Pekka T. Lehtinen

Position:	Researcher (Head Curator emer.)
Office:	LT1, 059
Office hours:	-
Address:	Zoological Museum University of Turku FI-20014 TURKU Finland
Phone:	+358-(0)2-333 5773
Mobile:	+358-(0)50 3200537
Fax:	+358-(0)2-333 6590
Email:	pekleh@utu.fi

Major interests:

• Spiders (Arachnida, Araneae)
• Tortoise mites (Arachnida, Anactinotrichida: Uropodina)
• Other flightless terrestrial arthropods (Isopoda, Diplopoda, Chilopoda, Pseudoscorpionida, Opilionida, Schizomida, etc.)

Ongoing projects:

• Global generic and subfamily level revision of crab spiders (Thomisidae)
• Taxonomy and biogeography of the Polynesian flightless terrestrial arthropods (as coordinator in a cooperation project of 22 researchers)
• Global taxonomic revision of the family Scytodidae
• Biodiversity of certain Finnish mite groups (Anactinotrichida: Uropodina : taxonomy and distribution & Actinotrichida: Parasitengona: distribution and in cooperation the taxonomy)