Brian V. Brown Entomology Section Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90007, U.S.A.

Telephone (213) 763-3363 FAX (213) 746-2999

Short Biography

Brian V. Brown is Curator of Entomology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. A native of Toronto, Canada, Brown did his undergraduate and masters work at the University of Guelph. During the latter, under the tutelage of Steve Marshall, Brown took up the study of the fly family Phoridae. In 1990, he obtained his doctorate at the University of Alberta in Canada, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution and University of Maryland. In 1993 he took up his current position in Los Angeles. An author of two books, as well as numerous scientific papers, he has conducted research in many parts the world, but especially tropical rainforests. There, he studies phorid flies, especially those parasitic species known as ant decapitating flies and bee killing flies. He is also interested in fossil phorid flies in amber, integrating them into phylogenetic knowledge based on morphology and molecular characters. Currently, he has funding from the National Science Foundation to lead the effort to completely inventory the Diptera (true fly) fauna of the mid-elevation tropical forest in Costa Rica. A further endeavor is his exploration of the urban insect fauna of Los Angeles, called the BioSCAN project, which has uncovered surprising new knowledge about species living in local backyards. In 2016, the Museum announced the Urban Nature Research Center, of which Brown is co-director.

Curriculum Vitae

Employment

May- September 1981. Technician (identified invertebrates, zooplankton). Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Fisheries Research Section, P.O. Box 50, Maple, Ontario, L0J 1E0, Canada. Supervisor: Dr. D.O. Evans.

May- September 1982. Technician (identified invertebrates, zooplankton). Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Fisheries Research Section, P.O. Box 50, Maple, Ontario, L0J 1E0, Canada. Supervisor: Dr. D.O. Evans.

May- September 1983. Technician (collection, curation and preparation of insect specimens). Department of Environmental Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1, Canada. Supervisor: Dr. S.A. Marshall.

Fall- Winter 1984-1985. Teaching assistant (undergraduate entomology laboratories). Department of Environmental Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1, Canada. Supervisor: Dr. S.A. Marshall.

Winter 1989. Teaching assistant (undergraduate entomology laboratories). Department of Entomology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2E3, Canada. Supervisor: Dr. D.A. Craig.

Jan 1991-December 1992. Postdoctoral Fellow, Smithsonian Institution/ University of Maryland.

19 January 1993 - November 1998. Assistant Curator. Entomology Section, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90007, U.S.A.

18 February 1993. Appointed Head of Entomology Section, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90007, U.S.A.

June 1996- June 1997. Adjunct Faculty Member, Santa Monica College.

4 November 1998. Promoted to Associate Curator. Entomology Section, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90007, U.S.A.

21 October 2004. Promoted to Curator. Entomology Section, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90007, U.S.A.

1 December- 1 August 2007. Served as Acting Associate Deputy Director of Research & Collections, , Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90007, U.S.A.

Education

Honors Bachelor of Science University of Guelph 1983

Master of Science University of Guelph 1985 Thesis Title: Revision of Gymnophora Macquart (Diptera: Phoridae) of the Holarctic Region.

Doctor of Philosophy University of Alberta 1990. Thesis Title: Generic revision of Phoridae of the Nearctic Region and phylogenetic classification of Phoridae, Sciadoceridae and Ironomyiidae (Diptera: Phoridea).

Grants and Awards Received

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship (1986-1989) Graduate Faculty Fellowship (1986-1989) Andrew Stewart Graduate Prize (1989) Max and Marjorie Ward Scholarship (1986, 1988) Entomological Society of Canada Research-Travel Grant (1990) University of Alberta Dissertation Fellowship (1990) Honorable Mention in Student Paper Competition, Entomological Society of America (1990) Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship (1991-1992) The Governor General of Canada's Gold Medal (1991) Smithsonian Biodiversity in Latin America Project (BIOLAT) Research Grant (1991) Organization for Tropical Studies Tropical Research Fellowship (1992) National Science Foundation Research Grant DEB-9407190 "Systematics of the Ant-decapitating flies, genus Apocephalus" ($270,000; 1994-1999; equivalent to today's CAREER grants) National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates Award ($5,000; 1997) National Science Foundation Surveys and Inventories Grant "Arthropod Diversity in a lowland tropical forest" (Co- Principle investigator), ($300,000; 1997-2000) National Science Foundation Surveys and Inventories Grant DEB 9972024 "Insect Survey of a Megadiverse Country: Colombia." (Co-principal investigator with Dr. Mike Sharkey, University of Kentucky), ($260,000; 1999-2002) National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates Award ($4,750; 1999) National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates Award ($5,000; 2000) National Science Foundation Research Grant DEB-0090031 "Systematics of the bee-killing flies, genus Melaloncha" ($140,000; 2001-2004) National Science Foundation Surveys and Inventories Grant DEB-0205982 "Insect Survey of a Megadiverse Country: Colombia II." (Co-principal investigator with Dr. Mike Sharkey, University of Kentucky), ($350,000; 2002-2005) National Science Foundation Equipment Grant DBI0216506 "Scanning Electron Microscope for the LACM" (Co-Principle Investigator), ($200,000) National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates Award ($6,000; 2003) National Science Foundation Research Grant DEB-0315271 "Combined molecular and morphological phylogenetics of bee- killing flies, genus Melaloncha" (with CoPI Dr. Paul Smith, California State University, Bakersfield) ($105,219; 2003-2006). National Science Foundation Research Grant DEB-0516420 "Basal lineages of the Phoridae" (with CoPI Dr. Paul Smith, California State University, Bakersfield) ($487,111; 2005-2008). National Science Foundation Research Grant DEB-0542864 "TIGER: Thailand Inventory Group for Entomological Resources" (Co-principal investigator with Dr. Mike Sharkey, University of Kentucky), ($650,000, of which 90,050 is for LACM; 2006-2008) National Science Foundation Research Grant DEB-1025922 “REVSYS: Finishing the ant-decapitating flies, genus Apocephalus (Insecta:Diptera: Phoridae)” (with CoPI Dr. Paul Smith, California State University, Bakersfield) ($600,000; 2010-2013). National Science Foundation Research Grant DEB-1145890. “All Diptera Biodiversity Inventory of a Tropical Mid- Elevation Site.” ($900,000; 2012-2014).

