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Dmitry A. Gapon My scientific interests include first and foremost morphology, comparative anatomy, systematics, ecology, and faunistic investigations of Pentatomidae and Scutelleridae. The investigation of the structure of completely straightened aedeagi by means of an original method is an important part of my interests. This method makes possible the examination of those parts of the aedeagus which are usually difficult to examine by other methods. The method is based on hydraulic extrusion of the endosoma from the theca using microcapillaries, with subsequent drying of the aedeagus. During the drying, the air is pumped into the endosoma. As a result, a dry preparation of a completely inflated endosoma is obtained, showing its shape and sculpture in detail. I use these preparations in my taxonomic and phylogenetic research. Also I use in it the structure of other parts of male and female genitalia.
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Department of zoology, museum
Rostov State University
Bolshaya Sadovaya str., 105
Rostov-on-Don
344006 RUSSIA
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Current Projects:
At the moment I am engaged in a taxonomical investigation of world-wide faunae of Asopinae and Podopinae. In addition to that, I am bringing to completion work about the taxonomical status of tribe Procleticini and the review of genus Promecocoris Puton, as well as finishing the work started together with F. V. Konstantinov, which is dedicated to the structure of the aedeagus of Pentatomidae.
Publications:
Gapon, D. A. 2001. Inflation of heteropteran aedeagi using microcapillaries (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae). Zoosystematica Rossica 9(1)[2000]: 157-160.
Gapon, D. A. 2005. On the question of the taxonomical status of tribe Procleticini Pennington (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae). Caucasican Entomological Bulletin 1(1):4-18.
Gapon, D. A. and M. Baena. 2005. On the status, synonymy and tribal position of Phaeocoris Jakovlev, 1887 (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae). Zoosystematica Rossica 14:61-68.
Konstantinov, F. V. and D. A. Gapon. 2005. On the structure of the aedeagus in shield bugs (Heteroptera, Pentatomidae): 1. Subfamilies Discocephalinae and Phyllocephalinae. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 84(2):334-352. [in Russian; English translation in: Entomological Review 85(3):221-235]
Gapon, D. A. and F. V. Konstantinov. 2006. On the structure of the aedeagus in shield bugs (Heteroptera, Pentatomidae): II. Subfamily Podopinae. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 85(1):13-34. [in Russian; English translation in: Entomological Review 86(2):149-167]
Gapon, D. A. and F. V. Konstantinov. 2006. On the structure of the aedeagus of shield bugs (Heteroptera, Pentatomidae): III. Subfamily Asopinae. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 85(3):491-507. [in Russian; English translation in: Entomological Review 86(7):806-819]
Ribes, J. and D. Gapon. 2006. Taxonomic review of the genus Holcogaster Fieber, 1860 (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae) with the description of the male and female genitalia. Russian Entomological Journal 15(2):189-195.
Gapon, D. A. 2007. A taxonomic review of Promecocoris Puton, 1886 (Heteroptera, Scutelleridae), with a description of male and female genitalia. Euroasian Entomological Journal 6(1):57-66. [in Russian]
Gapon, D. A. 2007. A new combination for Sternodontus contestor Kiritshenko, 1966 (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae). Zoosystematica Rossica 16(1):31-32.
Gapon, D. A. 2007. Ventocoris martini (Horv.) is a synonym of V. modestus (Jak.) (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae). Zoosystematica Rossica 16(1):66.
Gapon, D. A. 2007. Graphosoma creticum Horv. is a synonym of G. semipunctatum (F.) (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae). Zoosystematica Rossica 16(1):78.
Gapon, D. A. 2007. Distinguishing characters of Sternodontus binodulus Jak. and S. similis (StDl) (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae). Zoosystematica Rossica 16(1):138.
Ribes, J., D. A. Gapon, and S. Pagola-Carte. 2007. On some species of Carpocoris Kolenati, 1846: New synonymies (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae: Pentatominae). Mainzer Naturwissenschaftliches Archiv, Beiheft 31:187-198.
Gapon, D. A. 2008. A revision of Leprosoma Baerensprung, 1859 (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae). Pp. 105-120, in: Grozeva, S. and N. Simov (eds.), Advances in Heteroptera Research. Festschrift in Honour of 80th Anniversary of Michail Josifov. Pensoft Publishers, Sofia-Moscow, 419pp.
David A. Rider
Professor of Entomology
North Dakota State University
202 Hultz Hall
Fargo, ND 58105
E-Mail:
David.Rider@ndsu.edu
Updated: 20 August 2008
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