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:

Ward, J.V., B. C. Kondratieff, and R. E. Zuellig. 2002. An illustrated guide to stream insects of Colorado, 2nd ed. University of Colorado Press.

Marquardt, W. C., B. C. Kondratieff, C. G. Moore, J. E. Freier, H. H. Hagedorn, W. C. Black, IV, A. A. James, J. Hemingway, and S. Higgs. 2005. Biology of Disease Vectors. 2nd edition. Elsevier Academic Press, Burlington, Massachusetts. 785 pp.

Cranshaw, W. and B. C. Kondratieff. 2006. Guide to Colorado Insects. Westcliffe Publishers, Englewood, Colorado. 232 pp.

Kondratieff, B. C., R. J. Carr and M. E. Irwin. 2005. Two new genera and four new species of Mydidae (Diptera) from Madagascar. Zootaxa 978: 1-14.

Kondratieff, B. C., R. E. Zuellig, R. F. Kirchner, and D. R. Lenat. 2006. Three new species of Perlesta (Plecoptera: Perlidae) from Eastern North America and notes on new state records. Illiesia 2:31-38.