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Gábor Ronkay Personal data: Surname: RONKAY First Name: Gábor Title: MSc Nationality: Hungarian Year of birth: 1963 Home address: H-1137 Budapest, Szt. Istvan krt. 4, Hungary Email: info@heterocera.hu |
| Curriculum vitae I was born in Budapest at 4th February, 1963. I have finished my studies on the University of Agriculture, Gödöllö, Hungary in 1988. I am interested in the World of the Lepidoptera from my childhood, starting the taxonomic work with the Palearctic Noctuidae after my first expeditions to Asia (Mongolia, Turkey) during my university training. As a Noctuidae specialist, I am working together with my brother, Laszlo Ronkay who is the curator of the Lepidoptera collection of the HNHM Budapest. Our special field is the subfamily Cuculliinae and the tribe Xyleninae within the subfamily Hadeninae. Besides a series of smaller papers, we are the authors of the Cuculliinae volumes of the series Noctuidae Europaeae. In the last decade I turned my attention to the fauna of the Himalayan-Sino-Pacific region, investigating especially the so-called „winter fauna". I had numerous expeditions to this area (Pakistan, Nepal, China, Vietnam, Taiwan), and as a result of this activity more than five hundred new taxa were discovered and described. I have a private collection containing Noctuidae only, comprising some 5,000 taxa from Eurasia, including type material of more than 500 species and subspecies. The richness of the Thyatiridae-fauna in this region and in my favourite late autumnal-early spring aspects has initiated the studies on the taxonomy and zoogeography of this family, as a joint research programme with Mr Gy. M. László, L. Ronkay and T. Witt. These works led finally to the monographic treatment of the In the last two years we have started the taxonomic study of another large Noctuoidea group, the subfamily Nolinae. Similarly to the List of scientific papers and books: |
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