Research Publications

Adams, B.J., E. Li, C.A. Bahlai, E.K. Meineke, T.P. McGlynn, and B.V. Brown. 2020. Local and landscape scale variables shape insect diversity in an urban biodiversity hotspot. Ecological Applications.. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2089

Ament, D. C., and B. V. Brown. 2016. Family Phoridae, pp. 414-451. In M. Wolff, S. S. Nihei and C. J. B. Carvalho [eds.], Catalogue of Diptera of Colombia. Zootaxa, 4122, 949 pp.

Ament, D. C. & Brown, B. V. Caledophora (Diptera: Phoridae), a new genus from New Caledonia. Journal of Natural History (2017). DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2017.1390176.

Amorim, D. S., V.S. Silva. and B.V. Brown. 2018. Puyehuemyia chandleri, gen. nov., sp. nov. (Diptera: Opetiidae): remnant of a Cretaceous biota in Chile. American Museum Novitates 3892, 1-27.

Borkent, A., and B. V. Brown. 2015. How to inventory tropical flies (Diptera)-One of the megadiverse orders of insects. Zootaxa 3949: 301-322.

Borkent, A., B. V. Brown, P. H. Adler, D. S. Amorim, K. Barber, D. Bickel, S. Boucher, S. E. Brooks, J. Burger, Z. L. Burington, R. S. Capellari, D. N. R. Costa, J. M. Cumming, G. Curler, C. W. Dick, J. H. Epler, E. Fisher, S. D. Gaimari, J. Gelhaus, D. A. Grimaldi, J. Hash, M. Hauser, H. Hippa, S. Ibáñez-Bernal, M. Jaschhof, E. P. Kameneva, P. H. Kerr, V. Korneyev, C. A. Korytkowski, G. Kung, G. M. Kvifte, O. Lonsdale, S. A. Marshall, W. N. Mathis, V. Michelsen, S. Naglis, A. L. Norrbom, S. Paiero, T. Pape, A. Pereira-Colavite, M. Pollet, S. Rochefort, A. Rung, J. B. Runyon, J. Savage, V. C. Silva, B. J. Sinclair, J. H. Skevington, J. O. Stireman III1, J. Swann, P. Vilkamaa, T. Wheeler, T. Whitworth, M. Wong, D. M. Wood, N. E. Woodley, T. Yau, T. J. Zavortink, and M. A. Zumbado. 2018. Remarkable fly (Diptera) diversity in a patch of Costa Rican cloud forest: why inventory is a vital science. Zootaxa 4402: 53-90.

Brown, B.V. 1986. Striking sexual dimorphism and its taxonomic consequences among New World phorid flies (Diptera). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 88: 787-788.

Brown, B.V. 1987. Revision of the Gymnophora (Diptera: Phoridae) of the Holarctic Region: classification, reconstructed phylogeny and geographic history. Systematic Entomology. 12: 271304.

Brown, B.V. 1987. Classification, reconstructed phylogeny and geographic history of the Neotropical phorid flies of the genus Gymnophora (Diptera: Phoridae). Journal of Natural History. 21: 14771524.

Brown, B.V. 1988. Additions to the phorid chapter in the Manual of Nearctic Diptera, Volume 2 (Diptera: Phoridae). The Canadian Entomologist. 120: 307322.

Brown, B.V. 1989. Testing phylogenetic hypotheses: new species of Gymnophora (Diptera: Phoridae) from Japan and Nepal, with an updated world classification. Canadian Journal of Zoology. 67: 2543-2556.

Brown, B.V. 1990. Triphleba vitrinervis (Malloch), an unrecognized species of Crinophleba Borgmeier (Diptera: Phoridae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 92: 294-296.

Brown, B.V. 1990. New Nearctic Region records of Palearctic Megaselia species (Diptera: Phoridae). Quaestiones Entomologicae. 26: 701-702.

Brown, B.V. 1992. Life history, immature stages and undescribed male of Rhynchomicropteron (Diptera: Phoridae). Journal of Natural History. 26: 407-416.

Brown, B.V. 1992. Generic revision of Phoridae of the Nearctic Region and phylogenetic classification of Phoridae, Sciadoceridae and Ironomyiidae (Diptera: Phoridea). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada. 164: 1-144.

Brown, B.V. 1993. Convergent adaptations in some Phoridae (Diptera) living in the nests of social insects: a review of the New World Aenigmatiinae, in G.E. Ball & H.V. Danks (editors). Systematics and entomology: diversity, distribution, adaptation and application. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada. 165: 115-137.

Brown, B.V. 1993. Taxonomy and preliminary phylogeny of the parasitic genus Apocephalus, subgenus Mesophora (Diptera: Phoridae). Systematic Entomology. 18: 191-230.

Brown, B.V. 1994. A replacement name for a species of Megaselia (Diptera: Phoridae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 96: 176.

Brown, B.V. 1994. Life history parameters and new host records of phorid parasitoids of fireflies. Coleopterists Bulletin. 48: 145-147.

Brown, B.V. 1994. Descriptions and subfamily classification of some unusual Phoridae (Diptera). The Canadian Entomologist. 126: 703-707.

Brown, B.V. 1994. Another generic synonym resulting from sexually dimorphic Phoridae (Diptera). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 96: 764.

Brown, B.V. 1994. Revision and new species of the Apocephalus (Mesophora) truncaticercus-infragroup (Diptera: Phoridae). Contributions in Science. No. 449, 7 pp.

Brown, B.V. 1995. Review of the species of Anevrina Lioy (Diptera: Phoridae), with a new species and a revised world key. Entomological Problems. 25 (1994): 1-10.

Brown, B.V. 1995. Response to Disney. Journal of Natural History. 29: 259-264.

Brown, B.V. 1995. Comments on the proposed conservation of Sphaerocera Latreille, 1804 and Borophaga Enderlein, 1924 (Insecta, Diptera). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 52: 182-183.

Brown, B.V. 1996. First record of the genus Plectanocnema Schmitz in North America (Diptera: Phoridae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 98: 608-609.

Brown, B.V. 1996. Preliminary analysis of a host shift: revision of the Neotropical species of Apocephalus, subgenus Mesophora (Diptera: Phoridae). Contributions in Science. No. 462, 36 pp.

