In memory of Yuri Petrovich Korshunov (22.IX.1933—1.VIII.2002)

An eminent lepidopterist in world terms, scientific worker of the Zoological Museum in the Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals (Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences), honorary member of Russian Entomological Society Yuri Petrovich Korshunov has died on 1 August 2002, in Novosibirsk.

Yu. P. Korshunov was born on 22 September 1933 in Chernorechka Village near Novosibirsk. The family soon moved to Novosibirsk. His mother’s ancestors were migrants from the Volga region, his father’s ones were from the Samara region. Korshunov’s first observations of insects began in his early childhood. The district of Novosibirsk where he lived resembled a village, there were lots of insects and other wild creatures. Yuri built open-air cages for caught butterflies, observed lizards and frogs. He was very impressed having read J.-H. Fabre’s ‘Life of insects’. Yuri looked for chrysalides of Small Tortoiseshell and observed the birth of butterflies. His parents presented him a small microscope. Yuri read books and looked films about famous Russian and foreign travellers. Thus the way into the biology was predetermined. A small tourist group was organised in his school in 1946. Korshunov travelled with his fellows and a teacher in Altai Mountains, there the group met ichthyologists from just now organised Siberian Branch of Academy of Sciences. Since that time Korshunov’s scientific life was tied with the Biological Institute. Yuri became a member of young naturalist society ‘Siberia’, headed by S. A. Strom, an eminent student of Siberian local lore, visited seminars conducted by the zoologists K. T. Yurlov, I. N. Glotov. He got to know A. E. Standel, local amateur lepidopterist, who made available for Korshunov his great collection of butterflies and moths an gave him first lessons in the lepidopterology. These regular studies mostly determined scientific interests of Korshunov. He journeyed in summers through the Altai together with tourist groups, organised by S. A. Strom and collected entomological materials. In 1951 Yu. P. Korshunov entered Tomsk University. There he read many special books in the very rich university library, made the acquaintance with the rests of A. A. Meinhard’s butterfly collection. Besides he observed the winter life of birds, monitored them in Tomsk Botanical gardens. The year 1953 was tragic for Korshunov. An encephalitis tick bit him and the illness wasn’t diagnosed in proper time, it was long and poignant. The after-effects of illness had an influence upon the whole of the life of Yu. P. Korshunov, they were a cause of his premature decease. Migrated to Kharkov A. E. Standel invited Korshunov to this town to undergo a special cure and to study at Kharkov University, at the Entomological faculty headed by Prof. S. I. Medvedev. Korshunov moved to Kharkov and kept on studying there. He journeyed with A. E. Standel through the Kharkov region. He continued studies with Standel simultaneously with active ones at the Faculty. Korshunov visited Moscow during the winter vacations in 1954. He got to know a famous entomologist A. A. Yakhontov, whom considered as his teacher in scientific methodology. He examined a great collection by amateur lepidopterist A. V. Tsvetaev, then he went to Leningrad where he made acquaintance of B. N. Schanwitsch, A. A. Stakelberg and other famous scholars, saw the greatest in the country collection of butterflies and moths in the Zoological Institute. In May 1954 Korshunov took part in a student expedition in the Crimea, then he joined a Moscow research group headed by G. A. Mazokhin-Porshnyakov. He moved within this expedition to Transcaucasus (one of scopes of this expedition was testing the effectiveness of various types of lamps for attraction of nocturnal insects; Korshunov kept the interest to this theme later, see Korshunov, 1960b). Korshunov practically ceased his graduating thesis in May 1954, it was dedicated to the butterflies of southern and mountainous parts of the Crimea. He visited Novosibirsk during his winter vacations in 1956 and settled to get a job at Siberian Branch of Academy (future Biological Institute). Korshunov began his professional scientific life in an expedition dedicated to the research of the fauna of the future Ob Reservoir territory. The main individual Korshunov’s scope was the collecting butterflies, he studied at the same time other groups of insects. Then he worked during 2 summer seasons in the Experimental Farm of Siberian Branch of Academy, near Acha Village, NE of Novosibirsk and in Bugotak Hills. There were found several new species of butterflies and moths: Pyrgus serratulae, Parapieris callidice, Colias heos, Clossiana angarensis, Boloria aquilonaris, Lampides boeticus (occasional flight), Cupido osiris, Aricia nicias, Macroglossum stellatarum, Oeneis jutta. Quite the whole territory from the Urals as far as the Far East was in those times an enormous white spot with rare relatively carefully studied points. The butterfly fauna was poorly known, the distribution of described taxa remained uncertain, at the same time it was clear that there are many unknown species and their forms. Yu. P. Korshunov decided to devote his life to the study of the whole volume of the Rhopalocera fauna of the Russian Northern Asia.

