Directory of North American Dipterists

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Dr. Peter H. Adler, Department of Entomology, Long Hall, Clemson University, Box 340365, Clemson, SC 29634-0365, USA. Telephone: (803) 656-5044. Fax: (803) 656-5065. E-mail: padler@clemson.edu Interests: Systematics of Simuliidae (especially taxonomy, cytogenetics, and ecology); reproductive behavior of Tachinidae.

Dr. John Alcock, Department of Zoology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1501, USA. E-mail: j.alcock@asu.edu

Dr. Sandra Allan, USDA/ARS, Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology, 1600/1700 SW 23rd Dr, Gainesville, FL 32608, USA. Telephone: (352) 374-5940. Fax: (352) 374-5922. E-mail: sallan@gainesville.usda.ufl.edu Interests: Mosquito behavior and ecology.

Dr. John R. Anderson, 1283 NW Trenton, Bend, OR 97701, USA. Telephone: (503) 385-8693. E-mail: jranderson@coinet.com Interests: Host seeking and feeding behavior of black flies and the biology of oestrid parasites associated with cervids.

Dr. C.S. Apperson, Department of Entomology, North Carolina State University, 112 Dearstyne Entomology Building, 3230 Ligon Road, Raleigh, NC 27695-7647, USA. Telephone: (919) 515-4326. E-mail: charles_apperson@ncsu.edu

Dr. Paul H. Arnaud, Jr., Curator Emeritus, Department of Entomology, California Academy of Sciences, 875 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA 94103-3098, USA. Telephone: (415) 321-8330. E-mail: parnaud@calacademy.org Interests: Systematics of N. A. Tachinidae, Empididae, and Dolichopodidae.

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Dr. Michael D. Baker, Department of Entomology University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA. Telephone: (520) 621-7033. Fax: (520) 621-1150.

Bill Ballard, University of Iowa, Biological Sciences, 208 Biology Building, Iowa City, IA 52242-1324, USA. Telephone: (319) 353-2292. Fax: (319) 335-1069. E-mail: bill-ballard@uiowa.edu

Mr. Kevin N. Barber, Great Lakes Forestry Centre, Canadian Forest Service, 1219 Queen St. E., Sault Ste. Marie, ON, P6A 2E5, Canada. Telephone: (705) 941-5432. Fax: (705) 541-5700. E-mail: kbarber@nrcan.gc.ca Interests: New World Anthomyzidae - revision and habitat associations; Acalyptrates - general interest.

Dr. Donald R. Barnard, Center for Medical, Agricultural, and Veterinary Entomology, USDA Agricultural Research Service, 1600 S.W. 23rd Drive, Gainesville, FL 32608, USA. E-mail: dbarnard@gainesville.usda.ufl.edu

Dr. Jeffrey K. Barnes, The Arthropod Museum, Department of Entomology, 319 Agriculture Building, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA. Telephone: (479) 575-4795. E-mail: JBarnes@UArk.edu

Mr. Bill Barr, 12316-93 St., Edmonton, AB, T5G 1G4, Canada. E-mail: Bill.Barr@edmonton.ca Interests: Behavior and silk of black fly larvae (Simuliidae), mosquito (Culicidae) repellents.

Mr. James E. Baxter, Department of Entomology, Wellman Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.

Keith Bayless, Department of Entomology, Comstock Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA. E-mail: kmb84@cornell.edu Interests: Asilidae.

Mr. Vladimir Berezovskiy, Entomology Section, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA. Interests: Natural history and taxonomy of Stratiomyidae, Rhagionidae.

Matt Bertone, Department of Entomology, North Carolina State University, Box 7613, Raleigh, NC 27695-7613, USA. E-mail: maberto2@ncsu.edu

Mr. Bohdan Bilyj, 12 Westroyal Road, Weston, ON, M9P 2C3, Canada. E-mail: biotax@interlog.com Interests: Chironomidae; wetland ecology; phenology of bog species; environmental impacts and biomonitoring.

Dr. Vladimir Blagoderov, Department of Entomology, The American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th St., New York, NY 10024, USA. E-mail: vblago@amnh.org

Mr. Jeff Boettner, Entomology Department, Fernald Hall, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA. E-mail: boettner@ent.umass.edu

Dr. Russell Bonduriansky, Department of Zoology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5S 3G5, Canada. Telephone: (416) 946-7223. Fax: (416) 978-8532. E-mail: russell.bonduriansky@utoronto.ca Interests: Evolution, ecology and behaviour of Piophilidae.

James Boone, Department of Zoology, Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605-2827, USA. E-mail: jboone@fieldmuseum.org

Dr. Art Borkent, 691 - 8^th Ave SE, Salmon Arm, BC, V1E 2C2, Canada. Telephone: (250) 833-0931. Fax: (250) 832-2146. E-mail: aborkent@jetstream.net Interests: Systematics of Ceratopogonidae: world catalog; phylogenetic analysis at generic level; generic keys to larvae and pupae; generic revisions; fossils in amber; Chaoboridae and Corethrellidae.

Chris Borkent, Department of Natural Resource Sciences, Macdonald Campus, McGill University, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC, H9X 3V9, Canada. E-mail: chris.borkent@mail.mcgill.ca Interests: Acroceridae, Sciaroidea (exclusive of Sciaridae and Cecidomyiidae); fly pollination.

