Dr. Owen Lonsdale Collection Manager for CNC Manager, National Identification Service of Insects, Arachnids, and Nematodes Curator of: aquatic insects; orthopteroids; “minor” orders.

Contact details
e-Mail: Owen.Lonsdale@agr.gc.ca
Telephone: 613-759-1992
Fax: 613-759-1927

• Publications
• Published webpages
• Textbooks illustrated
• Manuscripts under review
• Manuscripts in preparation
• Professional presentations
• Professional activities
• Education
• Past Employment
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Publications

1. Lonsdale, O. & Marshall, S.A. 2006. Redefinition of the Clusiinae and Clusiodinae, description of the new subfamily Sobarocephalinae, revision of the genus Chaetoclusia and a description of Procerosoma gen. n. (Diptera: Clusiidae). European Journal of Entomology 103: 163-182. Available at: http://www.eje.cz/pdfarticles/1090/eje_103_1_163_Lonsdale.pdf .
2. Lonsdale, O. & S.A. Marshall. 2006. Revision of the New WorldCraspedochaeta Czerny. Zootaxa 1291:1-101.
3. Marshall, S.A., S.M. Paiero & O. Lonsdale. 2006. New records of Orthoptera from Canada and Ontario. Journal of the Entomological Society of Ontario 135 (2004): 101-107.
4. Lonsdale, O. & S.A. Marshall. 2007. Revision of the New WorldHeteromeringia (Diptera: Clusiidae: Clusiodinae). Beiträge zur Entomologie 57(1): 37-80.
5. Marshall, S.A., M. Buck & O. Lonsdale. 2007. Lepidosina, a new genus of New World Sphaeroceridae (Diptera, Limosininae). European Journal of Entomology 104: 573-599.
6. Lonsdale, O. & S.A. Marshall. 2007. Redefinition of the genera Clusiodes and Hendelia (Diptera: Clusiidae, Clusiodinae), with a review of Clusiodes. Studia Dipterologica 14: 117-159.
7. Lonsdale, O. & S.A. Marshall. 2007. Revision of the genus Phylloclusia (Diptera: Clusiidae). The Canadian Entomologist 139: 778-792.
8. Lonsdale, O. & S.A. Marshall. 2007. Revision of the North American Sobarocephala (Diptera: Clusiidae, Sobarocephalinae). Journal of the Entomological Society of Ontario 138: 65-106.
9. Lonsdale, O. & S.A. Marshall. 2008. Synonymy within Clusia and description of the new genus Melanoclusia.Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 101(2):327-330.
10. Lonsdale, O. & S.A. Marshall. 2008. The Clusiidae (Diptera: Acalyptratae) of Fiji, with redefinition of Heteromeringia.In: Evenhuis, N.L. & Bickel, D.J. (eds.), Fiji Arthropods XI. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 98: 3-14.
11. Lonsdale, O. & S.A. Marshall. 2008. Revision of the temperate South American genus Apiochaeta Czerny, 1903, including AlloclusiaHendel, 1917 new synonym (Diptera: Clusiidae). Zootaxa 1944: 1-33.
12. Lonsdale, O. 2009. Case 3468: ClusiodesCoquillett, 1904 (Diptera, Clusiidae): proposed conservation of usage by designation of Heteroneura albimana Meigen, 1830 as the type species. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 66(2): 144-146.
13. Lonsdale,O. & Marshall, S.A. 2009. The Heteromeringia (Diptera: Clusiidae: Clusiodinae) of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 61: 229-262. Available online at: http://publications.australianmuseum.net.au/pdf/1531_complete.pdf.
14. Lonsdale, O., Marshall, S.A., Fu, J. & Wiegmann, B. 2010. Phylogenetic analysis of the druid flies (Diptera: Schizophora: Clusiidae) based on morphological and molecular data. Insect Systematics & Evolution 41: 231-274.
15. Lonsdale, O. & D.K. McAlpine. 2010. 59: Somatiidae. Pp. 833-835, In: Brown, B. et al. (Eds.) "Manual of Central American Diptera, Volume 2". NRC Research Press, Ottawa.
16. Lonsdale, O. & S.A.Marshall.  2010. 78: Clusiidae. Pp. 1041-1048, In: Brown, B. et al. (Eds.) "Manual of Central American Diptera, Volume 2". NRC Research Press, Ottawa.
17. Lonsdale, O. & K. Apigian. 2010. Description of the first known fossil representative of the family Tanypezidae (Diptera: Schizophora). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 153(2): 213-216.
18. Lonsdale, O. & S.A.Marshall.  2011. Revision of the New World Hendelia(Diptera: Clusiidae: Clusiodinae). Zootaxa 2748: 1–17
19. Scheffer, S.J. &Lonsdale, O.  2011.Phytomyza omlandi spec. nov.—The First Species of Agromyzidae (Diptera: Schizophora) Reared from the Family Gelsemiaceae (Asteridae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 113(1):42-49.
20. Lonsdale, O. 2011. The Liriomyza (Agromyzidae: Schizophora: Diptera) of California. Zootaxa 2850: 1-123.
21. Lonsdale, O., Cheung, D.K.B. & Marshall, S.A.2011. Key to the World genera and North American species of Clusiidae (Diptera: Schizophora). Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification No. 14, ‹st1:date Year="2011" Day="3" Month="5"›3 May 2011, available online at http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/bsc/ejournal/lcm_14/lcm_14.html, doi: 10.3752/cjai.2011.14

Published webpages.

