Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum vitae

Name, scientific degrees, date and place of birth

• Mgr. Igor Malenovský, Ph.D., 10 May 1978, Brno (Czech Republic)

Department/Faculty/University

• Department of Botany and Zoology
  Faculty of Science
  Masaryk University
  Kotlářská 2
  611 37 Brno
  Czech Republic

Current position

• assistant professor

Education and academic qualifications

• 2008: Ph.D. in Zoology, Masaryk University, Faculty of Science, Brno; thesis: "Systematics and biology of the jumping plant-lice of the family Phacopteronidae (Hemiptera: Psylloidea)"
• 2001: Mgr. (=M.Sc.) in Systematic Biology and Ecology, Masaryk University, Faculty of Science, Brno

Professional experience

• 2014 – : assistant professor, Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk University
• 2010 – 2013: lecturer (10–20%), Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk University
• 2001 – 2014: curator, Department of Entomology, Moravian Museum, Brno

Teaching activities

• Principal lecturer: Taxonomy, phylogenetics & zoological nomenclature; Insect systematics and phylogeny; Entomology; Applied entomology; Advanced entomology; Information sources in zoology
• Practicals: Field practice in zoology; Field course in entomology; Entomology
• Theses supervisor: 6 B.Sc. and 4 M.Sc. defended, 2 Ph.D. ongoing

Research activities

• Systematics, morphology, biology and distribution of hemipteran insects, mainly jumping plant-lice (Psylloidea), leafhoppers and planthoppers (Auchenorrhyncha)
• Ecology and conservation biology of insects in grasslands and post-industrial sites

Professional stays abroad

• 2017: three-week stay at Embrapa Forestry research institute, Colombo, Paraná, Brazil
• 2011: one-month research stay at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, France (invited scientist fellowship)
• 2008: two-week research stay at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, France (Synthesys fellowship)
• 2002 – 2003: twelve-month Ph.D. stay at the Naturhistorisches Museum and Universität Basel, Basel, Switzerland (Eidgenössische Stipendienkommission für ausländische Studierende fellowship)

Other academic activities, research projects, grants

• 2014 -: member of the Doctoral Committee for Zoology
• 2015 - 2016: project guarantee: "Distribution and Biology of the Vineyard Cicada (Tibicina haematodes) in the Czech Republic" (no. MGSII-46, EEA grants, Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic)

Non-university activities

• 2001 -: curator of Auchenorrhyncha and Sternorrhyncha collections at the Department of Entomology, Moravian Museum, Brno
• 1997 -: member of the regional committee for "Biologická olympiáda" (national competition in biology for secondary school students) in South Moravia

Other professional accomplishments

• 2009 -: associate editor of the international peer-reviewed journal "Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae"
• 2019 -: academic editor of the international peer-reviewed journal "ZooKeys"
• 2009 - 2018: member of the Scientific board of the National Museum, Prague
• 2010 -: member of the Scientific board of the Moravian Museum, Brno
• 2010: organizer of the 17th Central European Auchenorrhyncha Meeting, 27–29 August 2010, Mikulov