Stephanie Boucher, Department of Natural Resource Sciences, Macdonald Campus, McGill University, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC, H9X 3V9, Canada. Telephone: (514) 398-7914. Fax: (514) 398-7990. E-mail: stephanie.boucher@mcgill.ca Interests: Inventory of selected Diptera Cyclorrhapha of relict grasslands in northwestern Nearctic.

Colin Brammer, Department of Biology, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322-5305, USA. Telephone: (435) 797-1169. E-mail: flygene@biology.usu.edu

Mark Breidenbaugh, Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Unit 32, Vienna, OH 44473, USA. Telephone: (330) 609-1965. E-mail: mbreiden@kent.edu

Dr. J. Wayne Brewer, Department of Entomology, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA. E-mail: wbrewer@acesag.auburn.edu

Ethan Bright, School of Natural Resources and Environment, G-139 Dana Building, 440 Church St., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1041, USA. Telephone: (734) 647-2022. E-mail: ethanbr@umich.edu Interests: Chironomidae (especially how fluvial disturbance regimes affect chironomid species communities), taxonomy/systematics, stream and aquatic insect ecology.

Dr. Fenja Brodo, 28 Benson Street, Nepean, ON, K2E 5J5, Canada. Telephone: (613) 723-2054. E-mail: fbrodo@sympatico.ca Interests: Arctic Tipulidae and Limoniidae, especially Tipula (Arctotipula) and Symplecta species; phylogeny of the Tipuloidea.

Dr. Scott Brooks, Invertebrate Biodiversity, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, K.W. Neatby Building, C.E.F., Ottawa, ON, K1A 0C6, Canada. Telephone: (613) 694-2718. Fax: (613) 759-1927. E-mail: brookss@agr.gc.ca

Mr. Donald Brothers, 80 Kirk Drive, Boise, ID 83716, USA. Interests: Systematics and biology of Diptera of public health and forensic significance; Calliphoridae of Idaho.

Dr. Brian V. Brown, Entomology Section, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA. Telephone: (213) 763-3363. Fax: (213) 746-2999. E-mail: bbrown@nhm.org Interests: Taxomony, classification, evolution, natural history and biogeography of Phoridae and related families (Sciadoceridae and Ironomyiidae); current projects include a phylogenetic revision of the genus Apocephalus, phorid-ant interactions (with D. Feener) and host-parasite coevolution.

Rebecca B. Brown, Department of Entomology, 407 Science II, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50010-3222, USA. Telephone: (515) 294-4370. E-mail: brownr@iastate.edu Interests: Revision of the genus Paulianina Alexander (Blephariceridae: Edwardsininae) endemic to Madagascar; investigation of Blephariceridae as bioindicators of water quality in Malagasy streams.

Dr. Matthias Buck, Department of Environmental Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1, Canada. Telephone: (519) 824-4120, ext. 52582. Fax: (519) 837-0442. E-mail: mbuck@uoguelph.ca Interests: Cyclorrhapha phylogeny and taxonomy, especially Carnoidea, Nerioidea, Sphaeroceroidea and Diopsoidea; comparative morphology of male terminalia of Cyclorrhapha; family keys.

Mr. Gary R. Buckingham, USDA Florida Biological Control Laboratory, P.O. Box 147100, Gainesville, FL 32614-7100, USA. Telephone: (904) 372-3505. Fax: (904) 955-2301. E-mail: grbuck@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu Interests: Biologies and host ranges of herbivorous flies on aquatic weeds: Ephydridae and Chironomidae.

Dr. Stephen W. Bullington, Rd. 1, Box 306, Falls Creek, PA 15840, USA. Telephone:/Fax: (814) 375-0337. E-mail: swb@key-net.net Interests: Taxonomy of North American Asilidae, including Leptogastridae. Mainly interested in NE species and those in tribe Laphriini.

Dr. John F. Burger, Department of Zoology, Spaulding Hall, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA. Telephone: (603) 862-1736. Fax: (603) 862-1713. E-mail: jfb@cisunix.unh.edu Interests: Biosystematics of World Tabanidae; biology and ecology of North American Simuliidae.

Dr. Guy L. Bush, Department of Zoology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1115, USA. Telephone: (517) 353-9283. Fax: (517) 336-2789. E-mail: bushfly@pilot.msu.edu Interests: Genetics of host race formation and speciation in Rhagoletis fruit flies (Tephritidae); biochemical and molecular systematics of the Tephritidae.

Dr. George W. Byers, Department of Entomology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA. Telephone: (913) 864-4538. Interests: Biology and systematics of Tipulidae and Mecoptera; possible relationships of Tipulidae and other primitive Diptera to Mecoptera; crane flies of central Appalachian Mountains.

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Dr. Andy Calderwood, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, 2559 Puesta del Sol Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93105, USA. Interests: Revision of Exoprosopa (Bombyliidae).

Mr. Broughton A. Caldwell, 2645 Muskogee Lane, Braselton, Georgia 30517-6004, USA. Telephone: (770) 965-2015. E-mail: (home) bacaldwell@mindspring.com Interests: Aquatic Diptera, especially Chironomidae of the southeastern USA.

David Campbell, 1223-A 10^th St. Blv. NW, Hickory, NC 28601-2385, USA. E-mail: davidcampbell@twave.net Interests: Ecology and systematics of Syrphidae and saproxylic Diptera.