Yu. P. Korshunov headed or took part in many expeditions of a very wide geographical range: The Altai Mts — 1947, 1949, 1952, 1974, 1976, 1980; the Novosibirsk region (mostly its eastern part) — 1948, 1949, 1950, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1971, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1987, 1989; the Tomsk region — 1952, 1953; Crimea — 1954, 1955; Transcaucasus — 1954; the Kemerovo region (Montainous Shoria) — 1977; Khakasia — 1975, 1978; the Krasnoyarsk region (the reservation ‘Stolby’) — 1966; Polar Ural and Yamal — 1963, 1968; Buryatia — 1986. He was forced to remain home some summers by the sole reason, his heavy illness. The activity of other collectors, among them Korshunov’s disciples, increased considerably, and the volume of the butterfly collection of the Siberian Zoological Museum grew between the years 1960—2002 almost five times as much. At the same time Yu. P. Korshunov analysed this enormous material. He described Rhopalocera fauna, studied within the complex expedition in ‘Stolby’ reservation near Krasnoyarsk (Korshunov, 1969a, 1969e, 1971b); beside it he studied other groups of insects together other investigators (1969b, c, d, 1971c). Many Korshunov’s works are dedicated to the Rhopalocera fauna of various regions of Asian Russia: Polar Circle (Korshunov, 1975, 1982c, 1985a); Western Siberia (Korshunov, 1959b, 1960a, 1963, 1966a, 1968, 1973a, 1973c, 1981b, 1985b), among it the Upper Ob Basin (Korshunov, 1959a, 1961, 1962b, 1966b), North Baraba (Korshunov, 1974b); Tuva, Yakutia, the Baikal region and the adjacent Mongolian territory (Korshunov, 1973b, 1979a; 1970a, 1978b, 1987c; 1974a, 1976d, 1977).

Seventy-two new taxa (genera, species and subspecies) have been described by Yu. P. Korshunov, partially together with his colleagues (see the attached list of new taxa), the overwhelming majority of them was accepted as valid by a majority of experts. New taxa were described in the monographs and several articles, especially dedicated to their description (Korshunov, 1977, 1980b, 1982c, e, 1984a, b, 1985c, 1987a, 1988b, c, 1990a, b, c, e, 1995b, 1996d, 1998b, 2000a).

The results of many years’ work are summed in Yu. P. Korshunov’s monographs. The first monograph, ‘Butterflies of the Western Siberian Plain. A key’ (Korshunov, 1985e), contains key tables, detailed descriptions of all the butterflies in question and many illustrations. The second monograph is ‘A catalogue of Rhopalocera (Lepidoptera) of the USSR’ (Korshunov, 1972d). Korshunov’s catalogue placed the study of this group of insects on a new foundation, attracting a fresh scientific interest to this field. Korshunov’s advice and assistance to specialists in various fields furthered the publication of new studies of butterflies, including M. M. Sirotkin’s catalogue of the Moscow and Kaluga regions, A. P. Kumakov’s descriptions of the Saratov region, etc. The book ‘Butterflies of Asian part of Russia’ (1995b, co-author P. Gorbunov) with addenda & corrigenda in Korshunov 1996d, 1998b, contains a full information (nomenclature, area, morphological features, early stages, etc.) of the whole of butterflies in this area, includes maps and numerous drawings. The title of the fourth monograph is ‘Butterflies of the Urals, Siberia and Far East. Key and annotations’ (Korshunov, 2000a) — a new remake of this work will be published soon. Besides a complete key table, this work contains short, but comprehensive biological commentaries to each species. The book ‘Butterflies of North Asia. New taxa and synonyms’ (unpublished; Internet version of this book is placed on Korshunov’s site www.jugan.boom.ru) includes original descriptions of Northern Asian taxa since the year 1980, made by the author and other scholars, often published in various difficult books and articles. Furthermore, Yu. P. Korshunov wrote together with A. Kumakov a monograph about butterflies of the Saratov region (Korshunov, 1979b). Several Korshunov’s articles are dedicated to common problems of the fauna of butterflies (Korshunov, 1981a, 1984d, 1987d). Yu. P. Korshunov thoroughly investigated zoogeography and ecology of Siberian butterflies (Korshunov, 1959b, 1962a, 1972c, 1978a, 1996b), history of their fauna (Korshunov, 1970b, 1972a). His interests in the ecology and fauna preservation are closely tied with his participation in the composition of Red Books of the whole of the country and its regions, wrote for them articles about preserved species (the Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk regions, Buryatia, Altai Republic — see Korshunov, 1984e, 1988d, 1996a, 2000b). He wrote several works about the validity of the including of some species into Red Books (Korshunov, 1986a, b, 1987b, f, 1988a, 1989a, b, 1995c, d, 1996c). Yu. P. Korshunov wrote some articles about several groups of moths and other insects (Korshunov, 1965a, 1971a, 1976a, b, c, 1980a, 1982a, 1982b, 1985b, 1990b).

In October 1987, on Korshunov’s initiative the first Entomological Conference on Diurna in the history of Russian and Soviet entomology took place in Novosibirsk. Papers were read by 35 naturalists from 30 cities of the USSR.

