Editorial Team

Editor-in-Chief

Terry Erwin
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, U.S.A., e-mail

Deputy Editor-in-Chief

Natalia B. Ananyeva
Zoological Institute (RAS), St. Petersburg, Russia, e-mail

Deputy Editor-in-Chief

Louis Deharveng
Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France, e-mail

Managing Editor

Lyubomir Penev
Central Laboratory of General Ecology (BAS) & Pensoft Publishers, Sofia, Bulgaria, e-mail

Bioinformatics and Innovative Publishing Advisory Panel

Brian Fisher
AntWeb, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, U.S.A., e-mail
Cynthia Parr
Encyclopedia of Life, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
Donald Hobern
TDWG, Atlas of Living Australia, Director, CSIRO Entomology, Canberra, Australia, e-mail
Donat Agosti
plazi.org, e-mail
F. Christian Thompson
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, U.S.A., e-mail
Greg Riccardi
Morphbank, Tallahassee, U.S.A., e-mail
Norman Johnson
Ohio State University, Columbus, U.S.A. e-mail
Richard Pyle
ZooBank, Bishop Museum, Honolulu, U.S.A., e-mail
Robert Hanner
Barcode of Life, Associate Director, Department of Integrative Biology, Guelph, Canada, e-mail
Terry Catapano
Columbia University, New York, U.S.A., e-mail
Vishwas Chavan
GBIF, Copennhagen, Denmark, e-mail

