
Jiri Zidek in Prague, May 2001.
Photo Brett Ratcliffe |
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Despite undergraduate training in entomology, much of
his academic carrier was spent in vertebrate zoology/paleontology
and science editing. He was interested in Trogidae, Scarabaeinae
(Phanaeini, Onitini, Scarabaeini and some canthonine genera, e.g., Anachalcos,
Deltochilum) and Melolonthinae (Melolonthini, Heptophyllini,
Rhizotrogini, Leucopholini) .
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