Alexey Nikolaievich Diakonoff (1 March 1907 – 20 September 1989), also transliterated as Alexej Nikolajewitsch Diakonoff, was a Russian–Dutch
entomologist who specialised in
Microlepidoptera.[1][2][3]
His parents immigrated to the
Netherlands East Indies where, from 1923, he had his elementary education. Diakonoff then studied biology at the
University of Amsterdam. A thesis on Indo-Malayan
Tortricidae completed, he returned to
Java in 1939 to take up a post as an entomologist at a sugar plantations and industries research station.in 1941 he was offered a position in the
Bogor Zoology Museum at
Bogor Botanical Gardens but the
Japanese invasion intervened. In 1945 he returned to the Netherlands and studied at Leiden Museum working in the Lepidoptera collection. He returned to Bogor as the Dutch tried to regain Java. This
failed and in 1951 Diakonoff left Java for the last time. He became
Curator of Lepidoptera at the
Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie in
Leiden. He was an active member of the
Netherlands Entomological Society and a long-time editor of Tijdschrift voor Entomologie. His scientific work in the Leiden museum continued until his death and his collection is conserved in
Naturalis.[1]
Works
Partial list as Diakonoff, A.N.
1937 – De risjmot, Corcyra cephalonica St. (Lep., Galleriidae) een in Nederlandsch-Indie en in Nederland nog weinig bekende vijand van tropische en andere producten. - Berichten van de Afdeeling Handlesmuseum von de Kon.Vereeninging Kolonial Institut, Amsterdam No. 112, 22p.
1950a. A revision of the family Ceracidae (Lepidoptera Tortricoidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Entomology 1: 173–219. Available online. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.part.27229
1951 – Entomological results from the Swedish Expedition 1934 to Burma and British India. Lepidoptera, Collected by René Malaise, Microlepidoptera I. With 1 map and 35 figures in the text. - Arkiv för Zoologi Band 3 nr. 6, Almqvist & Wiksell Boktryckeri, Uppsala. 59 - 94 pp.
1959b – Mabille's types of Malagassy Tortricidae (Lepidoptera).- Revue fr.Ent.,26:167-186.
1959c – Meyricks's types of tortricidae from Madagascar in the Vienna Museum.- Ann.naturh.Mus.Wien, 63: 409-413
1960 – Tortricidae from Madagascar. Part I Tortricinae and Chlidanotinae. Verhandligen koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetetenshappen. Afd., Natuurkunde, 53(1), 209 pp, 40 pls.
1961 – Tortricidae from Madagascar in the Berlin Museum. D. ent. Z., new ser. 8: 152-155, figs. 1-2
1963c – Tortricidae (Lepid.) collected in Madagascar by Dr. Fred Keiser. Verh. naturf. Ges. Basel 74: 133-144, figs. 1-5, t. 1-3
1970b – A new Tortricid from the Seychelles Islands. — Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (N.S.) 6(): 995–998
1974 – Exotic Tortricoidea, with descriptions of new species (Lepidoptera). - Annales de la Société Entomologique de France |series=New Series 10(1):219–227
1976 – Aantekeningen over de Nederlandse Microlepidoptera 3 (Glyphipterigidae). Entomologische Berichten, 36: 82-84.
1977 – Tortricidae and Choreutidae from Reunion (Lepidoptera) - Ann. Soc. Entomol. Fr. (N.S.) 13 (1): 101-116
1978 – Descriptions of new Genera and species of the so-called Glyphipterygidae Sensu Meyrick, 1913 (Lepidoptera) Zool. Verh. Leiden 160 (1) : 1-63.
1978 – Revival of an old species with two new synonyms and description of two new species of Palaearctic Choreutidae (Lepidoptera). - Zool.Med., 53:199-2017. figs.1-9.
1981 – Tortricidae from Madagascar, Part2. Olethreutinae, 1.- Ann. Soc. Entomol. Fr.(N.S.)17(1): 7-32
1983b – Tortricidae from Madagascar Part 2. Olethreutinae, 2 (Lepidoptera). — Annales de la Société Entomologique de France (N.S.) 19(): 291–310
1983d – A new species of Stathmopoda Herrich-Schäffer from the Seychelles Islands (Lepdioptera: Stathmopodidae). - Entomologische Berichten, Amsterdam 43(8):117–118.
1986 – Two new Grapholitini from Malta and Madeira (Lepidoptera, Tortricidae). — Nota Lepidopterologica 9 (3-4): 170-174.
1989 – Revision of the Palaearctic Carposinidae with description of a new genus and new species (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea). Zoölogische Verhandelingen. 251: 1–155.
1992 – Tortricidae from Madagascar, Part2. Olethreutinae, 7 (Lepidoptera).- Ann. Soc. Entomol. Fr. (N.S.)28(1): 37-71
c. 250 scientific papers describing very many hundreds of species and genera of Microlepidoptera, in particular from the Indonesian archipelago.
^Klaus Rohlfien.
"Diakonoff, Alexej Nikolajewitsch". Biographies of the Entomologists of the World. Senckenberg Deutsches Entomologisches Institut. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
^"Diakonoff, Alexey (1907-1989)". IdRef - Identifiants et Référentiels pour l'ESR. Agence bibliographique de l'enseignement supérieur. Retrieved 11 October 2022.