AUTHORS OF FLY NAMES Second Edition Neal L. Evenhuis Bishop Museum 2013 AUTHORS OF FLY NAMES A list of all authors who have proposed Diptera names at the family-level or below Second Edition Neal L. Evenhuis Bishop Museum Technical Report No. 61 2013 Published by Bishop Museum 1525 Bernice Street Honolulu, Hawaii 96817 Copyright ©2013 Author contact information: Dr. Neal L. Evenhuis Bishop Museum 1525 Bernice Street Honolulu, Hawaii 96817-2704, USA email:
[email protected] ISSN 1085-455X Introduction This is the second edition of this list. The first edition was published in 2010 as Bishop Museum Technical Report 51. That 2010 list included 5,375 dipterists. This second edition lists 5,701, an increase of 326 in just a little over two years. I began in the late 1980s to compile an authority file of all authors who had proposed at least one or more names of extant and/or fossil Diptera taxa at family level or below. The need for this list stemmed from two focal points: 1) to provide a unambiguous (i.e., unique) identifier for every author who proposed a dipteran name; and 2) to provide to a wide user-community basic biographical information on authors of fly names in order to allow accurate identification of these authors and for general interest in just who were these people describing fly names. Authority files are comprised of entries that are used as templates for associations with and cross-indexing in bibliographies, taxon lists, collection information, and other sets of data. As such, having as accurate a set of data as possible pertaining to those entries is required in order to avoid ambiguities.