Born in Moscow, Russia, 24th of September, 1936. Married, have one son (44).
Education
1955. Entered the Moscow State University.
1960. Graduated, with honours and with the master degree, from the Moscow State University, Chair of entomology (Prof. Eugeny S. Smirnov, the Head). Master thesis "Hibernation in the ichneumon flies subfamily Ichneumoninae".
Job 1960. Entered the Palaeontological Institute, Academy of Sciences of USSR (now Russian Academy of Sciences), the Arthropoda Laboratory (Prof. Boris B. Rohdendorf, the Head), succeedingly as a technician, junior and senior research worker, the Head of the Lab. (since 1979), principal research worker (since 1996), and the acting Head of the Lab. (since 2002, after sudden death of Dr Vladimir Zherikhin, my successor in this position since 1996).
Scientific interests My scientific interests are centered at palaeontology, phylogeny and taxonomy of the hymenopteran insects and of the insects in general, as well as at more wide biological problems, including the evolutionary theory and methodology of phylogenetics, taxonomy, and nomenclature.
Degrees 1967. PhD from the Palaeontological Institute, Academy of Sciences of USSR (now Russian Academy of Sciences). PhD thesis "Mesozoic Hymenoptera Symphyta and early evolution of Xyelidae".
1978. DSc in Biology from the Palaeontological Institute, Academy of Sciences of USSR (now Russian Academy of Sciences). DSc thesis "Origin and evolution of Hymenoptera".
Titles 1991. The title of Professor in biology from the Palaeontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences (for raising 5+ PhDs).
Museum studies
Besides the permanent study and curation of the fossil Hymenoptera and some other insect orders (Paoliida, Palaeomanteida, Hypoperlida, Blattinopseida, Caloneurida, Grylloblattida, etc.) kept at the Palaeontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, I have studied fossil insects (mainly Hymenoptera) kept in museums of UK (1994-2004: Natural Hisory Museum, London; Booth Museum of Natural History, Brighton; Maidston Museum and Art Gallery, Maidston); in Germany (1983-1999: Deutsche Entomologische Institute, Eberswalde; Palaeontologische Museum, Humboldt University, Berlin; Universität Göttingen); France (1998: Muséum Nationale d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris); in Spain (1998: Universitat de Barcelona); in Poland (1978-1988, Museum of Earth, Warsaw; Wroclaw University; Institute of Zoology, Cracow); in USA (1989-2008: Smithsonian Institution, Washington; American Museum of Natural History, New York; Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge; Peabody Museum, Yale Yniversity, New Heaven; University of Kansas, Lawrence; Los Angeles Co. Museum, Los Angeles; California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco; University of New Mexico, Albuquerque); in Canada (1988, Biosystematic Research Centre, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa); in South Africa (2001, 2005: University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg; Witwatersrand University, Pretoria); in China (2002, 2008, 2010: Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing); in Denmark (2003:Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen). Also I have studied extant insects (Hymenoptera in general for phylogenetic research and subfamily Ichneumoninae for generic and species level taxonomy) in Russia (since 1952: Zoological Museum, Moscow State University, Moscow, and Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, StPetersburg) and abroad: in UK (1994-2005: Natural Hisory Museum, London); USA (1989-2005: American Entomological Institute, Gainesville; Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge; California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco; American Museum of Natural History, New York) and Poland (1978, 1979: Wroclaw University).
International meetings I have attended, with oral presentations, at the 13th and 18th International Entomological Congresses (Moscow, 1968, Vancouver, 1988), VI Meeting on amber (Warsaw, 1988), I-III Meetings of the International Hymenopterist's Society (Vancouver, 1988, Sheffild, 1991, Davis, 1995), Conference on the Major Arthropod Groups Relationships (London, 1996), I-IV International Palaeoentomological Congresses (Moscow, 1998, Cracow, 2001, Pretoria, 2005, Vitoria-Gasteiz, 2007, Beijing, 2010), the 13th Entomological Congress, Entomological Society of Southern Africa (2001, Pietermaritzburg), and 6th International Conference of Hymenopterists (Sun City, South Africa).
Field work During 22 field seasons in 1956-2005, mostly palaeontological ones, I has visited many parts of FSU, including famous fossil insect sites in Central Asia (Madygen, Shurab, Issyk-Kul etc.), Norh Caucasus (Miocene insect shales near Stavropol), South Siberia (Jurassic insect sites in Kuznetsk Basin), Transbaikalia (Baissa, Uda, Unda etc.), North Siberia (various localities of Cretaceous fossil resins in Taimyr Peninsula), East Siberia (Cretaceous and Tertiary insect sites in Okhotsk, Sikhote-Alin, and other remote spots), as well as in Mongolia (Bon Tsagan, Bakhar, Khotont, etc.). I have collected fossil insects also in England (1994, 2005, Cretaceous Weald insects at Clockhouse Rockstore, and Eocene/Oligocene Bembridge Marl insects at Isle of Wight), Germany (1983, Jurassic Dobbertin fossil site), USA (1997, 1999, Eocene insect shales of Green River Formation, Colorado), Israel (2004, Cretaceous insects of Ora Formation).
Main projects 1995-1996. International Science Foundation [Soros Fund] Grant MUY300 "The World pre-Quarternary Fossil Insect, Myriapod, and Arachnid Database" (Principal Investigator).
1995-1997. Russian Foundation of Basic Research Grant 95-04-11105 "Insect-plant co-evolution: palaeontological evidence" (Principal Investigator).
1997-1999. The Leverhulme Trust Grant F58AQ to D. Quicke & M. Fitton (Investigator).
1998-2000. Royal Society Joint Project for FSU "Early Cretaceous insects and ancient environment of the West Laurasian Archipelago" (FSU Project Leader).
1998-2000. Russian Foundation of Basic Research Grant 98-04-48518 "Model of evolution of the insect-plant system" (Principal Investigator).
2004-2006. INTAS Ref. Nr. 03-51-4367 "The terrestrial fauna and flora of the Insect bed, Isle of Wight: interpreting the climate near the Eocene/Oligocene boundary" (Team Leader).
2004-2008 ISF "Hymenoptera Assembling The Tree Of Life" (Collaborator).
2009-2011. Russian Foundation of Basic Research Grant "Sequence and changes of the terrestial biota at the Permian/Triassic boundary in the Russian Platform" (Principal Investigator).
Awards 2001. The Honored Scientist (the state award of Russian Federation).
2003. The 1st grade Hans Rausing Award (for: Rasnitsyn, A.P., Quicke, D.L.J. (eds.). 2002. History of Insects. Dordrecht etc.: Kluwer Academic Publishers. 517 pp.).
2004. The Honorary Member, Russian Entomological Society
2008. The fourth International Society of Hymenopterists Distinguished Research Medal.
2009. The 2nd grade Hans Rausing Award (for: Zherikhin V.V., Ponomarenko A.G., Rasnitsyn A.P. 2008. Vvedenie v paleoentomologiyu [Introduction into Palaeoentomology]. Moscow, KMK, 371 pp.).
Public service 2001-2005. The President, International Palaeoentomological Society (elected at the Founding Meeting at the Second Palaeoentomological Congress, Cracow, Poland).
Since 2007. The member of Council, Russian Entomological Society.
Publications Published are 296 papers including 6 personal and 7 edited multiauthored books. See list of publications for details.
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1959. Hibernation sites of ichneumon-flies (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae). Entomol. Obozr. 38: 546-553 (in Russian, English translation in Entomol. Review 38(3): 491-498).
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1963. Late Jurassic Hymenoptera of Karatau. Paleontol. Zhurn. 1: 86-99 (in Russian).
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1963. Observation on the freezing of insects. Zool. Zhurn. 42: 1104-1105 (in Russian).
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1964. On hibernation of ichneumon-flies (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae). Entomol. Obozr. 43: 46-51 (in Russian, English translation in Entomol. Review 38(3): 491-498).
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1964. New Triassic Hymenoptera of the Middle Asia. Paleontol. Zhurn. 1: 88-96 (in Russian).
