Leo Sheljuzhko

Leo Sheljuzhko
Лев Шелюжко ( Kyiv, Russian Empire
Died	22 September 1969(1969-09-22) (aged 78) Munich, Germany
Citizenship	Russian Empire (1890–1917) Ukrainian People's Republic (1917–1920) USSR (1922-1941) Germany (1941-1969)
Alma mater	Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Scientific career
Fields	Entomology
Institutions	Shcherbak Zoology Museum [uk] University of Kyiv Zoologische Staatssammlung München
Notable students	Yurii Nekrutenko [uk]

Leo Andreyevich Sheljuzhko (

.

Life

He was born in 1890, the son of Andrei Ivanovich Shelyuzhko, a wealthy Ukrainian landowner. He studied at

. In 1933–1941, he was a curator at Zoology Museum in Kiev University where he was installing his own Rhopalocera collection.

When the city was invaded and occupied by

.

Science

Leo Shelyuzhko was among the first aquarium amateurs and tropical fish breeder in Russian Empire. He was first to bring and breed piranha and Callichthys callichthys in Russia.^[1]

While working in University Museum Shelyuzhko organized several entomological expeditions to mountainous regions of USSR to collect and describe Lepidoptera species (Pamir Mountains, Armenia, Dagestan). He issued many works of new species and systematics of Rhopalocera. His collection had worldwide specimens of geni Parnassius and Colias.

His collection remains in the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. During World War II, it was lost by Germans and found by Soviet military and taken to Moscow. In 1946 it returned to Kiev. It consists of more than 300.000 specimens of Lepidoptera.

Works

Partial list (examples)

• Neue palaearctische Heteroceren Deutsch. Ent. Zeit. Iris 40: 56-65 9 (1926).
• Lepidopterologische Ergebnisse der Pamir-Expedition des Kijever Zoologischen Museums im Jahre 1937. II. Neue Lepidopteren aus dem westlichen Pamir Mitt. Munchn. Ent. Ges. Bd. 33. S. 75–85 (1943).
• Zur Kenntnis der Pieris melete-Gruppe Zeitschr. wiener ent. Ges., 45: 4–13, 20–29, 36–51, 5 pis., 2 figs. Monograph. The involved synonymy is given in full (1960).^[2]
• Zur Kenntnis der Pieris melete-Gruppe. Teil II. Nordliche Inseln: Sachalin (= Saghalien, Karafuto) und die Kurilen Zeitschr. wiener ent. Ges., 48: 6–10, 51–64, 141, 5 pis., 1 map. 1963.

References

Literature

• Некрутенко Ю. П.; Чиколовець, В. В. (2005), "Нарис історії дослідження денних метеликів України", Денні метелики України (in Ukrainian), Київ: Вид-во Раєвського, p. 232
• W. Vorster (1971). "Leo Sheljuzhko. 1890 — 1969" (PDF). Nachrichten der Bayerischen Entomologen (in German). 5: 81–86. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-01-04.
• Biljaschivs'kij, M. M. 2004: Leo A. and Andryi I. Sheljuzhko the Creators of the Lepidoptera Collection of the Zoological Museum of Kyjv Taras Shevchenko National University. New Facts for their Biographies. Praci Zool. muz. KNUT. Schevtsch 27–43.