Dr. Sidney Camras, The Field Museum, Insect Division, Roosevelt Road @ Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605-2496, USA. Telephone: (312) 777-8696. Interests: Conopidae - worldwide; buy, exchange, determine.

Dr. Robert A. Cannings, Natural History Section, Royal British Columbia Museum, 675 Belleville St., Victoria, BC, V8V 1X4, Canada. Telephone: (250) 356-8242. Fax: (250) 387-5360. E-mail: RCannings@royalbcmuseum.bc.ca Interests: Taxonomy, classification, biogeography and natural history of Asilidae; major project is phylogenetic reconstruction of the genus Lasiopogon, a major Holarctic genus of robber flies; current projects also include regional faunal lists, systematics of Efferia, ecology of grassland species.

Mr. Sydney Cannings, Coordinator, NatureServe Yukon, Yukon Territorial Government, Box 2703, Whitehorse, YT, Y1A 2C6, Canada. Telephone: (867) 667-3684. Fax: (867) 393-6405. E-mail: syd.cannings@gov.yk.ca

Dr. Lynn E. Carroll, SEL-USDA, National Museum of Natural History, 10^th Street & Constitution Ave. NW, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 169, Washington, DC 20013-7012, USA. Telephone: (202) 382-1789. E-mail: smolen@erols.com

Dr. James L. Castner, 1930 NW 40^th Terrace, Gainesville, FL 32605, USA. Telephone (352) 371-6439. E-mail: jlcastner@aol.com Interests: Tropical biology and ecology; Diptera of medical and veterinary importance; forensics.

Mr. Jonathan B. Clark, Department of Zoology, Weber State University, 2505 University Circle, Ogden, UT 84408-2505, USA. Telephone: (801) 626-6171. Fax: (801) 626-7445. E-mail: jclark1@weber.edu

Dr. Philip J. Clausen, Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota, 219 Hodson Hall, 1980 Folwell Ave., St. Paul, MN 55108, USA. E-mail: claus004@tc.umn.edu

Louise Cloutier, Département de Sciences Biologiques, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, Montréal, PQ, H3C 3J7, Canada. E-mail: cloutiel@BIOL.UMontreal.CA

Dr. Edward I. Coher, Division of Natural Sciences, L.I.U.-Southampton, Southampton, NY 11968, USA. Interests: Indian-Malaysian Tabanidae, World Mycetophilidae. Presently working on the following taxa: Mycomya, Azana, Cluzobra, Diadocidia, Bolitophila, Monoclona, Macrocera, Phthinia s.l.

Dr. Murray H. Colbo, Department of Biology, Memorial University, St. John's, NF, A1E 1A5, Canada. Telephone: (709) 737-7498. Fax: (709) 737-3018. E-mail: mcolbo@morgan.ucs.mun.ca Interests: Ecology and behavior of Simuliidae and Chironomidae.

Dr. Frank H. Collins, Center for Tropical Disease Research and Training, University of Notre Dame, P.O. Box 369, Notre Dame, IN 46556-0369, USA. Telephone: (574) 631-9245. Fax: (574) 631-3996. E-mail: Frank@nd.edu Interests: Culicidae.

Dr. Kenneth P. Collins, Department of Biology, Fullerton College, 321 E. Chapman Ave., Fullerton, CA 92832-2095, USA. E-mail: kcollins@fullcoll.edu

Dr. Doug Colwell, Agriculture Canada Research Station, P.O. Box 3000 Main, Lethbridge, AB, T1J 4B1, Canada. Telephone: (403) 327-4561. Fax: (403) 382-3156. E-mail: colwelld@agr.gc.ca Interests: Oestridae: biology, life cycle, host-parasite relationships; biting flies; host interactions, bionomics, behavior.

Dr. Marty A. Condon, Cornell College, 600 First Street West, Mount Vernon, IA 52314-1098, USA. E-mail: mcondon@cornell-iowa.edu

Dr. Atilano Contreras-Ramos, Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Hidalgo, Apdo. Postal 1-69, Plaza Juarez, Pachuca, Hidalgo 42001 Mexico. E-mail: acramos@uaeh.reduaeh.mx

Dr. Kenneth Cooper, Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA. Interests: Wing patterns of Asilidae; Drosophila genetics.

Gary A. Coovert, 19681 Kiefel Rd., Laurelville, OH 43135, USA. Telephone: (740) 385-0021. E-mail: gacoovert@hocking.net Interests: Systematics of Nearctic Syrphidae; recently published revision of Pipiza; currently working on Microdon; interested in all northeastern North American Diptera, especially Asilidae.

Dr. James Coupland, Farm Forest Research, 196 Parkview Drive, Almonte, ON, K0A 1A0, Canada. Telephone: (613) 286-2644. E-mail: couplandj@hotmail.com

Carlos Navarro Correa, Calle 65-A #518-B x 80 y 82, C.P. 97000, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. Telephone: (99) 85-03-02. E-mail: grejon@tunku.uady.mx Interests: Hematophagous Diptea, systematics and taxonomy; Psychodidae, Hippoboscidae, Stratiomyidae, Mydidae, Micropezidae, Richardidae; Diptera of the Yucatan.