Rasnitsyn A.P. Some aspects of interrelations between morphogenesis and growth in the evolution of insect ontogeny. Entomol. Obozr. 1965, 44: 476-485 (in Russian, English translation in Entomol. Review 44: 279-284).
Rasnitsyn A.P. Notes on the biology, systematics and phylogeny of Xyelinae (Hymenoptera, Xyelidae). Polsk. Pismo Entomol. 1965. 35: 483-519 (in Russian with English keys and summary).
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1966. New Xyelidae (Hymenoptera) from the Mesozoic of Asia. Paleontol. Zhurn. 4: 69-85 (in Russian, translated into English in Internat. Geol. Rev. 1967. 9: 723-737).
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1966. Key to superfamilies and families of Hymenoptera. Entomol. Obozr. 45: 599-611 (in Russian, English translation in Entomol. Review 45(3): 340-347).
Rasnitsyn A.P. Reinforcement of regulator as a criterion of the evolutionary progress. Bull. Moscow Soc. Naturalists, Biol. Sect. 1966. 71: 149-150 (in Russian).
Rasnitsyn A.P. On the Dollo's law inobserved in the evolution of Symphyta (Insecta, Hymenoptera). Bull. Moscow Soc. Naturalists, Geol. Sect. 1966. 39: 139-140 (in Russian).
Ponomarenko A.G. and Rasnitsyn A.P. Phylogenetic and structural-functional criteria of similarity and dissimilarity in the taxonomic practice. Bull. Moscow Soc. Naturalists, Biol. Sect. 1966. 71: 146 (in Russian).
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1967. An attempt of the causal analysis of the process of oligomerization of the homological organs. Bull. Moscow Soc. Naturalists, Biol. Sect. 72: 150 (in Russian).
Ponomarenko A.G. and Rasnitsyn A.P. 1967. On a method of the tentative estimation of diversity in past local faunas. Paleontol. Zhurn. 3: 98-105 (in Russian).
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1968. New Mesozoic sawflies (Hymenoptera, Symphyta). In: B.B. Rohdendorf (ed.). Jurassic insects of Karatau. Nauka Press, Moscow, 190-236 (in Russian).
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1968. On the evolution of the function of ovipositor in relation to the origin of parasitism in Hymenoptera. Entomol. Obozr. 47: 61-70 (in Russian, English translation in Entomol. Review 47: ...).
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1969. Origin and evolution of Lower Hymenoptera. Trans. Paleontol. Inst. Acad. Sci. USSR. 123. Nauka Press, Moscow, 196 p. (in Russian, translated into English by Amerind Co., New Delhi, 1979).
Kisseleva K.V., Razumovsky S.M., and Rasnitsyn A.P. Boundaries between plant communities and dynamics of vegetation. Zhurn. obshch. biol. 1969. 30: 123-131 (in Russian with English summary).
Kisseleva K.V., Razumovsky S.M., and Rasnitsyn A.P. On the spatio-temporal organisation of the biocenosis. Doklady Moscow Soc. Naturalists. Zoology and Botany, 1967. Vol. II. Moscow. 1969: 92 (in Russian).
Rasnitsyn A.P. On the cause of some kinds of the orthogenesis. Doklady Moscow Soc. Naturalists. Zoology and Botany, 1967. Vol. II. Moscow. 1969: 90-91 (in Russian).
Rasnitsyn A.P. On the causes of the morpho-functional progress. In: Problems of the progressive development in the living world and in technics. Abstr. Symp. 28-30th Oct. 1969. Leningrad. 1969: 94-98 (in Russian).
Rasnitsyn A.P. Evolution of Xyelidae (Hymenoptera). In: Obruchev D.V., Shimansky V.N. (eds.). Current problems of palaeontology. Trans. Paleontol. Inst. Acad. Sci. USSR. 130. Nauka Press, Moscow. 1971: 187-196 (in Russian).
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1971. On the causes of the morpho-functional progress. Zhurn. obshch. biol. 32: 549-556 (in Russian with English summary).[Russian HTML]
Ponomarenko A.G. and Rasnitsyn A.P. 1971. On the phenetic and phylogenetic systems. Zool. Zhurn. 50: 5-14 (in Russian with English summary).
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1971. On the origin of Hymenoptera. Proc. XIII Int. Congr. Ent. 1. Nauka Press, Moscow. P. 289.
Rasnitsyn A.P. On irreducibility of the macroevolutionary processes to the microevolution. In: Philosophical problems of the evolution (abstracts of Symposium). Pt. 2. Nauka Press, Moscow. 1971: 171-178 (in Russian).
Rasnitsyn A.P. On some taxonometric methods of analysis of the system of organisms. Abstracts of lectures on the All-Union Colloq. on mathem. methods in paleont. Tallin. 1971: 42-45 (in Russian).
Rasnitsyn A.P. and Khovanov G.M. A more precise method of the diversity estimation of local faunas. Abstracts of lectures on the All-Union Colloq. on mathem. methods in paleont. Tallin. 1971: 45-48 (in Russian).
Ponomarenko A.G. and Rasnitsyn A.P. Symposium on the philosophic problems of the evolutionary theory. Paleontol. Zhurn. 1971. 3: 130-131 (in Russian).
Rasnitsyn A.P. On some mechanisms of speciation. Doklady Moscow Soc. Naturalists. Zoology and Botany. 2nd half year of 1968 and 1969. Moscow. 1971: 79-81 (in Russian).
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1972. On the taxonomic analysis and some other taxometric methods. Zhurn. obshch. biol. 33: 60-76 (in Russian with English summary).
Zhelochovtzev A.N. and Rasnitsyn A.P. 1972. On some Tertiary sawflies (Hymenoptera, Symphyta) from Colorado. Psyche. 79: 315-327.
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1972. Praeaulacidae (Hymenoptera) from the Upper Jurassic of Karatau. Paleontol. Zhurn. 1: 72-87 [in Russian, translated into English as 'Late Jurassic Hymenopterous insects (Praeaulacidae) of Karatau)' in Paleontol. J. 6(1): 62-77].
Rasnitsyn A.P. and Khovanov G.M. 1972. A method for more accurate estimation of the volume of local faunas. Paleontol. Zhurn. 3: 162-167 (in Russian, translated into English in Paleontol. J. 6(3): 422-426).
Rasnitsyn A.P. On the causes of the morpho-functional progress. In: Zavadsky K.M. (ed.). Patterns of the progressive evolution. Leningrad. 1972: 314-319.
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1973. Praeaulacinus parvus A.Rasnitsyn, nom. nov. Paleontol. Zhurn. 1: 122 (in Russian, translated into English in Paleontol. J. 7(1): 116).
Ponomarenko A.G. and Rasnitsyn A.P. 1974. New Mesozoic and Cenozoic Protomecoptera. Paleontol. Zhurn. 4: 59-73 (in Russian, translated into English in Paleontol. J. 8 (4): 493-507).
Rasnitsyn A.P. On the species and speciation. In: Vorontsov N.N. (ed.). Problems of evolution. Vol. IV. Nauka Press, Novosibirsk. 1975. P. 221-230.
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1975. Hymenoptera Apocrita of Mesozoic. Trans. Paleontol. Inst. Acad. Sci. USSR. 147. Nauka Press, Moscow. 134 p. (in Russian).
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1975. Early evolution of higher Hymenoptera (Apocrita). Zool. Zhurn. 54: 848-860 (in Russian with English summary).
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1976. On the early evolution of insects and the origin of Pterygota. Zhurn. obshch. biol. 37: 543-555 (in Russian with English summary).
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1976. Grylloblattidae are the living members of the order Protoblattodea. C.R. Acad. Sci. USSR. 228: 502-504 (in Russian, translated into English in Doklady Biol. Sci. 228: 273-275).
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1977. A new subfamily of scoliid wasps (Hymenoptera). Zool. Zhurn. 56: 522-529 (in Russian with English summary).
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1977. New Paleozoic and Mesozoic insects. Paleontol. Zhurn. 1: 64-77 (in Russian, translated into English in Paleontol. J. (1977) 1978. 11: 60-72).
