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Alexander Yakovlev (entomologist)

Russian entomologist and painter (1863–1909)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionDec 30, 2025
Entity authorityQ21387821 ↗
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Alexander Ivanovich Yakovlev (spelled Jakowlew, Jakowleff, Jakovlev in German and French), (22 February 1863 – 28 December 1909) was a Russian entomologist and painter.

Yakovlev lived in Saint Petersburg. He was primarily interested in Coleoptera.

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[Яковлев, А.И.] Jakovlev, A.I. Dytiscides nouveaux on peu connus I. Horae Societitas Entomologicae Rossicae 30:175-183 (1896).

Dytiscides nouveaux on peu connus. II Horae Societitas Entomologicae Rossicae 32:504–509 (1898,1899).

Dytiscidarum novarum diagnoses L’Abeille 29:37-41.

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This entry incorporates text from “Alexander Yakovlev (entomologist)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.