Živko Rafailo "Dika" Adamović (March 9, 1923 – May 1, 1998) was a Yugoslav and Serbian entomologist, expert in Odonatology, ecologist and a painter.
In the subsequent years, Adamović broadened his research interests, publishing on Cicindelidae and Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) and particularly also on Asilidae (Diptera).
Robber flies were the object of his special interest; his doctoral dissertation was titled “Ecology of some asilid species and their relationships with the native bee, Apis mellifica L." (1963).
His first papers are dealing with the older institutional collections (1948, 1949), but later on he began to gather material and data in the field himself and produced a number of valuable publications, such as his 1956 treatment of the fauna of southern Banat in Serbia.
In 1967 he was invited by Annin Heymer to participate in the tribute issue of the Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift, in celebration of Erich Schmidt's 70th anniversary.
Noteworthy are his morphometric studies on Cordulegaster heros in Serbia and Macedonia (1992), on Calopteryx balcanica and C. splendens ancilla (1996c) and on Platycnemis pennipes nitidula (1997).
Japanese Branch in the framework of the 16th International Congress of Entomology (1980), and at the 1st Odonatological Symposium of the Alps-Adriatic Regional Community, in Maribor, Slovenia (1994).