Volker Mahnert

Volker Mahnert (3 December 1943 in Innsbruck; † 23 November 2018 in Geneva) was an Austrian entomologist, arachnologist, ichthyologist and parasitologist. His research focused on pseudoscorpions.

Life Volker Mahnert was one of three sons of Klaus Mahnert and Hanna Mahnert, née Kindl. In 1971, under the supervision of Heinz Janetschek (1913–1997), he received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Innsbruck with a dissertation on ento- and ectoparasites of small mammals of the Central Eastern Alps (North Tyrol).

In the same year, he moved to Switzerland and became a curator at the Department of Herpetology and Ichthyology at the Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la Ville de Genève. From 1989 to 2005 he was director of the museum. In 1991 he became an associate professor at the University of Geneva.

Volker Mahnert was the author or co-author of over 170 scientific articles. Most of them deal with the systematics and ecology of pseudoscorpions. He also worked on the taxonomy of fleas as well as African and South American tetras (Alestidae and Characidae).

Mahnert has been a member of the American Society of Arachnology, the British Society of Arachnology, the Society Suisse de Zoologie, the Swiss Entomological Society (SEG), the Société zoologique de France, the European Association of Zoological Nomenclature, the International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature (since 1991), the Biological Society of Washington, the Société Europénne d'Arachnologie, the New York Academy of Sciences and the Société internationale de biospéologie.

He served as president of the International Society of Arachnology between 1989 and 1992.

Taxon described by him See :Category:Taxa named by Volker Mahnert

Publications Gery, Jacques; Mahnert, Volker (1986). "A new rummy-nose tetra from the Rio Negro, Brazil: Hemigrammus bleheri n.sp. (Characidae, Tetragonopterinae), with comments on Paracheirodon". Tropical Fish Hobbyist. 34 (11): 37–52. Retrieved 18 June 2020

Dedication names The loach species Schistura mahnerti was named in 1990 by Maurice Kottelat in honor of Volker Mahnert.

Halil Sarp named the mineral Mahnertite in his honour in 1995.

Mahnertite is a rare mineral from Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in France.

The following species are named after Volker Mahnert:

Acanthocreagris mahnerti Dumitresco & Orghidan, 1986 Acritus mahnerti Gomy, 1981 Akyttara mahnerti Jocqué, 1987 Allolobophora handlirschi mahnerti Zicsi, 1973 (nun Aporrectodea handlirschi mahnerti) Allochernes mahnerti Georgescu & Căpuse, 1996 Americhernes mahnerti Harvey, 1990 Apimela mahnerti Pace, 1996 Aporrectodea mahnerti Zicsi, 1973 Atheta mahnerti Pace, 1995 Ausobskya mahnerti Silhavý, 1976 Bothriechis mahnerti Schätti & Kramer, 1991 Camillina mahnerti Platnick & Murphy, 1987 Catharosoma mahnerti Golovatch, 2005 Centruroides mahnerti Lourenço, 1983 Chactas mahnerti Lourenço, 1995 Chthonius (Ephippiochthonius) mahnerti Zaragoza, 1984 Ctenobelba mahnerti Mahunka, 1974 Cypha mahnerti Pace, 1994 Delamarea mahnerti Leleup, 1983 Dendrobaena mahnerti Zicsi, 1974 Dolicheremaeus mahnerti Mahunka & Mahunka-Papp, 2009 Drusilla mahnerti Pace, 1996 Edaphus mahnerti Puthz, 1990 Elgonidium mahnerti Bonadona, 1978 Embuana mahnerti Heiss & Baňař, 2016 Epipleuria mahnerti Fuersch, 2001 Glossodrilus mahnerti Zicsi, 1989 Guaraniella mahnerti Baert, 1984 Gyrophaena mahnerti Pace, 1994 Helladocampa mahnerti Condé, 1984 Hemigrammus mahnerti Uj & Géry, 1989 Holoparasitus mahnerti Juvara-Bals, 2008 Leleupiozethus mahnerti Coulon, 1979 Magellozetes mahnerti Mahunka, 1984 Mahnertella Mahunka, 1997 Mahnertius Harvey & Muchmore, 2013 Mahnertozetes Mahunka & Mahunka-Papp, 2009 Megarthrus mahnerti Cuccodoro & Löbl, 1995 Metanapis mahnerti Brignoli, 1981 Metopioxys mahnerti Comellini, 1983 Microdipnites mahnerti Garetto & Giachino, 1999 Microplana mahnerti Minelli, 1977 Neobisium mahnerti Heurtault, 1980 Occidenchthonius mahnerti Zaragoza, 2017 Oedichirus mahnerti de Rougemont, 2018 Oonops mahnerti Brignoli, 1974 Origmatrachys mahnerti Kontschán, 2020 Paracoryza mahnerti Balkenohl, 2000 Paratemnus mahnerti Sivaraman, 1981 Paratricommatus mahnerti Soares & Soares, 1985 Proteocephalus mahnerti de Chambrier & Vaucher, 1999 Ptychadena mahnerti Perret, 1996 Roncus mahnerti Ćurčić & Beron, 1981 Scaphoxium mahnerti Löbl, 2010 Scheloribates mahnerti Mahunka & Mahunka-Papp, 2008 Schistura mahnerti Kottelat, 1990 Scutacarus mahnerti Mahunka, 1972 Spelaeobochica mahnerti Viana & Ferreira, 2020 Sprentascaris mahnerti Petter & Cassone, 1984 Stenohya mahnerti Schawaller, 1994 Trichouropoda mahnerti Kontschán, 2015 Zodarion mahnerti Brignoli, 1984 Zyras mahnerti Pace, 1996