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Giannis Bolanakis

PhD candidate (Arthropods Division)

E-mail bolanakisjohn@hotmail.com
Phone No. +302810393—-
Office Γ204 (White Buildings, Knossou Campus)

Research interests

  • Arthropods
  • Insects
  • Coleoptera
  • Biogeography
  • Systematic

Education

  • 2000: Master’s Degree, Biology Department, University of Crete. Specialization: Environmental Biology – Management of Terrestrial and Marine Biological Resources. Thesis Title: “The endemism of cretan arthropods“. School of Sciences, University of Crete
  • 2019: Bachelor’s Degree in Biology (Department of Environmental Biology and Management of Biological Resources), Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Crete

Recent Publications

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2024 The conservation status of the Cretan endemic Arthropods under Natura 2000 network.

Bolanakis,G., Paragkamian,S., Chatzaki,M., Kotitsa,N., Kardaki,L. (2024) The conservation status of the Cretan endemic Arthropods under Natura 2000 network. Biodiversity and Conservation  33:2635–2662

2024 New and noteworthy records of saproxylic beetles (Coleoptera) from Crete (Greece)

Bolanakis, G., Makris, C., Trichas, A. (2024) New and noteworthy records of saproxylic beetles (Coleoptera) from Crete (Greece). Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” (Accepted)

2023 First record of Chlorophorus herbstii (Brahm, 1790) in Greece and new localities of Xylosteus bartoni Obenberger & Mařan, 1933 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae)

Bolanakis, G., Trichas, A. (2023) First record of Chlorophorus herbstii (Brahm, 1790) in Greece and new localities of Xylosteus bartoni Obenberger & Mařan, 1933 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae). Silva Balcanica, 24(3), 95-100

2018 First record of Steraspis squamosa (KLUG, 1829) in Europe (Greece, Crete) (Coleoptera, Buprestidae).

Bolanakis, I., Trichas, A. (2018) First record of Steraspis squamosa (KLUG, 1829) in Europe (Greece, Crete) (Coleoptera, Buprestidae). Nachr. Bl. bayer. Ent., 67(3/4), 108-111.

Short CV

Giannis Bolanakis finished his bachelor degree at the University of Crete (Department of Biology), in 2019.  He acquired his master degree in «Environmental Biology – Management of Land & Marine Biological Resources», from University of Crete (Department of Biology), in 2021.

From the pre-graduate level he focuses his research interest in Coleoptera (and other Arthropods) of Crete (systematics, biogeography, ecology, conservation). He has participated in a plethora of samplings in Crete with various methods of trapping (fermenting traps, pitfall traps) and in continental Greece for the concentration of biological material (Arthropods).

During his pre-graduate work in the Arthropods lab of Natural History Museum of Crete (NHMC) he was occupied with the identification of samples of the family Cerambycidae from Greece and moreover the curating of the alcohol and dry collections of NHMC that belong to this family. He finished his bachelor thesis at the Arthropods Lab of NHMC, with subject “The Saproxylic Beetles of Crete”. During his master thesis with subject “The Endemism of Cretan Arthropods” in the Arthropods lab of NHMC he created data bases and maps for the Cretan Arthropods.

Today he is occupied with the enrichment, identification and cataloging of the Arthropods collection at NHMC, as well as the preparation of his Phd thesis.

Bio CV

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2022 Υλοποίηση μέτρων του Σχεδίου Δράσης της Νήσου Χρυσή

Implementation of measures of the Action Plan of Chrysi Island
P.I.: Michalis Probonas
Duration: 1/7/2022 - 16/09/2023
Funding: Region of Crete (55,504.00 €)

2019 Εκπόνηση ΕΠΜ και ΣΔ για τις περιοχές του Δικτύου Natura 2000 της Περιφέρειας Κρήτης – Μελέτη 9

Εlaboration of Special Environmental Studies and Management Plans for the areas of the Natura 2000 Network in the Region of Crete - Study 9
P.I.: Michalis Probonas
Duration: 21/5/2019 - 30/6/2023
Funding: OIKOM Environmental Studies Ltd.(100,433.16 €)

Research papers

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2024 The conservation status of the Cretan endemic Arthropods under Natura 2000 network.