1. Lonsdale, O. & S.A. Marshall. 2004. Clusiidae. Version 10 December 2004 (under construction). http://tolweb.org/Clusiidae/10628/2004.12.10 .In The Tree of Life Project, http://tolweb.org. [Includes links to pages for all genera]
2. Lonsdale, O. 2005. Somatiidae. Somatia. Version ‹st1:date Year="2005" Day="4" Month="8"›04 August 2005 (under construction). http://tolweb.org/Somatia/10596/2005.08.04.In The Tree of Life Project, http://tolweb.org .
3. Lonsdale, O. 2006. Acartophthalmidae. Version ‹st1:date Year="2006" Day="18" Month="7"›18 July 2006 (under construction). http://tolweb.org/Acartophthalmidae/10629/2006.07.18.In The Tree of Life Project, http://tolweb.org.

Textbooks illustrated

1. Lynn, D.H. 2008. The Ciliated Protozoa: Characterization, Classification, and Guide to the Literature, 3rd ed. Pergamon Press, New York. 606pp. [Figures available at: http://www.springer.com/life+sci/microbiology/book/978-1-4020-8238-2]

Manuscripts under review.

1. S.J. Scheffer & Lonsdale, O.  Under review.  Revision of the Holly leaf-miners in the Nearctic (Phytomyza: Agromyzidae).  Proc. Ent. Soc. Am.

Manuscripts in preparation.

1. Lonsdale, O., S. Boucher & S. Scheffer.  In manuscript.  The Agromyzidae (Diptera) of the “Delmarva” states (Delaware, Maryland and the Virginias), with a revised key to the Nearctic genera.
2. Lonsdale, O.  In manuscript.  Revision of the Canadian Phytomyza(Diptera: Agromyzidae).
3. Lonsdale, O.& S.A.Marshall.  In manuscript.  Sobarocephala (Diptera: Clusiidae: Sobarocephalinae) – Subgeneric classification and Revision of Most Species Groups.
4. Lonsdale, O.& S.A.Marshall.  In manuscript.  Revision of the Old World Sobarocephala (Diptera: Clusiidae: Sobarocephalinae).

Professional Presentations

• 2009 – Smithsonian Entomology Series: “Adventures in collections-based research”
• 2008 – Entomological Society of Canada, Annual meeting: “Systematic advances in the family Agromyzidae in North America”
• 2008 – Society meeting of the Entomological Society of Washington: “Recent advances in studies of the druid flies (Diptera, Clusiidae) using morphology, DNA & behaviour”
• 2007 – Entomological Collections Network, Annual meeting: “Progress report on the Biosystematic Database of World Diptera (BDWD)”
• 2006 – Entomological Society of Canada, Annual meeting: "Deciphering the Past: Reconstructing the Phylogeny of the Clusiidae (Diptera) Using Multiple (and Sometimes Conflicting) Data Sets”.  Invited speaker
• 2006 – Entomological Society of Ontario, Annual meeting: “Correlations between behaviour and phylogeny in the Clusiidae (Diptera)”
• 2005 – Entomological Society of Canada, Annual meeting: “Systematic advances in the family Clusiidae”
• 2004 – Entomological Society of America, Annual meeting: “Revision of the New World Craspedochaeta”
• 2004 – Entomological Society of Ontario, Annual meeting: “Recent systematic work in the family Clusiidae” (poster)
• 2004 - Toronto Entomological Association, Annual meeting: "Recent systematic work in the family Clusiidae" (poster)
• 2003 - Entomological Society of Ontario, Annual meeting: “Revision of the New World Craspedochaeta”
• 2002 - Entomological Society of Ontario, Annual meeting: “A revision of the Sobarocephala flaviseta species group and synonymy of the genus Sobarocephaloides”

Professional Activities

• 2007-present, Associate Editor, Myia
• 2006-present, Language Editor, Asiatic Herpetological Research
• 2000-2007, Biological Illustrator, for Dr. D. Lynn (University of Guelph), illustrating single-celled animals for textbook publication
• 2002, Teacher's Assistant, "Field Entomology" (University of Guelph), April-May, Jatun Sacha Research Station, Napo, Ecuador
• 2001, Teacher's Assistant, "Field Entomology" (under Dr. S. Marshall, University of Guelph), April-May, Mountain Lake Biological Station, West Virginia
• 1999-2001, Field Director / Student Researcher (under Dr. S. Marshall, University of Guelph) - Creating a database of the insects of Point Pelee National Park, general curation of the University of Guelph insect collection, collection and identification of insects.
• 1998-1999, Teacher’s Assistant, “Invertebrate Zoology” (University of Guelph), September 1998-January 1999.

Education

• 2007, Ph.D., Entomology, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
• 2004, M.S., Entomology, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
• 2000, B.A. (minor), Fine Arts, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
• 1999, B.S. (major), Wildlife Biology, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Past Employment

• 2009, Postdoctoral Scientist, Entomology Laboratory, Plant Pest Diagnostics Branch, California Department of Food & Agriculture, Sacramento (joint CDFA/UC Davis)
• 2007-2009, Postdoctoral Scientist, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

Strip of fly face photographs: heads of representative Agromyzidae, Clusiidae and Tanypezidae.

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