Yu. P. Korshunov prepared a long time ago his thesis for candidate’s degree. The volume and content of his monographs permitted him to get doctor’s degree without writing a thesis, but his scientist’s overscrupulosity permanently delayed the term of their defence: he repeated often that the available Siberian material is not yet satisfactory for such an action. In spite of the absence of a formal degree Yu. P. Korshunov was considered a leading expert in Rhopalocera not only in the country, but also in the whole of the world.

Korshunov’s name was appropriated to several taxa of insects: Aphis korshunovi Ivanovskaja, 1971 (Aphididae); Plebejus argus korshunovi Standel, 1960; Neozephyrus korshunovi Dubatolov & Sergeev, 1982 (Lycaenidae); Coenonympha glycerion korshunovi Nekrutenko, 1978; Hyponephele korshunovi Lukhtanov, 1994 (Satyridae); Coenotephria korshunovi Viidalepp, 1976 (Geometridae); Prosimulium korshunovi Patrusheva, 1975 (Simuliidae).

Besides his scientific activities, Yu. P. Korshunov wrote 73 popular-scientific, polemic and memoirs articles in newspapers and magazines, spoke over the radio ad TV, led yearly student practical works in the Zoological Museum. Korshunov never denied to advice anyone. He was a good-natured and friendly man, with a perfect sense of humour. Having lost his wife V. D. Patrusheva in 1976, he lived alone, spending his scanty earnings on books, diskettes, and other PC hardware. The computer helped him very much in the last years, because the arthritis and weak sight hindered his work. The possibility of the correspondence by e-mail made his life easier, he didn’t feel himself lonely, isolated of world’s scientific life. He lived the last 7 years in the museum, because it was hard to him to go home, all his books and the computer were in the work place. He died sitting down at his writing-table.


APPENDICES

New taxa described by Yu. P. Korshunov

1. Pseudophilotes jacuticus Korshunov & Viidalepp, 1980
2. Plebejus argyrognomon chalcha Korshunov, 1982
3. Polyommatus eros taimyrensis Korshunov, 1982
4. Ravenna pacifica Dubatolov & Korshunov, 1984
5. Neolycaena falkovitshi Zhdanko & Korshunov, 1985
6. Rubrapterus Korshunov, 1987 (type species: Lycaena bavius Eversmann, 1832)
7. Apatura metis irtyshica Korshunov, 1982
8. Argynnis sagana relicta Korshunov, 1984
9. Argynnis sagana nordmanni Korshunov, 1984
10. Clossiana distincta machati Korshunov, 1987
11. Clossiana distincta dubatolovi Korshunov, 1987
12. Oeneis pseudosculda Korshunov, 1977
13. Oeneis sapozhnikovi Korshunov, 1982
14. Amuriana Korshunov & Dubatolov, 1984 (type species: Adolias schrenckii Ménétriés, 1859)
15. Ravenna pacifica Dubatolov & Korshunov, 1984
16. Oeneis patrushevae Korshunov, 1985
17. Oeneis sarala Korshunov, 1988
18. Oeneis judini Korshunov, 1988
19. Oeneis shurmaki Korshunov, 1988
20. Oeneis ammosovi Dubatolov & Korshunov, 1988
21. Driopa Korshunov, 1988 (type species: Papilio mnemosyne Linnaeus, 1758)
22. Erythodriopa Korshunov, 1988 (type species: Parnassius ariadne Kindermann in Lederer, 1853)
23. Hipparchia dagi Korshunov & Krasilnikova, 1990
24. Celastrina fedoseevi Korshunov & Ivonin, 1990
25. Bajluana Korshunov, 1990 (type species: Lycaena argali Elwes, 1899)
26. Goldia Dubatolov & Korshunov, 1990 (type species: Ravenna pacifica Dubatolov & Korshunov, 1984)
27. Rubrapterus Korshunov, 1990 (type species: Lycaena bavius Eversmann, 1832)
28. Sachaia Korshunov, 1990 (type species: Parnassius tenedius Eversmann, 1851)
29. Sachaia ammosovi Korshunov, 1990
30. Quinhaicus Korshunov, 1990 (type species: Parnassius szechenyii Frivadszky, 1886)
31. Kreizbergius Korshunov, 1990 (type species: Parnassius simo Gray, 1852)
32. Hesperia comma planula Korshunov, 1995
33. Hesperia comma shushkini Korshunov, 1995
34. Leptidea amurensis jakutica P. Gorbunov & Korshunov, 1995
35. Euchloe ausonia dubatolovi Korshunov, 1995
36. Euchloe naina Korshunov, 1995
37. Roddia Korshunov 1995 (type species: Papilio l-album Esper, 1780)
38. Euphydryas iduna semenovi Korshunov & Ivonin, 1995
39. Melitaea fascelis singularia Korshunov, 1995
40. Clossiana astarte ershovi Korshunov & P. Gorbunov, 1995
41. Clossiana matveevi P. Gorbunov & Korshunov, 1995
42. Boloria altaica pustagi Korshunov & Ivonin, 1995
43. Hyponephele cadusina gurkini Korshunov, 1995
44. Erebia kosterini P. Gorbunov, Korshunov, Dubatolov, 1995
45. Erebia mckinleyensis ola Korshunov, 1995
46. Erebia theano tshugunovi Korshunov & Ivonin, 1995
47. Erebia theano shoria Korshunov & Ivonin, 1995
48. Erebia fletcheri chorymensis Korshunov, 1995
49. Erebia pandrose yernikensis Korshunov, 1995
50. Oeneis sculda vadimi Korshunov, 1995
51. Oeneis elwesi ulugchemi Korshunov, 1995
52. Oeneis magna pupavkini Korshunov, 1995
53. Heodes alciphron rubidus Korshunov, 1995
54. Polyommatus icarus omelkoi Dubatolov & Korshunov, 1995
55. Pyrgus serratulae shukshini Korshunov & Ivonin, 1996
56. Colias palaeno gomojunovae Korshunov, 1996
57. Colias thisoa nikolaevi Korshunov, 1996
58. Triphysa albovenosa sacha Korshunov, 1996
59. Coenonympha amaryllis borisovi Korshunov & Ivonin, 1996
60. Erebia euryale flaveoides Korshunov & Tatarinov, 1996
61. Satyrus ferula medvedevi Korshunov, 1996
62. Clossiana eunomia riamia Korshunov & Ivonin, 1996
63. Clossiana eunomia stromi Korshunov, 1996
64. Clossiana chariclea tshuktsha Dubatolov & Korshunov, 1996
65. Euphydryas iduna alferakyi Korshunov, 1996
66. Erebia rossi subarctica Korshunov, 1996
67. Oeneis aktashi ona Korshunov, 1996
68. Oeneis jakutski Korshunov, 1998
69. Oeneis anna dzhulukuli Korshunov, 1998
70. Oeneis chione tshukota Korshunov, 1998
71. Inderskia Korshunov, 2000 (type species: Lycaena panope Eversmann, 1851)
72. Oeneis jutta lukhtanovi Korshunov, 2000


