Boris Rohdendorf

Boris Borisovich Rohdendorf (Russian: Борис Борисович Родендорф, 12 July 1904, Saint Petersburg – 21 November 1977, Moscow) was a Soviet entomologist and curator at the Zoological Museum at the Moscow University.

He took a special interest in the Diptera, examining the Tachinidae, Phasiidae, Calliphoridae and Sarcophagidae.

He worked for some time on cotton pests at the experimental station in Tashkent.

He then examined the dipteran parasites of the locust Schistocerca gregaria and published his results in 1932.

1937 he published a monograph on the Palearctic Sacophagidae as part of the Fauna of the USSR series.