Mikhail Borisovich Potapov

Mikhail Borisovich Potapov (fl. 1984–), Russian entomologist, (Collembola).

русский: Потапов, Михаил Борисович
Moscow State Pedagogical University, Kibalchicha str., 6, korp. 5, Moscow, 129278, Russia.

Taxon names authored

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Potapov, M.B., Bu, Y. & Gao, Y. 2011. First record of the littoral family Isotogastruridae (Collembola) in Asia. ZooKeys 136: 23–29. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.136.1666 Reference page.
Potapov, M.B., Janion, C. & Deharveng, L. 2011. Two new species of Parisotoma (Collembola: Isotomidae) from the Western Cape, South Africa. Zootaxa 2771: 17–24. Preview DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2771.1.2 Reference page.

Greenslade, P. & Potapov, M. 2012. An extreme case of epitoky in an Australian collembolon: Isotopenola perterrens sp.n. (Hexapoda: Collembola: Isotomidae). Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 70(2): 85–94. PDF. Reference page.

Potapov, M., Gao, Y. & Deharveng, L. 2013. Taxonomy of the Cryptopygus complex. I. Pauropygus - a new worldwide littoral genus (Collembola, Isotomidae). ZooKeys 304: 1–16. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.304.4083 Reference page.

Potapov, M. & Babenko, A. 2014. About some unusual Asiatic taxa of Isotomidae (Collembola). Journal of natural history, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2014.908971 Reference page.

Potapov, M., Kahrarian, M., Deharveng, L. & Shayanmehr, M. 2015. Taxonomy of the Proisotoma complex. V. Sexually dimorphic Ephemerotoma gen. nov. (Collembola: Isotomidae). Zootaxa 4052(3): 345–358. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4052.3.4. Preview (PDF). Reference page.

Potapov, M. & Bogomolov, M. 2016. Taxonomy of the Proisotoma complex. VI. Mobile forms of Proisotoma s.str. with the description of a new species from East Siberia (Collembola: Isotomidae). Zootaxa 4088(2): 257–267. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4088.2.7.Reference page.
Potapov, M., Gulgenova, A. & Babykina, M. 2016. Isotomidae (Collembola) of Buryat Republic. III. The genera Vertagopus and Agrenia, with a note on 'Claw index'. Zootaxa 4088(1): 112–128. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4088.1.5 Reference page.

Potapov, M.B., Fjellberg, A. & Bokova, A. 2017. Folsomia najtae n. sp. (Collembola: Isotomidae) — a new species with ‘mobile’ forms from the Far East of Russia. Crustaceana 39(1): 95–102. DOI: 10.5252/z2017n1a11 Reference page.
Potapov, M.B., Janion-Scheepers, C. & Deharveng, L. 2017. Taxonomy of the Cryptopygus complex. II. Affinity of austral Cryptopygus s.s. and Folsomia (Collembola, Isotomidae), with the description of two new Folsomia species. ZooKeys 658: 131–146. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.658.11227 Reference page.
Potapov, M., Nakamori, T., Saitoh, S., Kuznetsova, N. & Babenko, A.B. 2017. New or little-known taxa of Anurophorinae (Collembola) with anal spines from East Asia with notes on DNA barcode. Zootaxa 4318(2): 312–324. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4318.2.5. Reference page.

Potapov, M., Babenko, A., Fjellberg, A. & Schulz, H-J. 2018. Taxonomy of a predaceous springtail: the revision of the Palaearctic species of Metisotoma Maynard, 1951. Zootaxa 4399(1): 69–84. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4399.1.4 Reference page.
Potapov, M., Hasegawa, M., Kuznetsova, N., Babenko, A. & Kuprin, A. 2018. Isotomidae of Japan and the Asiatic part of Russia. I. Folsomia ‘inoculata’ group. ZooKeys 750: 1–40. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.750.22764. Reference page.
Potapov, M., Porco, D. & Deharveng, L. 2018. A new member of the genus Isotomurus from the Kuril Islands (Collembola: Isotomidae): returning to the problem of “colour pattern species”. Zootaxa 4394(3): 383–394. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.3.4 Reference page.

Potapov, M., Brinev, A. & Sun, X. 2019. Isotomidae of Japan and Asiatic part of Russia. II. The genus Tetracanthella of the Far East. Zookeys, 855: 31–54. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.855.33000 Reference page.
Xie, Z-J., Potapov, M. & Sun, X. 2019. Two new species of the genus Tetracanthella (Collembola; Isotomidae) from China. Zootaxa 4585(3): 573–580. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4585.3.11 Reference page.

Lafooraki, E.Y., Hajizadeh, J., Antipova, M., Kremenitsa, A., Shayanmehr, M., Potapov, M. & Hosseini, R. 2020. Vertagopus (Collembola, Isotomidae) of Iran and Caucasus. Zootaxa 4786(4): 574–582. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4786.4.9 Reference page.
Potapov, M., Huang, C-W., Gulgenova, A. & Luan, Y-X. 2020. New and little known Isotomidae (Collembola) from the shore of Lake Baikal and saline lakes of continental Asia. ZooKeys, 935: 1–24. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.935.49363 Reference page.
Potapov, M.B., Janion-Scheepers, C. & Deharveng, L. 2020. Taxonomy of the Cryptopygus complex. III. The revision of South African species of Cryptopygus and Isotominella (Collembola, Isotomidae). ZooKeys, 945: 99–127. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.945.51860 Reference page.
Potapov, M., Xie, Z-J., Kuprin, A. & Sun, X. 2020. The genus Semicerura (Collembola; Isotomidae) in Asia. Zootaxa 4751(1): 105–118. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4751.1.5 Reference page.

Baquero, E., Potapov, M. & Jordana, R. 2021. New species and records of Entomobryinae from Amurskaya Region (the Far East of Russia). Zootaxa 4969(1): 119–134. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4969.1.6 Reference page.
Potapov, M., Deharveng, L. & Janion-Scheepers, C. 2021. Taxonomy of the Proisotoma complex. VI. Rediscovery of the genus Bagnallella Salmon, 1951 and epitoky in Bagnallella davidi (Barra, 2001), comb. nov. from South Africa. Zookeys 1072ː 185–204. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1072.71307 Reference page.

Striuchkova, A., Malykh, I., Potapov, M. & Kuznetsova, N. 2022. Sympatry of genetic lineages of Parisotoma notabilis s. l. (Collembola, Isotomidae) in the East European Plain. Zookeys 1137ː 1–15. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1137.95769 Reference page.

Panina, K., Rumak, D. & Potapov, M. 2025. Morphogenesis of small springtails species from the genus Megalothorax (Collembola: Neelidae). Zootaxa 5722(1): 105–123. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5722.1.5 Reference page.