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1977. New Hymenoptera from the Jurassic and Cretaceous of Asia. Paleontol. Zhurn. 3: 98-108 (in Russian, translated into English in Paleontol. J. (1977) 1978. 11: 349-357).
Rasnitsyn A.P. A new family of sawflies (Hymenoptera, Tenthredinoidea, Electrotomidae) from the Baltic amber. Zool. Zhurn. 1977. 56: 1304-1308 (in Russian with English summary).
Zherichin V.V. and Rasnitsyn A.P. "V.A. Krassilov. Evolution and biostratigraphy. Nauka Press, Moscow. 1977." Zhurn. obshch. biol. 1978. 39: 798-800 (book review; in Russian with English summary).
Kozlov M.A. and Rasnitsyn A.P. On volume of the family Serphitidae (Hymenoptera, Proctotrupoidea). Entomol. Obozr. 1979, 58: 402-416 (in Russian).
Rasnitsyn A.P. Morphological grounds of the new system of the insects. In: Sokolov V.E. (ed.). State and prospects for the progress in morphology. Nauka Press, Moscow. 1979: 382-383.
Rasnitsyn A.P. Origin and evolution of Hymenoptera. Trans. Paleontol. Inst. Acad. Sci. USSR. 174. Nauka Press, Moscow. 1980. 192 p. (in Russian).
Rasnitsyn A.P. In: Rohdendorf B.B., Rasnitsyn A.P. (eds.) Historical development of the class Insecta. Trans. Paleontol. Inst. Acad. Sci. USSR. 175. Nauka Press, Moscow. 1980: 20-31, 36-44, 49-52, 72-76, 99-101, 122-127, 134-138, 148-160, 164-166 (in Russian).
Rasnitsyn A.P. On system of the family Aulacidae (Hymenoptera) in connection with a new finding in the Cretaceous of Manlay. In: Kalugina N.S. (ed.). The Early Cretaceous Lake Manlay. Trans. Joint Soviet-Mongol. Paleontol. Exped. No. 13. Nauka Press, Moscow. 1980: 65-67 (in Russian).
Rasnitsyn A.P. "Key for identification of insects of the European part of the USSR. Vol. III. Hymenoptera. Pt. 1. Nauka Press, Moscow. 1978." Entomol. Obozr. 1980, 59: 479-482 (book review; in Russian).
Pulawski W.J. and Rasnitsyn A.P. On the taxonomic position of Hoplisus sepultus Cockerell, 1906, from the Lower Oligocene of Colorado (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae). Polsk. Pismo Entomol. 1980. 50: 393-396.
Zherichin V.V. and Rasnitsyn A.P. Biocenotic regulation of the evolutionary process. In: Paaver K.L., Sutt T.Ya. (ed.) Micro- and macroevolution. Tartu. 1980: 77-81 (in Russian).
Alekseev V.N. and Rasnitsyn A.P. Late Cretaceous Megaspilidae (Hymenoptera) from amber of the Taimyr. Paleontol. Zhurn. 1981. 4: 127-130 (in Russian, translated into English in Paleontol. J. 15(4): 124-128).
Tichomirova A.L. and Rasnitsyn A.P. Recapitulations in ontogenesis of Dolichovespa saxonica (Hymenoptera, Vespidae). Zool. Zhurn. 1981. 60: 1010-1023 (in Russian with English summary).
Rasnitsyn A.P. and Siitan U.V. Ichneumoninae. In: Kasparyan D.R. (ed.) Key for identification of insects of the European part of the USSR. Vol. III. Hymenoptera. Pt. 3. Nauka Press, Moscow. 1981: 506-636 (in Russian).
Rasnitsyn A.P. "Krombein K.V., Hurd P.D., Jr., Smith D.R., Burks B.D. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Smiths. Inst. Press, Washington, D.C. 1979, vol. 1-2: 1-2209". Entomol. Obozr. 1981, 60: 231-233 (book review; in Russian).
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1981. A modified paranotal theory of the insect wing origin. J. Morphol. 168: 331-338.
Rasnitsyn A.P. Gravenhorst's and Berthoumieu's types of Ichneumoninae Stenopneusticae preserved in Wroclaw and Cracow, Poland (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae). Polsk. Pismo Entomol. 1981. 51: 101-145.
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1982. Proposal to regulate the names of taxa above the family group. Z.N.(S.) 2381. Bull. Zool. Nom. 39: 200-207.
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1982. Triassic and Jurassic insects of the genus Shurabia (Grylloblattida, Geinitziidae). Paleontol. Zhurn. 3: 78-87 (in Russian, translated into English in Paleontol. J. 16(3): 77-86).
Krassilov V.A. and Rasnitsyn A.P. 1982. A unique finding: pollen in the intestine of Early Cretaceous sawflies. Paleontol. Zhurn. 4: 83-96 (in Russian, translated into English in Paleontol. J. 16(4): 80-94).
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1983. Ichneumonoidea (Hymenoptera) from the Lower Cretaceous of Mongolia. Contrib. Amer. Entomol. Inst. 20: 259-265.
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1983. Fossil Hymenoptera of the superfamily Pamphilioidea. Paleontol. Zhurn. 2: 54-68 (in Russian, translated into English in Paleontol. J. 1983. 17(2): 56-70).
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1983. New names for fossil insects. Paleontol. Zhurn. 3: 103 (in Russian, translated into English in Paleontol. J.17(3): 99).
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1983. First finding of the Jurassic moth. C. R. Acad. Sci. USSR. 269: 467-471 (in Russian, probably translated into English in Doklady Biol. Sci.).
Rasnitsyn A.P. Phylogeny and taxonomy. In: Zykova L.Yu., Panov E.N. (eds.) Theoretic problems of the modern biology. Pushchino. 1983: 41-49 (in Russian).
Rasnitsyn A.P. Insects. In: Tatarinov L.P., Shimansky V.N. (eds.). Handbook for taxonomy of the fossil organisms. Nauka Press, Moscow. 1984: 81-84 (in Russian).
Rasnitsyn A.P. Living being as an adaptive compromise. In: Macroevolution (materials toward 1st All-Union Conf. on problems of the evolution. Nauka Press, Moscow. 1984: 233 (in Russian).
Rasnitsyn A.P. Type specimens of Ichneumoninae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) kept in Zoological Institute, Acad. Sci. USSR. I. Taxa described from the USSR territory. Entomol. Obozr. 1984, 63: 790-801 (in Russian, translated into English in Entomol. Rev. 63 (4): 115-126).
Melnikov O.A. and Rasnitsyn A.P. 1984. Zur Metamerie des Arthropoden-Kopfes: Das Acron. Beitr. Entomol.34: 3-90.
Rasnitsyn A.P., Kalugina N.S., and Ponomarenko A.G. Insects in the Mesozoic biocenoses of Siberia and Mongolia. 9th Meeting of the All-Union Entomological Society of the USSR. Kiev, October 1984. Pt. 2. Kiev, 1984: 121-122.
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1985. Hymenopterous insects in Jurassic of the Eastern Siberia. Bull. Moscow Soc. Naturalists, Biol. Sect.58: 85-94 (in Russian).
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1985. Eobraconus, a substitute name for Eobracon A. Rasnitsyn (Hymenoptera,Braconidae). Psyche92: 163.
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1986. Type specimens of Ichneumoninae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) kept in Zoological Institute, Acad. Sci. USSR. 2. Species described by N.R. Kokujev from China. Entomol. Obozr.65: 142-152 (in Russian, translated into English in Entomol. Rev. 65 (1): 142-152).
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1986. Inadaptation and euadaptation. Paleontol. Zhurn.1: 3-7 (in Russian, translated into English in Paleontol. J. 1987. 20(1): 1-4).[Russian HTML]
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1986. Parataxon and paranomenclature. Paleontol. Zhurn.3: 11-21 (in Russian, translated into English in Paleontol. J. 1987. 20 (3): 25-33).
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1986. New hymenopterous insects of the family Mesoserphidae. Vestnik zool.2: 19-25 (in Russian).