Dr. Gregory W. Courtney, Department of Entomology, 3222 Science II Building, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011-3222, USA. Telephone: (515) 294-4017. Fax: (515) 294-5957. E-mail: gwcourt@iastate.edu Interests: Systematics and ecology of Blephariceromorph taxa (Nymphomyiidae, Blephariceridae, Deuterophebiidae); phylogeny of "Nematocera"; comparative morphology of larval Diptera.

Dr. Douglas A. Craig, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2E9, Canada. Telephone: (780) 492-3716. Fax: (780) 492-1767. E-mail: d.craig@ualberta.ca Interests: Phylogenetic relationships of lower Diptera, especially Simuliidae; behavioral hydrodynamics of simuliid larvae.

Dr. Peter Cranston, Department of Entomology, University of California at Davis, 1 Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616-8584, USA. Telephone: (530) 754-5803. Fax: (530) 754-5804. E-mail: pscranston@ucdavis.edu

Dr. William J. Crins, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Natural Heritage Section, 5^th Floor South Tower, Robinson Place, 300 Water St., Peterborough, ON, K9J 8M5, Canada. Telephone: (705) 755-1946. Fax: (705) 755-1259. E-mail: bill.crins@mnr.gov.on.ca Interests: Ontario Syrphidae.

Dr. Jeffrey M. Cumming, Invertebrate Biodiversity, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, K.W. Neatby Building, C.E.F., Ottawa, ON, K1A 0C6, Canada. Telephone: (613) 759-1834. Fax: (613) 759-1927. E-mail: cummingjm@agr.gc.ca Interests: Classification and evolution of Empidoidea; higher classification of Brachycera.

Dr. Robert Cuny, University Transfer Program, Lakeland College, Lloydminster Campus, Bag 6600, 2602-59 Ave., Lloydminster, AB, S93 1Z3, Canada. E-mail: robert.cuny@lakelandc.ab.ca Interests: Systematics, evolution and ecology of Calyptratae, especially Muscidae and Calliphoridae.

Mr. Gregory R. Curler, Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, 2431 Joe Johnson Drive, 205 Ellington Plant Sciences Bldg., The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-4560, USA. E-mail: gcurler@utk.edu Interests: Molecular and morphological systematics of Psychodidae. Currently working on a PhD under Dr. J. Kevin Moulton.

Dr. Douglas C. Currie, Department of Entomology, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park, Toronto, ON, M5S 2C6, Canada. Telephone: (416) 586-5532. E-mail: dcurrie@zoo.utoronto.ca Interests: Systematics of Simuliidae; special interest in suprageneric classification, phylogeny, and fauna of the western Nearctic Region.

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Dr. Gregory Dahlem, Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY 41099, USA. Telephone: (859) 572-6638. E-mail: dahlem@nku.edu Interests: Systematics of the Sarcophagidae; mating behavior and sexual selection in the calypterate Diptera.

Dr. Hugh V. Danks, Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods), Canadian Museum of Nature, P.O.Box 3443, Station D, Ottawa, Ontario, K1P 6P4, Canada. Telephone: (613) 566-4787. Fax: (613) 364-4022. E-mail: hdanks@mus-nature.ca Interests: Seasonal adaptations; arctic faunas.

Dr. David Dean, Fruit Fly Identification Lab., 923 10th Street East, Palmetto, FL 34221, USA. Telephone: (941) 721-6655. Fax: (941) 721-6656. E-mail: deand@doacs.state.fl.us Interests: Tephritidae; trainer in economic fruit fly detection and identification; Med fly SIT program.

Dr. D.L. Deonier, P.O. Box 69, Emporia, KS 66801, USA.

Dr. Rob DeSalle, Division of Invertebrate Zoology, The American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024, USA. Telephone: (212) 769-5670. Fax: (212) 769-5277. E-mail: desalle@amnh.org Interests: Drosophila (Drosophilidae).

Dr. Mark Deyrup, Archbold Biological Station, P.O. Box 2057, Lake Placid, FL 33852, USA. Telephone: (813) 465-2571. E-mail: mdeyrup@archbold-station.org

Dr. Carl W. Dick, Brown Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Zoology, Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 South Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605-2496, USA. Telephone: (312) 665-7014. Fax: (312) 665-7754. E-mail: cdick@fieldmuseum.org Interests: Streblidae and Nycteribiidae, mainly New World. taxonomy, systematics, cospeciation, ecology, host-parasite associations; projects include molecular phylogeny of Hippoboscoidea; ecomorphology of New World Streblidae; Catalog of New World Bat Flies/Catalog of World Bat Flies (with Gustavo Graciolli).

Torsten Dikow, Department of Entomology, Comstock Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA. Telephone: (607) 255-1351. E-mail: torsten@tdvia.de Interests: Asilidae (phylogeny/ systematics, taxonomy, zoogeography, biology), Mydidae, Apioceridae, Asiloidea.

Dr. Gary N. Dodson, Biology Department, Ball State University, Muncie, IN 47306, USA. Telephone: (765) 285-8859. Fax: (765) 285-8804. E-mail: gdodson@bsu.edu Interests: Behavioral ecology of Tephritidae, evolution of head projections in Diptera, evolutionary ecology of hilltopping behavior.

Dr. Netta Dorchin, Department of Biology, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA 17837, USA. Telephone: (570) 577-1142. Fax: (570) 577-3537. E-mail: ndorchin@bucknell.edu Interests: Taxonomy, systematics and ecology of gall midges (Cecidomyiidae).

