YURI M. MARUSIK

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TITLE:

    Associate Professor, International Pedagogical University of Magadan, and Head, entomological group, Laboratory of Biocenology, Institute for Biological Problems of the North, Far East Branch Russian Academy of Sciences, Karl Marx Prospect 24, Magadan 685000, Russia

EDUCATION:

    Ph.D., Faculty of Biology and Pedology, Leningrad State University, 1988
    B.S., Department of Entomology, Leningrad State University, 1984

POSITIONS:

    Associate Professor, International Pedagogical University of Magadan, 1994-present
    Head, entomological group, Laboratory of Biocenology, Institute for Biological Problems of the North, Far East Branch Russian Academy of Sciences, Karl Marx Prospect 24, Magadan 685000, Russia, 1984-present

CURRENT AFFILIATIONS:

    International Arachnological Society, American Arachnological Society, European Arachnological Society, Eurasian Arachnological Society, Russian Entomological Society, British Arachnological Society, Southeast Asian Arachnological Society

PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS:

    Taxonomy, faunistics and zoogeography of all spider groups of Siberia and northwestern North America, and that of selected groups from Central Asia, southern Russian Far East and adjacent territories for Amaurobiidae, Araneidae, Dictynidae, Gnaphosidae, Mimetidae, Salticidae, Theridiidae, and Thomisidae; general zoogeographical divisions of the entire Holarctic Region, and subdivisions of the East Palaearctic; importance of the Beringian land bridge in the Siberian and northwestern North American spider faunogenesis; amber inclusions of the orb-weaving spiders, the Theridiidae and Nesticidae; terrestrial arthropods and oligochaetes of the Kuril Islands.

Five Most Relevant Publications:

  • MARUSIK, Yu. M., 1993. Three new wandering spider species (Aranei Lycosidae Gnaphosidae) from Mongolia. Arthropoda Selecta 2(1): 77-81.

  • ESKOV K.Yu., MARUSIK, Yu.M., 1992. On the Siberio-Nearctic eriigonine spider genus Silometopoides (Araneida: Linyphiidae). Reichenbachia 29(19): 97-103.

  • ESKOV, Yu.M., MARUSIK, Yu.M., 1992. Fossil spiders of the family Nesticidae (Chelicerata, Araneida). Palaeont. Zh. 2: 87-95. [In Russian]

  • ESKOV K.Yu., MARUSIK, Yu..M., 1992. On the Siberio-Nearctic erigonine spider genus Silometopoides (Araneida: Linyphiidae). Reichenbachia 29(19): 97-103.

  • ESKOV K.Yu., MARUSIK, Yu.M., 1992. The spider genus Centromerus (Aranei, Linyphiidae) in the fauna of Siberia and the Russian Far East, with an analysis of its distribution. Arthropoda Selecta 1(2): 33-46.

Five Other Significant Publications:

  • ESKOV K.Yu., MARUSIK, Yu.M., 1992. On the mainly Siberian spider genera Wubanoides, Parawubanoides gen.n., and Poeciloneta (Aranei Linyphiidae). Arthropoda Selecta 1(1): 21-38.

  • MARUSIK, Yu.M., ESKOV. K.Yu., LOGUNOV, D.V., BASARUKIN, A.M., 1992. A check-list of spiders (Arachnids: Aranei) from the Sakhalin and Kuril Islands. Arthropoda Selecta 1(4): 73-85.

  • MARUSIK Yu.M., KOPONEN S., 1992. A review of Meta (Araaneae, Tetragnathidae), with description of two new species. J. Arachnol., 20(2): 137-143.

  • MARUSIK, Yu.M., ESKOV, K.Yu., KIM, J.P., 1992. A check-list of spiders (Aranei) of North-East Asia. Korean Arachnol. 8(1/2): 129-158.

  • MARUSIK, Yu.M., LOGUNOV, D.V., 1991. Spiders of the superfamily Amaurobioidea (Aranei) from Sakhalin and Kuril Islands. Zool. Zh. 70(9): 87-94.


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