Alexander Yakhontov
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Who is Alexander Yakhontov?
Alexander Alexandrovich Yakhontov was a Russian entomologist who specialized in Lepidoptera.
Jachontov described many new taxa mostly at the subspecies level and wrote biogeographic works notably on the Rhopalocera of the Vladimir and Nizhny Novgorod regions and those of the Caucasus. He wrote Nashi dnevnye babochki published in Moscow in 1935.
His work appears in
Revue Russe d’Entomologie, Moscow
Izvestia Moskovskogo entomologicheskogo obstshestva, Moscow
Izvestija Kavkazskogo Museja, Tiflis
Ent., Mater. Pozn. Fauny Flory SSSR
The species Pararge jachontovi Sheljuzhko was named for him.
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