Scientific works by Yu. P. Korshunov
[in Russian, except 1998a]

[1] (1954): The biology of Aporia crataegi L. in Western Siberia. — Itogovaja studencheskaja nauchnaja konferencija Kharkovskogo universiteta. Tezisy dokladov. Kharkov, p. 235.
[2] (1956): Ecological and zoogeographical characteristics of the Lepidoptera fauna (Rhopalocera) of the mountainous part and the southern coast of the Crimea. — Itogovaja studencheskaja nauchnaja konferencija Kharkovskogo universiteta. Tezisy dokladov. Kharkov, pp. 211—212.
[3] (1959a): Biotopic accommodated Rhopalocera of the coastal zone of the Novosibirsk reservoir. — Trudy Biologicheskogo instituta SO AN SSSR 5: 215—218.
[4] (1959b): Rhopalocera (Lepidoptera) of Western Siberia and their zonal accomodation. — IV Sjezd Vsesojuznogo entomologicheskogo obshchestva. Tezisy dokladov 1: 68—69.
[5] (1960a): Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) in the Middle Priobye. — Izvestija SO AN SSSR 7: 116—120.
[6] (1960b): An experience of using mercury lamps for attraction of insects. — Pervaja konferencija molodyh uchenyh SO AN SSSR. Tezisy dokladov. Novosibirsk, pp. 130—131.
[7] (1961): The butterflies (Lepidoptera, Diurna) of the coastal zone of the Novosibirsk reservoir. — Trudy Biologicheskogo instituta SO AN SSR 7: 199—107.
[8] (1962a): Zonal accomodated butterflies of Eastern Siberia and their zoogeographical character. — Problemy zoologicheskih issledovanij v Sibiri. Gorno-Altajsk, pp. 136—138.
[9] (1962b): Insects of biological complexes of Upper Priobye. — Problemy zoologicheskih issledovanij v Sibiri. Gorno-Altajsk, pp. 256—260. (co-authors: A. I. Cherepanov, O. I. Ivanovskaya—Shubina, G. S. Zolotarenko, F. I. Opanasenko).
[10] (1963): The fauna and biotopical distribution of butterflies and moths in Middle Priobye. — Trudy Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta 152: 330—342. (co-author: G. S. Zolotarenko).
[11] (1964): Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Rhiopalocera) of the mountainous part and the southern coast of the Crimea. — Entomologicheskoe obozrenie 43 (3): 592—604.
[12] (1965a): The role playing by Carabidae of prey in the annihilation of Elateridae. — Issledovanija po biologicheskomu metodu bor’by s vreditel’ami sel’skogo i lesnogo hoz’ajstva. Novosibirsk 2: 77—80.
[13] (1966a): Butterflies of the middle taiga of Western Siberia. — Fauna i ekologija chlenistonogih Sibiri. Novosibirsk, pp. 178—183.
[14] (1966b): The flight of some butterflies into Southern Priobye. — Fauna i ekologija chlenistonogih Sibiri. Novosibirsk, pp. 184—186.
[15] (1968): Cabbage Butterfly in Western Siberia. — Kartofel’ i ovoshchi 3: 42.
[16] (1969a): The distribution of insects in the biotopes of the valley of Mana r. (lower reaches). — Voprosy entomologii. Trudy Gosudarstvennogo zapovednika ‘Stolby’. Krasnojarsk, 7: 106—107.
[17] (1969b): Beetles (Coleoptera) of ‘Stolby’ reservation. — Ibid., pp. 129—142. (co-author: F. I. Opanasenko)
[18] (1969c): Blood-sucking gnats (Diptera, Culicidae) of Mana lower reaches. — Ibid., pp. 143—148. (co-author: L. P. Kukharchuk).
[19] (1969d): Midges (Diptera, Simuliidae) of the Mana region of the ‘Stolby’ reservation. — Ibid., pp. 149—164. (co-author: V. D. Patrusheva).
[20] (1969e): Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Diurna) of the Mana area of the reservation ‘Stolby’. — Ibid., pp. 165—203.
[21] (1970a): Butterflies of Yakutia, Predbaikalye and Zabaikalye. — Fauna Sibiri, pp. 152—201.
[22] (1970b): The role played by the butterflies in the Kuznetsk Mts in the origin of the butterfly fauna of Western Siberia. — VI Sjezd Vsesojuznogo entomologicheskogo obshchestva. Annotacija dokladov. Voronezh, p. 90.
