Volker Mahnert


Volker Mahnert was an Austrian entomologist, arachnologist, ichthyologist and parasitologist. His research focused on pseudoscorpions.

Life

Volker Mahnert was one of three sons of Klaus Mahnert and Hanna Mahnert, née Kindl. In 1971, under the supervision of Heinz Janetschek, he received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Innsbruck with a dissertation on ento- and ectoparasites of small mammals of the Central Eastern Alps.
In the same year, he moved to Switzerland and became a curator at the Department of Herpetology and Ichthyology at the Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la Ville de Genève. From 1989 to 2005 he was director of the museum. In 1991 he became an associate professor at the University of Geneva.
Volker Mahnert was the author or co-author of over 170 scientific articles. Most of them deal with the systematics and ecology of pseudoscorpions. He also worked on the taxonomy of fleas as well as African and South American tetras.
Mahnert has been a member of the American Society of Arachnology, the British Society of Arachnology, the Society Suisse de Zoologie, the Swiss Entomological Society, the Société zoologique de France, the European Association of Zoological Nomenclature, the International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature, the Biological Society of Washington, the Société Europénne d'Arachnologie, the New York Academy of Sciences and the Société internationale de biospéologie.
He served as president of the International Society of Arachnology between 1989 and 1992.

Taxon described by him

  • See :Category:Taxa named by Volker Mahnert

Publications

Dedication names

The loach species Schistura mahnerti was named in 1990 by Maurice Kottelat in honor of Volker Mahnert.
Halil Sarp named the mineral Mahnertite in his honour in 1995.
Mahnertite is a rare mineral from Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in France.
The following species are named after Volker Mahnert:
Acanthocreagris mahnerti Dumitresco & Orghidan, 1986Acritus mahnerti Gomy, 1981Akyttara mahnerti Jocqué, 1987Allolobophora handlirschi mahnerti Zicsi, 1973 Allochernes mahnerti Georgescu & Căpuse, 1996Americhernes mahnerti Harvey, 1990Apimela mahnerti Pace, 1996Aporrectodea mahnerti Zicsi, 1973Atheta mahnerti Pace, 1995Ausobskya mahnerti Silhavý, 1976Bothriechis mahnerti Schätti & Kramer, 1991Camillina mahnerti Platnick & Murphy, 1987Catharosoma mahnerti Golovatch, 2005Centruroides mahnerti Lourenço, 1983Chactas mahnerti Lourenço, 1995Chthonius (Ephippiochthonius) mahnerti Zaragoza, 1984Ctenobelba mahnerti Mahunka, 1974Cypha mahnerti Pace, 1994Delamarea mahnerti Leleup, 1983Dendrobaena mahnerti Zicsi, 1974Dolicheremaeus mahnerti Mahunka & Mahunka-Papp, 2009Drusilla mahnerti Pace, 1996Edaphus mahnerti Puthz, 1990Elgonidium mahnerti Bonadona, 1978Embuana mahnerti Heiss & Baňař, 2016Epipleuria mahnerti Fuersch, 2001Glossodrilus mahnerti Zicsi, 1989Guaraniella mahnerti Baert, 1984Gyrophaena mahnerti Pace, 1994Helladocampa mahnerti Condé, 1984Hemigrammus mahnerti Uj & Géry, 1989Holoparasitus mahnerti Juvara-Bals, 2008Leleupiozethus mahnerti Coulon, 1979Magellozetes mahnerti Mahunka, 1984Mahnertella Mahunka, 1997Mahnertius Harvey & Muchmore, 2013Mahnertozetes Mahunka & Mahunka-Papp, 2009Megarthrus mahnerti Cuccodoro & Löbl, 1995Metanapis mahnerti Brignoli, 1981Metopioxys mahnerti Comellini, 1983Microdipnites mahnerti Garetto & Giachino, 1999Microplana mahnerti Minelli, 1977Neobisium mahnerti Heurtault, 1980Occidenchthonius mahnerti Zaragoza, 2017Oedichirus mahnerti de Rougemont, 2018Oonops mahnerti Brignoli, 1974Origmatrachys mahnerti Kontschán, 2020Paracoryza mahnerti Balkenohl, 2000Paratemnus mahnerti Sivaraman, 1981Paratricommatus mahnerti Soares & Soares, 1985Proteocephalus mahnerti de Chambrier & Vaucher, 1999Ptychadena mahnerti Perret, 1996Roncus mahnerti Ćurčić & Beron, 1981Scaphoxium mahnerti Löbl, 2010Scheloribates mahnerti Mahunka & Mahunka-Papp, 2008Schistura mahnerti Kottelat, 1990Scutacarus mahnerti Mahunka, 1972Spelaeobochica mahnerti Viana & Ferreira, 2020Sprentascaris mahnerti Petter & Cassone, 1984Stenohya mahnerti Schawaller, 1994Trichouropoda mahnerti Kontschán, 2015Zodarion mahnerti Brignoli, 1984Zyras mahnerti Pace, 1996