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Team

The BDWD team consists of four co-editors (Evenhuis, Pape, Pont & Thompson), a custodian (Thompson), a post-doctoral fellow (Lonsdale) and a network of collaborators (more 60 now). The following is an alphabetical list of those who have now signed up for the BioSystematic Database of World Diptera project team. We apologize to those who have volunteered but are not yet listed as we have been slow in getting everyone's names on the list.

We have here provided only the minimal information about our team members, such as their name, institution and location, and their role on the BDWD team. Also, if they have a personal WWW page, then a link to it is provided.

While the contributions of each member varies, each member is critical to the successful completion and continued maintenance of the BDWD. So we feel all deserve the appropriate recognition and thanks of the whole BioDiversity Community for their combined effort to build an index and information portal to 10% of the known Biological Diversity of the World.

Warning: While we have used terms like "author" when only one person is responsible for a family taxon, "lead for" to identify the point person who acts for a group of co- authors, and "contributor to" for co-authors, the final determination of authorship is not made until a family taxon is published. For those families which have been published as part of the BDWD, the term author, qualified with a capital P in parentheses, is used for all authors.

Also, a number of people are here listed as they contributed to the 1988 Nearctic Diptera dataset, which was never formally published but was transferred to NODC and, hence, to ITIS. The words Nearctic 88 indicates this contribution.

Peter Adler, Clemson University, Clemson (contributor of Simuliidae)

Dalton de Souza Amorim, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Ribeirao Preto (Neotropical Diptera)

Gerhard Bächli, Zoologisches Museum, Zürich (Co-Author of Drosophilidae)

Daniel J. Bickel, Australian Museum, Sydney (contributor to Dolichopodidae)

V. Blagoderov, Entomology, The Natural History Museum, London (contributor to Bolitophilidae, Diadocidiidae, Ditomyiidae, and Keroplatidae)

Art Borkent, Enderby, British Columbia (Contributor to Ceratopogonidae, Chaoboridae & Corethrellidae)

Irina Brake, Entomology, The Natural History Museum, London (GBIF & Schlinger Post-Doctoral Fellow (2003-6), author of Carnidae & Milichiidae; co-author of Drosophilidae)

Fenja Brodo, Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa (Contributor to Cylindrotomidae)

Brian V. Brown, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles (Author of Phoridae)

George Byers, Snow Museum, University of Kansas (Contributor to Tipulidae (Nearctic 88))

Sidney Camras, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Lead for Conopidae)

Lynn E. Carroll, Washington (Author (P) of Tephritidae (1999))

Peter J. Chandler, Melksham, England (Lead for Platypezidae & Opetiidae)

Gregory W. Courtney, Iowa State University, Ames (Author of Nymphomyiidae & Deuterophlebiidae, lead for Blephariceridae)

Peter Cranston, University of California, Davis (Contributor to Chironomidae (Nearctic))

Martin J. Ebejer, Tamarisk, Balzan, Malta (Contributor to Chyromyidae)

Neal L. Evenhuis, B. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii (Co-Editor, lead for Nematocera (all families), Mythicomyiidae & Bombyliidae, author of Mormotomyiidae)

Scott Fitzgerald, Portland, Oregon (contributor for Hesperinidae & Bibionidae)

George Foster, Washington (Lead for Tethinidae)

Amnon Freidberg, Tel Aviv University, Israel (Author (P)of Tephritidae (1999) & Asteiidae, lead for Chyromyidae)

Eric Fisher, California Department of Food and Agriculture, Sacramento (Contributor to Asilidae (Nearctic 88))

Stephen D. Gaimari, California Department of Food and Agriculture, Sacramento (Lead for Eurychoromyiidae & Lauxaniidae, author of Celyphidae, contributor to Chamaemyiidae)

Fritz Geller-Grimm, Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden (Lead for Asilidae)

Graham C. D. Griffiths, Athabasca, Alberta (Contributor to Agromyzidae & Anthomyiidae (Nearctic 88))

Geoffroy Hancock, University of Glasgow, Glasgow (Author of Richardiidae)

D. Elmo Hardy†, University of Hawaii, Honolulu (Lead for Xenasetiidae)

Charles Hogue†, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles (Contributor Blephariceridae (Nearctic 88))

Michael E. Irwin, University of Illinois, Urbana (Lead for Therevidae)

Elaine B. Jamison, Systematic Entomology Lab., USDA, Washington (Data entry specialist).

Darlene Judd, Murfreesboro, Tennessee (Contributor for Tanyderidae)

Elena P. Kameneva, Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, Kiev (Author of Ulidiidae)

Lloyd V. Knutson, Gaeta, Italy (Lead for Sciomyzidae)

Valery A. Korneyev, Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, Kiev (Author of Pyrgotidae)

Ewa Krzeminska, Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow (Lead for Trichoceridae)

Owen Lonsdale, Entomology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington (Schlinger Post-doctoral fellow (2007- ), lead for Clusiidae)

Allen Norrbom, Systematic Entomology Lab., USDA, Washington (Author (P) of Tephritidae (1999)).

Pjotr Oosterbroek, Zoological Museum, Amsterdam (Lead for Pediciidae, Limoniidae and Tipulidae)

Thomas Pape, The Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen (Co-Editor, author of Oestridae, Rhinophoridae & Sarcophagidae)

L. L. Pechumann†, Cornell University, Ithaca (Contributor to Tabanidae (Nearctic 88))

Matt Peterson, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Contributor to Limoniidae & Tipulidae)

Adrian Pont, University Museum, Oxford (Co-Editor, author of Fanniidae & Muscidae)

Jindrich Rohácek, Slezske zemske Museum, Opava, Czech Republic (Lead for Sphaeroceridae)

Rudolf Rozkosny, Masaryk University, Brno (Contributor to Sciomyzidae)

Alessandra Rung, California Department of Food and Agriculture, Sacramento (Author of Aulacigastridae)

Curtis Sabrosky†, Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Washington (Contributor to Chloropidae (Nearctic 88))

Toyohei Saigusa, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan (Contributor to Empididae (Nearctic 88))

Evert Schlinger, World Spider-Parasitoid Laboratory, Santa Ynez, California (Author of Acroceridae)

Hiroshi Shima, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan (Editorial Committee, contributor to Tachinidae)

Wallace Steffan, B. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii (Contributor to Sciaridae (Nearctic 88))

Brian Stuckenberg, Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg (Afrotropical Diptera)

Vitali Tanasijtschuk, Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg (Lead for Chamaemyiidae)

F. Christian Thompson, Systematic Entomology Lab., USDA, Washington (Custodian, author (P) of Tephritidae (1999), author of Syrphidae)

Ronald Ward, Walter Reed BioSystematic Unit, US Army, Washington (Contributor to Culicidae (Nearctic 88))

Donald W. Webb, Illinois Natural History Survey, Urbana (Lead for Hilarimorphidae)

Ian M. White, London (Author (P) of Tephritidae (1999))

Andrew E. Whittington, National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh (Author of Platystomatidae)

Richard C. Wilkerson, Walter Reed BioSystematic Unit, US Army, Washington (Lead for Culicidae)

Shaun Winterton, North Carolina State University, Raleigh (Lead for Scenopinidae)

Willis W. Wirth†, Systematic Entomology Lab., USDA, Washington (Contributor to Ceratopogonidae (Nearctic 88))

Norman Woodley, Systematic Entomology Lab., USDA, Washington (Author of Apioceridae, Stratiomyidae (2001), Xylomyidae & Xylophagidae).


Content by F. Christian Thompson

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Last Updated: May 8, 2008 by Chris Thompson