[23] (1971a): The ratio of harmful forest insects in the North of the middle taiga in Western Siberia — Problemy zashchity tajezhnyh lesov. Krasnojarsk, pp. 82—84.
[24] (1971b): Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Diurna) of the Mana area of the reservation ‘Stolby’. — Voprosy entomologii. Trudy Gosudarstvennogo zapovednika ‘Stolby’. Krasnojarsk, 8: 100—114.
[25] (1971c): Beetles (Coleoptera) of ‘Stolby’ reservation. Part II. — Voprosy entomologii. Trudy Gosudarstvennogo zapovednika ‘Stolby’. Krasnojarsk, 8: 115—127. (co-author: F. I. Opanasenko)
[26] (1972a): The principal outline of the origin of butterflies in Western Siberia. — Zoologicheskie problemy Sibiri. Novosibirsk, pp. 117—119.
[27] (1972b): Review of: Kurentzov, A. I. Butterflies of the Far East of the USSR (key). — Vestnik zoologii, 1972, 2: 88—90.
[28] (1972c): Ecological groups of the butterflies of Western Siberia. — Fauna i ekologija chlenistonogih Sibiri. Trudy Biologicheskogo instituta SO AN SSSR. Novosibirsk, 11: 48—54.
[29—30] (1972d): A catalogue of Rhopalocera (Lepidoptera) of the USSR. — Entomologicheskoe obozrenie 51 (1): 136—154; (2): 352—362.
[31] (1973a): Lepidoptera from the collection of the Tobolsk Museum of Local Lore. — Fauna Sibiri. Part II. Novosibirsk, p. 181—203.
[32] (1973b): Butterflies of Tuva. — Ibid., pp. 204—220.
[33] (1973c): The entomological fauna of the northern part of the middle taiga in Western Siberia. — Priroda tajgi Zapadnoj Sibiri. Novosibirsk, pp. 136—151.
[34] (1974a): Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Diurna) of Mongolia. — Voprosy entomologii Sibiri. Novosibirsk, pp. 46—47.
[35] (1974b): The fauna and biotopes of the butterflies of Northern Baraba. — Fauna i ekologija nasekomyh Sibiri. Novosibirsk, pp. 32—39.
[36] (1975): Butterflies near the Polar Circle in Western Siberia. — Materialy VII sjezda Vsesojuznogo entomologicheskogo obshchestva. Leningrad, 1: 57—58.
[37] (1976a): Spiders (Aranei) of Southern Yamal. — Fauna gel’mintov i chlenistonogih Sibiri. Trudy Biologicheskogo instituta SO AN SSSR. Novosibirsk, 18: 38—46. (co-author: V. F. Bakhvalov).
[38] (1976b): New materials toward the knowledge of dragon-fly fauna (Insecta, Odonata) of Transpolar Siberia. — Ibid., pp. 151—156. (co-author: B. F. Belyshev).
[39] (1976c): Midges (Diptera, Simuliidae) of Polar Ural. — Ibid., pp. 291—300. (co-authors: V. D. Patrusheva, V. A. Shchepetkin).
[40] (1976d): Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) of the Mongolian People’s Republic. — Nasekomye Nongolii. Leningrad, 4: 403—458. (co-author: V. P. Soljanikov).
[41] (1977): Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) of the Mongolian People’s Republic. — Nasekomye Mongolii. Leningrad, 5: 649—681.
[42] (1978a): Ecological and faunistical groups of the Lepidoptera, Diurna in the mountains of Southern Siberia. — Chlenistonogie Sibiri. Novosibirsk, pp. 168—183.
[43] (1978b): The butterflies fauna (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) of Central Yakutia. — Ibid., pp. 184—191. (co-author: Yu. N. Ammosov).
[44] (1979a): Butterflies of Tuva. — Uchenye zapiski Tartuskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Trudy po zoologii, 483: 3—14.
[45] (1979b): Lepidoptera of the Saratov region. Saratov, 240 pp. (co-author: A. P. Kumakov).
[46] (1980a): Loopers (Lepidoptera, Geometridae) of Khakasia. Information I. — Fauna i ekologija rastitel’nojadnyh i hishchnyh nasekomyh Sibiri. Novosibirsk, pp. 44—51. (co-author: Y. R. Viidalepp).
[47] (1980b): A new species of the genus Pseudophilotes Beuret, 1958 (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) from Yakutia. — Sistematika i ekologija zhivotnyh. Novye i maloizvestnye vidy fauny Sibiri. Novosibirsk, 14: 154—157.
