Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Stackelberg (sometimes Shtakel'berg;
Russian: Александр Александрович Штакельберг; 1897–1975) was a
Russianentomologist.
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. [In Russian; English translation published in 1988 by the Smithsonian Institution Libraries and the National Science Foundation. New Delhi: Amerind Publishing Comp., Pvt. Ltd.. 5(2):593-601.
1970. Family
Tethinidae. Keys to the Insects of the European Part of the USSR; Diptera and Siphonaptera. [In Russian; English translation published in 1988 by the Smithsonian Institution Libraries and the National Science Foundation. New Delhi: Amerind Publishing Comp., Pvt. Ltd.. 5(2):355-356.
1970. Family
Canacidae. Keys to the Insects of the European Part of the USSR; Diptera and Siphonaptera. [In Russian; English translation published in 1988 by the Smithsonian Institution Libraries and the National Science Foundation. New Delhi: Amerind Publishing Comp., Pvt. Ltd.. 5(2):602-603
Gutsevich, A. V., A. S. Monchadsky and A. A. Stackelberg 1974. Fauna of the U.S.S.R. Diptera Volume III No. 4
Mosquitoes Family
Culicidae. 408 pp. Translated and reprinted from Akad. Nauk SSSR Zool. Inst. No. 100. 1971, 384 pp. [Translation by Rose Lavoott, ed by Prof. O. Theodor. Israel Program for Scientific Translations, Jerusalem, 1974.]
Stackelberg, A (1929): Beiträge zur Kenntnis der paläarktischen Syrphiden. I.[Contributions for the knowledge of the Palearctic Syrphiden. I.] Rev. Rusa. Entom. XXIII. nos. 3-4
Stackelberg, A (1930): Beiträge zur Kenntnis der paläarktischen Syrphiden. II.[Contributions for the knowledge of the Palearctic Syrphiden. II.] Zool. Anzeiger Bd. 90. Heft 3/4
Stackelberg, A (1930): Beiträge zur Kenntnis der paläarktischen Syrphiden. III.[Contributions for the knowledge of the Palearctic Syrphiden. III.] Konowia Bd. IX. Heft 3.
References
Thompson, F. C. & Sabrosky, C. W. 1977. Aleksandr Aleksandrovitsh Stackelberg - 1897-1975. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Washington 78: 499-500. [Obituary]