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Dr. William G. Eberhard, Escuela de Biología, Universidad de Costa Rica, Ciudad Universitaria “Rodrigo Facio”, San José, Costa Rica. E-mail: weberhar@cariari.ucr.ac.cr Interests: Behavior, natural history, and functional of sexual morphology in Sepsidae, Glossina, and Tephritidae.

Dr. James F. Edmiston, O.F.M., Quincy University, 1800 College Avenue, Quincey, IL 62301, USA. Telephone: (217) 228-5567. Fax: (217) 228-3568. E-mail: edmisja@quincy.edu Interests: Ephydridae - philygrine systematics and biology.

Dr. Roy Ellis, P.O. Box 757, Prairie Pest Management, Carman, MB, R0G 0J0, Canada. Telephone: (204) 745-6200. E-mail: royellis@pmcnet.ca Interests: Ecology, taxonomy and control of mosquitoes; farm flies; management of West Nile Virus.

Dr. John H. Epler, 461 Tiger Hammock Road, Crawfordville, FL 32327, USA. E-mail: johnepler@earthlink.net Interests: Chironomidae; currently working on Chironomidae of southeastern USA, but main project is comprehensive study of the Chironomidae of Costa Rica.

Dr. Neal L. Evenhuis, Bishop Museum, 1525 Bernice Street, Honolulu, HI 96817-0916, USA. Telephone: (808) 848-4138. Fax: (808) 847-8252. E-mail: neale@bishopmuseum.org Interests: Systematics and biology of Bombyliidae and Mythicomyiidae of the world, Dolichopodidae of Hawaii and French Polynesia, Pacific Asilidae, and Pacific and Oriental Keroplatidae; bibliography of dipterology; and dipterology history.

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Richard Fagerlund, Environmental Services, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA. Telephone: (505) 277-9904. Fax: (505) 277-1250. E-mail: fagerlun@unm.edu Interests: Dipteran biodiversity in New Mexico, particularly cecidomyiids, agromyzids and tephritids.

Mr. James W. Farr, 77 Apt. 405 Waverly Avenue, Patchogue, NY 11772, USA. Telephone: (631) 447-6681. E-mail: jfarr@suffolk.lib.ny.us Interests: Tipulidae of Suffolk County, Long Island, NY.

Mr. Frank D. Fee, 910 Cricklewood Dr., #226, State College, PA 16803, USA. Interests: Syrphidae-annotated local faunal lists (including flower records, flight seasons, mating behavior and larval hosts) for central PA, northern NH, and adjacent ME, also southern TX; taxonomy.

Dr. Don Feener, Jr., Department of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA. Telephone: (801) 581-6444. Fax: (801) 581-4668. E-mail: feener@bioscience.utah.edu Interests: Ecology and evolution of ant-Phoridae interactions; natural history of Nearctic and Neotropical Region ants and phorids.

Dr. Leonard C. Ferrington, Jr., Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota, 219 Hodson Hall,1980 Folwell Ave., St Paul, MN 55108, USA. E-mail: ferri016@tc.umn.edu Interests: Taxonomy, systematics and ecology of Chironomidae.

Dr. Eric M. Fisher, Plant Pest Diagnostics Lab., Calif. Department, Food & Agriculture, 3294 Meadowview Road, Sacramento, CA 95832, USA. Telephone: (916) 262-1154. Fax: (916) 262-1191. E-mail: EFisher@cdfa.ca.gov

Dr. Scott J. Fitzgerald, Department of Zoology, Oregon State University, 3029 Cordley Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA. E-mail: fitzges@bcc.orts.edu Interests: Systematics of world Bibionidae and phylogenetic relationships within Bibionomorpha.

Dr. Kevin Floate, Agriculture Canada Research Station, PO Box 3000 Main, Lethbridge, AB, T1K 3B2, Canada. E-mail: floatek@agr.gc.ca

Dr. Benjamin A. Foote, Department Biol. Sciences, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA. Telephone: (330) 672-2817. Fax: (330) 672-3713. E-mail: bfoote@kent.edu Interests: Diptera, Sciomyzidae, Ephydridae, Otitidae, Chloropidae; biology, ecology, life histories, descriptions of immature stages, larval feeding habits.

Dr. Greg S. Forbes, Box 30003, Department 3 JER, Jornada Experimental Range, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003, USA. Telephone: (505) 646-6401. E-mail: gforbes@nmsu.edu Interests: Taxonomy and distribution of Asilidae in western U.S., especially Efferia.

Dr. Arthur Forer, Department of Biology, York University, 4700 Keele Street, North York, ON, M3J 1P3, Canada. E-mail: aforer@yorku.ca

George A. Foster, 10914 Little Sparrow Place, Columbia, MD 21044, USA. Telephone: (410) 299-1746. E-mail: foster@alpha-mos.com Interests: Tethinidae, Agromyzidae and others.

Dr. Jeff Freeman, 110 Gables Place, Rutland, VT 05701, USA. Telephone: (802) 768-2361. E-mail: freemanj@juno.com Interests: Tabanidae, mainly of Vermont.