Brown, B.V. 1996. A further species of Apocephalus, subgenus Mesophora (Diptera: Phoridae) parasitic on stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponinae). Studia dipterologica. 3: 231-235.

Brown, B.V. 1997. Systematics and fossil evidence of host-parasitoid relationships of Calamiscus Borgmeier (Diptera: Phoridae). Journal of Natural History. 31: 1253-1259.

Brown, B.V. 1997. Parasitic phorid flies: a previously unrecognized cost to aggregation behavior of male stingless bees. Biotropica. 29: 370-372.

Brown, B.V. 1997. Revision of the Apocephalus attophilus-group of ant-decapitating flies (Diptera: Phoridae). Contributions in Science. No. 468, 60 pp.

Brown, B.V. 1997. The undescribed male of Beckerina sinefurca Borgmeier and the recognition of Neotropical Beckerina (Diptera: Phoridae). Entomological Problems. 28: 155-158.

Brown, B.V. 1998. New species and records of Gymnophora Macquart (Diptera: Phoridae) from southeast Asia. Contributions in Science. No. 471, 13 pp.

Brown, B.V. 1998. Auxanommatidia boreotis Beyer is a species of Veruanus (Diptera: Phoridae). Studia dipterologica. 5: 335-336.

Brown, B.V. 1999. Differential host use by neotropical phorid flies (Diptera: Phoridae) that are parasitoids of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology. 33: 95-103.

Brown, B.V. 1999. Re-evaluation of the fossil Phoridae. Journal of Natural History. 33: 1561-1573.

Brown, B.V. 1999. Phorid flies of Costa Rican cloud forests. in Nadkarni, N.M. & Wheelwright, N.T. (editors). The Natural History and Ecology of Monteverde, Costa Rica: Background to Conservation. Oxford University Press.

Brown, B.V. 1999. A fossil Hypocera species (Diptera: Phoridae) and its phylogenetic implications. Studia dipterologica. 6: 273-277.

Brown, B.V. 2000. Revision of the "Apocephalus miricauda-group" of ant-parasitizing flies (Diptera: Phoridae). Contributions in Science. No. 482, 62 pp.

Brown, B.V. 2000. Insects, overview. Pp. 479-484 in S.A. Levin (editor). Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, volume 3. Academic Press.

Brown, B.V. 2000. Five natural history notes on Neotropical phorid flies. Phorid Newsletter. 8: 1-2.

Brown, B.V. 2001. Diversity of flies, gnats and mosquitoes. Pp. 815-826 in S.A. Levin (editor) Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, volume 2. Academic Press.

Brown, B.V. 2001. The species of Phora (Diptera: Phoridae) of Costa Rica. Revista de Biologia Tropical. 48 (2000): 977- 982.

Brown, B. V. 2001. Taxonomic revision of Neodohrniphora, subgenus Eibesfeldtphora (Diptera: Phoridae). Insect Systematics and Evolution. 32: 393-409.

Brown, B. V. 2001. Beginning to study the bee-killing flies, the parasitoid genus Melaloncha Brues. Phorid Newsletter. 9: 1-5.

Brown, B. V. 2002. A new primitive phorid (Diptera: Phoridae) from Baltic amber. Studia dipterologica. 8: 553-556.

Brown, B. V. 2002. Revision of the Apocephalus pergandei-group of ant-decapitating flies (Diptera: Phoridae). Contributions in Science. No. 496, 58 pp.

Brown, B. V. 2003. A new fossil species of Triphleba (Diptera: Phoridae) with bifurcate antennae. Studia dipterologica. 10: 195-197.

Brown, B. V. 2003. In memory of Laurence W. Quate (1925-2002) [scientific obituary]. Studia Dipterologica. 10: 353-356.

Brown, B. V. 2004. Revision of the subgenus Udamochiras of Melaloncha bee-killing flies (Diptera: Phoridae: Metopininae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 140: 1-42.

Brown, B. V. 2004. Revision of the Melaloncha cingulata-group of bee-killing flies (Diptera: Phoridae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 97: 386-392.

Brown, B. V. 2004. Diversity of ant-decapitating flies (Diptera: Phoridae: Apocephalus) from the ALAS project: new results and projections. Sociobiology. 44: 683-688.

Brown, B. V. 2005. A new Baltic amber Triphleba Rondani with greatly enlarged palpi (Diptera: Phoridae). Studia Dipterologica. 11: 549-552.

Brown, B. V. 2005. Revision of the Melaloncha furcata-group of bee-killing flies (Diptera: Phoridae). Insect Systematics and Evolution. 36: 241-258.

Brown, B. V. 2005. Malaise trap catches and the crisis in Neotropical dipterology. American Entomologist. 51: 180-183.

Brown, B. V. 2005. Classification of two poorly-known genera of African Phoridae (Diptera). African Invertebrates. 46: 133-140.

Brown, B. V. 2006. Revision of the untreated taxa of Melaloncha s. s. bee-killing flies (Diptera: Phoridae). Zootaxa. 1280: 1-68.

Brown, B. V. 2007. A further new genus of primitive phorid fly (Diptera: Phoridae) from Baltic amber and its phylogenetic implications. Contributions in Science. 513: 1-14

Brown, B. V. 2007. The problematic Neotropical genus Cyrtophorina Borgmeier & Prado (Diptera: Phoridae). Journal of the Entomological Society of Ontario. 137: 117-130.

Brown, B. V. 2007. Novel character states in fossil species of modern phorid genera (Diptera: Phoridae). Studia dipterologica. 14: 107-116.

Brown, B. V. 2008. New records and a new species of the Dohrniphora longirostrata group (Diptera: Phoridae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society. 81: 204-207.

Brown, B. V. 2009. A species of Xenotriphleba Buck (Diptera: Phoridae) from Baltic amber. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 111: 33-37.

Brown, B. V. 2009. The undescribed male of Ctenopleuriphora Liu (Diptera: Phoridae). Studia dipterologica. 15: 185-187.

Brown, B.V. 2009. Three new species of parasitoid Phoridae (Diptera) from the Neotropical Region. Sociobiology. 54: 715- 722.

Brown, B.V. 2010. An enigmatic new genus and species of phorid fly from Baltic amber. Studia dipterologica. 16: 43-46.

