A5053614352- Diptera species taxonomy and behavior
- Insect behavior and control techniques
- Fossil Insects in Amber
- Hymenoptera taxonomy and phylogeny
- Forensic Entomology and Diptera Studies
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Plant and animal studies
- Entomological Studies and Ecology
- Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
- Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
- Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Bryophyte Studies and Records
- Hemiptera Insect Studies
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Coleoptera Taxonomy and Distribution
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Mollusks and Parasites Studies
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Polar Research and Ecology
- Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
- Big Data Technologies and Applications
Australian Museum
2014-2024
Cornell University
1983
Study of all flies (Diptera) collected for one year from a four-hectare (150 x 266 meter) patch cloud forest at 1,600 meters above sea level Zurquí de Moravia, San José Province, Costa Rica (hereafter referred to as Zurquí), revealed an astounding 4,332 species. This amounts more than half the number named species Central America. Specimens were with two Malaise traps running continuously and wide array supplementary collecting methods three days each month. All morphospecies 73 families...
Abstract The contribution of urban greenspaces to support biodiversity and provide benefits for people is increasingly recognized. However, ongoing management practices favor vegetation oversimplification, often limiting lawns tree canopy rather than multi‐layered that includes under‐ midstorey, the use nonnative species. These hinder potential sustain indigenous biodiversity, particularly taxa like insects rely on plants food habitat. Yet, little known about which plant species may maximize...
The fundamental value of universal nomenclatural systems in biology is that they enable unambiguous scientific communication. However, the stability these threatened by recent discussions asking for a fairer nomenclature, raising possibility bulk revision processes "inappropriate" names. It evident such proposals come from very deep feelings, but we show how can irreparably damage foundation biological communication and, turn, sciences depend on it. There are four essential consequences...
Abstract Estimations of tropical insect diversity generally suffer from lack known groups or faunas against which extrapolations can be made, and have seriously underestimated the some taxa. Here we report intensive inventory a four-hectare cloud forest in Costa Rica for one year, yielded 4332 species Diptera, providing first verifiable basis major group insects at single site tropics. In total 73 families were present, all studied to level, potentially complete coverage order likely present...
All entomological traps have a capturing bias, and amber, viewed as trap, is no exception. Thus the fauna trapped in amber does not represent total existing of former forest, rather living around resin producing tree. In this paper we compare arthropods from forest very similar to reconstruction Miocene Mexican determine bias different trapping methods, including amber. We also show, using cluster analyses, measurements arthropods, guild distribution, that trap complex comparable with single...
A monotypic new genus, Minjerribah (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), and an included species, M. litoura, are described from North Stradbroke Island in southeastern Queensland. The genus is assigned to the subfamily Hydrophorinae based on pair of distinct converging postvertical setae dorsal postcranium, out line with postocular setae. Other diagnostic characters include highly encapsulated reduced male postabdomen, antennal pedicel a conus (visible both lateral median view) projecting into...
Abstract The Northern Hemisphere dominates our knowledge of Mesozoic and Cenozoic fossilized tree resin (amber) with few findings from the high southern paleolatitudes Southern Pangea Gondwana. Here we report new Pangean Gondwana amber occurrences dating ~230 to 40 Ma Australia (Late Triassic Paleogene Tasmania; Late Cretaceous Gippsland Basin in Victoria; Paleocene late middle Eocene Victoria) New Zealand Chatham Islands). Paleogene, richly fossiliferous deposits contain significant diverse...
The fly genus Atlatlia Bickel, 1986 (Diptera: Dolichopodidae: Medeterinae) is revised with additional new recent and fossil species, now comprises two major species groups. grisea group includes three from Australia, A. 1986; flaviseta isolata sp. nov., New Caledonia, acra argenticoxa cowanae Baltic amber, corynoura, electrica licina, nov. ulrichi six angulicauda cryptica penicillata ramosa tonsa, Kashubia gen. described amber species: K. falcata, ornatipes starki Eridanomyia E. amica...