Selected publications

• TORMA, Attila, Kitti REVESZ, Nikolett GALLE-SZPISJAK, Jelena SEAT, Gyozo SZEL, Csaba KUTASI, Igor MALENOVSKÝ, Peter BATARY and Robert GALLE. Differences in arthropod communities between grazed areas and grazing exclosures depend on arthropod groups and vegetation types. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment. Elsevier, 2023, vol. 341, 1 January, p. 1-10. ISSN 0167-8809. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2022.108222. URL info
• GNEZDILOV, Vladimir M. and Igor MALENOVSKÝ. First record of the planthopper tribe Adenissini (Hemiptera: Caliscelidae) from Socotra Island, with description of a new genus and two new species. European Journal of Taxonomy. Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 2023, vol. 888, August, p. 46-63. ISSN 2118-9773. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.888.2207. URL info
• DAVRANOGLOU, Leonidas-Romanosa, Igor MALENOVSKÝ, Zestin Wen Wen SOH, Christian M. SCHLEPÜTZ and Michael R. WILSON. Redescription of the Planthopper Bursinia genei (Dufour, 1849), with a New Record from Greece (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Dictyopharidae). Zoological Studies. Taiwan: Biodiversity Research Center Academia Sinica, 2022, vol. 61, September, p. 1-15. ISSN 1021-5506. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.6620/ZS.2022.61-51. URL info
• CHAUDRON, Clémence, Monika MAZALOVÁ, Tomáš KURAS, Igor MALENOVSKÝ and Jan MLÁDEK. Introducing ecosystem engineers for grassland biodiversity conservation: A review of the effects of hemiparasitic Rhinanthus species on plant and animal communities at multiple trophic levels. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics. Munich (Germany): Elsevier, 2021, vol. 52, October, p. "125633", 9 pp. ISSN 1433-8319. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ppees.2021.125633. URL info
• HEMALA, Vladimír, Petr KMENT, Eva TIHLAŘÍKOVÁ, Vilém NEDĚLA and Igor MALENOVSKÝ. External structures of the metathoracic scent gland efferent system in the true bug superfamily Pyrrhocoroidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomomorpha). ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT. OXFORD: ELSEVIER SCI LTD, 2021, vol. 63, July, p. "101058", 25 pp. ISSN 1467-8039. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.asd.2021.101058. URL info
• HEMALA, Vladimír, Petr KMENT and Igor MALENOVSKÝ. The comparative morphology of adult pregenital abdominal ventrites and trichobothria in Pyrrhocoroidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomomorpha). Zoologischer Anzeiger. Munich: Elsevier, 2020, vol. 284, January, p. 88-117. ISSN 0044-5231. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2019.11.006. fulltext info
• CHO, Geonho, Igor MALENOVSKÝ, Daniel BURCKHARDT, Hiromitsu INOUE and Seunghwan LEE. DNA barcoding of pear psyllids (Hemiptera: Psylloidea: Psyllidae), a tale of continued misidentifications. Bulletin of Entomological Research. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020, vol. 110, No 4, p. 521-534. ISSN 0007-4853. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007485320000012. fulltext info
• DAVRANOGLOU, Leonidas-Romanos, Beth MORTIMER, Graham K. TAYLOR and Igor MALENOVSKÝ. On the morphology and evolution of cicadomorphan tymbal organs. Arthropod Structure and Development. Oxford: Elsevier, 2020, vol. 55, MAR 2020, p. 1-22. ISSN 1467-8039. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.asd.2020.100918. fulltext info
• NAKABACHI, Atsushi, Jörn PIEL, Igor MALENOVSKÝ and Yuu HIROSE. Comparative Genomics Underlines Multiple Roles of Profftella, an Obligate Symbiont of Psyllids: Providing Toxins, Vitamins, and Carotenoids. Genome biology and evolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020, vol. 12, No 11, p. 1975-1987. ISSN 1759-6653. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaa175. URL info
• CHO, Geonho, Igor MALENOVSKÝ and Seunghwan LEE. Higher-level molecular phylogeny of jumping plant lice (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Psylloidea). Systematic Entomology. London: Royal Entomological Society, 2019, vol. 44, No 3, p. 638-651. ISSN 0307-6970. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/syen.12345. fulltext info
• DAVRANOGLOU, Leonidas-Romanos, Beth MORTIMER, Graham K. TAYLOR and Igor MALENOVSKÝ. On the morphology and possible function of two putative vibroacoustic mechanisms in derbid planthoppers (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Derbidae). Arthropod Structure and Development. OXFORD: ELSEVIER SCI LTD, 2019, vol. 52, SEP 2019, p. 1-15. ISSN 1467-8039. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.asd.2019.100880. fulltext info
• SONG, Zhi-Shun, Igor MALENOVSKÝ, Jian-Qin CHEN, Jürgen DECKERT and Ai-Ping LIANG. Taxonomic review of the planthopper genus Orthopagus (Hemiptera, Fulgoromorpha, Dictyopharidae), with descriptions of two new species. Zoosystematics and Evolution. 2018, vol. 94, No 2, p. 369-391. ISSN 1860-0743. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zse.94.26895. fulltext info
• MALENOVSKÝ, Igor and Michael D. WEBB. Odomas linnavuorii, a new ground-dwelling leafhopper species from West Africa, with a nomenclatural note on the genus Coronophtus Van Stalle (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae: Megophthalminae). Entomologica Americana. New York: NEW YORK ENTOMOLOGICAL SOC INC, 2017, vol. 122, No 3, p. 418-434. ISSN 1947-5136. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1664/1947-5144-122.3.418. URL info
• BONARI, Gianmaria, Karel FAJMON, Igor MALENOVSKÝ, David ZELENÝ, Jaroslav HOLUŠA, Ivana JONGEPIEROVÁ, Petr KOČÁREK, Ondřej KONVIČKA, Jan UŘIČÁŘ and Milan CHYTRÝ. Management of semi-natural grasslands benefiting both plant and insect diversity: The importance of heterogeneity and tradition. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment. Amsterdam: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, 2017, vol. 246, August, p. 243-252. ISSN 0167-8809. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2017.06.010. fulltext info
• PERCY, Diana M., Philip T. BUTTERILL and Igor MALENOVSKÝ. Three new species of gall-forming psyllids (Hemiptera: Psylloidea) from Papua New Guinea, with new records and notes on related species. Journal of Natural History. ABINGDON: Taylor & Francis, 2016, vol. 50, 17-18, p. 1073-1101. ISSN 0022-2933. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2015.1104394. URL info
• TROPEK, Robert, Ilona ČERNÁ, Jakub STRAKA, Petr KOČÁREK, Igor MALENOVSKÝ, Filip TICHÁNEK and Pavel ŠEBEK. In search for a compromise between biodiversity conservation and human health protection in restoration of fly ash deposits: effect of anti-dust treatments on five groups of arthropods. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. Springer, 2016, vol. 23, No 14, p. 13653-13660. ISSN 0944-1344. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-015-4382-1. URL info
• MALENOVSKÝ, Igor, Daniel BURCKHARDT, Dalva L. QUEIROZ, Rosy M. S. ISAIAS and Denis C. OLIVEIRA. Descriptions of two new Pseudophacopteron species (Hemiptera: Psylloidea: Phacopteronidae) inducing galls on Aspidosperma (Apocynaceae) in Brazil. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae. Praha: Národní muzeum, Praha, 2015, vol. 55, No 2, p. 513-538. ISSN 0374-1036. URL info
• MALENOVSKÝ, Igor and Daniel BURCKHARDT. Jumping plant-lice of Socotra Island (Hemiptera: Psylloidea). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae. Praha: Národní muzeum, 2014, vol. 54, No 2014, p. 23-61. ISSN 0374-1036. URL info
• FEDOR, Peter, Igor MALENOVSKÝ, Jaromír VAŇHARA, W. SIERKA and Josef HAVEL. Thrips (Thysanoptera) identification using artificial neural networks. Bulletin of Entomological Research. Cambridge, England: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, 2008, vol. 98, No 4, p. 437-447. ISSN 0007-4853. info

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