[48] (1981a): Results of the study of butterflies in Northern Eurasia. — Fauna i ekologija chlenistonogih Sibiri. Novosibirsk, pp. 62—67.
[49] (1981b): New data on the Rhopalocera (Lepidoptera) of the Novosibirsk region. — Entomologicheskoe obozrenie 60 (4): 804—812.
[50] (1982a): Introduction in: Patrusheva, V. D. Midges of Siberia and Far East. Novosibirsk, pp. 4—5.
[51—52] (1982b): A critical review on the fauna and taxonomy of butterflies (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) of the Transcaucasus. Information I. — Vestnik zoologii 1: 50—55.; Information II. — Ibid., 3: 38—43.
[53] (1982c): Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Diurna) of the Yenisei and Taimyr, north of the Polar Circle. — Poleznye i vrednye nasekomye Sibiri. Novosibirsk, pp. 75—87. (co-authors: D. M. Pupavkin, Yu. P. Chernenko).
[54] (1982d): Loopers (Lepidoptera, Geometridae) of Khahasia. Information II. — Ibid., pp. 101—107. (co-author: Y. R. Viidalepp).
[55] (1982e): New taxa of butterflies (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) from Northern Asia. — Gel’minty, kleshchi, nasekomye. Novye i maloizvestnye vidy fauny Sibiri. Novosibirsk, 16: 86—91.
[56] (1984a): New data on the taxonomy of the butterflies of the USSR (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera). — Chlenistonogie i gel’minty. Novye i maloizvestnye vidy fauny Sibiri. Novosibirsk, 17: 51—57. (co-author: V. V. Dubatolov).
[57] (1984b): New subspecies of Argynnis sagana Bdl. from Siberia. — Ibid., 17: 58—62.
[58] (1984c): The type-locality of Argiades pyrenaicus ergane Higgins, 1980 (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae). — Vestnik zoologii, 1984, 3: 10.
[59] (1984d): Results of the study of the taxonomy and nomenclature of Eurasian butterflies. — IX Sjezd Vsesojuznogo entomologicheskogo obshchestva. Tezisy dokladov. Kiev, October 1984, part 1: 247.
[60—91] (1984e): The Red Book of the USSR. Moscow, 1984. (co-authors: A. V. Sviridov et al.). Articles written by Yu. P. Korshunov:
— Atrophaneura alcinous (Klug, 1896), p. 302
— Papilio maackii Ménétriés, 1858, pp. 302—303
— Parnassius nordmanni Ménétriés, 1849, p. 307
— Parnassius eversmanni Ménétriés, 1849, pp. 309—310.
— Parnassius tenedius Eversmann, 1851, p. 310
— Parnassius phoebus (Fabricius, 1793), pp. 310—311
— Sericinus montela Gray, 1853, p. 313
— Luehdorfia puziloi (Erschov, 1872), p. 315
— Anthocharis scolymus (Butler, 1868), p. 321
— Parantica sita (Kollar, 1848), pp. 325—326
— Erebia hewitsonii Lederer, 1854, p. 326
— Erebia iranica Grumm-Grshimailo, 1894, pp. 326—327
— Erebia niphonica Janson, 1877, p. 328
— Hipparchia fatua (Freyer, 1845), pp. 329—330
— Lasiommata adrastoides (Bienert, 1870), p. 331
— Melanargia hylata (Ménétriés, 1832), pp. 331—332
— Melanargia titea Klug, 1832, p. 332
— Neope goschkevitschii (Ménétriés, 1832), pp. 332—333
— Lethe diana (Butler, 1868), p. 334
— Sinchula callipteris (Butler, 1877), pp. 334—335
— Apatura schrenkii (Ménétriés, 1858), pp. 335—336
— Argynnis zenobia Leech, 1890, p. 337
— Argynnis nerippe Felder, 1862, pp. 337—338
— Sephisa dichroa Kollar, 1844, p. 339
— Kaniska canace (Linnaeus, 1763), pp. 339—340
— Boloria hakutozana (Matsumura, 1927), pp. 340—341
— Tomares romanovi (Christoph, 1882), p. 341
— Tomares callimachus (Eversmann, 1848), p. 342
— Tomares nogeli Herrich-Schäffer, 1851, pp. 342—343
— Lycaenopsis filipjevi (Riley, 1934), p. 344
— Polyommatus marcida (Lederer, 1871), pp. 346—347
[92] (1985a): New data on butterflies of Siberia north of the Polar Circle. — Chlenistonogie Sibiri i Dal’nego Vostoka. Novosibirsk, pp. 93—105. (co-authors: S. V. Elshin, G. S. Zolotarenko).
[93] (1985b): The fauna of Carabidae (Coleoptera) of Khakasia. — Ibid., pp. 67—75. (co-author: V. G. Shilenkov).
