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 in preparation
• Professional presentations
• Professional activities
• Education
• Past Employment
• Quick links

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 World Craspedochaeta 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 World Heteromeringia (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 Alloclusia Hendel, 1917 new synonym (Diptera: Clusiidae). Zootaxa 1944: 1-33.
12. Lonsdale, O. & S.A. Marshall. In press. Clusiidae. In Brown, B.V., A. Borkent, D.M. Wood, & M. Zumbado (eds.), Manual of Central American Diptera, Volume 2. National Research Council Press, Ottawa.
13. Lonsdale, O. & D.K. McAlpine. In press. Somatiidae.In Brown, B.V., A. Borkent, D.M. Wood, & M. Zumbado (eds.), Manual of Central American Diptera, Volume 2. National Research Council Press, Ottawa.
14. Lonsdale, O. Submitted. Proposed conservation of usage of Heteroneura albimana Meigen, 1830 as the type species of the genus Clusiodes Coquillett, 1904 (Diptera: Clusiidae). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature.
15. Lonsdale, O., D. Cheung & S.A. Marshall. Submitted. The Clusiidae of North America – an interactive online revision. Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification.
16. Lonsdale, O. & S.A. Marshall. Submitted. Revision of the Australian Heteromeringia (Diptera: Clusiidae: Clusiodinae).

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 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 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 in Preparation

1. Lonsdale, O., S. Boucher & S. Scheffer. The Agromyzidae (Diptera) of the “Delmarva” states (Delaware, Maryland and the Virginias), with a revised key to the Nearctic genera.
2. Lonsdale, O. & S. Scheffer. Revision of the Holly leaf-miners in the Nearctic (Phytomyza: Agromyzidae).
3. Lonsdale, O., S.A. Marshall, J. Fu & B.M. Wiegmann. Phylogenetic analysis of the Clusiidae (Diptera: Acalyptratae) using morphological and molecular data sets.
4. Lonsdale, O. & S.A. Marshall. Sobarocephala (Diptera: Clusiidae: Sobarocephalinae) – Subgeneric classification and Revision of Most Species Groups.
5. Lonsdale, O. & S.A. Marshall. Revision of the Old World Sobarocephala (Diptera: Clusiidae: Sobarocephalinae).
6. Lonsdale, O. & S.A. Marshall. Revision of the Sobarocephala flaviseta species group (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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