Saulius Pakalniškis
Saulius Pakalniškis was Lithuanian zoologist, entomologist and dipterologist.Biography
In 1976, Saulius graduated from Jonava 3rd Middle School in Jonava and in 1985 - Vilnius University, Faculty of Natural Sciences. For a time he worked at Jonava furniture factory, and then served in the Soviet Army. After returning from her, attended preparatory courses, preparing to enroll in the Vilnius University. Viewed nature, vegetation. Acquainted with the employees of invertebrate zoology sector at Institute of Zoology and Parasitology.
From 1979 to 1989 he was technician, senior technician, junior research fellow at Institute of Zoology and Parasitology of Lithuanian Academy. From 1990 he was Assistant Research Fellow at Institute of Ecology. In 1994, defended he at Ecology Institute his doctoral thesis about flies. He was researcher at Institute of Ecology of Vilnius University, member of Lithuanian Entomological Society.
Saulius Pakalniškis first described a new kind of science leafminers: Liriomyza labanoro, Liriomyza lituanica and Pseudonapomyze stanionyteae. He described the Lithuanian mining dipteran insect fauna. Wrote the book "Plants insects discriminatory manner", The Lithuanian state reserves of flora and fauna" with others.
Published research articles. Participated in a number of scientific expeditions in Lithuania, Latvia, Belarus and others.