Brown, B. V. 2010. Phoridae. In: B. V. Brown, A. Borkent, J. M. Cumming, N. E. Woodley, D. M. Wood & M. A. Zumbado (Eds), Manual of Central American Diptera, Volume 2. NRC Research Press, Ottawa, pp. 725-761.

Brown, B.V. 2011. Taxonomic status of Macrocerides Borgmeier (Diptera: Phoridae). The Canadian Entomologist. 143: 697-705.

Brown, B.V. 2012. Small size no protection for acrobat ants: world's smallest fly is a parasitic phorid (Diptera: Phoridae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 105: 545-550.

Brown, B.V. 2012. Revision of the Apocephalus mucronatus group of ant decapitating flies (Diptera: Phoridae). Zootaxa 3413: 19–28

Brown, B.V. 2012. A simple light trap for collecting small insects. Entomological News. 122: 188-191.

Brown, B.V. 2013. A new species of Anevrina from Baltic Amber (Diptera: Phoridae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 106(3): 310-312.

Brown, B.V. 2013. Automating the "Material examined" section of taxonomic papers to speed up species descriptions. Zootaxa. 3683: 297-299.

Brown, B.V. 2014. Revision of the Apocephalus analis group of ant decapitating flies (Diptera: Phoridae). Zootaxa 3857: 551-570.

Brown, B.V. 2015. Phorid flies, pp. 229-231. In McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology, 2015. McGraw-Hill Education, New York. xiii + 442 pp.

Brown, B. V. 2016. Two new bee-killing flies from Brazil (Insecta: Diptera: Phoridae: Melaloncha). Biodiversity Data Journal. Available from: http://bdj.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=7715 (

Brown, B. V. 2016. Fossil evidence of social insect commensalism in the Phoridae (Insecta: Diptera). Journal of Systematic Paleontology.

Brown, B.V., A. Borkent , P.H. Adler , D.S. Amorim, K.Barber, D. Bickel, S. Boucher , S.E. Brooks, J. Burger, Z.L. Burington, R.S. Capellari, D.N.R.Costa, J.M. Cumming , G. Curler, C.W. Dick, J.H. Epler, E. Fisher, S.D. Gaimari, J. Gelhaus, D.A. Grimaldi, J. Hash, M. Hauser, H. Hippa, S. Ibáñez-Bernal, M. Jaschhof, E.P. Kameneva, P.H. Kerr, V. Korneyev, C.A. Korytkowski , G. Kung, G.M. Kvifte, O. Lonsdale, S.A. Marshall, W. Mathis, V. Michelsen, S. Naglis, A.L. Norrbom, S. Paiero, T. Pape, A. Pereira-Colavite, M. Pollet, S. Rochefort, A. Rung, J.B. Runyon, J. Savage, V.C. Silva, B.J. Sinclair, J.H. Skevington, J.O. Stireman III, J. Swann, F.C. Thompson, P. Vilkamaa, T. Wheeler, T. Whitworth, M. Wong, D.M. Wood, N. Woodley, T. Yau, T.J. Zavortink, & M.A. Zumbado. 2018. Comprehensive inventory of true flies (Diptera) at a tropical site. Communications Biology (Nature). DOI: 10.1038/s42003-018-0022-x

Brown, B., Amorim, D. & Kung, G. 2015. New morphological characters for classifying Phoridae (Diptera) from the structure of the thorax. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 173, 424-485.

Brown, B. V., A. Borkent, J. M. Cumming, D. M. Wood, N. E. Woodley, & M. Zumbado (editors). 2009. Manual of Central American Diptera, Volume 1. National Research Council Press, Ottawa, Canada. 714 pp.

Brown, B. V., A. Borkent, J. M. Cumming, D. M. Wood, N. E. Woodley, & M. Zumbado (editors). 2010. Manual of Central American Diptera, Volume 2. National Research Council Press, Ottawa, Canada. xvi + pp. 715-1442.

Brown, B. V., M.A.L. Bragança, D.S. Gomes, J.M.Quieroz, and M.C. Teixeiras. 2012. Parasitoid phorid flies (Diptera: Phoridae) from the threatened leafcutter ant Atta robusta Borgmeier (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa, 3385: 33-38.

Brown, B.V. & M. Buck. 1998. Review of the genus Hypocera Lioy (Diptera: Phoridae). Entomologica scandinavica. 29: 47-56.

Brown, B.V. & R.H.L. Disney. 2009. Validation of the name Diocophora multichaeta (Diptera: Phoridae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 111: 128-131.

Brown, B.V., R.H.L. Disney, L. Elizalde, & P.J. Folgarait. 2010. New species and new records of Apocephalus Coquillett (Diptera: Phoridae) that parasitize ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in South America. Sociobiology. 55: 165-190.

Brown, B. V., L. F. Faust, & J. M. Cicero. 2009. A cantharid beetle host for a parasitic phorid fly new to the Nearctic Region (Coleoptera: Cantharidae; Diptera: Phoridae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 111: 898-899.

Brown, B.V. & D.H. Feener, Jr. 1991. Life history parameters and description of the larva of Apocephalus paraponerae (Diptera: Phoridae), a parasitoid of the giant tropical ant Paraponera clavata (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Natural History. 25: 221-321.

Brown, B.V. & D.H. Feener, Jr. 1991. Behavior and host location cues of Apocephalus paraponerae (Diptera: Phoridae), a parasitoid of the giant tropical ant, Paraponera clavata (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Biotropica. 23: 182- 187.

Brown, B.V. & D.H. Feener, Jr. 1993. Life history and immature stages of Rhyncophoromyia maculineura, an ant- parasitizing phorid fly (Diptera: Phoridae) from Peru. Journal of Natural History. 27: 429-434.

Brown, B.V. & D.H. Feener, Jr. 1995. Efficiency of two mass sampling methods for sampling phorid flies (Diptera: Phoridae) in a tropical biodiversity survey. Contributions in Science. No. 459, 10 pp.

Brown, B.V. & D.H. Feener, Jr. 1998. Parasitic phorid flies (Diptera: Phoridae) associated with army ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ecitoninae, Dorylinae) and their conservation biology. Biotropica. 30: 482-487.

