Dr. Andrei Sourakov

Collections Coordinator
McGuire Center for Lepidoptera & Biodiversity
Florida Museum of Natural History
3215 Hull Road
Gainesville, FL 32611-2710
352-273-2013
Email: asourakov@flmnh.ufl.edu

Ph. D. (1997) in Entomology, University of Florida

Select Recent Publications

visit Google Scholar profile and Research Gate pages for complete list/reprints

Zhang, J., Cong, Q., Shen, J., Song, L., Hallwachs, W., Janzen, D.H., Sourakov, A. and Grishin, N.V., 2024. What one genus of showy moths can say about migration, adaptation, and wing pattern. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(17), p.e2319726121.
Sourakov, A., Standridge, M.J., Rossetti, K. and Daniels, J.C., 2022. Transformations of Atala: Effects of heparin on wing pattern development of the Atala Butterfly, Eumaeus atala (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Eumaeinae). Tropical Lepidoptera Research, pp.127-135.
Chan, W.P., Rabideau Childers, R., Ashe, S., Tsai, C.C., Elson, C., Keleher, K.J., Sipe, R.L.H., Maier, C.A., Sourakov, A., Gall, L.F. and Bernard, G.D., 2022. A high-throughput multispectral imaging system for museum specimens. Communications Biology, 5(1), p.1318.
Sourakov, A., Zhang, J., Cong, Q., Song, L. and Grishin, N.V., 2022. Erythrina stem borer moth in California–New taxonomic status and implications for control of this emerging pest. Journal of Applied Entomology.
Sourakov, A. 2020. Emperors, admirals and giants, zebras, tigers and woolly bears: casting a broader net in exploring heparin effects on Lepidoptera wing patterns. F1000Research 7:1842.
Sourakov, A., Doll C. F., Quinn, A. M., Xiao L., and Anderson E. 2020. On speciation and hybridization among closely related species: establishing an experimental breeding lineage between two species of Automeris …. Insecta Mundi 0797: 1-16
Sourakov, A. & L. T. Shirai. 2020. Pharmacological and surgical experiments on wing pattern development of Lepidoptera, with a focus on the eyespots of saturniid moths. Tropical Lepidoptera Research 30(1): 4-19.
Lukhtanov, V., Sourakov, A., Tikhonov, V., Zakharov, E., 2019. Taxonomic Rearrangement of the Erebia tyndarus Species Group (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae) Based on an Analysis of COI Barcodes, Morphology, and Geographic Distribution. Folia Biologica (Kraków), 67(4).
Sourakov, A. & G. T. Austin. 2019. What one can learn from collecting 25,000 moths in one’s backyard during two years. News of the Lepidopterists’ Society, 61(2): 92-98.

Most cited:

Lukhtanov V. A., A. Sourakov, E. V. Zakharov, and P. D. N. Hebert, 2009. DNA barcoding Central Asian butterflies: Increasing geographical dimension does not reduce the success of species identification. Molecular Ecology Resources. 9: 1302-1310. doi: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2009.02577.x

Matos-Maraví, P., Águila, R.N., Peña, C., Miller, J.Y., Sourakov, A. and Wahlberg, N., 2014. Causes of endemic radiation in the Caribbean: evidence from the historical biogeography and diversification of the butterfly genus Calisto (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae: Satyrini). BMC Evolutionary Biology, 14(1), pp.1-18.

Books

little book of butterflies

Sourakov, Andrei and Alexandra A. Sourakov. 2024.The Little Book of Butterflies. Princeton University Press. 160 p.

Lives of Moths

Sourakov A, Warren Chadd, R.. 2022. The Lives of Moths: A Natural History of Our Planet’s Moth Life. Princeton University Press. 288 p.

These books can be ordered from the Amazon , Princeton University Press, or purchased at the giftshop of the Florida Museum of Natural History.

James D, Albaugh D, Cammarata B, Field R, Greeney H, Hortsman J, Morgan S, Pittaway T, Scott JA, Sourakov A, Townsend M, Wolfe K. 2017. The Book of Caterpillars. A life-size guide to six hundred species from around the world. (James DJ, editor). Un. Chicago Pr. 656pp.

6 articles, and over 100 photographs in Encyclopedia of Entomology. 2008. (Capinera, J.L., editor). Springer. 4,346pp, 128 color plates.

Teaching

“Man and Microbes” IDH2930, spring 2022-2023 (will be offered again spring 2024)
“Insects and Plants” IDH2930/ENY4905, (2015-2023). Fall 2023. Course syllabus
“Individual Studies in Entomology” (arrange by e-mail)
Visiting lecturer, many UF courses (arrange by e-mail)
Lecturer/Scientific Leader, Florida Museum Monarch Tours (2018-2022)