Mikhail Borisovich Potapov (; born 7 January 1963) is a Soviet and Russian entomologist, a renowned systematist of springtails (Collembola). He has described numerous new species and 19 new genera of springtails, is the author of original methods for studying collembolans,Potapov M. B., Kuznetsova N. A. Metody issledovaniya soobshchestv mikroartropod: posobie dlya studentov i aspirantov [Research Methods for Microarthropod Communities: A Guide for Students and Postgraduates]. Moscow: KMK, 2011, 77 p. revisions of major taxa, and is a historian of collembology.Kuznetsova N. A., Potapov M. B. Nina Mikhailovna Chernova // Russian Entomological Journal. 2010. No. 3. P. 167—174.Kuprin A. V., Potapov M. B. History of the Study of Springtails (Collembola) in the Russian Far East // Readings in Memory of A. N. Kurentsov. 2018. Issue 29. P. 23-31. He works at the Institute of Biology and Chemistry of MPGU.Mikhail Borisovich Potapov — teaching staff of the Moscow Pedagogical State University, on the MPGU website.

Biography Mikhail Potapov was born on 7 January 1963 in Moscow, USSR.Vorontsov's Who is who in biodiversity sciences in Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan / 2nd ed., rev. Moscow: KMK, 2001. Page. 446.

In 1985, he graduated from the Biology and Chemistry Faculty of the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute named after V. I. Lenin (MGPI, now MPGU). Since 1981, under the guidance of Professor Nina Mikhailovna Chernova, he specialized in the systematics of springtails, studying them on expeditions to Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Mordovia, the Volga region, Lithuania, and other regions of the USSR.Потапов Михаил Борисович on the university website.

Since 1985, he worked in the problem laboratory "Dynamics of Populations and Reproduction of Useful Species" at MGPI, simultaneously being a postgraduate student in the Department of Zoology and Darwinism, Biology and Chemistry Faculty, MGPI. In 1989, he was inducted as a member of the Russian Entomological Society.Потапов Михаил Борисович on the university website.

In 1992, he defended his Candidate of Sciences dissertation on "The Structure of the Genus and Species Characteristics in Springtails of the Family Isotomidae"."The Structure of the Genus and Species Characteristics in Springtails of the Family ISOTOMIDAE". Russian Academy of Sciences 03.00.09, Entomology. Abstract, 1992.

Since 1993, he has been a Senior Researcher at the Educational and Scientific Biological Center of the Moscow Pedagogical State University (MPGU). Since 2009 — Leading Researcher at the Educational and Scientific Center for Ecology and Biodiversity of MPGU.

In 2012, he participated in the international project "Springtails of the Pacific Littoral of Asia".Scientists from China and Russia decided to pay tribute to the order Collembola (Springtails). Within the framework of the international project "Springtails of the Pacific Littoral of Asia", scientists surveyed the coasts of the Chinese provinces of Hainan and Shandong, Southern Primorye, Khabarovsk Krai, and Kamchatka. // Kronotsky State Natural Biosphere Reserve. 2012.

In January 2020, at a meeting of the Moscow Ethological Seminar, he gave a lecture on "The Sexual Behavior of Springtails".Sexual Behavior of Springtails (meeting of the Moscow Ethological Seminar), on the Arkhe website.

Scientific contributions He established the subfamily PachyotominaePachyotominae - Wikispecies within the family Isotomidae (Collembola).

New genera He described new genera of springtails:Checklist of the Collembola: Genera — list of springtail genera on collembola.org

Aggressopygus Potapov et Babenko, 2014 Antarctophorus Potapov, 1992 Anurachorutes Kuznetsova et Potapov, 1988 Azoritoma Greenslade et Potapov, 2008 Caucasanura Kuznetsova et Potapov, 1988 Chionobora Greenslade et Potapov, 2015 Cylindropygus Deharveng, Potapov et Bedos, 2005 Dimorphacanthella Potapov, Huang, Gao et Luan, 2010 Dungeraphorura Gulgenova et Potapov, 2012 Ephemerotoma Potapov, Kahrarian, Deharveng et Shayanmehr, 2015 Ghirkanura Kuznetsova et Potapov, 1988 Isotopenola Potapov, Babenko, Fjellberg et Greenslade, 2009 Pauropygus Potapov, Gao et Deharveng, 2013 (family Isotomidae)Potapov M. B, Gao Y., Deharveng L. Taxonomy of the Cryptopygus complex. I. Pauropygus — a new worldwide littoral genus (Collembola: Isotomidae) // Zookeys. 2013. Vol. 304. P. 1-16. Pseudoxenyllodes Kuznetsova et Potapov, 1988 Sahacanthella Potapov et Stebaeva, 1995 Secotomodes Potapov, 1988 (family Isotomidae)Potapov M. B. Description of a new genus of the family Isotomidae (Collembola) from mountain regions of the USSR // Zoologicheskii Zhurnal. 1988. No. 3. P. 144—148. Sericeotoma Potapov, 1991 Sibiracanthella Potapov et Stebaeva, 1995 (family Isotomidae)Potapov M., Stebaeva S. Sibiracanthella and Sahacanthella new genera of Anurophorinae (Collembola, Isotomidae) with anal spines from continental Asia // Misc. Zool. 1995. Vol. 17. P. 129—139. Strenzketoma Potapov, Babenko et Fjellberg, 2006

New species From 1985 to 2024, he participated in the identification and description of over 260 new species of springtails from various regions of Russia and the world. See the list below:

Bibliography Author of more than 150 publications,Publications by M. B. Potapov in the RSCI. among them books: Babenko A. B., Kuznetsova N.A., M. B. Potapov, Stebaeva S. K., Khanislamova G. M., Chernova N. M. Opredelitel' kollembol fauny SSSR: (Biologiya, ekologiya, opredelitel' semeystv i rodov) [Key to Springtails of the USSR Fauna: (Biology, Ecology, Key to Families and Genera)]. Moscow: Nauka, 1988. 214 p. Potapov M.B. Synopses on Palaearctic Collembola. Vol. 3. Isotomidae. 2001. 603 p. (Abhandlungen und Berichte des Naturkundemuseums Görlitz, Band 73, Heft 2, 2001) Potapov M. B., Kuznetsova N. A. Metody issledovaniya soobshchestv mikroartropod: posobie dlya studentov i aspirantov [Research Methods for Microarthropod Communities: A Guide for Students and Postgraduates]. Moscow: KMK, 2011, 77 p. Encyclopedias: Potapov M. B. Nogokhvostki Springtails (Collembola) in the BRE. Hirsch index in Scopus — 10Mikhail Potapov h-index in Scopus.; in the RSCI — 12M. B. Potapov Hirsch Index for all publications on eLIBRARY.ru.

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Teaching Staff on the MPGU website M. B. Potapov in the BRE Collembola of South Africa https://elibrary.ru/author_items.asp?authorid=84550