Graduated from Moscow State University, Biological Faculty, Invertebrate Zoology Department in 1987. From 1991 to 1994 - Kuperwood Fellow of Academy of Natural Sciences attached to the Paleontological Institute, Moscow, from 1994 to 2000 - junior scientific staff, 2000 up to date - scientific staff of Arthropod Laboratory of Paleontological Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences.
I study systematics and phylogenetic relationships of fossil nematoceran Diptera (true flies), especially Mesozoic Psychodomorpha and Culicomorpha.
Participation in international conferences:
Blagoderov V., Krzeminski W., Lukashevich E. Revision of some fossil dipteran families described by Rohdendorf // III Intern. Congr. of Dipterology. 15-19 August 1994. Univ. of Guelf. Guelf. Abstract Volume. P.19-20.
Shcherbakov D., Lukashevich E., Blagoderov V. Triassic fossils and initial radiation of Diptera // III Intern. Congr. of Dipterology. 15-19 August 1994. Univ. of Guelf. Guelf. Abstract Volume. P.195.
Lukashevich E.D. Mesozoic Ptychopteroidea (Diptera: Nematocera): the stages of a long way // 1st Paleoentom.Conf. 30 August - 4 September 1998, Moscow. Abstracts. p.22.
Blagoderov V.A. & E.D. Lukashevich. New Triassic Diptera from Australia // 1st Paleoentom.Conf. 30 August - 4 September 1998, Moscow. Abstracts. p.3.
Lukashevich E.D., Mostovski M.B. Assemblages of dipterans from some fossil resins // World Congress on amber inclusions, 20-23 October 1998, Vitoria, Alava, Basgue Country. Abstracts. P.73.
Lukashevich E.D., Mostovski M.B. The dark past of the blood-suckers: history of blood-sucking in insects // Fossil insects. Second International Congress of Palaeontology. 5-9 September, 2001. Krakov, Poland. Abstract Volume. p.41-42.
Participation in local conferences:
Lukashevich E.D. [History of three dipteran families (Dixidae, Corethrellidae, Chaoboridae)] // [Diptera (Insecta) in ecosystems]. VI Russian Symp. of Dipterology. 22-25 April 1997, St-Petersburg. Zool. Inst. RAS Press. P.76-77 [in Russian].
Lukashevich E.D. [Eoptychopteridae (Insecta) in the system of the organic world] // [Paleontology in the system of the natural sciences] Abstracts of XLV session of the Palaeontological Society (25-29 January 1999. St-Petersburg. All-Russian Geol. Inst. RAS Press. P.47 [in Russian].
Lukashevich E.D., Mostovski M.B. [The blood-sucking insects in palaeontological record] // [Biodiversity in the history of the Earth] Abstracts of XLVII session of the Palaeontological Society (29 January - 2 February 2001. St-Petersburg. All-Russian Geol. Inst. RAS Press. P.65-66. [in Russian].
Publications:
Krzeminski W., Lukashevitch L. Ansorgiidae, a new family from the Upper Cretaceous of Kazakhstan (Diptera, Ptychopteromorpha) // Acta zool. cracov. 1993. V. 35(3). P. 593-596.
Lukashevich E.D. New Eoptychopteridae (Diptera: Psychodomorpha) from the Jurassic of Asia // Paleontol. J. 1993. V. 27(1A). P. 103-122.
Shcherbakov D.E., Lukashevich E.D., Blagoderov V.A. Triassic Diptera and initial radiation of the order // Intern. J. Dipterol. Research. 1995. Vol. 6. N 2. P. 75-115. [PDF]
Lukashevich E.D. First pupae of the Eoptychopteridae and Ptychopteridae from the Mesozoic of Siberia (Insecta: Diptera) // Paleontol. J. 1995. V. 29(4). P. 164-171.
Lukashevich E.D. Mesozoic Dixidae (Insecta: Diptera) and systematic position of the genera Dixamima Rohdendorf, 1964 and Rhaetomyia Rohdendorf, 1962 // Paleontol. Zh. 1996. N 1. P. 48-53. [in Russian] [Abstract]
Lukashevich E.D. New Mesozoic Chaoboridae of Mongolia (Diptera: Chaoboridae) // Paleontol. Zh. 1996. N 4. P. 55-60. [in Russian].
