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George Basil Popov

George Basil Popov MBE, was a Russian-British entomologist born in Iran, his father having been employed there by the Imperial Bank of Persia. Popov became an authority on the Desert locust.

Selected publications
"Atlas of Desert Locust Breeding Habitats" FAO (1997) • "A Revision of the Grasshopper Genus Orthochtha and Allies" with L.D.C. Fishpool (1992) • "The Oothecae of Locusts of the Sahel" (1990) • "Nymphs of the Sahelian grasshoppers: An illustrated guide" (1989) • "Acridoidea of eastern Arabia" Journal of Oman Studies Special Report, 2, 113-148 (1980) • "A Revision of the Genus Poekilocerus Audinet-Serville 1831" with D.K.McE. Kevan (1979) • "Environmental and behavioral processes in a Desert Locust outbreak" Nature 219: 446–450. with J. Roffey, J. (1968) • "The Vegetation of Socotra" J. Linn. Soc. 55:362, 706–720, November 1957 (1957) • "The saltatorial Orthoptera of Socotra" Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 43:359, 370 with Uvarov (1957) ==References==
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