CURRICULUM VITAE BRIAN BROWN, Ph.D. 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 E-mail: BBrown@nhm.org

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).

• 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 2007. Promoted to Acting Associate Deputy Director of Research & Collections, , Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90007, U.S.A.

• 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.

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), Chile (2007), Colombia (1997, 2000), Costa Rica (numerous trips), Ecuador (1987, 1996), Guyana (1999), New Zealand (2006), Peru (1992, 2001, 2004), Taiwan (1997) and Thailand (1990, 2006, 2008).

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 "[Colombia, second grant] (Co-principal investigator with Dr. Mike Sharkey, University of Kentucky), ($350,000; 2002-2005)
• National Science Foundation Equipment Grant DBI-0216506 AScanning 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 ACombined 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 ABasal lineages of the Phoridae@ (with CoPI Dr. Paul Smith, California State University, Bakersfield) ($487,111; 2005-2008).
• National Science Foundation Research Grant DEB-0542864 ATIGER: 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)

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

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

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: 271-304.

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: 1477-1524.

Brown, B.V. 1988. Additions to the phorid chapter in the Manual of Nearctic Diptera, Volume 2 (Diptera: Phoridae). Canadian Entomologist. 120: 307-322.

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. submitted. The undescribed male of Ctenopleuriphora Liu (Diptera: Phoridae). Studia dipterologica.

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

Brown, B.V. and R.H.L. Disney. submitted. Validation of the name Diocophora multichaeta (Diptera: Phoridae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. [submitted 15 Jan 2008]

Brown, B. V., L. F. Faust, & J. M. Cicero. submitted. A cantharid beetle host for a parasitic phorid fly new to North America (Coleoptera: Cantharidae; Diptera: Phoridae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington.

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

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

Brown, B.V. and 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. and G. Kung. 2007. 1Revision of the New World Dohrniphora Dahl species with hind tibial setae (Diptera: Phoridae). Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny. 65: 155-235.

Brown, B.V. and S.A. Marshall. 1984. Phorid flies (Diptera: Phoridae) associated with mushrooms in southern Ontario. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Ontario. 115: 77-80.

Brown, B.V. and 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. and 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. and H. Oliver. submitted. Two new genera of Phoridae (Diptera) from New Zealand. Zootaxa [submitted 23 July 2008]

Brown, B.V. and 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.V. and 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. and P. T. Smith. submitted. Combined molecular and morphological phylogeny of the bee-killing flies, genus Melaloncha Brues (Diptera: Phoridae). Systematic Entomology.

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

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

Feener, D.H., Jr. and 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 leaf-cutting 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.

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 and 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.

Hall, D.W. and 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. and 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Marshall, S.A. and B.V. Brown. 1984. Sphaeroceridae (Diptera) associated with decaying fungi in Ontario. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Ontario. 115: 43-48.

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

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

Robinson, W. H. and 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.

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

Smith, P. T. and 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.

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.

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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.