Ashraf El-Torkey’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth and life story

Intro Egyptian entomologist
Is Zoologist
Entomologist
From Egypt
Type Biology
Gender male

Ashraf El-Torkey, Egyptian entomologist

  • Department of Classification, Plant Protection Research Institute, Agriculture Research Center, Ministry of Agriculture, Dokki, Giza, Egypt. E-mail: [email protected]
  • Plant Protection Department, College of Food and Agriculture sciences, King Saud University, P.O.BOX 2460, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia

Taxon names authored

  • 0 taxon names authored by Ashraf El-Torkey

Publications

2014

  • Medvedev, L.N., El Torkey, A.M. & Al Dhafer, H.M. 2014. A new genus of Clytrinae from Saudi Arabia (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae). Entomologische Zeitschrift 124: 7–9. Reference page. 

2015

  • El-Torkey, A.M. & Al-Dhafer, H.M. 2015. Amphimela raydahensis sp. nov. from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae: Galerucinae: Alticini). Zootaxa 4028(3): 430–440. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4028.3.8. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 
  • El-Torkey, A. & Soliman, A.M. 2015. Discovery of the genus Vanhartenidia Lelej, 2006 (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae) in Egypt, with description of a new species. Zootaxa 3999(2): 298–300. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3999.2.10. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 

2017

  • Abdel-Dayem, M.S., Fad, H.H., El-Torkey, A.M., Elgharbawy, A.A., Aldryhim, Y.N., Kondratieff, B.C., Al Ansi, A.N. & Al-Dhafer, H.M. 2017. The beetle fauna (Insecta, Coleoptera) of the Rawdhat Khorim National Park, Central Saudi Arabia. ZooKeys 653: 1–78. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.653.10252. Reference page. 
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