Margarita Ervandovna Ter-Minassian

Margarita Ervandovna Ter-Minassian (Russian: Маргарита Ервандовна Тер-Минасян; 16 May 1910 – 9 April 1995) was a Soviet entomologist and specialist for weevils (Curculionoidea) and seed beetles (Bruchinae). Her name is sometimes transcribed as Ter-Minasian or Ter-Minasyan.[2][1]

Margarita Ervandovna Ter-Minassian
Маргарита Ервандовна Тер-Минасян
Born(1910-05-16)16 May 1910[1]
Leipzig, Germany
Died9 April 1995(1995-04-09) (aged 84)[1]
Alma materYerevan State University[2]
Scientific career
FieldsEntomology: Weevils (Curculionoidea) and seed beetles (Bruchinae)
InstitutionsUSSR Academy of Sciences (Zoological Institute, 1935-1938), Armenian Academy of Sciences (Zoological Institute, 1938-1950), USSR Academy of Sciences (Zoological Institute, 1950-retirement)[2]

Biography

Ter-Minassian was born in the German city of Leipzig, while her father was staying there for education. She got her secondary education in Echiadzin, and was a student at Yerevan State University from 1926. After graduating, she continued her education in 1932 at the Zoological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Leningrad. She published more than 170 scientific works, also describing many new species. She is mostly known for her two monographs on weevils of the subfamily Lixinae.[2]

Selected bibliography
  • Ter-Minassian, M. E. (1967): Zhuki-dolgonosiki podsemejstva Cleoninae fauny SSSR. Tsvetozhily i stebleedy (triba Lixini). Nauka, Leningrad, 140 + 1 p. (English translation published as: Weevils of the Subfamily Cleoninae in the Fauna of the USSR. Tribe Lixini. USDA Agricultural Research Service, Washington, D. C. by Amerind Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 1978. 166 pp.).
  • Ter-Minasian M. E. (1988): Zhuki-dolgonosiki podsemeystva Cleoninae fauny SSSR: Kornevye dolgonosiki (triba Cleonini). Nauka, Leningrad, 235 p. (English translation of the title: Weevils of the Subfamily Cleoninae in the Fauna of the USSR. Tribe Cleonini.)

References
  1. "М.Е. Тер-Минасян (1910-1995)".
  2. Korotyaev, B.A. On the 100th anniversary of Margarita Ervandovna Ter-Minassian. Entmol. Rev. 90, 951–953 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873810070110


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