Lukashevich E.D., Shcherbakov D.E. A first find of net-winged midges (Blephariceridae, Diptera) in the Mesozoic // N. Jb. Geol. Palaont. Mh. 1997. H. 11. P. 639-646.
Lukashevich E.D., J. Ansorge, W. Krzeminski & E. Krzeminska. Revision of Eoptychopterinae (Insecta: Diptera, Eoptychopteridae) // Polskie pismo entomologiczne. 1998. V. 67. P. 311-343.
Lukashevich E.D. Chaoboridae (Insecta: Diptera) from the Cretaceous Taimyr amber // Paleontol. Zh. 1999. N 1. P.58-61. [in Russian] [Abstract]
Lukashevich E.D. Mesozoic Ptychopteroidea (Diptera: Nematocera): the stages of a long way // Proceedings the First Palaeoentomological Conference Moscow 1998. Bratislava. 1999. P. 73-80.
Lukashevich E.D., Shcherbakov D.E. A new Triassic family of Diptera from Australia // Proceedings the First Palaeoentomological Conference Moscow 1998. Bratislava. 1999. P. 81-90. [PDF]
Lukashevich E.D. Five new species of Eoptychopteridae (Diptera) from the Mesozoic of Asia// Acta Geologica Hispanica. V. 35 (2000). N 1-2. P. 25-30.
Lukashevich E.D. On the systematic position of Prodocidia (Diptera) from the Lower Lias of England // Paleontol. J. 2000. V. 34, Suppl. 3, pp. S352-S354. [Abstract]
Lukashevich E.D., Coram R.A., Jarzembowski E.A. New Diptera (true flies) from the Lower Cretaceous of southern England // Cretaceous Recearch. 2001. 22: 451-460. [Abstract]
Blagoderov V.A., Lukashevich E.D. & Mostovski M.B. Order Diptera. In: Quick, D. & Rasnitsyn, A.P. (eds.). The History of Insects, Kluwer Publ., Dordrecht, Boston, London, p. 227-240.[HTML]
Lukashevich E.D. & Mostovski M.B. Haematophagous insects in the paleontological record // Paleontol. J. 2003. N 2. P. 48-56. [PDF]
Lukashevich E.D. & Azar D. First Eoptychopteridae (Insecta: Dipera) from Early Cretaceous Lebanese amber // Acta zoologica cracovensia. 2003. V. 46 (suppl.-Fossil Insects). P. 195-204.
Lukashevich E.D. A revision of the genus Eoptychopterina (Diptera: Eoptychopteridae) // Paleontol. J. 2004. N 3. P. 60-71. [Abstract] [PDF1] [PDF2] [PDF3] [PDF4] [PDF5]
Lukashevich E.D. & Grimaldi D. Eoptychopteridae (Insecta: Diptera) in Cretaceous amber from Myanmar // Studia dipterologica. 2004 [for 2003]. 10 (2): 359-366. [Abstract]
Lin Q.-b. & Lukashevich E.D. 2006. Proptychopterina (Diptera: Eoptychopteridae) from the Jurassic of Northeastern China // Paleontol. J. 40 (3): 290-294. [Abstract]
Lukashevich E.D., Huang D.-Y. & Lin Q.-B. 2006. Rare families of lower Diptera (Hennigmatidae, Blephariceridae, Perissommatidae) from the Jurassic of China // Studia Dipterologica 13 (1): 127-143. [Abstract]
Zhang J.-f. & Lukashevich E.D. 2007. The oldest known net-winged midges (Insecta: Diptera: Blephariceridae) from the late Mesozoic of northeast China // Cretaceous Research. 28 (2): 302-309. [Abstract] [PDF]
Lukashevich E.D. 2008. Larvae – a key to evolution of Culicoidea (Diptera) in the Mesozoic. Alavesia2: 59-72. [PDF]
Lukashevich E.D. 2008. Ptychopteridae (Insecta: Diptera): History of its study and limits of the family // Paleontol. J. 42 (1): 66-74. [Abstract] [English PDF] [Russian PDF]
