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Dr. Shahin Nawai

Dr. Shahin Nawai
  • Curriculum vitae

    Dr. Shahin Nawai

    1995 – 2007: Museum für Naturkunde-Berlin, Leibniz Institute für Evolutions and Biodiversity Research, Collection Manager, Arachnida and Miriapoda 

    1995 – 1996: Museum für Naturkunde-Berlin, under Humboldt University Berlin. Mallophaga, Biting lice

    1992 – 1995: Museum für Naturkunde-Berlin, under Humboldt University Berlin. Diptera Section, Research Fellow. Ceratopogonidae, Biting Midges

    1979 - 1982: Tehran University, Iran. School of Public Health, Dept. Entomology. Professor of Medical Entomology and Insect Morphology.

    1971 - 1977: Uni. Maryland, Colleg Park, MD. USA.  Dept. Entomology, (Ph.D.), Medical Entomology. Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) Southwest Asia.

    1966 - 1971: Tehran University, Iran. School of Public Health, Dept. Environmental Health, Research and Teaching Assistant.

    1961 - 1966: Razi Institute, Hessarak, Iran. Dept. Veterinary Entomology, Research Assiatant.

    1964 - 1966: Tehran University, Iran. School of Sciences, Dept. Biology, MSc., Biting Midges genus Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) of Chahardongeh Karaj, Iran.

    1960 - 1963: Tehran University, Iran. School of Sciences, Dept. Biology, (BSc).

  • Tasks

    Honorary colleague in the collection Diptera

    Research

    Diptera
    Systematic and phylogeny of Ceratopogonidae
    Medical and veterinary Entomology
    Insect morphology

    Research projects

    Biodiversity of the Ceratopogonidae in Italian Alpine Landscape
    Ceratopogonidae of Afghanistan

    Publications (selection)

    Patricja Dominiaka, Shahin Navai, Robert Sawicki und Ryszard Szadziewski (2015). Forcipomyia altaica REMM, 1972, a boreo-montane biting midge in the Western Palaearctic (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Polish Journal of Entomology VOL. 84: 249-257. 30 December 2015.

    Shahin Navai (1997). A new species of Brachypogon Kieffer from Afghanistan (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae).  Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Washington 18: 184-188.

    Shahin Navai (1994). Biting midges of the genus Dasyhelea from Afghanistan, with descriptions of new species (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrrit 41: 357-399.

    Willis W. Wirth, Shahin Navai (1978). Terminilogy of some Antennal Sensory Organ of Culicoides Biting Midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Journal of medical Entomology Vol. 15(1): 43-49.