Tapani Hopkins
 

Eläinmuseo, Turun yliopiston biodiversiteettiyksikkö

tapani.e.hopkins@utu.fi

Vesilinnantie 5

Turku

Mainly in Kållby, Pedersöre, not in Turku. When in Turku, at Zoological Museum. Varied timetable; email may reach me easiest.

ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2256-0098

Personal webpage

Bluesky

Areas of expertise
Tropical entomology; Ichneumonids

Biography

2021 PhD (Biodiversity Unit, University of Turku)

2013  MSc ecology & evolutionary biography (University of Helsinki)

2010  BSc (hons) botany & zoology (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)

2010  BSc theoretical physics (University of Helsinki)



Research

I'm studying the ichneumonid species of the Ugandan rainforest, and how they compare to the Amazonian species. This involves processing a vast insect material I collected in Uganda 2014 - 2015, describing the innumerable new species, describing their ecology.. and eventually comparing to earlier work done in Amazonia.

My long term interest is to not only describe, but also explain, how species are distributed on our planet. Given that half the species in my Ugandan samples have never been seen before, this may take some time.



Publications

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