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 |
Tropical entomology; Ichneumonids
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)
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.
- Extensive sampling reveals the phenology and habitat use of Afrotropical parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Rhyssinae) (2019)
- Royal Society Open Science
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Assessing the Species Richness of Afrotropical Ichneumonid Wasps with Randomly Placed Traps Provides Ecologically Informative Data (2018)
- African Entomology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Higher predation risk for insect prey at low latitudes and elevations (2017)
- Science
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Indirect interactions in the High Arctic (2013)
- PLoS ONE
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
