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Александр Александрович Яхонтов
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Place of birth
Moscow
Place of death
Moscow
Age
94 years
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Biography
Alexander Alexandrovich Yakhontov (Александр Александрович Яхонтов; 20 December [O.S. 8 December] 1879 in Moscow, Russian Empire — 17 November 1973 in Moscow, U.S.S.R.) was a Russian entomologist who specialized in Lepidoptera.
Jachontov described many new taxa mostly at the subspecies level and wrote biogeographic works notably on the Rhopalocera of the Vladimir and Nizhny Novgorod regions and those of the Caucasus. He wrote Nashi dnevnye babochki (Our Butterflies) published in Moscow in 1935.
His work appears in
- Revue Russe d’Entomologie, Moscow
- Izvestia Moskovskogo entomologicheskogo obstshestva, Moscow
- Izvestija Kavkazskogo Museja, Tiflis
- Ent., Mater. Pozn. Fauny Flory SSSR
The species Pararge jachontovi Sheljuzhko was named for him.
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