Pekka T. Lehtinen
Pekka T. Lehtinen | |
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Born | 5 April 1934 Pargas, Finland | (age 90)
Scientific career | |
Fields | Arachnology |
Institutions | University of Turku |
Pekka T. Lehtinen (born 1934) is a Finnish arachnologist and taxonomist. He is known for his works in systematics and for the many expeditions in which he has participated.
Biography
Lehtinen was born on 5 April 1934 in a small village, Pargas, in the archipelago of southwestern Finland. He graduated from a senior high school in Turku in 1952. In the same year he entered the University of Turku and was awarded an MSc degree in February 1955, two and a half years later.
After graduating he served in the military for one year, and was trained in the reserve officers' school, where he was given the rank of Second Lieutenant. He worked as an assistant lecturer in the Department of
Scientific activities
The activity of Pekka Lehtinen has been dealt with briefly by Koponen [2011] and Marusik [2011], and more comprehensively by Marusik [2004, in Russian]. Pekka Lehtinen started his career as a
He collected his first arachnological samples in 1957, and in 1962 Lehtinen published his first (faunistic) paper on
To date he has visited over 60 museums. After gaining a permanent position at the
Some of the countries he visited four or even more times, such as India, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and
Most of the expeditions and congress trips have been done without any funding from his home country, mostly supported from his own pension. All materials collected during these expeditions (
Pekka Lehtinen has participated in all international congresses of
In 2001 during the ISA congress held in South Africa, he was elected as an Honorary Member of the International Society of Arachnology. In 2007 at another congress, Lehtinen was again elected as an Honorary Member. Currently he is only arachnologist who is a ‘twofold’ Honorary Member of the ISA. Since 1965, Lehtinen represented Finland in CIDA (Centre International de Documentation Arachnologique), until this organization was transformed to the ISA (International Society of Arachnology) in 1998.
Lehtinen has always been active in nature conservation projects, both in field studies and (from 1983) as a member of different committees and working groups, for example, in compiling the Finnish Red Data Books. Ministers of the Environment in French Polynesia, the Cook Islands and Mauritius have also consulted him in matters of nature conservation. Part of his acarological studies have concerned national projects in medical
Lehtinen is well known not only amongst
References
- Pekka T. Lehtinen, Yuri M. Marusik. 2008. A Redefinition of Misumenops F.O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900 (Araneae, Thomisidae) and Review of the New World Species. Bull. of the British Arachnological Soc. 14 (4): 27 pp. Editor British Arachn. Soc.
- Pekka T. Lehtinen. 1981. Spiders of the Oriental-Australian Region, III: Tetrablemmidae, with a World Revision. Acta zoologica Fennica 162. Editor Finnish Zoological Publ. Board, 151 pp. ISBN 9519481079
- Pekka T. Lehtinen. 1981. Tetrablemmidae, with a World Revision. Acta zoologica Fennica 162. Con Heikki Hippa. Editor Finnish Zoological Publ. Board, 151 pp.
- Pekka T. Lehtinen. 1979. Lycosidae. Annales zoologici Fennici 11 y 16. Con Heikki Hippa. Editor Finnish Zoological Publ. Board
- Pekka T. Lehtinen. 1967. Classification of the Cribellate Spiders and Some Allied Families: With Notes on the Evolution of the Suborder Araneomorpha. Edición reimpresa de Societas Zoologica Botanica Fennica Vanamo, 269 pp.