Aleksandr Nikolaevich Bartenev (Russian: Александр Николаевич Бартенев; 1882–1946) was a zoologist, professor, Doctor of Biological Sciences, and Rector of Rostov University in 1920–1921.
He was active in the Russian Empire and later the Soviet Union.
[1][2] For 40 years (since 1907) of his scientific work Bartenev had published 83 works on fauna, taxonomy, ecology and geographical distribution of Odonata.
Among his most remarkable works are "Notes on the Dragonflies of the Zoological Department of the Museum of Ural Society of Naturalists" (1909), "Materials on the fauna of dragonflies of Siberia" (1914), "Notes on the Dragonflies of the Caucasus" (1928), "Materials for the Knowledge of the Western Caucasus in odontological relation" (1930), "Notes on the collection of dragonflies of the North Caucasian hydrobiological station in 1928 in Kabardino-Balkaria" (1930).
[2] He described about 80 species and subspecies of Odonata of which only about 18 are now considered valid.