Taxa and Subject Editors

Subjects

Subject Editors

(alphabetically ordered by Subject Editor's first name)
Achille Casale
Dipartimento di Zoologia e Genetica Evoluzionistica, Universita di Sassari, Sassari, Italy, e-mail
  • Insecta: Coleoptera: Carabidae
  • Insecta: Coleoptera: Cholevidae
Adam Slipinski
CSIRO Entomology, Canberra, Australia, e-mail
  • Insecta: Coleoptera: Coccinellidae
Adriano B. Kury
Departamento de Invertebrados, Museu Nacional/UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, e-mail
  • Arachnida: Opiliones (Neotropical)
Alan Myers
National University of Ireland Cork, Enterprise Centre, Cork, Ireland, e-mail
  • Crustacea: Malacostraca: Amphipoda
Alexander G. Kirejtshuk
Laboratory of Insect Systematics, Zoological Institute (RAS), St. Petersburg, Russia, e-mail
  • Insecta: Coleoptera (recent and fossil)
  • Insecta: Coleoptera: Cucujoidea: Nitidulidae
Alexander Konstantinov
Systematic Entomology Laboratory, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, U.S.A., e-mail
  • Insecta: Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae
Alexei Tchesunov
Department of Invertebrate Zoology, Moscow State Univerity, Moscow, Russia, e-mail
  • Nematoda: marine nematodes
Anatoly A. Schileyko
Institute for Problems of Ecology & Evolution (RAS), Moscow, Russia, e-mail
  • Mollusca
Andrew Cline
CFDA, Sacramento, U.S.A., e-mail
  • Insecta: Coleoptera: Nitidulidae
Andrey Bochkov
Zoological Institute (RAS), St.Petersburg, Russia, e-mail
  • Acari: Parasitic Acariformes (associated with vertebrates),free-living Eleutherenona
Andrey Frolov
Laboratory of Insect Systematics, Zoological Institute (RAS), St.Petersburg, Russia, e-mail
  • Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea
Andrzej Wiktor
Museum of Natural History, Wroclaw University, Wroclaw, Poland, e-mail
  • Mollusca (terrestrial slugs, Northern Hemisphere)
Andrei V. Gorokhov
Zoological Institute (RAS), St. Petersburg, Russia, e-mail
  • Insecta: Orthoptera
Antonio Todaro
Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy, e-mail
  • Gastrotricha
Atilano Contreras-Ramos
Instituto De Biologia, Unam, Mexico City, Mexico, e-mail
  • Insecta: Megaloptera, Neuroptera (New World), Raphidioptera
Augusto Vigna Taglianti
Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e dell'Uomo, Universita degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Roma, Italy, e-mail
  • Insecta: Coleoptera: Caraboidea (Africa, Mediterraneum)
Axel Hausmann
Zoologische Staatsammlung München, München, Germany, e-mail
  • Insecta: Lepidoptera: Geomteridae
Bert W. Hoeksema
Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum (Naturalis), Leiden, The Netherlands, e-mail
  • Cnidaria (stony corals)
Boris Kataev
Laboratory of Insect Systematics, Zoological Institute (RAS), St. Petersburg, Russia, e-mail
  • Insecta: Coleoptera: Carabidae
Boyko Georgiev
Central Laboratory of General Ecology (BAS), Sofia, Bulgaria, e-mail
  • Cestoda
Brett Ratcliffe
Systematics Research Collections, Lincoln , U.S.A., e-mail
  • Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea (New World)
Brian Fisher
California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, U.S.A., e-mail
  • Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae
Charles Bellamy
California Department of Food & Agriculture, Sacramento, U.S.A., e-mail
  • Insecta: Coleoptera: Buprestoidea
Charles Oliver Coleman
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany, e-mail
  • Crustacea: Malacostraca: Amphipoda
Christine Rollard
Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France, e-mail
  • Arachnida: Araneae
Chris Schmidt
Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes, Ottawa, Canada , e-mail
  • Insecta: Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea (New World)
Christopher Majka
Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History, Halifax, Canada, e-mail
  • Incesta: Coleoptera (faunistics and ecology, Holarctis)
Danielle Defaye
Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France, e-mail
  • Crustacea: Copepoda
David Fitch
New York University, New York, U.S.A., e-mail
  • Nematoda: Rhabditida
David Gibson
Natural History Museum, London, U.K., e-mail
  • Monogenea
  • Trematoda
  • Acanthocephala
Didier Van den Spiegel
Royal Museum for Central Africa, Department of African Zoology, Tervuren, Belgium, e-mail
  • Echinozoa: Holothuroidea
Dmitry N. Fedorenko
Institute for Problems of Ecology & Evolution (RAS), Moscow, Russia, e-mail
  • Insecta: Coleoptera: Carabidae
Dmitri V. Logunov
The Manchester Museum, The University of Manchester, Manchester, U.K., e-mail
  • Arachnida: Araneae
Dmitry V. Vasilenko
Paleontological Institute (RAS), Moscow, Russia, e-mail
  • Insecta: Odonata
Don Lafontaine
Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes, Ottawa, Canada, e-mail
  • Insecta: Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea (New World)
Edmund Gittenberger
Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands, e-mail
  • Mollusca: Gastropoda Terresttria (Northern Hemisphere)
Eike Neubert
Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, e-mail
  • Mollusca: Gastropoda Terrestria (Northern Hemisphere)
Eduardo Dominguez
Universidad Nacional de Tucuman, Tucuman, Argentina, e-mail
  • Insecta: Ephemeroptera (Neotropical)
Egil Karlsbakk
Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway, e-mail
  • Myxozoa
Eliana Cancello
Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brasil, e-mail
  • Insecta: Isoptera
Erik van Nieukerken
Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum (Naturalis), Leiden, The Netherlands, e-mail
  • Insecta: Lepidoptera
F. Christian Thompson
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, U.S.A., e-mail
  • Insecta: Diptera
  • Zoological Nomenclature
Fabian Haas
ICIPE - African Insect Science for Food and Health, Nairobi, Kenya, e-mail
  • Insecta: Dermaptera
Franco Andreone
Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino, Italy, e-mail
  • Amphibia
Gavin Broad
Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum, London, e-mail
  • Insecta: Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea
Grace P. Servat
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, U.S.A., e-mail
  • Aves (Neotropical)
Hans-Peter Fagerholm
Department of Biology, Abo Akademi University, Abo/Turku, Finland, e-mail
  • Nematoda (animal parasitic nematodes)
Hans Pohl
Institut für Spezielle Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie mit Phyletischem Museum, Jena, Germany, e-mail
  • Insecta: Strepsiptera
Hans-Dieter Sues
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, U.S.A., e-mail
  • Reptilia (recent and fossil reptiles)
Henri M. Andre
Royal Museum for Central Africa, Department of African Zoology, Tervuren, Belgium, e-mail
  • Arachnida: Acari
James Baldwin
University of California Riverside, Riverside, U.S.A., e-mail
  • Nematoda (free-living nematodes)
Jan Klimaszewski
Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Centre de foresterie des Laurentides, Quebec, Quebec, Canada, e-mail
  • Insecta: Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae
Jan van Tol
Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum (Naturalis), Leiden, The Netherlands, e-mail
  • Insecta: Odonata (Old World)
Jason Dunlop
Institut für Systematische Zoologie, Musuem für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany, e-mail
  • Arachnida (fossil arachnids)
Jeremy Miller
Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum (Naturalis), Leiden, The Netherlands, e-mail
  • Arachnida: Araneae
Jes Rust
Institut für Paläontologie, Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany, e-mail
  • Arthropoda (fossil)
  • Insecta (fossil)
Joaquin Mengual Sanchis
American Museum of Natural History, New York, U.S.A., e-mail
  • Insecta: Diptera
Jose A. Ochoa Camara
American Museum of Natural History, New York, U.S.A., e-mail
  • Arachnida: Scorpiones
  • Arachnida: Opiliones
Kees van Achterberg
Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum (Naturalis), Leiden, The Netherlands, e-mail
  • Insecta: Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Heloridae, Pamphiliidae, Stephanidae
Kelly B. Miller
Department of Biology, Museum of Southwestern Biology, Albuquerque, U.S.A., e-mail
  • Insecta: Embioptera
Leen van Ofwegen
Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum (Naturalis), Leiden, The Netherlands, e-mail
  • Cnidaria (soft corals)
Louis Deharveng, Deputy Editor-In-Chief
Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France, e-mail
  • Insecta: Collembola
Luis Mendes
Instituto de Investigacao Cientifica Tropical, Lisboa, Portugal, e-mail
  • Insecta: Microcoryphia
  • Insecta: Zygentoma
Lyubomir Penev, Managing Editor
Central Laboratory of General Ecology (BAS), Sofia, Bulgaria, e-mail
  • Insecta: Coleoptera: Elateroidea
Magdalena Blazewicz
Museum Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, e-mail
  • Crustacea: Tanaidacea
Mark Judson
Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France, e-mail
  • Arachnida: Opilioacarida
  • Arachnida: Palpigradi
  • Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones
  • Arachnida: Ricinulei
Martin Hauser
California Department of Food & Agriculture, Sacramento, U.S.A., e-mail
  • Insecta: Diptera: Brachycera (lower)
Marzio Zapparoli
Dipartimento di Protezione delle Piante, Viterbo, Italy, e-mail
  • Chilopoda
Michael Caterino
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, U.S.A., e-mail
  • Insecta: Coleoptera: Histeridae
Michael S. Engel
Natural History Museum, University of Kansas, Lawrence, U.S.A., e-mail
  • Insecta: Hymenoptera (fossil)
  • Insecta: Hymenoptera: Apoidea
  • Insecta: Insecta: Zoraptera
Michael A. Ivie
Department of Entomology, Montana State University, Bozeman, U.S.A., e-mail
  • Insecta: Coleoptera (general, higher classification)
  • Insecta: Coleoptera: Bostrichoidea
  • Insecta: Coleoptera: Dascilloidea
  • Insecta: Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea: Zopheridae (incl. Colydiidae)
Michael Ohl
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany, e-mail
  • Insecta: Hymenoptera: Apoidea (Sphecidae)
Michael Sharkey
Department of Entomology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, U.S.A., e-mail
  • Insecta: Hymenoptera
Miguel A. Alonso-Zarazaga
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Spain, e-mail
  • Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionoidea
  • Zoological nomenclature
Mike C. Thomas
Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Florida Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services, Gainesville, U.S.A., e-mail
  • Insecta: Coleoptera: Cucujoidea
Mick Webb
The Natural History Museum, London, U.K., e-mail
  • Insecta: Hemiptera: Cicadomorpha
Michael Wilson
