Yuri Alexandrovich Popov
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Yuri Alexandrovich Popov (Russian: Юрий Александрович Попов) (born 5 March 1936 in Moscow) is a well-known Russian paleoentomologist, the leading world expert in taxonomy and evolution of fossil true bugs (Heteroptera
) and Coleorrhyncha
. He described more than 20 new families and subfamilies and over 250 new genera and species from the Mesozoic
and Cenozoic
. Dr. Yuri Popov is one of the founders of higher taxonomy of true bugs: three of seven heteropteran infraorders have been established by him (Nepomorpha
Popov, 1968, Gerromorpha
Popov, 1971, and Leptopodomorpha
Popov, 1971). He has more than 150 publications, including the book on evolution of water bugs known to every specialist in the field.
Heteroptera
Heteroptera is a group of about 40,000 species of insects in the Hemiptera. Sometimes called "true bugs", that name more commonly refers to Hemiptera as a whole, and "typical bugs" might be used as a more unequivocal alternative since among the Hemiptera the heteropterans are most consistently and...
) and Coleorrhyncha
Coleorrhyncha
Peloridiidae is a family of true bugs, comprising 17 genera and 36 species. They are small, ranging in length from 2 to 4 mm, rarely seen, peculiarly lumpy, flattened bugs found in Patagonia , New Zealand, eastern Australia, Lord Howe Island and New Caledonia. All the Peloridiidae species are...
. He described more than 20 new families and subfamilies and over 250 new genera and species from the Mesozoic
Mesozoic
The Mesozoic era is an interval of geological time from about 250 million years ago to about 65 million years ago. It is often referred to as the age of reptiles because reptiles, namely dinosaurs, were the dominant terrestrial and marine vertebrates of the time...
and Cenozoic
Cenozoic
The Cenozoic era is the current and most recent of the three Phanerozoic geological eras and covers the period from 65.5 mya to the present. The era began in the wake of the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous that saw the demise of the last non-avian dinosaurs and...
. Dr. Yuri Popov is one of the founders of higher taxonomy of true bugs: three of seven heteropteran infraorders have been established by him (Nepomorpha
Nepomorpha
Nepomorpha is an infraorder of insects in the "true bug" order . They belong to the "typical" bugs of the suborder Heteroptera. Due to their aquatic habits, these animals are known as true water bugs. They occur all over the world outside the polar regions, with about 2,000 species altogether...
Popov, 1968, Gerromorpha
Gerromorpha
Gerromorpha is an infraorder of insects in the "true bug" order Hemiptera. These "typical" bugs are commonly called semiaquatic bugs or shore-inhabiting bugs...
Popov, 1971, and Leptopodomorpha
Leptopodomorpha
Leptopodomorpha is an infraorder of insects in the order Hemiptera ....
Popov, 1971). He has more than 150 publications, including the book on evolution of water bugs known to every specialist in the field.
Selected publications
- Popov, Yu.A. (1971) Historical development of true bugs of the infraorder Nepomorpha (Heteroptera). Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta AN SSSR 129: 1–230 (in Russian).
- Popov, Yu.A. & Shcherbakov, D.E. (1991) Mesozoic Peloridioidea and their ancestors (Insecta: Hemiptera, Coleorrhyncha). Geologica et Palaeontologica 25: 215–235.
- Popov, Yu.A., Dolling, W.R. & Whalley, P.E.S. (1994) British Upper Triassic and Lower Jurassic Heteroptera and Coleorrhyncha (Insecta: Hemiptera). Genus, 5(4): 307–347.
Families and subfamilies of fossil Hemiptera established by Yuri Popov
- Karabasiidae Popov, 1985 (Coleorrhyncha Peloridioidea)
- Hoploridiinae Popov et Shcherbakov, 1991 (Karabasiidae)
- Propreocorinae Popov, Dolling et Whalley, 1994 (Ochteridae)
- Shurabellidae Popov, 1971 (Corixoidea)
- Archaeocorixinae Popov, 1968 (Corixidae)
- Ijanectinae Popov, 1971 (Corixidae)
- Velocorixinae Popov, 1986 (Corixidae)
- Corixonectinae Popov, 1986 (Corixidae)
- Diapherininae Popov, 1988 (Corixidae)
- Scaphocoridae Popov, 1968 (Notonectoidea)
- Mesotrephidae Popov, 1971 (Notonectoidea)
- Sphaerodemopsinae Popov, 1971 (Naucoridae)
- Stygeonepinae Popov, 1971 (Belostomatidae)
- Paranoikiidae Zamboni, Martins-Neto et Popov, 2002 (Nepoidea)
- Pterocimicidae Popov, Dolling & Whalley, 1994 (Nepomorpha)
- Enicocorinae Popov, 1980 (Saldidae)
- Ignotingidae Zhang, Golub, Popov et Shcherbakov, 2005 (Tingoidea)
- Kobdocoridae Popov, 1986 (Aradoidea)
- Lygaenocorinae Popov, 1961 (Lygaeidae)
- Monstrocoreinae Popov, 1968 (Coreidae)
- Mesopentacoridae Popov, 1968 (Pentatomoidea)
Genera named after Yuri Popov
- Yuripopovia Jarzembowski, 1991 (Progonocimicidae)
- Popoviana Herczek, 1997 (Miridae; nom.nov. pro Popovia Herczek 1993)
- Archepopovia Golub 2001 (Tingidae)
- Yurigocimex Martins-Neto et Gallego, 2003 (Progonocimicidae)
- Popovigocimex Martins-Neto et Gallego, 2003 (Progonocimicidae)
- Popovus Oezdikmen et Demir, 2007 (Progonocimicidae; nom.nov. pro Progonus Popov, 1986)