Rasnitsyn A.P. Vespida (= Hymenoptera). In: Rasnitsyn A.P. (ed.). Insects in the Early Cretaceous Ecosystems of the West Mongolia. Trans. Joint Soviet-Mongol. Paleontol. Exped.28. Nauka Press, Moscow. 1986: 154-164 (in Russian).
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1986. Review of fossil Tiphiidae, with description of a new species (Hymenoptera). Psyche93: P. 91-101.
Rasnitsyn A.P. Tempo of evolution and evolutionary theory (hypothesis of the adaptive compromise). In: Tatarinov L.P., Rasnitsyn A.P. (eds.). Evolution and biocenotic crises. Nauka Press, Moscow. 1987: 46-64 (in Russian).
Menke A.S. and Rasnitsyn A.P. 1987. Affininties of the fossil wasp, Hoplisidea kohliana Cockerell (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae: Sphecinae). Psyche94: 35-38.
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1987. The importance of [not] being a cladist. Sphecos14: 23-25.
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1988. Sepulcids and the origin of cephid saw-flies (Hymenoptera: Cephidaa, Sepulcidae). In: Tobias V.I. (ed.). Taxonomy of insects and mites. Trans. All-Union Entomol. Soc. Nauka Press, Lenindrag. 70: 68-73. (in Russian)
Rasnitsyn A.P. Phylogenetics. In: Menner V.V., Makridin V.P. (eds.). Modern paleontology. Nedra Press, Moscow. 1988. Vol. 1: 480-497 (in Russian).
Rasnitsyn A.P. Problem of the global crisis of the non-marine biocenoses in the Mid-Cretaceous. In: Ponomarenko A.G. (ed.). Cretaceous biocenotic crisis and evolution of the insects. Nauka Press, Moscow. 1988: 191-207 (in Russian).
Rasnitsyn A.P. and Dlussky G.M. Principles and methods of the phylogeny reconstruction. In: Ponomarenko A.G. (ed.). Cretaceous biocenotic crisis and evolution of the insects. Nauka Press, Moscow. 1988: 5-15 (in Russian).
Rasnitsyn A.P. and Kovalev O.V. The oldest gall-wasps from the Early Cretaceous of Transbaikalian (Hymenoptera, Cynipoidea, Archaeocynipidae fam.nov.). Vestnik zool. 1988. No 1: 18-21 (in Russian).
Rasnitsyn A.P. On the Red Queen, progressionness of reproduction and sex selection. In: Krassilov V.A. (ed.). Evolutionary studies. Vavilov's themes. Vladivostok. 1988: 47-53 (in Russian).
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1988. An outline of evolution of the hymenopterous insects (order Vespida). Oriental Insects22: 115-145.
Rasnitsyn A.P. Paleontological succession of hymenopterans. Proc. XVIII Int. Congr. Entomol. Vancouver 1988: 9.
Tichomirova A.L. and Rasnitsyn A.P. Recapitulations in holometabolan morphogenesis. Proc. XVIII Int. Congr. Entomol. Vancouver 1988: 73.
Rasnitsyn A.P. and Sharkey M. New Eoichneumonidae from Early Cretaceous in Siberia and Mongolia. V.K.Gupta (ed.). Advances in parasitic Hymenoptera research. Leiden etc.: E.J. Brill. 1988: 169-197.
Babak E.V., Goncharova I.A., and Rasnitsyn A.P. Dynamics of speciation and extinction of the Neogene bivalve molluscs in Eastern Paratethys. In: Severtzov A.S. (ed.). Problems of macroevolution. Nauka Press, Moscow. 1988: 4-5 (in Russian).
Goncharova I.A. and Rasnitsyn A.P. Evolution of bivalve molluscs in the Miocene of Paratethys as reflected in the Layellian curves. In: Severtzov A.S. (ed.). Problems of macroevolution. Nauka Press, Moscow. 1988: 9 (in Russian).
Rasnitsyn A.P. Dynamics of insect families and a hypothesis of the Cretaceous biocenotic crisis. In: Sokolov B.S. (ed.). Sediment cover of the Earth in space and time. Stratigraphy and paleontology. Nauka Press, Moscow. 1989: 35-40 (in Russian, with English summary).
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1989. Haldane's nightmare is a fiction. A remark to B.M. Mednikov. Zhurn. obshch. biol.50: 136-137 (in Russian).
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1989. Remark to remark, or once more about the transition load. Zhurn. obshch. biol. 50: 719 (in Russian).
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1989. Phytospreading from the selectionist's viewpoint. Zhurn. obshch. biol. 50: 581-583 (in Russian, with English summary).
Rasnitsyn A.P. and Matveev D.G. The first palearctic representative of the genus Ampulicomorpha Ashmead (Hymenoptera, Embolemidae). Entomol. Obozr. 1989, 68: 657-661 (in Russian, English translation: Entomol. Review 1990 69. 3. 133-137).
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1989. Vespida vs. Hymenoptera. Sphecos. 18: 8.
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1990. History of paleoentomology and history of insects. Priroda. 6: 66-80 (in Russian).
Rasnitsyn A.P., Kozlov M.V. New group of fossil insects: scorpion-fly with cicad and moth adaptations. C. R. Acad. Sci. USSR. 1990. 310: 973-976 (in Russian, English translation: Rasnitsyn A.P., Kozlov M.V. 1991. A new group of fossil insects: scorpions [sic!] with cicad butterfly [sic!] adaptations. Transactions (Doklady) of the USSR Academy of Sciences: Earth Science Sections. 310. 233-236).
Rasnitsyn A.P. Hymenoptera. In: Ponomarenko A.G. (ed.). Late Mesozoic insects of Eastern Transbaikalian. Trans. Paleontol. Inst. Acad. Sci. USSR. 239. Nauka Press, Moscow. 1990: 177-205 (in Russian).
Rasnitsyn A.P. Table 1. Known Cretaceous Hymenoptera. In: Darling D.Ch., Sharkey M.J. Order Hymenoptera. In: Grimaldi D.A. (ed.). Insects from the Santana Formation, Lower Cretaceous, of Brasil. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 1990. N 195: 124-129.
Rasnitsyn A.P. Hymenopterous insects and stratigraphy of the Cretaceous. In: Krassilov V.A. (ed.). Non-marine Cretaceous of the USSR. Materials of Conference of the Soviet working group of the Project 245 IGCP, Vladivostok, Oct. 1988. Vladivostok 1990: 15-18 (in Russian).
Rasnitsyn A.P. Rank problem in taxonomy. In: Menner V.V. (ed.). Taxonomy and phylogeny of Invertebrata. Nauka Press, Moscow. 1990: 5-10 (in Russian, with English summary).
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1990. New representatives of the hymenopterous family Praeaulacidae from the Early Cretaceous in Buriatia and Mongolia. Vestn. Zool. 1990. N 6. P. 27-31 (in Russian).
Rasnitsyn A.P. and Kulicka R. 1990. Hymenopteran insects in Baltic amber with respect to the overall history of the order. Prace Muzeum Ziemi. 41: 53-64.
Rasnitsyn A.P. New Hymenopterans of the genus Baissa (Gasteruptiidae s.l.) from Early Cretaceous in Buryatia and Mongolia. Vestn. zool. 1991. N 1: 78-79 (in Russian, with English summary).
Emelyanov A.F. and Rasnitsyn A.P. 1991. Systematics, taxonomy, cladistics. Priroda7: 26-37 (in Russian).
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1991. Patronage of pure science. Priroda8: 88-89 (in Russian).
Rasnitsyn A.P. Early Cretaceous members of evaniomorphous hymenopteran families Stigmaphronidae, Cretevaniidae, and subfamily Kotujellitinae (Gasteruptiidae). Paleontol. Zhurn. 1991. No 4: 128-132 (in Russian, translated into English in Paleontol. J. 25 (4): 172-179).
Rasnitsyn A.P. and Michener C.D. Miocene fossil bumble bee from the Soviet Far East with comments on the chronology and distribution of fossil bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Ann. Entomol. Soc. Amer. 1991. 84 (6): 583-589.