Department of Biodiversity & Systematic Biology, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, U.K., e-mail
  • Insecta: Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha
Natalia B. Ananyeva, Deputy Editor-In-Chief
Zoological Institute (RAS), St. Petersburg, Russia, e-mail
  • Amphibia
  • Reptilia
Natalia von Ellenrieder
Museo de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Salta, Salta, Argentina, e-mail
  • Insecta: Odonata (Neotropical)
Nathalie Yonow
School of Biological Sciences, University of Wales, Swansea, U.K., e-mail
  • Mollusca: Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia
Niel L. Bruce
Museum of Tropical Queensland, Townsville, Australia, e-mail
  • Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoida and Sphaeromatidea
Niklas Wahlberg
Department of Biology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland, e-mail
  • Insecta: Lepidoptera (Butterflies)
  • Molecular phylogeny and systematics
Nikolai B. Nikitsky
Zoological Museum, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, e-mail
  • Insecta: Coleoptera: Cucujoidea
  • Insecta: Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea
  • Insecta: Coleoptera: Derodontidae
  • Insecta: Coleoptera: Scirtoidea: Eucnetidae
Nina G. Bogutskaya
Zoological Institute (RAS), St. Petersburg, Russia, e-mail
  • Chordata: Petromyzontiformes
  • Chordata: Osteichthyes
Nina D. Sinichenkova
Paleontological Institute (RAS), Moscow, Russia, e-mail
  • Arthropoda (fossil)
Norman Johnson
Ohio State University, Columbus, U.S.A., e-mail
  • Insecta: Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea
Oliver Zompro
Max-Planck-Institut für Limnologie, Plön, Germany, e-mail
  • Insecta: Phasmida
  • Insecta: Mantophasmatodea
  • Insecta: Dictyoptera: Blattaria, Mantodea
Pavel Štys
Department of Zoology, Charles University, Praha, Czech Republic, e-mail
  • Insecta: Hemiptera: Enicocephalomorpha, Dipsocoromorpha, Pentamomorpha (part)
Ralph Holzenthal
Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota, Minnesota, U.S.A., e-mail
  • Insecta: Trichoptera
Robert E. Mesibov
Launceston, Tasmania, Australia, e-mail
  • Diplopoda
Roberto Poggi
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "G. Doria", Genova, Italy, e-mail
  • Insecta: Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae
Roberto Pronzato
Universita degli Studi di Genova, Genova, Italy, e-mail
  • Porifera
Rosalie F. Maddocks
Department of Geosciences, University of Houston, Houston, U.S.A., e-mail
  • Crustacea: Ostracoda
Roy Norton
SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry, New York, U.S.A., e-mail
  • Acari: Oribatida
Rudolf Meier
Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, e-mail
  • Insecta: Diptera: Acalyptratae
Rudy Jocque
Royal Museum for Central Africa, Department of African Zoology, Tervuren, Belgium, e-mail
  • Arachnida: Araneae
Sarah Gerken
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alaska, Anchorage, U.S.A., e-mail
  • Crustacea: Malacostraca: Cumacea
Saskia Brix
DZMB, Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, Hamburg, Germany, e-mail
  • Isopoda: Asellota
Selvin Dashdamirov
Aquazoo-Löbbecke Museum, Düsseldorf, Germany, e-mail
  • Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones
Sergei I. Golovatch
Institute for Problems of Ecology & Evolution (RAS), Moscow, Russia, e-mail
  • Diplopoda
Sergei Subbotin
Plant Pest Diagnostic Center, California Department of Food and Agriculture, Sacramento, U.S.A., e-mail
  • Nematoda (plant-parasitic nematodes)
Shaun Winterton
Queensland Department of Primary Industries & Fisheries, Brisbane, Australia, e-mail
  • Insecta: Neuroptera
Stefano Taiti
Istituto per lo Studio degli Ecosistemi, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Sesto Fiorentino (Firenze), Italy, e-mail
  • Isopoda: Oniscidea
Steven Nadler
Department of Nematology, University of California, Davis, U.S.A., e-mail
  • Molecular systematics and phylogeny (general topics, Nematoda and other parasitic groups)
Terry Erwin, Editor-in-Chief
Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, U.S.A., e-mail
  • Insecta: Coleoptera: Caraboidea
Thomas J. Henry
Systematic Entomology Laboratory, ARS, USDA, Washington DC, U.S.A., e-mail
  • Insecta: Heteroptera
  • Insecta: Heteroptera: Cimicomorpha
  • Insecta: Heteroptera: Pentatomomorpha (incl. Lygaeoidea)
Thorsten Assmann
Universität Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Germany, e-mail
  • Insecta: Coleoptera: Carabidae
Volker Assing
Hanover, Germany, e-mail
  • Insecta: Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Habrocerinae, Paederinae, Staphylininae, Steninae
Warren Steiner
Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., U.S.A., e-mail
  • Insecta: Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea
Wieslaw Bogdanowicz
Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, e-mail
  • Mammalia: Chiroptera
Wilson R. Lourenco
Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France, e-mail
  • Arachnida: Scorpiones
Wolfgang Schawaller
Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart, Germany, e-mail
  • Insecta: Coleoptera: Temebrionoidea
Yuri M. Marusik
Institute of the Biological Problems of the North (RAS), Magadan, Russia, e-mail
  • Arachnida: Araneae
Yves Samyn
Institut Royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Bruxelles, Belgium, e-mail
  • Echinodermata

Last update: 13 January 2010