[94] (1985c): Data on the systematics of butterflies (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) of the fauna of the USSR. — Sistematika i biologija chlenistonogih i gel’mintov. Novye i maloizvestnye vidy fauny Sibiri. Novosibirsk, 18: 62—66.
[95] (1985d): New findings of butterflies in Western Siberia. — Vestnik zoologii, 1985, 2: 87.
[96] (1985e): Butterflies of the Western Siberian Plain. A key. — Pauki i nasekomye Sibiri. Novosibirsk, pp. 32—118.
[97] (1986a): Species and subspecies of butterflies new for the fauna of the USSR. — Vestnik zoologii, 1986, 3: 87. (co-author: V. V. Dubatolov).
[98] (1986b): The importance of the entomological monitoring in reservations. — Sovremennoe sostojanie i perspektivy nauchnyh issledovanij v zapovednikah Sibiri. Tezisy dokladov Vsesojuznogo soveshchanija (26—28 august 1986, Novosibirsk). Moscow, pp. 137—140.
[99] (1987a): New taxa of Eurasian butterflies. — Nasekomye, kleshchi i gel’minty. Novye i maloizvestnye vidy fauny Sibiri. Novosibirsk, 19: 9—13.
[100] (1987b): The Red Book of the USSR. Problems of protecting butterflies in Siberia. — Ekologija i geografija chlenistonogih Sibiri. Novosibirsk, pp. 66—68.
[101] (1987c): Melitaea sutschana Staudinger (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae) in Transbaikalia. — Vestnik zoologii, 1987, 5: 86. (co-author: V. V. Dubatolov).
[102] (1987d): Results and the nearest future in the study of the butterfly fauna of the USSR. — Bulavousye cheshuekrylye SSSR. Tezisy dokladov k seminaru ‘Sistematika, faunistika, ekologija, ohrana bulavousyh cheshuekrylyh’, 2—5 October 1987, Novosibirsk, pp. 3—7.
[103] (1987e): New specimens in the collection of the Zoological Museum of the Institute of Biology (Novosibirsk). — Bulavousye cheshuekrylye SSSR. Tezisy dokladov k seminaru ‘Sistematika, faunistika, ekologija, ohrana bulavousyh cheshuekrylyh’, 2—5 October 1987, Novosibirsk, pp. 53—55. (co-author: V. V. Dubatolov).
[104] (1987f): Data on rare Lepidoptera of the Asian part of the Russian Federation. — Problemy ohrany redkih zhivotnyh. Moscow, pp. 160—162. (co-author: V. V. Dubatolov).
[105] (1988a): Introduction to: Methodological recommendations for the ‘Operation Machaon’ and the organisation of school reservations. Cheboksary, pp. 3—4.
[106] (1988b): New data on the taxonomy of Lepidoptera, Satyridae of Yakutia and the southern Far East of the USSR. — Taksonomija zhivotnyh Sibiri. Novye i maloizvestnye vidy fauny Sibiri. Novosibirsk, 20: 59—60. (co-author: V. V. Dubatolov).
[107] (1988c): New butterfly taxa from Khakasia, Tuva and Yakutia. — Ibid., pp. 65—80.
[108—117] (1988d): The Red Book of animals and plants of the Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Part ‘Insects’, pp. 212—239:
— Deracantha onos Pallas, 1772, pp. 213—214
— Parnassius apollo hesebolus (Nordmann, 1851), pp. 230—231
— Sachaia tenedius (Eversmann, 1851), pp. 231—232.
— Driopa (Erythrodriopa) eversmanni (Ménétriés, 1849), pp. 232—233
— Parnassius bremeri jatensis (Bang-Haas, 1927), p. 233.
— Papilio machaon orientis (Verity, 1911), p. 234
— Coenonympha hero perseis (Lederer, 1853), p. 235
— Melitaea romanovi puella (Higgins, 1941), p. 236.
— Niphanda fusca Bremer & Grey, 1853, pp. 236—237
[119] (1989a): Rare butterflies of Siberia and the Far East as subjects of the new edition of the Red Book. — Redkie i nuzhdajushchijes’a v ohrane zhivotnye. Materialy k Krasnoj knige. Sbornik nauchnyh trudov. Moscow, pp. 144—152.
[120] (1989b): Notes on butterflies in the Red Books. — Ibid., p. 138.
[121] (1990a): A new genus of the Lycaenidae, tribus Theclini from Southern Primorye. — Redkie gel’minty, kleshchi i nasekomye. Novye i maloizvestnye vidy fauny Sibiri. Novosibirsk, 21: 66—69. (co-author: V. V. Dubatolov).