Brown, B. V., P. Folgarait, & L. Gilbert. 2003. A new species of Pseudacteon Coquillett (Diptera: Phoridae) attacking Solenopsis fire ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Argentina. Sociobiology. 41:685-688.

Brown, B.V., Francoeur, A. & R.L. Gibson. 1991. Review of the genus Styletta (Diptera: Phoridae), with description of a new genus. Entomologica scandinavica. 22: 241-250.

Brown, BV, and E. Hartop. 2014. Recognition of Megaselia arizonensis (Malloch, 1912) (Diptera: Phoridae), a common North American fly. Contributions in Science 522: 45-49.

Brown B.V. and E.A. Hartop. 2016. Big data from tiny flies: patterns revealed from over 42,000 phorid flies (Insecta: Diptera: Phoridae) collected over one year in Los Angeles, California, USA. Urban Ecosystems. 20: 521– 534. DOI 10.1007/s11252-016-0612-7.

Brown, B.V. & E. A. Hartop. 2017. Mystery mushroom malingerers: Megaselia marquezi Hartop et al.2014 (Diptera: Phoridae). Biodiversity Data Journal. 5: e15052.

Brown, B.V., C. Hayes, J.M. Hash, and P.T. Smith. Molecular phylogeny of the ant-decapitating flies, genus Apocephalus Coquillett (Diptera: Phoridae). Insect Systematics and Evolution. 2: 1-8.

Brown, B.V. & R.V. Horan, III. 2011. A key to Neotropical Region frog-egg-feeding species of Megaselia (Diptera: Phoridae), with a new species from Panama. Contributions in Science. 520: 1-4

Brown, B. V. & G. Kung. 2004. Two new genera of Phoridae (Insecta: Diptera) from the Neotropical Region. Zootaxa. 554: 1-7.

Brown, B.V. & G. Kung. 2006. Revision of the Melaloncha ungulata-group of bee-killing flies (Diptera: Phoridae). Contributions in Science. No. 507, 31 pp.

Brown, B. V. & G. Kung. 2007. Revision of the New World Dohrniphora Dahl species with hind tibial setae (Diptera: Phoridae). Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny. 65: 155-235.

Brown, B.V. & G. Kung. 2010. Revision of the New World Dohrniphora Dahl species lacking large hind tibial setae (Diptera: Phoridae). Zootaxa. 2699: 1-142.

Brown BV, Kung G, Porras W. 2015).A new type of ant-decapitation in the Phoridae (Insecta: Diptera). Biodiversity Data Journal 3: e4299.doi: 10.3897/BDJ.3.e4299

Brown, B. V. & E. G. LeBrun. 2010. Ant-decapitating flies, Apocephalus, subgenus Apocephalus Coquillett (Insecta: Diptera: Phoridae), of southern Arizona. Contributions in Science. 519: 1-24.

Brown, B.V. & S.A. Marshall. 1984. Phorid flies (Diptera: Phoridae) associated with mushrooms in southern Ontario. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Ontario. 115: 7780.

Brown, B.V. & L. W. Morrison. 1999. New Pseudacteon (Diptera: Phoridae) from North America that parasitizes the native fire ant, Solenopsis geminata (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 92: 308-311.

Brown, B. V. & H. Oliver. 2007. First records of Megaselia scalaris (Loew) and M. spiracularis Schmitz (Diptera: Phoridae) from New Zealand, with additional information on other worldwide species. New Zealand Entomologist. 30: 85-87.

Brown, B. V. & H. Oliver. 2008. Two new genera of Phoridae (Diptera) from New Zealand. Zootaxa. 1933: 1-11.

Brown, B.V. & H. Oliver. 2011. Male terminalia and undescribed female of Ceratoplatus fullerae Schmitz (Diptera: Phoridae) from New Zealand. New Zealand Entomologist. 34: 65-66.

Brown, B.V. & H. Oliver. 2014. The first known ant-parasitising phorid fly (Diptera: Phoridae) from New Zealand is an invasive species, New Zealand Entomologist, DOI:10.1080/00779962.2014.891455

Brown, B.V. & S.M. Philpott. 2012. Pseudacteon parasitoids of Azteca instabilis ants in southern Mexico (Diptera: Phoridae; Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Psyche. 2012: 6 pp. doi:10.1155/2012/351232.

Brown, B.V. & E.M. Pike. 1990. Three new fossil phorid flies (Diptera: Phoridae) from Canadian Cretaceous amber. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 27: 845-848.

Brown, B. & W. Porras. 2015. Extravagant female sexual display in a Megaselia Rondani species (Diptera: Phoridae). Biodiversity Data Journal, 3, e4368.

Brown, B.V. & W. Porras. 2016. A second species, and first Central American record, of the phorid fly genus Lenkoa Borgmeier (Diptera: Phoridae). Zootaxa. 4168(3):583-588. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4168.3.11.

Brown, B.V. & C.W. Sabrosky. 1994. Sphaerocera Latreille, 1804 and Borophaga Enderlein, 1924 (Insecta, Diptera): proposed conservation; Sphaerocera curvipes Latreille, 1805 and Phora flavimana Meigen, 1830: proposed conservation of the specific names. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 51: 312-315.

Brown, B. V., S. A. Schneider, & J. S. LaPolla. 2011. A new North American species of Pseudacteon (Diptera: Phoridae), parasitic on Nylanderia arenivaga (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 104: 37-38.

Brown, B. V. & P. T. Smith. 2010. The bee-killing flies, genus Melaloncha Brues (Diptera: Phoridae): a combined molecular and morphological phylogeny. Systematic Entomology. 35: 649-657.

Brown, B. V. & Wisch, H. 2017. Not just honey bees or bumble bees: first record of "zombie flies" from a carpenter beee (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Xylocopinae). Pan-Pacific Entomologist 93, 113-114.

Core, A., C. Runckel, J. Ivers, C. Quock, T. Siapno, S. DeNault, B. Brown, J. DeRisi, C. D. Smith, and J. Hafernik. 2012. A new threat to honey bees, the parasitic phorid fly Apocephalus borealis. PLoS ONE 7(1): e29639. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0029639.

Corona, E. M. & B.V. Brown. 2004. Two new species of the Apocephalus attophilus-group of ant-decapitating flies (Diptera: Phoridae). Sociobiology. 44: 689-693.

