Alexei Kouprianov
Joined: Jul 29, 2022 Last Active: Jul 23, 2025 iNaturalist
Graduated from St Petersburg University, Entomology Dept. (1992), Ph. D. in History of Science (SI Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology, 2005). In 1990-2009 taught Entomology and elementary Biology in an Youth entomology club in St Petersburg. Since August 2022, in Bremen.
ORCID: 0000-0002-8277-627X / Scholar : l_NcnqoAAAAJ
https://independentscholar.academia.edu/AlexeiKouprianov
iNaturalist projects I created
- European bark- and booklice
- Bark- and Booklice of North America
- Bark- and Booklice of South, East, and South-East Asia
My observations of Psocodeans (many IDs were subsequently confirmed by microscopic examinations).
My identifications as a heatmap.
iNaturalist related essays
Challenges
- My unidentified species / unconfirmed identifications : see here
- My unidentified / unconfirmed Hexapods split by order-sized groups: Collembola, Heteroptera (esp. Anthocoridae and Miridae), Auchenorrhyncha, Sternorrhyncha, Neuroptera, Coleoptera (esp. Carabidae, Polyphaga not sorted to families, Staphylinidae, Elateridae, Curculionidae), Hymenoptera (esp. Apocrita not narrowed to superfamily, Chalcidoidea, Cynipoidea, Braconidae, Ichneumonidae, Aculeata), Lepidoptera (esp. Lepidoptera not narrowed to families), Trichoptera, Diptera (esp. Nematocera, Orthorrhapha, Aschiza, Acalyptratae [esp. Drosophilidae, Ephydridae, Sphaeroceridae, Chloropidae], Calyptratae)
- My unidentified / unconfirmed Chelicerates: Acariformes, Parasitiformes, Araneae, Opiliones, Pseudoscorpiones, Scorpiones
- European Insects not sorted to orders
Links to identification guides / atlases online I'm using
Soil fauna in general
- Bodentier 4 [Senckenberg] (very convoluted but somehow working)
Chelicerata
Collembola
Heteroptera
Coleoptera
Lepidoptera
- Lepidoptera taxonomy browser at Lepiforum.org
- MothDissection UK
Psocodea outside Europe
- Psocids of Texas by Diane W. Young