Graduated from St Petersburg University, Entomology Dept. (1992), Ph. D. in History of Science (SI Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology, 2005). In 1990-2009 taught Entomology and elementary Biology in an Youth entomology club in St Petersburg. Since August 2022, at Forschungsstelle Osteuropa an der Universität Bremen.

• Founder of an iNaturalist project on European bark- and booklice
• My observations of Psocodeans (many IDs were subsequently confirmed by a microscopic examination).

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8277-627X
https://independentscholar.academia.edu/AlexeiKouprianov

Challenges :

• My unidentified species / unconfirmed identifications : see here
• European Insects not sorted to orders

Links to identification guides / atlases online I'm using

Soil fauna in general

• Bodentier 4 [Senckenberg] (very convoluted but somehow working)

Chelicerata

• Das Arachniden-Forum-Wiki
• Les araignées de Belgique et de France

Collembola

• Collembola.org
• Foto sleutel voor ruim 50 Nederlandse springstaarten

Coleoptera

• Die Käfer Europas
• UK beetles

Lepidoptera

• Lepidoptera taxonomy browser at Lepiforum.org