Frank French, Department of Biology, Georgia Southern College, Statesboro, GA 30460, USA. Telephone: (912) 681-5593. Fax: (912) 681-0845. E-mail: French@georgiasouthern.edu Interests: Biosystematics, morphology and ecology of Tabanidae; the interrelationships of tabanids and spiroplasmas.

Kenneth M. Fry, Alberta Environmental Centre, Box 4000, Vegreville, AB, T9C 1T4, Canada. Telephone: (403) 632-8224. Fax: (403) 632-8379. E-mail: kenf@arc.ab.ca Interests: Mouthpart morphology and feeding systems in larval Nematocera.

Stuart M. Fullerton, ROF, Department of Biology, University of Central Florida, P.O. Box 162368, Orlando, FL 32816-2368, USA. Telephone: (407) 823-6540. E-mail: stuartf@biology.ucf.edu

David H. Funk, Stroud Water Research Center, 970 Spencer Rd., Avondale, PA 19311, USA. Telephone: (215) 268-2153. E-mail: dhfunk@stroudcenter.org Interests: Swarming and mating behavior of flies, especially empidids.

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Dr. Raymond J. Gagne, SEL-USDA, National Museum of Natural History, 10^th Street & Constitution Ave. NW, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 169, Washington, DC 20013-7012, USA. Telephone: (202) 382-1796. E-mail: rgagne@sel.barc.usda.gov Interests: Cecidomyiidae.

Richard S.Gagne, Minnesota Department of Agriculture, 90 W. Plato Blvd., St. Paul, MN 55107-2094,USA. Interests: Parasitic Hymenoptera and Diptera; biogeographic affinities and faunal composition of Pipunculidae of Missouri.

Dr. Stephen D. Gaimari, California State Collection of Arthropods, CDFA / Plant Pest Diagnostics, 3294 Meadowview Road, Sacramento, CA 95832-1448, USA. Telephone: (916) 262-1131. Fax: (916) 262-1190. E-mail: SGaimari@cdfa.ca.gov Interests: Systematics and biogeography of Lauxanioidea (Lauxaniidae, Chamaemyiidae, Celyphidae, Eurychoromyiidae), Odiniidae, and other Acalyptratae, and Therevidae and other Asiloidea.

Dr. Terry Galloway, Department of Entomology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, R3T 2N2, Canada. E-mail: terry_galloway@umanitoba.ca

Armando Ulloa Garcia, Rio Danubio 20-4 Solidaridad las Vegas, Tapachula, Chiapas, México. Telephone: 0196262-62219 ext 119. Fax: 0196262-65782. E-mail: aulloa@correo.insp.mx Interests: I am working in the Malaria Research Center in Tapachula, México. My experience had been on studies ecology and behavior of malaria vectors from this region of America. Currently we are starting studies on arboviruses, principally West Nile virus.

Dr. Jon K. Gelhaus, Department of Entomology, Academy of Natural Sciences, 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA 19103-1195, USA. Telephone: (215) 299-1141. Fax: (215) 299-1028. E-mail: gelhaus@acnatsci.org Interests: Systematics and ecology of Tipulidae s.l., particularly the genus Tipula; larval biology and morphology; historical biogeography of western North America.

Eric Georgeson, Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources, 23 Creighton Road, Shubenacadie, NS, B0N 2HO, Canada. Telephone: (902) 758-2232 ext. 101. Interests: Families in section Aschiza, especially systematics, natural history, ecology and distribution of Nearctic Region Pipunculidae.

Syed Ghazanfar Ali, 6470 Tisler Crescent, Mississauga, ON, L5N 3G7, Canada. Telephone: (416) 356-7646. E-mail: ghazan_syed@yahoo.com Interests: Integrated Control of Fruit Flies.

Marjolaine Giroux, Department of Natural Resource Sciences, Macdonald Campus, McGill University, Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC, H9X 3V9, Canada. Telephone: (514) 398-7988. Fax: (514) 398-7990. E-mail: mgirou9@po-box.mcgill.ca

Dr. Richard D. Goeden, Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA. Telephone: (714) 787-5719. Fax: (714) 787-3086. E-mail: rgoeden@ucrac1.ucr.edu Interests: Biology and ecology of noneconomic species of Tephriditdae (Tephritinae) in California.

James Goodwin, Division of Arts & Sciences, Jarvis Christian College, P.O. Box 1470, Hawkins, TX 75765, USA. Telephone: (903) 769-5778. E-mail: james.goodwin3@gte.net

Dr. Graham C.D. Griffiths, Box 1380, Athabasca, Alberta T9S 2B2, Canada. Telephone: (780)-675-3424. E-mail: gcdgriff@telusplanet.net Interests: Revision of Nearctic Anthomyiidae (for Flies of the Nearctic Region), Phylogeny of Diptera, Nearctic Agromyzidae, Biodiversity Databases (records of rare plants and animals) for Alberta, translation of the Flora of the Russian Arctic.

Dr. David A. Grimaldi, Division of Invertebrate Zoology, The American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th St., New York, NY 10024, USA. Telephone: (212) 769-5615. E-mail: grimaldi@amnh.org

Dr. William L. Grogan, Department of Biological Sciences, Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD 21801-6860, USA. Telephone: (410) 543-6498. Fax: (410) 543-6433. E-mail: wlgrogan@salisbury.edu Interests: Systematics of Ceratopogonidae on a worldwide level, although I am more familiar with and therefore more involved with the Nearctic fauna. My most important current research project is a revision of the Nearctic Ceratopogon, in collaboration with Art Borkent.