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1991. Typified names of higher taxa once again. Sphecos22: 5-7.
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1991. Nomenclature for the XXI century? Sphecos22: 7-8.
Sukatcheva I.D. and Rasnitsyn A.P. First member of the family Boreidae (Insecta, Panorpida) from the Upper Jurassic of Mongolia and the Lower Cretaceous of Transbaikalia. Paleontol. Zhurn. 1992. No 1: 126-129 (in Russian, translated into English in Paleontol. J. 26: 16?-17?).
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1992. Principles of phylogenetics and taxonomy. Zhurn. obshchei biologii53(2): 172-185 (in Russian).
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1992. Principles of nomenclature and the nature of taxon. Zhurn. obshchei biologii53(3): 307-313 (in Russian).
Rasnitsyn A.P. Comments on the article Problems in the Nomenclature of Higher Taxonomic Categories by Ya.I. Starobogatov (see BZN 48: 6-18). Bull. zool. nomencl. 1992. 49 (1): 62.
Kasparyan D.R., Rasnitsyn A.P. On the systematic position of the OligoceneLithoserix williamsi Brown (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) from Colorado (USA). Paleont. Zhurn. 1992. No 3: 113-114 (in Russian, translated into English in Paleontol.J. 26 (3): 134-135).
Melnikov O.A., Eskov K.Yu., Rasnitsyn A.P. On the promorphology of chelicerates. Izv. Akad. Nauk, Ser. Biol. 1992. No 3: 405-415 (in Russian, with English summary).
Rasnitsyn A.P. and Sinitshenkova N.D. Insects in deposits of the Vorkuta series. Meeting on paleontology and stratigraphy of non-marine deposits of the Permian and Triassic of North Eurasia. Abstracts of reports. Moscow: Paleontol Inst. Rus. Acad. Sci. 1992.: 15-16 (in Russian).
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1992. Strashila incredibilis, a new enigmatic mecopteroid insect with possible siphonateran affinities from the Upper Jurassic of Siberia. Psyche99: 319-329
Rasnitsyn A.P. George Soros Grant competition in biodiversity: preliminary results. Zhurn. obshchei biologii 1993. 54(3): 382-383 (in Russian).
Rasnitsyn A.P. Order Hymenoptera. In: Gromov V.V., Dmitriev V. Yu. Cretaceous insects from Uljya River basin (West Okhotsk region). Mesozoic insects and ostracods from Asia. Trans. Paleontol. Inst., Russian Acad. Sci. Vol. 252. Nauka Press, Moscow. 1993: 50-57 (in Russian).
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1993. New taxa of Sepulcidae. In: Mesozoic insects and ostracods from Asia. Trans. Paleontol. Inst., Russian Acad. Sci.252, Nauka Press, Moscow., 80-99. (in Russian)
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1993. Archaeoscoliinae, an extinct subfamily of scoliid wasps (Insecta: Vespida = Hymenoptera: Scoliidae). J. Hymenopt. Res. 2: 85-96.
Brothers D.J., Rasnitsyn A.P. 1993. Mesozoic Aculeate Hymenoptera from Orapa, Botsvana. Proc. 9th Entomol. Congr. Ent. Soc. S. Africa Johannesbourg 28 June - 1 July 1993. Pretoria, Ent. Soc. S.Afr.: 132.
Dmitriev V. Yu., Ponomarenko A.G., Rasnitsyn A.P. 1994. Dynamics of the taxonomic diversity of nonmarine biota. In: Ecosystem re-organization and evolution of biosphera. Moscow, Nedra Press: 167-174 (in Russian).
Dmitriev V. Yu., Ponomarenko A.G., Rasnitsyn A.P. 1994. Organic diversity in geological past. State of the problem. In: Biodiversity. Degree of taxonomical knowledge. Moscow, Nauka Press: 12-19 (in Russian).
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1994. New Late Jurassic Mesoserphidae (Vespida, Proctotrupoidea). Paleontol. Zhurn. 2: 115-119 (in Russian).
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1995. Tertiary sawflies of the tribe Xyelini (Insecta: Vespida = Hymenoptera: Xyelidae) and their relationship to the Mesosoic and modern faunas. Contribution in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. No. 450: 1-14.
Rasnitsyn A.P. and Krassilov V.A. 1995. First finding of pollen in intestines of Permian insects. In: Ecosystem evolution. Int. Symposium. Moscow, 26-30 Sept. 1995. Abstracts. Paleontological Inst. RAS. Moscow, 1995: 76 (pp. 101-102: Russian version).
Rasnitsyn A. P. 1995. Lower Cretaceous hymenopterans from the English Weald and Purbeck. International Society of hymenopterists. Third annual conference. Abstracts of papers and posters. August 12-17, 1995. University of California Davis, California: 24.
Dmitriev V. Yu., Ponomarenko A.G., and Rasnitsyn A.P. 1995. Dynamics of the taxonomic diversity of nonmarine aquatic biota. Paleontol. Zhurn. 4: 3-9 (in Russian, English translation Paleontol. J. 1996. 30. 3. 255-259). [Abstract]
Rasnitsyn A. P. 1996. Conceptual issues in phylogeny, taxonomy, and nomenclature. Contributions to Zoology, 66(1): 3-41.
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1996. New Early Cretaceous Embolemidae (Vespida = Hymenopterea: Chrysidoidea). In: B.B. Norden and A.S. Menke. Contributions on Hymenoptera and associated insects dedicated to Karl V. Krombein. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Washington, no. 17: 183-187.
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1996. Phylogenetic problems in the insecta. International symposium on the relationships of major arthropod groups. Programme and abstracts. 17th-19th April, 1996. The Natural History Museum, London: 16.
Rasnitsyn A.P. and Krassilov V.A. 1996. First find of pollen grains in the gut of Permian insects. Paleontol. Zhurn. 3: 119-124 (translated into English in Paleontol. J. 30(4): 484-490). [Abstract]
Rasnitsyn A.P. and Krassilov V.A. 1996. Pollen in the gut contents of fossil insects as evidence of co-evolution. Paleontol. J. 30(6): 716-722. [Abstract]
Krassilov V.A. and Rasnitsyn A.P. 1997. Pollen in the guts of Permian insects: first evidence of pollinivory and its evolutionary significance. Lethaia29: 369-372.
Rasnitsyn A.P. and Novokshonov V.G. 1997. On the morphology of Uralia maculata (Insecta: Diaphanipterida) from the Early Permian (Kungurian) of Ural (Russia). Entomologica Scandinavica28: 27-38.
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1997. Xyela (Pinicolites) lata Smith (Vespida: Xyelidae), a living fossil sawfly from Western North America. Pan-Pacific Entomologist73(3): 231-235.
Dobruskina I.A., Ponomarenko A.G., and Rasnitsyn A.P. 1997. Fossil insect findings in Israel. Paleontol. Zhurn. 5: 91-95 (translated into English in Paleontol. J. 31(5): 528-533).
Krassilov V.A., Zherikhin V.V., and Rasnitsyn A.P. 1997. Pollen in guts of fossil insects as evidence for coevolution. C.R Acad. Sci.354(1): 135-138 (in Russian, English translation: Doklady Biological Sciences. 354. 239-241).
Krassilov V.A., Zherikhin V.V., and Rasnitsyn A.P. 1997. Classopollis in the gut of Jurassic insects. Palaeontology40(4): 1095-1101.
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1998. Problem of the basal dichotomy of the winged insects. In: R.A. Fortey and R.H. Thomas (eds.) Arthropod relationships. Systematic Association Special Volume Series 55. London etc., Chapman and Hall: 237-248.
Rasnitsyn A.P., Jarzembowski E.A., and Ross A.J. 1998. Wasps (Insecta: Vespida = Hymenoptera) from the Purbeck and Wealden (Lower Cretaceous) of southern England and their biostratigraphical and paleoenvironmental significance. Cretaceous Research, 19(3&4): 329-391.
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1998. On the taxonomic position of the insect order Zorotypida = Zoraptera. Zool. Anzeiger 237: 185-194.
