E-Mail: mathis.wayne@nmnh.si.edu

Curator, Research Entomologist

• B.S. Zoology, Brigham Young University, 1969
• Ph.D. Entomology, Oregon State University, 1976
• Research Associate, Oregon State University, 1975-1976
• Associate Curator, Smithsonian Institution, 1976-1981
• Adjunct Professor of Entomology, University of Maryland, College Park, 1978-present
• Curator, Smithsonian Institution, 1981-present
• Chairman, Department of Entomolgy, Smithsonian Institution, 1981-1987
• Head, Entomology Section, 2001-present

Research Interests

Selected Publications

Mathis, Wayne N. 1982. Studies of Ephydrinae (Diptera: Ephydridae), VII: Revision of the Genus Setacera Cresson. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology number 350: 1-57.

Mathis, Wayne N. 1993. Studies of Gymnomyzinae (Diptera: Ephydridae), III: A revision of the shore-fly genus Hecamede Haliday. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 541: 1-46.

Mathis, Wayne N. 1993. A revision of the shore-fly genera Hostis Cresson and Paratissa Coquillett. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 95(1): 21-47.

Mathis, Wayne N., and Tadeusz Zatwarnicki. 2002. Mathis, Wayne N., and Tadeusz Zatwarnicki. A phylogenetic study of the tribe Dryxini Zatwarnicki (Diptera: Ephydridae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 617: iv+100 pp.

Mathis, Wayne N., and Tadeusz Zatwarnicki. 2004. Mathis, Wayne N., and Tadeusz Zatwarnicki. Tronamyia, a new genus of shore-flies and a phylogenetic reassessment of the tribe Lipochaetini Becker (Diptera: Ephydridae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 97: In Press.