[122] (1990b): A review of the species of the genus Hipparchia Fabricius, 1807 from the fauna of the USSR. — Ibid., 69—75.
[123] (1990c): To the taxonomy of the genus Glaucopsyche and Celastrina (Lycaenidae). — Taksonomija nasekomyh i gel’mintov. Novye i maloizvestnye vidy fauny Sibiri. Novosibirsk, 22: 68—79.
[124] (1990d): Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera) from the collection of Z. M. Kozakevitsh. — Chlenistonogie i gel’minty. Novosibirsk, pp. 93—99.
[125] (1990e): New genera of the subfamily Parnassiinae Swainson, 1840. — Ibid., pp. 99—105.
[126] (1992): Entomological reviews of the materials in mass publications. (Deposited manuscript). — Minsk, ‘Veras-Eko’, 6.07.1992, No 75.
[127—135] (1995a): Butterflies. — Krasnaja kniga Krasnojarskogo kraja. Krasnojarsk. (co-author: Yu. P. Baranchikov):
— Parnassius apollo (Linnaeus, 1758), pp. 248—249
— P. eversmanni (Ménétriés, 1849), pp. 249—250
— P. tenedius (Eversmann, 1851), p. 250.
— P. phoebus (Fabricius, 1793), pp. 250—251
— Erebia fletcheri chorymenis Korshunov, 1995, p. 251
— Boloria distincta Gibson, 1920, pp. 252—253
— Ahlbergia frivaldzskyi (Kindermann in Lederer, 1853), p. 253
— Polyommatus cyane (Eversmann, 1837), pp. 253—254
[136] (1995b): Butterflies of the Asian part of Russia. Reference book. Ekaterinburg, 202 pp. (co-author: P. A. Gorbunov).
[137] (1995c): Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Diurna) recommended for the Red Book of Altai Republic. — Materialy Krasnoj knigi Respubliki Altaj (zhivotnye). Gorno-Altajsk, pp. 96—97. (co-author: O. E. Kosterin).
[141] (1995d): Materials on the butterflies (Lepidoptera, Insecta) in the Red Book of Altai Republic. — Ibid., pp. 97—115. (co-authors: O. E. Kosterin, G. S. Zolotarenko, V. V. Dubatolov, K. Yu. Vod’anov, Yu. P. Malkov).
[138—142] (1996a): Butterflies. — The Red Book of Altai Republic. Animals. Part 3. — Arthropoda — Insecta. Novosibirsk, pp. 54—58.
— Driopa clarius (Eversmann, 1843), pp. 54—55.
— Erebia kindermanni Staudinger, 1881, pp. 55—56.
— Argynnis sagana relicta Korshunov, 1984, pp. 56—57.
— Bajluana argali (Elwes, 1899), pp. 57—58.
[143] (1996b): Trophical connections an biotopes of butterflies of the Altai Mountains. — Sibirskij ekologicheskij zhurnal, vol. III (2), Novosibirsk, pp. 161—165.
[144] (1996c): Districts and cities of the Novosibirsk region. Reference book. Novosibirsk, 520 pp. (Yu. P. Korshunov as a member of a collective of numerous co-authors).
[145] (1996d): Addenda & corrigenda to the book ‘Butterflies of the Asian part of Russia’. Novosibirsk, 66 pp.
[146] (1998a): A review of the Erebia ligea-complex (Lepidoptera, Satyridae) from Eastern Asia — Transactions of the Lepidopterological Society of Japan 49 (3): 177—193. (co-authors: V. V. Dubatolov, P. Yu. Gorbunov, O. E. Kosterin, A. L. Lvovsky).
[147] (1998b): New descriptions and specifications for the book ‘Butterflies of the Asian part of Russia’. Novosibirsk, 68 pp.
[148] (2000a): Butterflies of the Urals, Siberia and Far East. Key and annotations. Novosibirsk, 218 pp.
[149—154] (2000b): Supplementary articles for the Red Book of the Novosibirsk region. Novosibirsk. (co-author: V. V. Dubatolov):
— Colias heos (Herbst, 1792), pp. 249—250
— Boloria aquilonaris (Stichel, 1908), pp. 253—254
— Oeneis jutta (Hübner, 1806), pp. 261—262
— Cupido osiris (Meigen, 1829), pp. 261—262
— Pseudoaricia nicias (Meigen, 1930), pp. 266—267
[155] (2001): A review of publications of Moscow butterfly collectors. — Russian entomological journal 10 (2): 189—193.


NOTE: According to the genre of our article all bibliographical references are marked with the name of Yu. P. Korshunov, in spite of presence of co-authors in many cases, whose names really stand in front of his one in the publications headers.