Martínez-Delclòs X., Peñalver-Mollá E., Rasnitsyn A. 1998. Los Hymenoptera del ámbar del Cretácico inferior de Álava (País Vasco, España). World Congress on amber inclusions 20th-23th October 1998 Vitoria-Gasteiz Alava-Araba Basque Country - Euskadi - País Vasco, p. 119.
Martínez-Delclòs X., Peñalver-Mollá E., Rasnitsyn A. 1998. Serphitidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) from the Lower Cretaceous amber of Álava (Spain). World Congress on amber inclusions 20th-23th October 1998 Vitoria-Gasteiz Alava-Araba Basque Country - Euskadi - País Vasco, p. 161.
Krassilov V.A., Rasnitsyn A.P., Afonin S.A. 1999. Pollen morphotypes from the intestine of a Permian booklouse. Rev. Palaeobot. Palynol.106: 89-96.
Rasnitsyn, A.P., Pulawski, W.J., Martínez-Delclòs, X., 1999. Cretaceous digger wasps of the new genus Bestiola (Vespida = Hymenoptera: Sphecidae, Angarosphecinae). J. Hymenopt. Res., 8(1), 23-34.
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1999. Insect taxonomy. In: Grodnitsky D.L. Form and function of insect wings. The evolution of biological structures: 1-11. Baltimore & London, The John Hopkins Univ. Press: 261 pp.
Ronquist F., Rasnitsyn A. P., Roy A., Eriksson K., Lindgren M. 1999. Phylogeny of the Hymenoptera: A cladistic reanalysis of Rasnitsyn's (1988) data. Zoologica Scripta28: 13-50.
Basibuyuk H.H., Rasnitsyn A.P., Achterberg K., von, Fitton M.G., Quicke D.L.J. 1999. A new, putatively primitive Cretaceous fossil braconid subfamily from New Jersey amber (Hymenoptera, Braconidae). Zoologica Scripta28: 211-214.
Rasnitsyn, A.P., Martínez-Delclòs, X. 1999. New Cretaceous Scoliidae (Vespida = Hymenoptera) from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain and Brazil. Cretaceous Research, 20: 767-772.
Martínez-Delclòs X., Peñalver-Mollá E., Rasnitsyn A. 1999. Hymenopteran insects from the Lower Cretaceous amber of Alava (Spain). Abstr. VII Intern. Symp. Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems, Buenos Aires, 1999. Buenos Aires: 42.
Dlussky G.M., Rasnitsyn A.P. 1999. Two new aculeate hymenopterans (Vespida = Hymenoptera) from the Middle Eocene of United States. Paleontol. Zhurn. 5: 72-75 (in Russian; English translation in Paleontol. J. 33 (5): 546-549).
Rasnitsyn, A.P. 2000 (1999). Taxonomy and morphology of Dasyleptus Brongniart, 1885, with description of a new species (Insecta: Machilida, Dasyleptidae). Russian Entomol. J.8(3) 145-154.
Rasnitsyn A.P. and Zherikhin V.V. 2000 (1999). First fossil chewing louse from the Lower Cretaceous of Baissa, Transbaikalia (Insecta, Pediculida = Phthiriaptera, Saurodectidae fam. nov.). Russian Entomol. J.8(4): 253-255.
Rasnitsyn A.P. 1999. Cratephialtites gen. nov. (Vespida = Hymenoptera: Ephialtitidae), a new genus for Karataus koiurus Sharkey, 1990, from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil. Russian Entomol. J. 8(2): 135-136.
Krassilov V.A. and Rasnitsyn A.P. 1999. Plant remains from the guts of fossil insects: Evolutionary and Paleoecological inferences. Proceedings of the First Palaeoentomological Conference Moscow 1998. Bratislava, AMBA projects: 65-72.
Rasnitsyn, A.P. 2000. An extremely primitive aculeate wasp in the Cretaceous amber from New Jersey. In: Grimaldi D.A. (ed.) Studies on fossils in amber, with particular reference to the Cretaceous of New Jersey. Backhuis Publisher, Leiden, The Netherlands. pp. 327-332.
Rasnitsyn A.P. and Krassilov V.A. 2000. [First documented occurrence of phyllophagy in pre-Cretaceous insects: leaf tissues in the gut of Upper Jurassic insects from Southern Kazakhstan]. Paleontol. Zhurn. 3: 73-81 (English translation: Paleontol. J. 34(3): 301-309]. [PDF]
Pulawski W.J., Rasnitsyn A.P., Brothers D.J., and Archibald S.B. 2000. New Genera of Angarosphecinae: Cretosphecium from Early Cretaceous of Mongolia and Eosphecium from Early Eocene of Canada(Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Journal of Hymenopteran Research, 9 (1), 34-40.
Pulawski W.J., Rasnitsyn A.P. 2000. Cretobestiola, a replacement name for Bestiola Pulawski and Rasnitsyn, 1999 (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Journal of Hymenopteran Research, 9(1), 209.
Rasnitsyn A.P. and Ross A.J. 2000. A preliminary list of arthropod families present in the Burmese amber collection at The Natural History Museum, London. In: A.J. Ross (ed.). The history, geology, age and fauna (mainly insects) of Burmese amber, Myanmar. Bulletin of The Natural History Museum, Geology Series, 56 (1): 21-24.
Basibuyuk H.H., Rasnitsyn A.P., Fitton M.G. and Quicke D.L.J. 2000. An archaic new genus of Evaniidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) and implications for the biology of ancestral evanioids. In: A.J. Ross (ed.). The history, geology, age and fauna (mainly insects) of Burmese amber, Myanmar. Bulletin of The Natural History Museum, Geology Series, 56 (1): 53-58.
Brothers, D.J. and A.P. Rasnitsyn. 2000. Evolution of the enigmatic Plumariidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea). Multidisciplinary Approaches to Systematics, Second Conference of the Southern African Society for Systematic Biology, Abstracts, p.24.
Basibuyuk H.H., Quicke D.L.J., Rasnitsyn A.P., Fitton M.G. 2000. Morphology and sensilla of the orbicula, a sclerite between the tarsal claws, in the Hymenoptera. Ann. Entomol. Soc. America93(3): 625-636. [Abstract]
Novokshonov V.G. and Rasnitsyn A.P. 2000. New enigmatic group of insects (Insecta, Psocidea, Tshekarcephalidae) from Tshekarda (Lower Permian of the Middle Urals. Paleontol. J.34(Suppl. 3): S284-S287.[Abstract]
Ansorge J. and Rasnitsyn A.P. 2000. Identity of Prosepididontus calopteryx Handlirsch 1920 (Insecta: Grylloblattida: Geinitziidae). Acta Geologica Hispanica35(1-2): 19-23.
Pulawski W.J. and Rasnitsyn A.P. 2000. Cretobestiola, a replacement name for Bestiola Pulawski and Rasnitsyn, 1999 (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae). Acta Geologica Hispanica35(1-2): 53.
Rasnitsyn A.P. 2000. New genus and two new species of the Lower Cretaceous digger wasps from Spain (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae: Angarosphecidae). Acta Geologica Hispanica35(1-2): 55-58.
Rasnitsyn A.P. and Ansorge J. 2000. Two new Lower Cretaceous hymenopterous insects (Insecta: Hymenoptera) from Sierra del Montsec, Spain. Acta Geologica Hispanica35 (1-2): 59-64.
Rasnitsyn A.P. and Martínez-Delclòs X. 2000. Wasps (Insecta: Vespida = Hymenoptera) from the Early Cretaceous of Spain. Acta Geologica Hispanica35(1-2): 65-95.
Rasnitsyn A.P. 2000. Testing cladograms by fossil record: the ghost range test. Contributions to Zoology69(4): 251-258.[Article]
Basibuyuk H., Fitton M.G., Rasnitsyn A.P., Quicke D.L.J. 2000. Two new genera of the Evaniidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) from the Late Cretaceous New Jersey amber. Studies on fossils in amber, with particular reference to the Cretaceous of New Jersey. Backhuis Publisher, Leiden, The Netherlands. pp. 313-325.