Bolanakis,G., Paragkamian,S., Chatzaki,M., Kotitsa,N., Kardaki,L. (2024) The conservation status of the Cretan endemic Arthropods under Natura 2000 network. Biodiversity and Conservation  33:2635–2662

2024 New and noteworthy records of saproxylic beetles (Coleoptera) from Crete (Greece)

Bolanakis, G., Makris, C., Trichas, A. (2024) New and noteworthy records of saproxylic beetles (Coleoptera) from Crete (Greece). Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” (Accepted)

2023 First record of Chlorophorus herbstii (Brahm, 1790) in Greece and new localities of Xylosteus bartoni Obenberger & Mařan, 1933 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae)

Bolanakis, G., Trichas, A. (2023) First record of Chlorophorus herbstii (Brahm, 1790) in Greece and new localities of Xylosteus bartoni Obenberger & Mařan, 1933 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae). Silva Balcanica, 24(3), 95-100

2018 First record of Steraspis squamosa (KLUG, 1829) in Europe (Greece, Crete) (Coleoptera, Buprestidae).

Bolanakis, I., Trichas, A. (2018) First record of Steraspis squamosa (KLUG, 1829) in Europe (Greece, Crete) (Coleoptera, Buprestidae). Nachr. Bl. bayer. Ent., 67(3/4), 108-111.

Announcements at Conferences

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2023 The hidden diversity of the coastal saltmarshes of Crete: The case of Carabidae (Coleoptera).

Bolanakis, G., Pavlou, C., Archontidis, T., Trichas, A. (2023) The hidden diversity of the coastal saltmarshes of Crete: The case of Carabidae (Coleoptera). -Poster Presentation- 11th Conference of the Hellenic Ecological Society, 4-7 October 2023, Patras

2023 The Enigmatic Conservation Status

Chatzaki, M., Bolanakis, G., Trichas, A., Poulakakis, N., Poursanidis, D. (2023) The Enigmatic Conservation Status of the Endemic Species Chaetopelma lymberakisi (Chatzaki & Komnenov, 2019) on Crete: Vulnerable or Threatened? -Oral Presentation- 11th Conference of the Hellenic Ecological Society, 4-7 October 2023, Patras

2023 Building whole genome reference resources for studying biodiversity in Greece

Karakasi, D., Dailianis, T., Vasileiadou, K., Tsigenopoulos, C.S., Skouradakis, G., Vernadou E, Sarropoulou, X., Vardinoyiannis, K., Trichas, A., Antaloudaki, E., Bolanakis, G., Fernández, R., Böhne, A., Monteiro, R., Palma-Guerrero, J., Poulakakis, N., Lymberakis, P., Manousaki, T. (2023) Building whole genome reference resources for studying biodiversity in Greece. -Poster Presentation- 11th Conference of the Hellenic Ecological Society, 4-7 October 2023, Patras

2021 The elevation patterns of cretan arthropods -Poster presentation-. (online)

Bolanakis, G., Trichas, A. (2021) The elevation patterns of cretan arthropods -Poster presentation-. (online) 10th HELECOS Conference, On line, October 14-17 2021, Ioannina, Greece. p.238.

2019 A first evaluation of the saproxylic Coleoptera fauna of Crete -poster presentation-.

Bolanakis, I., Trichas, A. (2019) A first evaluation of the saproxylic Coleoptera fauna of Crete -poster presentation-. 14th ICZEGAR, 27-30 June 2019, Thessaloniki, Greece.

2018 Cataloguing the fauna of Crete in the nhmc: more new or rare findings of coleoptera taxa on Crete -Poster presentation-.

Trichas, A., Bolanakis, I., Christakis, V., Papadaki E., Mylonas, M. (2018) Cataloguing the fauna of Crete in the nhmc: more new or rare findings of coleoptera taxa on Crete -Poster presentation-. 9th Hellenic Conference of Ecology, HELECOS-9, 4-7 October, 2018 Irakleion, Crete, Greece. p.237.

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