Aleksandr Stackelberg

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Stackelberg was a Russian entomologist.
Stackelberg was born in St. Petersburg and specialised on Diptera, notably Syrphidae. He joined the staff of the Zoological Museum of the Academy of Sciences in 1920, and in 1929 he was made the director of the Diptera Division. From 1942 he was the head of the Department of Entomology. He taught entomology to I. A. Rubtsov, B. B. Rohdendorf, Ye. N. Savchenko, and N. A. Violovitch. He wrote over 160 scientific papers.

Selected works

Fauna USSR series

1970 Family Milichiidae. Keys to the Insects of the European Part of the USSR; Diptera and Siphonaptera.

Other

Stackelberg, A.A. Syrphidarum novarum palaearcticarum diagnoses. Wiener entomologische Zeitung 41, 25-29.
Stackelberg, A : Beiträge zur Kenntnis der paläarktischen Syrphiden. I. Rev. Rusa. Entom. XXIII. nos. 3-4
Stackelberg, A : Beiträge zur Kenntnis der paläarktischen Syrphiden. II. Zool. Anzeiger Bd. 90. Heft 3/4
Stackelberg, A : Beiträge zur Kenntnis der paläarktischen Syrphiden. III. Konowia Bd. IX. Heft 3.