Sergey A. Belokobylskij

Sergey Alexandrovich Belokobylskij (born 13 September 1958) is a Russian entomologist, Chief Researcher at the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg. He holds a Doctor of Biological Sciences degree. Between 2012 and 2017 he served as Vice President of the Russian Entomological Society. Belokobylskij is a leading specialist on parasitic wasps of the family Braconidae, having described over 700 new species and other taxa of insects.

Biography Belokobylskij was born on 13 September 1958 in Spassk-Dalny, Primorsky Krai, Russia. In 1980, he graduated from the Far Eastern State University in Vladivostok. From 1983 to 1986, he worked as a junior researcher at the Laboratory of Terrestrial Arthropods, Biology and Soil Institute, Far Eastern Scientific Center, USSR Academy of Sciences (Vladivostok). Since 1986, he has worked in the Laboratory of Insect Systematics at the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg. In 1995, he defended his doctoral dissertation titled "Braconid wasps of the subfamilies Rhyssalinae, Doryctinae, Histeromerinae, and Exothecinae: morphology, biology, distribution and systematics". He currently serves as Chief Researcher and, since 2002, Head of the Hymenoptera Department at the same institute.

Belokobylskij is also Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Entomological Review, and a member of the Russian Entomological Society (Scientific Secretary 1998–2013; Vice President 2012–2017).

Since 2022, he has been the Editor-in-Chief of Proceedings of the Russian Entomological Society.

Works Belokobylskij has described 11 tribes, 19 subtribes, 49 genera, 18 subgenera, and more than 700 species of parasitic Braconidae wasps from all zoogeographic regions. He is the author, coauthor, and editor of several major monographs and identification guides on insect fauna. Dacnusa belokobylskii Tobias, 1998 (Braconidae) Dendrocerus sergii Alekseev, 1994 (Megaspilidae) Dipara belokobylskii Dzhanokmen, 1993 (Pteromalidae) Exochus belokobylskii Tolkanitz, 2001 (Ichneumonidae) Gelanes belokobylskii Khalaim, 2002 (Ichneumonidae) Microleptes belokobylskii Humala, 2003 (Ichneumonidae) Neoitamus belokobylskii Lehr, 1999 (Asilidae) Orientopius belokobylskii Tobias, 1998 (Braconidae) Polyblastus belokobylskii Kasparyan, 1999 (Ichneumonidae) Priocnemis belokobylskii Lelej, 1988 (Pompilidae) Rhabdoblatta belokobylskii Anisyutkin, 2005 (Blaberidae) Stilbops belokobylskii Kasparyan & Kuslitzky, 1999 (Ichneumonidae) Vinata belokobylskii (Emeljanov, 1992) (Derbidae, Fulgoroidea)