Contact details
Telephone: 613-759-1791
Fax: 613-759-1927
E-mail: lafontained@agr.gc.ca
Current Research Projects
- Systematic revisions and reviews of North American cutworm groups for the “Moths of North America (MONA)” project
- Reviews of butterfly and moth diversity for various zoogeographic regions (e.g. Yukon; Beringia; Ecozones of Canada)
- Systematics, biogeography, and phylogeny of Lepidoptera, especially cutworm moths (family Noctuidae)
Affiliations
- 2001- : President ot the International Lepidopterists' Society
- 1998: Research Associate, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
- 1993-1994: Member, Scientific Committee, Biological Survey of Canada
- 1992: Keynote address, Eighth European Congress of Lepidopterology, Helsinki, Finland
- 1988-1994: Adjunct Professor, Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa
- 1987: External Examiner, Thesis for Masters of Science degree, McGill University
- 1985-present: Board of Directors, Moths of North America Project, Washington, DC
- 1984, 1990: Vice-President, Lepidopterists’ Society
- 1984, 1988: External Examiner, Carl Jordan Gold Medal Award Committee, Lepidopterists’ Society
- 1983: Joint recipient, Anne Hanes Award, Ottawa Field-Naturalists’ Club
- 1969-1976: Executive Council, Ottawa Field-Naturalists’ Club
- More than 50 scientific papers on systematics, evolution and biogeography of cutworms.
- Faunistic reviews of butterfly and moth diversity in Canadian Ecozones.
- Books: Moths of North America: 1) Euxoa cutworms; 2) loopers; 3) climbing cutworms; 4) cutworms of Ontario and Quebec; 5) Butterflies of Canada.
To see a list of these along with pdf files of some, click here.
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