Senior Researcher, PhD
Laboratory of Systematics of Invertebrate animals
Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences
Working address:
Laboratory of Systematics of Invertebrate animals
Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals SB RAS
630091, Frunze str. 11, Novosibirsk, Russia
E-mail: urmakuz@gmail.com
Professional activities:
Professional Society: Russian Entomological Society (since 2002), European Sociery of Arachnology (since 2002), International Society of Arachnology (since 2006), African Arachnological Society (2008).
Editorships: African Invertebrates (Web of Sciences, SCOPUS), 2020–present time
External Positions: Adjunct Professor, Department of Zoology & Centre for Invasion Biology, University of Venda, South Africa
Educational history:
1995–2000 | Student of Altai State University, Faculty of Biology, Department of Zoology (Russia, Barnaul). Thesis: Arachnofauna of Korgon and Tigirek Mt. Ranges (North-Western Altai) |
2000–2003 | Ph.D. (Entomology) – Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals SB RAS (Novosibirsk). Dissertation: Revision of the genus Aelurillus Simon, 1884 (Araneae, Salticidae) of the world |
Career:
2003–2006 | Junior researcher, Laboratory of Siberian Zoological Museum |
2006–2008 | Researcher, Laboratory of Siberian Zoological Museum |
2007–2008 | Scientific attaché, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium |
2009–2012 | Researcher, Laboratory of Siberian zoological museum |
2012–2015 | Researcher, Laboratory of Systematics of invertebrate animals |
2015–present time | Senior researcher, Laboratory of Systematics of invertebrate animals |
2020–present time | Adjunct professor, School of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Department of Zoology, University of Venda, Limpopo, Thohoyandou, South Africa |
Taxonomic specialization: Araneae, Opiliones
Current interests: Systematics and taxonomy of jumping spiders (Salticidae) of Palaearctic and Afrotropics; Systematics and taxonomy of aelurillines (Araneae, Salticidae, Aelurillina) of the world; Taxonomy and fauna of wolf spiders (Lycosidae) and crab spiders (Thomisidae) of Palaearctic; Fauna of Siberian spiders and harvestmen.
Fieldwork:
Russia: Altai Territory and Altai Republic; Sakhalin and Moneron Islands, Maritime Territory, Novosibirsk Area, Republic of Tyva, Krasnoyarsk Territory (south Taimyr).
Kazakhstan: Aqmola and Karaganda Regions.
South Africa: Limpopo, Free State and KwaZulu-Natal Provinces.
Grants:
Project leader:
2003 #RFBR 03–04–07008-мас “Program for young scientists (project #01—04–48989)”
2003 Grant of University of Turku #202579 “International scientific co-operation”
2015 National Research foundation (NRF), South Africa #95569 “Competitive programme for rated researchers”
Assigned:
2001–2003 #RFBR 01–04–48989-a “Taxonomic diversity, faunogenesis and zoogeographical ranging of the North Asia”
2007–2008 Belgian science policy (BELSPO) #MO–37–014 “Study of the diversity resilience of the canopy spider fauna of African rainforest: Jumping spiders of the African canopy”
2011–2012 National Research foundation (NRF), South Africa #TTK2008050500003 “Jumping spiders (Salticidae) of South Africa: evaluation of biodiversity and species richness of region”
2015–2017 RFBR #15–04–07591 “Ecological interactions between carabid beetles and spiders throw the climatic and geomorphological gradients in South Siberia: local faunas, population compositions, communities”
2017–2019 RFBR #17–04–01369 “Impact of mineral availability on eroded and saline soils on the community structure and decomposition activity of soil invertebrates”
Research visits:
1999: ISEA SB RAS
2001 – 2021: Zoological Museum of Moscow State University
2001 – 2003: Zoological Institute RAS, St. Petersburg
2001 – 2003, 2013, 2015, 2016: Zoological Museum, University of Turku, Finland
2002, 2003, 2016: Natural History Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
2008: A. Russell-Smith, Canterbury, UK
2008, 2019: C. Deeleman-Reinhold, Ossendrecht, the Netherlands
2008: Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, France
2011, 2015, 2019, 2020: Plant Protection Research Institute, Pretoria, South Africa
2011, 2015: University of Venda, Thohoyandou, South Africa
2015: University of Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
2015: National Museum of Bloemfontein, Bloemfontein, South Africa
2015: KwaZulu-Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
2015: Iziko Museum, Cape Town, South Africa
2019: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Mein, Germany
Organization of conferences:
XV Congress of the Russian Entomological Society, Novosibirsk, Russia, 31 July – 1 August 2017.
Participation in conferences:
1999 — IV Regional scientific conference of biodiversity conservancy, Barnaul, Russia, 27 – 29 October 1999.
2002 — XII Congress of the Russian Entomological Society, St. Petersburg, Russia, 19 – 24 August 2002.
2002 — 20th European Colloquium of Arachnology, Szombathely, Hungary, 22–26 July 2002.