Basibuyuk H., Quicke D.L.J., Rasnitsyn A.P. 2000. A new genus of the Orussidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) from the Late Cretaceous New Jersey amber. Studies on fossils in amber, with particular reference to the Cretaceous of New Jersey. Backhuis Publisher, Leiden, The Netherlands. pp. 305-311.
Rasnitsyn A.P. 2001. Unnamed in editorial: Comments on Article 74.7.3 of the Code (requirement for an express statement of the taxonomic purpose of a lectotype designation), including a proposal that it should be revoked. Bull. Zool. Nomencl. 58(2): 136.
Rasnitsyn A.P. 2001. Comments on the proposed revocation of Article 74.7.3 of the Code (1). Bull. Zool. Nomencl.58(4): 300.
Rasnitsyn A.P. 2001. On the skimming hypothesis of insect wing origin. In: Krzeminska, E., Krzeminski, W. Fossil insects. Second International Congress on Palaeoentomology, 5-9 September, 2001, Kraków, Poland. Abstracts volume. Institute for Systematics and evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Science, Kraków: 56-57.
Rasnitsyn A.P., Basibuyuk H.H., and Quicke D.L.J. 2001. A putative extinct stem chalcidoid family from the lowermost Cretaceous or uppermost Jurassic in Mongolia (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea). Proc. of the 13th Entomological Congress of the Entomological Society of South Africa. Pietermaritzburg 2-5 July 2001. Hatfield, Ent. Soc. S.A.: 55.
Novokshonov V.G. and Rasnitsyn A.P. 2001. A new species of insects of the Order Palaeomanteida = Miomoptera from the Lower Permian of Chekarda (Perm Region). Vestnik Permskogo Univ., Geol.3: 110-114.
Vrsansky P., Quicke D., Rasnitsyn A.P., Basibuyuk H., Ross A., Fitton M., and Vidlicka L. 2001. The oldest insect sensillae. Amba/B/21.01.3/ABS/D: 3-8.
Basibuyuk H.H., Rasnitsyn A.P., Fitton M.G., and Quicke D.L.J. 2002. The limits of the family Evaniidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) and a new genus from Lebanese amber. Insect Syst. Evol.33: 23-34.
Rasnitsyn A.P. 2002. The principles of taxonomy - phenetics, cladistics and traditional systematics. International Scientific Conference on Systematics of Higher Plants dedicated to 70th anniversary of Associate Academician, Prof. V.N. Tikhomirov's birthday. Abstracts (Moscow, 28-31 January, 2002). Moscow, BCC-Press: 91-92 (in Russian).
Rasnitsyn A.P. 2002. Evolutionary process and methodology of systematics. Proc. Russian Entomol. Soc.73: 1-108. [Author's foreword in Russian]
Rasnitsyn A.P. 2002. The present state and perspectives of palaeoentomology. Vestnik zoologii, 36(1): 3-7. (in Russian)
Rasnitsyn, A.P. and Quicke, D.L.J. (eds). 2002. The History of Insects, Kluwer Publ., Dordrecht, Boston, London, 517 pp. [HTML]
Zhang H.-ch., Rasnitsyn A.P., and Zhang J.-f. 2002. The oldest known scoliid wasps (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Scoliidae) from the Jehol biota of western Liaoning, China. Cretaceous Research23: 77-86. [Abstract]
Zhang H.-ch., Rasnitsyn A.P., and Zhang J.-f. 2002. Pelecinid wasps (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Proctotrupoidea) from the Yixian Formation of western Liaoning, China. Cretaceous Research23: 87-98. [Abstract]
Zhang H.-ch., Rasnitsyn A.P., and Zhang J.-f. 2002. Two ephialtitid wasps (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Ephialtitidae) from the Yixian Formation of western Liaoning, China. Cretaceous Research23: 401-407. [Abstract] [PDF
Zherikhin V.V. and Rasnitsyn A.P. 2002. II International palaeoentomological Congress. Paleontological Journal36 (4): 438.
Brothers D.J. and Rasnitsyn A.P. 2003. Diversity of Hymenoptera and other insects in the Late Cretaceous (Turonian) deposits at Orapa, Botswana: a preliminary review. African Entomology11(2): 221-226. [PDF]
Dlussky G.M. and Rasnitsyn A.P. 2003 [for 2002]. Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Formation Green River and some other Middle Eocene deposits of North America. Russian Entomological Journal11(4): 411-436.
Krassilov V., Tekleva M., Meyer-Melikyan M., and Rasnitsyn A. 2003. New pollen morphotype from gut compression of a Cretaceous insect, and its bearing on palynomorphological evolution and palaeoecology. Cretaceous Research24(2): 149-156.
Rasnitsyn A.P. 2003. Present state and tasks of paleoentomology. Paleontol. Zh.2: 44-47.
Rasnitsyn A.P. 2003. On skimming hypothesis of the insect flight origin. Acta zoologica cracoviensia46(suppl.-Fossil Insects): 85-88.
Rasnitsyn A.P., Ansorge J., and Zessin W. 2003. New hymenopterous insects (Insecta: Hymenoptera) from the Lower Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) of Germany. N. Jb. Geol. Paläont. Abh.227(3): 321-342.
Zhang H.-ch. and Rasnitsyn A.P. 2003. Some ichneumonids (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Ichneumonoidea) from the Upper Mesozoic of China and Mongolia. Cretaceous Research24 (2): 193-202. [Abstract]
Dlussky G.M. Brothers D.J., and Rasnitsyn A.P. 2004. The first Late Cretaceous ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from southern Africa, with comments on the origin of the Myrmicinae. Insect Syst. Evol.35: 1-13. [PDF]
Rasnitsyn A.P. and Aristov D.S. 2004. Two New Insects from the Upper Permian (Tatarian) of Belmont, New South Wales, Australia (Insecta: Hypoperlida: Anthracoptilidae = Permarrhaphidae; Grylloblattida: Sylvaphlebiidae). Paleontol. J.38(Suppl. 2): 158-163. [Abstract] [PDF1] [PDF2] [PDF3]
Rasnitsyn A.P., Aristov D.S., Gorochov A.V., Rowland J.M., and Sinitshenkova N.D. 2004. Important new insect fossils from Carrizo Arroyo and the Permo-Carboniferous faunal boundary. New Mexico Mus. Natur. Hist. Bull.25: 215-246.
Rasnitsyn A.P., Basibuyuk H.H., and Quicke D.L.J. 2004. A basal chalcidoid (Insecta: Hymenoptera) from the earliest Cretaceous or latest Jurassic of Mongolia. Insect Systematics and Evolution35 (2): 123-135.
Rasnitsyn A.P. and Golovatch S.I. 2004. The identity of Phryssonotus burmiticus (Cockerell, 1917) (Diplopoda, Polyxenida, Synxenidae) in Cretaceous amber in Myanmar. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology2 (2): 153-157. [Abstract]
Rasnitsyn A.P. and Mostovski M.B. 2004. Viktor Grigorievich Novokshonov (26.02.1966-29.01.2003). Paleontol. J.38(Suppl. 2): 75-79.
