Dr. Jürgen Deckert
Address
Museum für Naturkunde
Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity
Invalidenstrasse 43
10115 Berlin
Germany
Phone +49 (0)30 2093 8526
Fax +49 (0)30 2093 8868
E-mail juergen.deckert(at)mfn-berlin.de
Tasks
Curator of the collection Hemimetabola: Hemiptera, Thysanoptera, Phtiraptera, Isoptera and "Apterygota" (Collembola, Diplura, Protura, Archaeognatha and Zygentoma)
Research in the fields of systematic, zoogeography and biodiversity
Research interests
Taxonomy, zoogeography, and biodiversity of Afrotropical and Palearctic Heteroptera
Research projects
- Biodiversity of insects in arid and semiarid biomes of Namibia and South Africa (Project BIOTA Africa 2007-2010) (BMBF)
- General distributional patterns and endemism of Heteroptera in Namibia
- The genus Pyrrhocoridae (Probergrothius) in Namibia
- Field guide to the True Bugs of the arid Biomes of south-western Africa
- Textbook about morphology, biology, and phylogeny of Heteroptera (in German)
Publications
(Selection)
Wachmann, E., Melber, A. & J. Deckert (2004 - 2008): Wanzen, Band 1-4. Tierwelt Deutschlands. Bände 75, 77, 78, 81.
Deckert, J. & Göllner-Scheiding, U. (2006): Lace bugs of Namibia (Heteroptera, Tingoidea, Tingidae). - Denisia 19, neue Serie 50, 823-856.
Hoch, H., Deckert, J., Wessel, A. (2006): Vibrational signalling in a Gondwanan relict insect (Hemiptera: Coleorrhyncha: Peloridiidae). - Biology Letters, 1-3.
Deckert, J. & A. C. Eyles (2002): Notes on African Dieuches and related Rhyparochromini with description of one new species (Hemiptera: Lygaeoidea, Rhyparochromidae). - Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 49 (1), 143-159.