Corona, E. M. & B. V. Brown. 2005. The Central American species of Diplonevra Lioy (Diptera: Phoridae). Zootaxa. 1050: 21-38.

Disney, R.H.L. & B.V. Brown. 2003. A new species of Megaselia (Diptera: Phoridae) parasitising a Camponotus species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Thailand. Sociobiology. 41: 403-410.

Disney, R. H. L. & B. V. Brown. 2009. Two additions to the list of phorid flies (Diptera: Phoridae) reported from the USA. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 111: 539-540.

Feener, D.H., Jr. & B.V. Brown. 1992. Reduced foraging of the tropical fire ant Solenopsis geminata (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), in the presence of parasitic phorid flies, Pseudacteon spp. Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 85: 80-84.

Feener, D.H., Jr. & B.V. Brown. 1993. Oviposition behavior of an ant decapitating fly, Neodohrniphora curvinervis (Diptera: Phoridae) and defense behavior by its leafcutting ant host, Atta cephalotes (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Journal of Insect Behavior. 6: 675-688.

Feener, D.H., Jr. & B.V. Brown. 1997. Diptera as parasitoids. Annual Review of Entomology. 42: 73-97.

Ganjisaffar, F., E. J. Talamas, M.C. Bon , L. Gonzalez, B.V. Brown , and T.M. Perring. 2018. Trissolcus hyalinipennis Rajmohana & Narendran (Hymenoptera, Scelionidae), a parasitoid of Bagrada hilaris (Burmeister) (Hemiptera, Pentatomidae), emerges in North America. Journal of Hymenoptera Research. 65: 111-130. doi: 10.3897/jhr.65.25620.

Gonzalez, L. & B.V. Brown. 2004. New species and records of Melaloncha (Udamochiras) bee-killing flies (Diptera: Phoridae). Zootaxa. 730: 1-14.

Gonzalez, V.H., B.V. Brown & M. Ospina. 2002. A new species of Megaselia (Diptera: Phoridae) associated with brood provisions of nests of Neocorynura (Hymenoptera: Halictidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society. 75: 73-79.

Greenwalt, D.E., D.J. Bickel, P.H. Kerr, G.R. Curler, B.V. Brown, H. de Jong, S.J. Fitzgerald, T.Dikow, M.Tkoč, C. Kehlmaier, and D.S. Amorim. 2019. Diptera of the middle Eocene Kishenehn Formation. I. Documentation of diversity at the family level. Palaeontologia Electronica. 22.2.50. https://doi.org/10.26879/891

Grimaldi D, Ginsberg PS, Thayer L, McEvey S, Hauser M, Turelli M, Brown, B. (2015) Strange Little Flies in the Big City: Exotic Flower-Breeding Drosophilidae (Diptera) in Urban Los Angeles. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0122575. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0122575

Hall, D.W. & B.V. Brown. 1993. Pollination of Aristolochia littoralis (Aristolochiales: Aristolochiaceae) by males of Megaselia spp. (Diptera: Phoridae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 86: 609-613.

Hanson, P.S. & B.V. Brown. 1999. 4.6 Flies. Introduction. in Nadkarni, N.M. & Wheelwright, N.T. (editors). The Natural History and Ecology of Monteverde, Costa Rica: Background to Conservation. Oxford University Press.

Hartop, E. and B. Brown. 2014. The tip of the iceberg: a distinctive new spotted-wing Megaselia species (Diptera: Phoridae) from a tropical cloud forest survey and a new, streamlined method for Megaselia descriptions. Biodiversity Data Journal 2: e4093.

Hartop, E.A., B.V. Brown, & R.H.L.Disney. 2015. Opportunity in our ignorance: urban biodiversity study reveals 30 new species and one new Nearctic record for Megaselia (Diptera: Phoridae) in Los Angeles (California, USA). Zootaxa 3941 (4): 451–484.

Hartop, E.A. & B.V. Brown. 2015. Natural blondes: new species of brilliantly yellow colored and morphologically distinct Megaselia (Diptera: Phoridae) from Central America. Studia dipterologica. 21: 257-265.

Hartop, E.A. & B.V. Brown. 2015 Seeing spots: another distinct spotted-wing species of Megaselia Rondani from Costa Rican cloud forests. Studia dipterologica 21: 181-185.

Hartop, E. A., Brown, B. V. & Disney, R. H. L. 2016. New flies from L.A., The Sequel: Twelve further new species of Megaselia (Diptera: Phoridae) from the BioSCAN Project in Los Angeles (California, USA). Biodiversity Data Journal, e7756.

Hartop, E. A., E. Long, C. Bornstein, L. Gonzalez, and B. V. Brown. 2018. Urban Nature Gardens at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County attract “wildlife spectacle” of insect pollinators. pp. 29-50 in Hartop, E.A. and B.V. Brown (editors). Beyond pests: Biodiversity in the urban environment. International Congress of Entomology 25-30 September 2016, Orlando, Florida, USA. Zoosymposia 12:1-89. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zoosymposia.12.1.1

Hash, J.M. and B.V. Brown. 2015. Revision of the New World species of the millipede-parasitic genus Myriophora Brown (Diptera: Phoridae). Zootaxa 4035: 1-79.

Hash, J. M., B. V. Brown, & P. T. Smith. 2011. Preliminary use of DNA sequences for Dohrniphora (Diptera: Phoridae) phylogeny and taxonomy. Zootaxa. 2991: 13–20.

Hash, J. M., B. V. Brown, P. T. Smith, & T. Kanao. 2013. A molecular phylogenetic analysis of the genus Dohrniphora (Diptera: Phoridae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 106: 401-409.

Hash, J. M., J. G. Millar, J. M. Heraty, J. F. Harwood, and B. V. Brown. 2017. Millipede defensive compounds are a double- edged sword: natural history of the millipede-parasitic genus Myriophora Brown (Diptera: Phoridae). Journal of Chemical Ecology. doi:10.1007/s10886-016-0815-7

Hibbs, P.J. & B.V. Brown. 1998. A new, extremely primitive species of Plethysmochaeta (Diptera: Phoridae) from South Africa. Studia dipterologica. 4 (1997): 367-369.

Hribar, L., B.V. Brown, & R.H.L. Disney. 2011. Occurrence of Megaselia imitatrix Borgmeier and Megaselia hansonix Disney in Florida (Diptera: Phoridae). Florida Entomologist. 94(4):1066-1067.

