Boris Kondratieff

Professor

Boris.Kondratieff@ColoState.edu  
012A Laurel Hall
(970) 491-7314

My general interest is systematics of insects, including their life history and ecology. I am also interested in developing manuals for the identification of major groups of insects in Colorado. I am the curator of the C. P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity, a three million-specimen collection. Current research interests include: (1) biodiversity surveys for wild lands and other landscape, (2) revisions and descriptions of new or poorly known species, especially Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera, and Diptera, (3) systematic surveys of poorly known insects of Colorado, especially present or potential pest species, and (4) management and curatorial aspects of the Colorado State University's C. P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity.

Courses I Teach:

Topics in Livestock Entomology (BSPM/ANEQ 300) (Spring)

General Entomology Lab (BSPM 303A) (Fall)

Agriculture Entomology Lab (BSPM 303C) (Fall Even Years)

Evolution and Classification of Insects (BSPM 423) (Fall Even Years)

Principles Systematic Zoology (BSPM/BZ 424) (Spring Even Years)

Aquatic Insects (BSPM 445) (Fall)

Advanced Systematics (BSPM/BZ 520) (Spring Even Years)

Immature Insects (BSPM 555) (Spring Odd Years)

Representative Publications:

Kondratieff, B. C. and R. F. Kirchner. 2008. A new species in the /Sweltsa onkos/ complex (Plecoptera: Chloroperlidae)./ In/ S. M. Roble and J. C. Mitchelll (eds). A Lifetime of Contributions to Myriapodology and the Natural History of Virginia: A Festschrift in Honor of Richard L. Hoffman’s 80th Birthday. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publication No. 16, Martinsville, Virginia.

Baumann, R. W. and B. C. Kondratieff. 2008. A review of the western North American genus /Triznaka/ (Plecoptera: Chloroperlidae) with a new species from the Great Basin, U.S.A. Proc Entomol Soc Wash 110: 345-362.

Strong A. C., B. C. Kondratieff, M. S. Doyle, and W. C. Black IV. 2008. Resistance to permethrin in /Culex tarsalis/ Coquillett (Diptera: Culicidae) in Northeastern Colorado. Journal of the American Mosquito Control 24:281-288.

Myers, L. W., L. M. Lacobus, and B. C. Kondratieff. 2008. Insecta, Ephemeroptera: New and additional records from New York (U.S.A.). Check List 4: 415-423.

Thorp, R. A., B. C. Kondratieff, E. C. Thorp, P. B. Odenbeck, and Michael J. Jarrett. 2008. The life cycles of /Claassenia sabulosa/ and /Hespeperla pacifica/ (Plecoptera: Perlidae) in two Colorado stream. Western North American Naturalist 68: 311-318.