Abstract Aim Identify the taxonomic patterns and relative importance of particular families Diptera sampled in comparative biodiversity surveys carried out at seven rain forest locations. We test quantify contention that different trapping methods routinely target families. identify south–north (and upland/lowland) generate a set hypotheses concerning mechanisms underlying these patterns. Location Australia Papua New Guinea. Methods A total 28,647 collected using canopy knockdown, yellow pan...
The Oriental and Australasian Medetera (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) are revised 61 species recognized, 43 of them new, with 27 Oriental, 29 Australasian, 5 occurring in both zoogeographical regions. All described figured except M. adsumpta Becker, nudicoxa Becker longa which were not seen. A key is provided for the separation males. following newly placed synonymy: atrata Van Duzee, cilifemorata hawaiiensis Duzee palmae Hardy (=M. grisescens de Meijere); Elongomedetera thoracica Hollis (=...
We present a summary and analysis of the Diptera-related information published in Zootaxa from 2001 to 2020, with focus on taxonomic papers. Altogether, 2,527 papers Diptera were published, including 2,032 1,931 containing new nomenclatural acts, equivalent 22% all publications acts for Diptera. The include 7,431 species, 277 genera, 2,003 synonymies, 1,617 combinations. A breakdown by family taxa replacement names proposed journal during last two decades is provided, together comparison...
Farmland habitats comprise an arrangement of cropped, uncropped and natural vegetation among the farms. Despite differences in these habitats' features, generalist highly mobile predators are more likely to explore them time space. We investigated spatiotemporal dynamics species Dolichopodidae (Diptera) organic vegetable farms because they one most abundant Brazilian agroecosystems. simultaneously sampled abundance Condylostylus Bigot Chrysotus Loew adults (both Dolichopodidae) crop, fallow...
The Coal Creek Member of the Kishenehn Formation in northwestern Montana, USA, is an emerging middle Eocene Lagerstätte.While fish, plant, mammal and molluscan fossils are present, most numerous well-preserved those insects.In this study, we initiate effort to enumerate, at family level, diversity flies (Insecta: Diptera) locality.Seventeen specimens from 17 different families (15 with Limoniinae Cylindrotominae within Tipulidae s.l.), 15 new species three genera described.These include...
A non-biting midge of the cosmopolitan family Chironomidae (Podonominae) is recorded in amber from Anglesea Coal Measures, southeastern Australia. The new morphotype likely a species but not formally described here because insufficient diagnostic character states. To date, only five deposits Northern Hemisphere have yielded fossils Podonominae, making our discovery first amber-hosted representative group Southern Hemisphere. single adult male individual has been assigned to subfamily and...
The Costa Rican Systenus Loew (Diptera: Dolichopodidae: Medeterinae) are described, illustrated and keyed, comprise nine new species: divericatus sp. nov., S. eboritibia emusorum flavifemoratus maculipennis naranjensis parkeri tenorio zurqui nov. Eight species known only from Malaise traps at a locale in Guanacaste Province, contrast to single collected as part of the long running INBio survey insect fauna. On global scale, is uncommon collections, possibly result its larval tree hole...
This study is based on more than 25,000 specimens of the superfamily Empidoidea (Diptera) collected throughout a full year 2000 m elevational habitat succession gradient along 21 km transect Doi Inthanon, highest mountain in Thailand. The samples were sorted to 58 genera and 458 morphospecies (Empididae, 73; Hybotidae, 203; Dolichopodidae, 179; Brachystomatidae, 3). data used prepare first thorough taxon-focussed description how diversity major group Diptera structured tropical forest...
Adults of the fly family Dolichopodidae (Diptera) are general predators on small soft-bodied invertebrates, and often abundant in agroecosystems. However, information about their diversity spatial distribution agricultural landscapes scarce. Using structured sampling, we identified species associated with organic vegetable crops, fallow, agroforestry, native vegetation Federal District Brazil, evaluate richness abundance. We collected 70 distributed 17 genera 9 subfamilies. Of these, some...