  
                      
                        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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