Viktor Hartung, Dipl.-Biol.
Honorary Associate
Phone: +49 721 175-2835
E-Mail: viktor.hartung@smnk.de
Bachelor of science at the Southern Federal University in Rostow am Don, Russia; thesis: "Genotoxicity and antimutagenic activity in tissues of sturgeons"
Diploma in biology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Main focus: zoology, minor fields: genetics, paleontology), thesis: "Investigations of internal anatomy of Hackeriella veitchi (Hemiptera: Coleorrhyncha: Peloridiidae) pertaining to some newly discovered behavioural traits"
At the moment work on PhD thesis "Inter- and infraspecific variability of systematically relevant traits in the family Peloridiidae (Insecta: Hemiptera) on the example of the genera Hemiodoecus and Xenophyes"
Collecting trips to Australia, New Zealand, Chile
Since June 2014 scientific trainee at SMNK
Activities at the SMNK:
- Ordering/cataloguing of the swallowtail collection (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae)
- Ordering/cataloguing of the Hemiptera collection (true bugs, cicadas, hoppers)
Research interests:
- Entomology (especially Hemiptera), biodiversity, biogeography, evolution, systematics and taxonomy of insects
- Bioacoustics, behavioural biology of insects
- Evolutionary relationships between herbivore insects and their host plants, especially bryophytes
- History of biology
