Toomas Tammaru

{{Short description|Estonian zooloogist (lepidopterist)}}

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Toomas Tammaru (born 3 May 1968 in Tartu) is an Estonian lepidopterist and professor of entomology at the University of Tartu.{{cite web |title=CV: Toomas Tammaru |url=https://www.etis.ee/CV/Toomas_Tammaru/est |website=www.etis.ee |access-date=4 May 2021}}

Together with Andro Truuverk and Erki Õunap, he transferred the butterfly Epirrita pulchraria to the genus Malacodea.{{cite web |last1=Truuverk |first1=Andro |last2=Õunap |first2=Erki |last3=Tammaru |first3=Toomas |title=Epirrita pulchraria (Taylor, 1907) transferred to Malacodea , with notes on the phylogeny and ecology of the tribe Operophterini (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Larentiinae) |url=https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4258.2.4 |website=Zootaxa |access-date=4 May 2021 |pages=145–156 |language=en |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4258.2.4 |date=27 April 2017}}

The butterfly (Manota toomasi Hippa & Kurina, 2012) is named after him.{{cite web |title=Manota toomasi |url=https://www.gbif.org/species/8630521 |website=www.gbif.org |access-date=4 May 2021 |language=en}}

He is the editor of the publication Lepinfo of the Estonian Naturalists' Society.{{cite web |title=Elulookirjeldus|url=https://www.eris.ee/user.cv.preview.php?id=818|website=Eesti teadus- ja arendustegevuse infosüsteem|access-date=4 May 2021}}