Ogloblin, Alexander Alekseevich

Alexander Ogloblin was born (Russian Empire). He graduated from the classical gymnasium in Poltava and the University of St. Vladimir in Kiev . In his student years, he worked in the Entomological Department of the Poltava Agricultural Experimental Station in the summer. During the civil war, A. Ogloblin emigrated to Turkey, and from there to Czechoslovakia. At Charles University (Prague) he defended his thesis (PhD) in zoology. Ogloblin worked as an assistant to the Entomological Department of the National Museum of Prague, under the direction of Jan Obenberger, and participated in the meetings of the zoological seminary of M. M. Novikov. In the summer of 1925-1927, on behalf of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Entomology Bureau, he studied parasites of harmful insects - unpaired silkworms and corn moths. Unable to consistently engage in entomology in Europe, Ogloblin accepted the proposal of the Ministry of Agriculture of Argentina and on January 19, 1928 went overseas.

In Argentina, he took the post of entomologist at an agronomic station near Loreto, where he worked on pests of local agricultural plants - mate, rice, tobacco, citrus. In his first years in Argentina, Ogloblin collaborated with C. Bruch, a major specialist in ants and termites ( C. Bruch, 1869-1943). It was Ogloblin who later introduced Bruch to the famous Soviet and Ukrainian worldmecologist V.A. Karavayev (1864-1939), whom he himself had met in 1919 while in Kiev . At the same time, Ogloblin was engaged in fundamental entomology, although his superiors looked askance at classes in "pure science." In those years, Argentina suffered from periodic locust invasions. In 1937, Ogloblin was asked to head the new Locust Research Institute and the family moved to Buenos Aires. Subsequently, he simultaneously held the post of professor of zoology at the metropolitan university (1939-1950) and continued entomological research as a taxonomist. In 1943-1944 he received a scholarship from Iowa State College, USA, and studied entomological collections at the National Museum in Washington. Collecting field scientific material, he traveled a lot in South America. In particular, in the 1950s, he collected insects on the Juan Fernandez archipelago.

The scientist was a member of the American (since 1944) and Russian (presumably since 1927) Entomological Societies, the Argentinean Association of Natural Sciences, and headed the Argentinean Association for the Development of Science (1950).

He died on September 18, 1967 in Buenos Aires. Together with his wife Valentina, they raised three daughters

Three genera are named in honor of the scientist:

• Oglobinia Canals 1933 ( Opiliones )
• Alexogloblinia Cortés 1944 ( Diptera )
• Ogloblinisca Hedqvist 1968 ( Hymenoptera )

Described 53 new genus Hymenoptera from the family Mymaridae ( Hymenoptera ).

• Ogloblin, Alejandro A. Dos Mymaridae nuevos de Misiones (Hym.) // Revista de Entomologia (Brasil), 1940, v. 11, No. 1-2, p. 597-603.
• Ogloblin, A. Reacciones patológicas de los acridios atacados por Aspergillus parasiticus // RAA, 1943, v. 10, # 3, p. 256-267.
• Ogloblin, A. Nota sinonímica sobre un presunto acridio chileno. 1943. - 149 pp.
• Ogloblin, A. Descriptions of new genera and species of Mymaridae. 1946. Iowa State Coll. Journ. of science. 20 (3): 277-295.
• Ogloblin, A. Descripción de dos géneros nuevos de Paracolletini argentinos: (Colletidae, Apoidea, Hymenoptera). 1948. - 182 pp.
• Ogloblin, A. Un nuevo género de Mymaridae de la región neotrópica. 1949. - 365 pp.
• Ogloblin, A. Los Insectos de las Islas Juan Fernández. 12. Mymaridae (Hymenoptera) , Revista Chilena Entomología, vol. 2, pp. 119-138, 1952.
• Ogloblin, A. Un nuevo genero Chileno patagónico de la familia Diapriidae (Hymenoptera) , Revista Chilena Entomología, vol. 3, pp. 69–73, 1953.
• Ogloblin, A. Los Insectos de las Islas Juan Fernández. 14. Bethylidae y Dryinidae (Hymenoptera) , Revista Chilena Entomología, vol. 3, pp. 101-115, 1953.
• Ogloblin, A. Los Insectos de las Islas Juan Fernández. 35. Mymaridae, Ceraphronidae, Diapriidae y Scelionidae (Hymenoptera) , Revista Chilena Entomología, vol. 5, pp. 413–444, 1957.

• Martinez A., Fedotova A.A. Alejandro Ogloblin, Russian acridologist in Argentina // Priroda, 2015, No. 12, p. 60-70.
• Shtakelberg A.A. In memory of D.A. Ogloblin // Entomological review . 1945.V.28. Issue 3-4. S. 131-134 (obituary brother).

• Pastrana J. Necrología. Alejandro Ogloblin // Physis. 1968. T.27. No. 75. P.336.
• Cortés R. Obituario // Revista Chilena de Entomologia. 1968. V.6. P.151.

• Alejandro Ogloblin