Rasnitsyn A.P., and Zhang H.-ch. 2004. A new family, Daohugoidae fam. n., of syricomorph hymenopteran (Hymenoptera = Vespida) from the Middle Jurassic of Daohugou in Inner Mongolia (China). Proceedings of the Russian Entomological Society. 75(1): 12-16. [PDF]
Rasnitsyn A.P., and Zhang H.-ch. 2004. Composition and age of the Daohugou hymenopteran (Insecta, Hymenoptera = Vespida) assemblage from Inner Mongolia, China. Palaeontology. 47(6): 1507-1517. [Abstract]
Sukacheva I.D. and Rasnitsyn A.P. 2004. Jurassic Insects (Insecta) from the Sai-Sagul Locality (Kyrgyzstan, Southern Fergana). Paleontol. J.38(2): 182-186. [Abstract] [PDF]
Zhang J. and Rasnitsyn A.P. 2004. Minute members of Baissinae (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Gasteruptiidae) from the upper Mesozoic of China and limits of the genus Manlaya Rasnitsyn, 1980. Cretaceous Research25 (6): 797-805. [Abstract]
Zhang H. and Rasnitsyn A.P. 2004. Pelecinid wasps (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Proctotrupoidea) from the Cretaceous of Russia and Mongolia. Cretaceous Research25 (6): 807-825. [Abstract]
Archibald S.B., Rasnitsyn A.P., and Akhmetiev M.A. 2005. The ecology and distribution of Cenozoic Eomeropidae (Mecoptera), and a new species of Eomerope Cockerell from the Early Eocene McAbee locality, British Columbia, Canada. Annals of the Entomological Society of America98: 503-514. [PDF]
Dlussky G.M. and Rasnitsyn A.P. 2005. Paleontological history of ants. In: Ants and forest protection. Materials of the 12th All-Russian Myrmecological Symposium, Novosibirsk, 7-14 August 2005, Novosibirsk, pp. 49-53. (in Russian, with English summary)
Grimaldi D., Zhang J., Fraser N.C., and Rasnitsyn A. 2005. Revision of the bizarre Mesozoic scorpionflies in the Pseudopolycentropodidae (Mecopteroidea). Insect Systematics and Evolution36: 443-458. [PDF]
Rasnitsyn A.P. 2005. Selected papers in evolutionary biology. KMK Press, Moscow, 347 pp. (in Russian) [Abstract in Russian]
Rasnitsyn A.P., Sukacheva I.D., and Aristov D.S. 2005. Permian insects of the Vorkuta Group in the Pechora Basin, and their stratigraphic implications. Paleontological Journal39 (4): 404-416. [Abstract] [PDF]
Rasnitsyn A.P. 2006. A [Palaeontological] Record and a Cladogram. In: Evolution of the Biosphere and Biodiversity. 1. Modern Palaeontology: Theory and Methodology. Moscow: Paleontological institute of RAS, pp. 39-48. (in Russian) [PDF]
Rasnitsyn A.P. 2006. Classical and non-classical taxonomy: another view. Zhurnal Obshchei Biologii [Journal of General Biology] 67 (5): 385-388. [PDF]
Rasnitsyn A.P. 2006. Ontology of evolution and methodology of taxonomy. Paleontological Journal40 (Suppl. 6): S679-S737. [Abstract] [PDF]
Rasnitsyn A.P., Ansorge J., and Zhang H. 2006. Ancestry of the orussoid wasps, with description of three new genera and species of Karatavitidae (Hymenoptera = Vespida: Karatavitoidea stat. nov.). Insect Systematics and Evolution37: 179-190. [PDF]
Rasnitsyn A.P., Zhang H., and Wang B. 2006. Bizarre fossil insects: web-spinning sawflies of the genus Ferganolyda (Vespida, Pamphilioidea) from the Middle Jurassic of Daohugou, Inner Mongolia, China. Palaeontology49 (4): 907-916. [PDF]
Zhang H. and Rasnitsyn A.P. 2006. Two new anaxyelid sawflies (Insecta, Hymenoptera, Siricoidea) from the Yixian Formation of western Liaoning, China. Cretaceous Research27 (2): 279-284. [Abstract]
Zhang J. and Rasnitsyn A.P. 2006. New extinct taxa of Pelecinidae sensu lato (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupoidea) in the Laiyang Formation, Shandong, China. Cretaceous Research27 (5): 684-688. [Abstract][PDF]
Krassilov V.A., Rasnitsyn A.P., and Afonin S.A. 2007. Pollen eaters and pollen morphology: co-evolution through the Permian and Mesozoic. African Invertebrates48 (1): 3-11. [Abstract] [PDF]
Perkovsky E.E., Rasnitsyn A.P., Vlaskin A.P., and Taraschuk M.V. 2007. A comparative analysis of the Baltic and Rovno amber arthropod faunas: representative samples. African Invertebrates48 (1): 229-245. [Abstract] [PDF]
Rasnitsyn A.P. 2007. On the discussion of the wing venation of (Archae)Orthoptera (Insecta). Paleontological Journal41 (3): 341-344. [Abstract] [PDF]
Rasnitsyn A.P. and Brothers D.J. 2007. Two new hymenopteran fossils from the mid-Cretaceous of southern Africa (Hymenoptera: Jurapriidae, Evaniidae). African Invertebrates48 (1): 193-202. [Abstract]
Zhang H. and Rasnitsyn A.P. 2007. Nevaniinae subfam. n., a new fossil taxon (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Evanioidea: Praeaulacidae) from the Middle Jurassic of Daohugou in Inner Mongolia, China. Insect Systematics & Evolution38: 149-166. [PDF]
Zhang H., Rasnitsyn A.P., Wang D., and Zhang Y. 2007. Some hatchet wasps (Hymenoptera, Evaniidae) from the Yixian Formation of western Liaoning, China. Cretaceous Research28 (2): 310-316. [Abstract]
Anisyutkin L.N., Grachev V.G., Ponomarenko A.G., Rasnitsyn A.P., and Vršanský P. 2008. Part II. Fossil Insects in the Cretaceous Mangrove Facies of Southern Negev, Israel. In: Krassilov V. and Rasnitsyn A., eds, Plant–arthropod interactions in the early angiosperm history. Evidence from the Cretaceous of Israel. Sofia-Moscow & Leiden-Boston: Pensoft Publishers & BRILL, pp. 189-223.
Aristov D.S. and Rasnitsyn A.P. 2008. Position and taxonomy of the Permian fossil insect family Permembiidae (Insecta: Palaeomanteida = Miomoptera). Russian Entomological Journal17 (4): 327–334. [PDF]
Brothers D.J. and Rasnitsyn A.P. 2008. A new genus and species of Euparagiinae from the Late Cretaceous of southern Africa (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Alavesia2: 73-76. [PDF]
Ortega-Blanco J., Rasnitsyn A.P., and Delclòs X. 2008. First record of anaxyelid woodwasps (Hymenoptera: Anaxyelidae) in Lower Cretaceous Spanish amber. Zootaxa1937: 39–50. [Abstract] [PDF]
Rasnitsyn A.P. 2008. Hymenopterous insects (Insecta: Vespida) in the Upper Jurassic deposits of Shar Teg, SW Mongolia. Russian Entomological Journal17 (3): 299–310. [PDF]
Rasnitsyn A.P. 2008. New hymenopteran insects (Insecta: Vespida) from the Lower or Middle Jurassic of India. Paleontological Journal42 (1): 81-85. [Abstract] [English PDF] [Russian PDF]
Zhang H. and Rasnitsyn A.P. 2008. Middle Jurassic Praeaulacidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Evanioidea) of Inner Mongolia and Kazakhstan. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology6 (4): 463-487. [Abstract] [PDF]
Aristov D.S., Wappler T., and Rasnitsyn A.P. 2009. New and little known grylloblattids of the family Geinitziidae (Insecta: Grylloblattida) from the Triassic and Jurassic of Europe, Asia, and South Africa. Paleontological Journal43 (4): 418-424. [Abstract] [PDF]
Dlussky G.M. and Rasnitsyn A.P. 2009. Ants (Insecta: Vespida: Formicidae) in the Upper Eocene Amber of Central and Eastern Europe. Paleontological Journal43 (9): 1024–1042. [Abstract] [PDF]
Rasnitsyn A.P. and Brothers, D.J. 2009. New genera and species of Maimetshidae (Hymenoptera: Stephanoidea s.l.) from the Turonian of Botswana, with comments on the status of the family. African Invertebrates50 (1): 191-204. [Abstract] [PDF]
Ren D., Labandeira C.C., Santiago-Blay J.A., Rasnitsyn A., Shih Ch.-k., Bashkuev A., Logan M.A.V., Hotton C.L., and Dilcher D. 2009. A probable pollination mode before angiosperms: Eurasian, long-proboscid scorpionflies. Science326: 840-847. [request PDF]
Zherikhin V.V., Sukacheva I.D., and Rasnitsyn A.P. 2009. Arthropods in contemporary and some fossil resins. Paleontological Journal43 (9): 987-1005. [Abstract] [PDF]