Kraemer, M.M.S. & B.V. Brown. 2017. Dohrniphora (Diptera: Phoridae) from the Miocene Mexican and Dominican ambers with a paleobiological reconstruction. Insect Systematics & Evolution. DOI 10.1163/1876312X- 00002174.

Kung, G. & B.V. Brown. 2000. The patterned-wing species of Coniceromyia (Diptera: Phoridae). Contributions in Science. No. 484, 10 pp.

Kung, G. & B.V. Brown. 2000. Two new species of Coniceromyia (Diptera: Phoridae) from South America. Studia dipterologica. 7: 83-86.

Kung, G. & B.V. Brown. 2001. Two new patterned-wing species of Coniceromyia (Diptera: Phoridae) from Colombia. Studia dipterologica. 8: 267-270.

Kung, G. & B.V. Brown. 2004. Two new species of Megaselia Rondani (Diptera: Phoridae) from Costa Rica. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 106: 751-756.

Kung, G. & B.V. Brown. 2005. New species of Dohrniphora related to D. longirostrata (Enderlein) (Diptera: Phoridae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 98: 55-62.

Kung, G. & B. V. Brown. 2005. Three unusually divergent new genera of phorid flies (Diptera: Phoridae) from Costa Rica. Zootaxa. 1019: 43-52.

Kung, G. & B. V. Brown. 2006. The Caribbean species of Dohrniphora Dahl (Diptera: Phoridae). Journal of Natural History. 40: 1931-1945.

Li, E., S.S. Parker, G.B. Pauly, J.M. Randall, B.V. Brown, and B.S.Cohen. 2019. An urban biodiversity assessment framework that combines an urban habitat classification scheme and citizen science data. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 17 July 2019, https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2019.00277.

Lutz, A., & B.V. Brown. 2013. New host association: Polybia scutellaris (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) parasitized by Melaloncha (Diptera, Phoridae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia. 57: 238-239.

Marshall, S.A. & B.V. Brown. 1984. Sphaeroceridae (Diptera) associated with decaying fungi in Ontario. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Ontario. 115: 4348.

Marti, H.E., A.L. Carlson, B. V. Brown, U. G. Mueller. 2015. Foundress queen mortality and early colony growth of the leafcutter ant, Atta texana (Formicidae, Hymenoptera). Insectes Sociaux. DOI 10.1007/s00040-015-0413- 7. McGlynn, T. P., E. K. Meineke, C. A. Bahlai, E. Li, E. A. Hartop, B. J. Adams, and B. V. Brown. 2019. Temperature accounts for the biodiversity of a hyperdiverse group of insects in urban Los Angeles. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2019-1818.

Morehead, S., J. Seger, D. H. Feener, Jr. & B. V. Brown. 2001. Evidence for a cryptic species complex in the ant parasitoid Apocephalus paraponerae (Diptera: Phoridae). Evolutionary Ecology Research. 3: 273-284.

Parker, S. S., Pauly, G. B., Moore, J., Fraga, N. S., Knapp, J. J., Principe, Z., Brown, B. V., Randall, J. M., Cohen, B. S., and Wake, T. A. 2018. Adapting the Bioblitz to Meet Conservation Needs. Conservation Biology. 32:1007– 1019.

Parker SS, Randall JM, Pauly GB, Li E, Brown BV, Cohen BS. 2019. Biodiversity Analysis in Los Angeles (BAILA). Unpublished report of The Nature Conservancy and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Los Angeles, California. 57 pp. Available at: https://www.scienceforconservation.org/products/BAILAreport

Plowes, R. M., E. G. LeBrun, B. V. Brown, & L. E. Gilbert. 2009. A review of Pseudacteon (Diptera: Phoridae) that parasitize Solenopsis geminata complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 102: 937-958.

Prudic, K.L., J.C. Oliver, B.V.Brown, and E.C. Long. 2018. Comparisons of citizen science data-gathering approaches to evaluate urban butterfly diversity. Insects. 9: 186; doi:10.3390/insects9040186.

Quate, L. W. & B. V. Brown. 2004. Revision of the Neotropical Setomimini (Diptera: Psychodidae: Psychodinae). Contributions in Science. No. 500, 117 pp.

Robinson, W. H. & B. V. Brown. 1993. Life history and immature stages of two species of Megaselia (Diptera: Phoridae) predatory on gall-inhabiting insects. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 95: 404- 411. Segura, B., and BV Brown. 2014. Inter-colony aggression of Camponotus morosus attractive to phorid flies. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 87: 84-88. Seid, M.A. & B.V. Brown. 2009. A new host association of Commoptera solenopsidis (Diptera: Phoridae) with the ant Pheidole dentata (Hymnenoptera: Formicidae) and behavioral observations. Florida Entomologist. 92: 309-313.

Smith, P. T. & B. V. Brown. 2006. Molecular evidence for the family classification of Tachinisca Kertész, 1903 (Diptera: Tephritoidea). Studia dipterologica. 13: 149–154.

Smith, P. T. & B. V. Brown. 2008. Utility of DNA sequences for inferring phylogenetic relationships and associating morphologically dissimilar males and females of the bee-killing flies, genus Melaloncha (Diptera: Phoridae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 101: 713-721.

Smith, P.T. & B.V. Brown. 2010. A molecular phylogenetic analysis of genus Anevrina (Diptera: Phoridae), with description of a new species, and updated world key. Zootaxa. 2397: 29-40.

Uribe, S., B. V. Brown, M. A. L. Bragança, J. M. Queiroz, and C. A. Nogueiras. 2014. New species of Eibesfeldtphora Disney (Diptera: Phoridae) and a new key to the genus. Zootaxa 3814: 443-450.

Uribe, S., B.V. Brown, G. Correa, and A. Ortiz. 2016. Phorids associated with nests of Atta cephalotes (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in a forest and a plantation. Revista Colombiana de Entomología 42 (1): 48-53

Other Publications

Brown, B.V. 1988. Collecting Phoridae in Costa Rica. Fly Times. (Newsletter of the North American Dipterists' Society) 1: 4-5.

Brown, B.V. 1989. A Diptera expedition to Ecuador. Fly Times. 2: 4-6.