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Dr. Daniel V. Hagan, Div. Basic Med. Sciences, Mercer University-School of Medicine, 1550 College St., Box 173, Macon, GA 31207-001, USA. Telephone: (478) 301-2433. Fax: (478) 301-5487. E-mail: Hagan_DV@mercer.edu Interests: Biosystematics and ecology of Ceratopogonidae, Chloropidae, Tabanidae and Psychodidae.

Daniel E. Hansen, Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota, 219 Hodson Hall,1980 Folwell Ave., St Paul, MN 55108, USA. Interests: Tachinidae.

Dr. Dean C. Hansen, 402 South 6^th Street, Stillwater, MN 55082, USA. Telephone (651) 439-8770. E-mail: hanse112@tc.umn.edu Interests: Systematics and ecology of Diamesinae (Chironomidae).

Dr. Wilford J. Hanson, Department of Zoology, Utah State University, UMC 5305, Logan, UT 84322, USA. Telephone: (801) 750-2554.

Emily E. Hare, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, 1 Cyclotron Road, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. E-mail: ehare@berkeley.edu

Dr. J. Robert Harkrider, Biology Department, Cypress College, 9200 Valley View Street, Cypress, CA 90630-5897, USA. E-mail: jhark@ix.netcom.com

Dr. Peter P. Harper, Département de Sciences Biologiques, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, Montréal, PQ, H3C 3J7, Canada.

Dr. Martin Hauser, Plant Pest Diagnostics, California Department of Food & Agriculture, 3294 Meadowview Road, Sacramento, CA 95832-1448, USA. Telephone: (916) 262-1160. E-mail: phycus@gmail.com Interests: Fossils, systematics and biogeography of Therevidae, Syrphidae, Stratiomyidae and Tephritidae.

Amy Hawkins-Bowman, 1-733 Warsaw Ave., Winnipeg, MB, R3M 1B6, Canada. Telephone: (204) 474-0798. Fax: (204) 474-7628. E-mail: umhawkin@cc.umanitoba.ca

David H. Headrick, Crop Science Department, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407, USA. E-mail: dheadric@polymail.cpunix.calpoly.edu Interests: Tephritidae, behavior and biology of native, non-frugivorous species; larval morphology and taxonomy; tephritid parasites.

Dr. William B. Heed, Department Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA. E-mail: wheed@u.arizona.edu Interests: Cactophilic Drosophila (repleta and nannoptera species groups) - phylogeny, speciation, evolutionary genetics (Drosophilidae).

Vincente Hernández-Ortiz, Instituto de Ecologia A.C., Departamento de Entomologia, Apartado Postal 63, Xalapa, Veracruz, 91000, Mexico. Telephone: (28) 42-18-03. Fax: (28) 18-78-09. E-mail: hernanvi@ecologia.edu.mx Interests: Systematics of Tephritidae, Ulidiidae, Richardiidae, Platystomatidae, and Pyrogotidae for Mexico and the Neotropics. Relationships of tephritid fruit flies with their host plants.

Dr. Henry A. Hespenheide, Department of Organismic Biology, Ecology and Evolution (OBEE), Box 951606, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1606, USA. Telephone: (310) 825-3170. Fax: (310) 206-3987. E-mail: henryh@biology.lifesci.ucla.edu Interests: Faunal inventory of La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica; ecology and behavior of adult Asilidae; mimicry complexes involving flies.

James N. Hogue, Department of Biology, California State University, 18111 Nordhoff St., Northridge, CA 91330-8303, USA. Telephone: (818) 677-3310. Fax: (818) 677-2034. E-mail: james.n.hogue@csun.edu Interests: Taxonomy and systematics of Tipulidae; ecology of streams.

Dr. Francis G. Howarth, Department of Natural Sciences, B.P. Bishop Museum, 1525 Bernice Street, Honolulu, HI 96817-2704, USA. Telephone: (808) 847-3511. E-mail: fhowarth@bishopmuseum.org Interests: Evolutionary ecology of caves; conservation biology; impacts of alien species, including biological control introductions; biosystematics of Ceratopogonidae, especially Culicoides.

Dr. Lawrence J. Hribar, Florida Keys Mosquito Control District, 506 106th Street, Marathon, FL 33050, USA. Telephone: (305) 289-3700. Fax: (305) 289-3704. E-mail: lhribar@keysmosquito.org Interests: Larvae of Ceratopogonidae and Culicidae (Anopheles); comparative morphology and geographic variation.

Dr. Fiona F. Hunter, Department of Biological Sciences, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, L2S 3A1, Canada. Telephone: (905) 688-5550, ext. 3394. Fax: (905) 688-1855. E-mail: hunterf@brocku.ca Interests: Cytotaxonomy of black flies (Simuliidae); stable fly (Muscidae) genetics; host preferences of black flies; ELISA blood meal identification; electrophoretic characterization of salivary gland proteins of adult blackflies.

Dr. Richard L. Hurley, Department of Entomology, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717, USA. Telephone: (406) 994-6995. Fax: (406) 994-6029. E-mail: rhurley@montana.edu Interests: 1) Hydrophorine Dolichopodidae for "Flies of the Nearctic Region". 2) Hydrophorine Dolichopodidae from other biogeographic areas, especially Oceania, Neotropics.