2003 — 21st European Colloquium of Arachnology, St. Petersburg, Russia, 4 – 9 August 2003.
2004 — Siberian Zoological Conference, Novosibirsk, Russia, 15 – 22 September 2004.
2005 — 22nd European Colloquium of Arachnology, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, 1 – 6 August 2005.
2008 — 24th European Colloquium of Arachnology, Bern, Switzerland, 25 – 29 August 2008.
2010 — 18th International congress of Arachnology, Siedlce, Poland, 11 – 17 July 2010.
2010 — Entomological study in the Northern Asia, Novosibirsk, Russia, 4 – 7 October 2010.
2014 — 11th Colloquium of African Arachnological Society, Amanzi Private Game Reserve, South Africa, 19 – 24 January 2014.
2020 — 13th Colloquium of African Arachnological Society, Klein Kariba, Bela-Bela, South Africa, 19 – 23 January 2020.
2021 — IV International Arachnological Meeting “Arachnomeeting”, Ekaterinburg, Russia (online), 13, 19, 25 February 2021.
2021 — John Murphy and Mike Roberts Memorial Symposium, British Arachnological Society, UK (online), 3 December 2021.
2022 — XIX All Russian colloquium on soil zoology, Ulan-Ude, Russia, 15 – 19 August 2022.
2022 — XVI Congress of the Russian Entomological Society, Moscow, Russia, 22 – 26 August 2022.
Selected publications:
Azarkina G.N., Pérez-Gómez Á, Sánchez-García I. 2022. Description of a stunning new species of Phlegra Simon, 1876 from Southern Spain and redescription of an enigmatic Phlegra species from Northern Africa (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 5162(5): 557–575. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5162.5.6
Azarkina G.N. 2022. A new species of Aelurillus Simon, 1885 (Araneae: Salticidae) from Kenya. Arachnology 19: 220–223. https://doi.org/10.13156/arac.2022.19.sp1.220
Trilikauskas L.A., Azarkina G.N. 2021. The harvestmen fauna (Arachnida: Opiliones) of the Katunsky Biosphere Reserve and adjacent territories (South Siberia, Russia), with a description of a new species of Sabacon (Sabaconidae) and notes on Sabacon sergeidedicatum Martens, 1989. Zootaxa 4990(1): 117–133. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4990.1.7
Azarkina G.N. 2020. Manzuma gen. n., a new Aelurillina genus of jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 611: 1–47. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2020.611
Wesołowska W., Azarkina G.N., Wiśniewski K. 2020. A revision of genera Pachyballus Simon, 1900 and Peplometus Simon, 1900 (Araneae, Salticidae, Ballini) with descriptions of new species. Zookeys 944: 47–98. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.944.49921
Azarkina G.N., Haddad C.R. 2020. Partial revision of the Afrotropical Ballini, with the description of seven new genera (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 4899 (1): 15–92. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4899.1.4
Azarkina G.N., Zamani A. 2020. The first description of the female of Heliophanus xerxesi Logunov, 2009 (Araneae: Salticidae) from Iran. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 127(1): 21–25. https://doi.org/ 10.35929/RSZ.0003
Azarkina G.N. 2019. A new species of Aelurillus Simon, 1884 (Salticidae, Aranei) from Thailand, with the first description of the male of A. afghanus Azarkina, 2006. Arthropoda Selecta 28(3): 408–416. https://doi.org/10.15298/arthsel.28.3.05
Azarkina G. N., Trilikauskas L. A. 2019. Halocosa gen. n., a new genus of Lycosidae (Araneae) from the Palaearctic, with a redescription of H. cereipes (L. Koch, 1878). Zootaxa 4629(4): 555–570. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4629.4.4
Azarkina G.N., Zamani A. 2019. The Aelurillina Simon, 1901 (Salticidae, Aranei) of Iran: a check-list and three new species of Aelurillus Simon, 1884 and Proszynskiana Logunov, 1996. Arthropoda Selecta 28(1): 83–97. https://doi.org/10.15298/arthsel. 28.1.07
Logunov D.V., Azarkina G.N. 2018. Redefinition and partial revision of the genus Stenaelurillus Simon, 1885 (Arachnida, Araneae, Salticidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 430: 1–126.
Azarkina G.N., Lyubechanskii I.I., Trilikauskas L.A., Dudko R.Yu., Bespalov A.N., Mordkovich V.G. 2018. A check-list and zoogeographic analysis of the spider fauna (Arachnida: Aranei) of Novosibirsk Area (West Siberia, Russia). Arthropoda Selecta 27(1): 73–93. https://doi.org/10.15298/arthsel. 27.1.11
Azarkina G.N., Zoumides C., Hadjiconstantis M. 2018. First description of the female of Aelurillus cypriotus Azarkina, 2006 (Araneae: Salticidae). Acta Arachnologica 67(1): 49-54. https://doi.org/10.2476/asjaa.67.49