Brown, B.V. 1989. Phorid fauna of Guelph, Ontario (Diptera: Phoridae). Fly Times. 2: 6-8.

Brown, B.V. 1989. Review of "A guide to the breeding habits and immature stages of Diptera, Cyclorrhapha, P. Ferrar 1987". Fly Times. 2: 12-13.

Brown, B.V. 1989. Review of "Scuttle flies (Diptera: Phoridae), genus Megaselia, R.H.L.Disney 1989". Fly Times. 3: 12-13.

Brown, B.V. 1990. Using Peldri II as an alternative to critical point drying for small flies. Fly Times. 4: 6.

Brown, B.V. 1990. Update of World Catalogue of the Phoridae (Borgmeier 1968), plus supplement (Borgmeier 1971). Fly Times. 4: 12-18.

Brown, B.V. 1990. Collecting in Thailand. Fly Times. 5: 7-8.

Brown, B.V. 1992. Review of "Proceedings of the Second International Congress of Dipterology." Bulletin of the Entomological Society of Canada. 24: 125-126.

Brown, B.V. 1993. Review of "Life in amber." Bulletin of the Entomological Society of Canada. 25: 93-94.

Brown, B.V. 1993. A further chemical alternative to critical-point-drying for preparing small (or large) flies. Fly Times. 11: 10.

Brown, B.V. 1994. Review of "The ecology of a garden: the first fifteen years." Bulletin of the Entomological Society of Canada. 25 (1993): 185-186.

Brown, B.V. 1994. Review of "Practical Taxonomic Computing." Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 96: 377-378.

Brown, B.V. 1995. Ant-decapitating flies: nature's executioners. Terra. 32: 1-2.

Brown, B.V. 1995. A new collection of scarab beetles. Terra. 32: 4-5.

Brown, B.V. 1995. Giant silk moths. Terra. 33 (1996): 4-5.

Brown, B.V. 1995. Review of "Scuttle Flies: the Phoridae." Bulletin of the Entomological Society of Canada. 27: 41-42.

Brown, B.V. 1996. Review of "Scuttle Flies: the Phoridae." Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 98: 166-167.

Brown, B.V. 1997. The true face of biodiversity. Terra. 34: 6-8.

Brown, B.V. 1998. Fossil flies in amber. Terra. 35 (3): 8-9.

Brown, B.V. 1999. Butterflies in living color. pp. 3-6 in Butterfly Gardening in Southern California. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. 36 pp.

Brown, B.V. 1999. The species of Aerangis. African Orchid Alliance Magazine. June, 1999. pp. 5-8.

Brown, B.V. (editor) 2009. Butterfly Gardening in Southern California, revised edition. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. 36 pp.

Brown, B.V., J.N. Hogue, & F.C. Thompson. 2011. Flower flies of Los Angeles County. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. 30 pp.

Brown, B.V., E.R. Fuller, D.A. Pollock, & T.G. Spanton. 1990. Alberta insect survey, 1990. Newsletter of the Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods). 9: 46-48.

Currie, D.C., D. Giberson & B.V. Brown. 2000. Insects of Keewatin and Mackenzie. Newsletter of the Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods). 19: 48-51.

Gonzalez, L.A., B. Adams, and B.V. Brown. 2019. Insects of BioSCAN. Privately published. 43 pp.

Pollock, D.A, B.V. Brown, E.R. Fuller, T.G. Spanton, & D.S. Mulyk. 1991. 1990 Alberta insect survey: results and discussion. Newsletter of the Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods). 10: 7-11.

Other Contributions to Science

Co-compiler of North American Dipterists' Directory Organizer and Moderator of the Informal Conference on Diptera Systematics. Entomological Society of America National Conference, San Antonio, Texas, 1989. Organizer of the 1990 Alberta insect survey. Organizer of the 1991 Meeting of the North American Dipterists' Society, Southwestern Research Station, Portal, Arizona. Member of organizing committee for 3rd International Congress of Dipterology, Guelph, Ontario, 15-19 August 1994. Co-organizer of the 1993 Meeting of the North American Dipterists' Society, Piney Woods Conservation Center, Lufkin Texas. Member of Scientific Publications Committee for Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Member of International Editorial Board for the Journal Entomological Problems, published by the Slovak Academy of Sciences. National Science Foundation Research Collections in Systematics and Ecology Panel, 1995. National Science Foundation Systematic Biology Panel, 1996. National Science Foundation Biological Research Collections Panel, January 2000. National Science Foundation Systematic Biology Panel, October 2002. National Science Foundation Systematic Biology Panel, October 2003. National Science Foundation Biodiversity Surveys and Inventories Panel, October 2004. National Science Foundation Systematic Biology Panel, October 2005. Head Editor of the Diptera of Central America project, based at InBio, Costa Rica Encyclopedia of Life, Diptera panel, October, 2008.

Professional Affiliations

Entomological Society of Washington Society of Systematic Biology Elected Fellow of the Willi Hennig Society Entomological Society of America

Graduate Student Committees

Mark Metz, California State University, Northridge. MSc, defended May 1995. Thesis title: Abdominal color variation in two syrphine flies and its possible role in mimicry. Shellee Morehead, University of Utah. PHD, defended August 1999. Thesis title: Host specificity of Apocephalus paraponerae, a parasitoid of tropical ants. Ed LeBrun, University of Utah. PHD, defended August 2003. John Hash, California State University, Bakersfield, MSc, defended June 2010. Katherine Noble, University of Utah, PHD (in progress)

Teaching

Co-teacher and originator of Santa Monica College course "Natural History of the Santa Monica Mountains" (taught twice in 1996 and once in 1997).

Co-instructor at Costa Rican Diptera TWIG, 2000.

Taught a field course in Taxonomy of Phoridae, 2001, Belem, Brazil.

Field Experience

Besides extensive collections made in Canada and the United States of America, I have organized and participated in field trips to Argentina (2003), Bolivia (2001, 2003, 2004), Brazil (1999, 2001, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014), Chile (2007), Colombia (1997, 2000), Costa Rica (numerous trips), Ecuador (1987, 1996), Guyana (1999), New Zealand (2006), Peru (1992, 2001, 2004), Slovakia (2008), Taiwan (1997) and Thailand (1990, 2006, 2008).