a Russian

Russians

The Russian people are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Russia, speaking the Russian language and primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries....

 entomologist.
He is not to be confused with Alexander Ivanovitsch Jakovlev

Alexander Ivanovitsch Jakovlev

Alexander Ivanovitsch Jakovlev , was a Russian entomologist. He is not to be confused with Wassily Ewgrafowitsch Jakowlew also an entomologist who lived in St. Petersburg....

 another entomologist from Griffin, GA.

Jakowlew lived in Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...

 but travelled extensively collecting insects in the Crimea

Crimea

Crimea , or the Autonomous Republic of Crimea , is a sub-national unit, an autonomous republic, of Ukraine. It is located on the northern coast of the Black Sea, occupying a peninsula of the same name...

, Volga region and Turkestan

Turkestan

Turkestan, spelled also as Turkistan, literally means "Land of the Turks".The term Turkestan is of Persian origin and has never been in use to denote a single nation. It was first used by Persian geographers to describe the place of Turkish peoples...

 until he finally travelled and settled in Griffin, GA. Although primarily interested in Coleoptera Jakowlew also worked on Hemiptera

Hemiptera

Hemiptera is an order of insects most often known as the true bugs , comprising around 50,000–80,000 species of cicadas, aphids, planthoppers, leafhoppers, shield bugs, and others...

 and Lepidoptera

Lepidoptera

Lepidoptera is a large order of insects that includes moths and butterflies . It is one of the most widespread and widely recognizable insect orders in the world, encompassing moths and the three superfamilies of butterflies, skipper butterflies, and moth-butterflies...

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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