Dr. C. Dennis Hynes, 17 Cricket Hollow Run, Clayton, NC 27520, USA. E-mail: dennishynes@sprintmail.com

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Sergio Ibañez-Bernal, Inst. de Ecología, Xalapa, 91000 Veracruz, Mexico. E-mail: ibanez@ecologia.edu.mx

Dr. Mahmood Iranpour, Department of Entomology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2, Canada. Telephone: (204) 784-5934. E-mail: iranpour@cc.umanitoba.ca Interests: Culicidae.

Dr. William S. Irby, Department of Biology, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA 30460-8042, USA. Telephone: (912) 681-0076. Fax: (912) 681-0845. E-mail: wirby@georgiasouthern.edu Interests: Insect vector-host-pathogen interactions; dynamics of blood digestion in mosquitoes.

Dr. Michael E. Irwin, 134 NSRC, University of Illinois, 1101 W. Peabody Drive, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. Telephone: (217) 333-1963. Fax: (217) 244-1707. E-mail: meirwin@uiuc.edu Interests: Systematics and bioecology of Therevidae; phylogenetic relationships among the Asiloidea; biogeography of Therevidae.

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Rick Jacobsen, Dan Beard Center, Everglades National Park, 40001 State Road 9336,
Homestead, FL 33034, USA. Telephone: (305) 242-7313. Fax: (305) 242-7836. E-mail: rick_jacobsen@nps.gov Interests: Chironomid taxonomy, midges associated with other insects, Everglades midges.

Amanda Jacobson, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology , 2431 Joe Johnson Drive, 205 Ellington Plant Sciences Bldg., University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-4560, USA. E-mail: ajacobs7@utk.edu Interests: Molecular and morphological systematics of Blepharicera (Blephariceridae).

Dr. Daniel H. Janzen, Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. Telephone: (215) 898-5636. Fax: (215) 898-8780. E-mail: djanzen@sas.upenn.edu

John Jenkins, Department of Zoology, Natural Science Building, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1115, USA. Telephone: (517) 353-6207. Interests: Systematics and evolution of Tephritidae; currently working on Rhagoletis.

Joseph A. Johns, Department of Entomology, Long Hall, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-0365, USA. Telephone: (864) 656-5070. Fax: (864) 656-5069. Interests: Currently working on ecology, life histories, and systematics of Appalachian Blephariceridae; interests in the ecology and systematics of Diptera.

Ms. Judith Welch-Jolly, 1750 County Road 33, Del Norte, CO 81132-9519, USA.

Dr. Darlene Judd, Department of Entomology, Oregon State University, 2046 Cordley Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331-2907, USA. Telephone: (541) 737-8174. Fax: (541) 737-3643. E-mail: juddd@bcc.orst.edu

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Gail E. Kampmeier, Centre for Economic Entomology, Illinois Natural History Survey, 136 NSRC, 1101 W. Peabody Drive, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. Telephone: (217) 333-2824. E-mail: gkamp@uiuc.edu

Dr. Kenneth Y. Kaneshiro, Department of Entomology, University of Hawaii, 3050 Maile Way, Gilmore 310, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA. Telephone: (808) 956-6739. Fax: (808) 956-9608. E-mail: kykanesh@hawaii.edu Interests: Evolution and speciation of Hawaiian Drosophilidae; evolutionary biology of endemic insects of Hawaii.

Dr. Joe B. Keiper, Invertebrate Zoology, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, 1 Wade Oval Drive, University Circle, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA. Telephone: (216) 231-4600 ext. 315. E-mail: jkeiper@cmnh.org Interests: Life history, ecology and immature stages of aquatic Diptera, particularly Ephydridae, Tabanidae and Culicidae.

Dr. James H. Kennedy, Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas, P.O. Box 310559, Denton, TX, 76203-0559, USA. Telephone: (940) 565-2981. Fax: (940) 565-4297. E-mail: kennedy@unt.edu Interests: The ecology and systematics of Chironomidae, especially in the Southwestern United States.

Peter H. Kerr, CDFA, Plant Pest Diagnostics Branch, 3294 Meadowview Rd., Sacramento, CA, 95832-1448, USA. Telephone: (916) 262-1148. Fax: (916) 262-1190. E-mail: pkerr@cdfa.ca.gov

Dr. Ke Chung Kim, The Frost Entomological Museum, Department of Entomology, Penn. State University, 501 Agricultural Sciences & Industries (ASI), University Park, PA 16802, USA. Telephone: (814) 863-2863. E-mail: kck@psu.edu

Joel Kits, Department of Environmental Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1, Canada. Telephone: (519) 824-4120, ext. 52582. Fax: (519) 837-0442. E-mail: jkits@uoguelph.ca Interests: Revisionary studies of the sphaerocerid genus Archiborborus; Bombyliidae of Ontario.

Dr. Daniel L. Kline, USDA-ARS, CMAVE, 1600 SW 23^rd Drive, Gainesville, FL 32608, USA. Telephone: (904) 374-5933. E-mail: dkline@gainesville.usda.ufl.edu Interests: Ceratopogonidae (Culicoides spp.) and Culicidae; projects are on behavior, biology, ecology and control of these biting flies; Phoridae.

Mr. John Klymko, Department of Environmental Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1, Canada. E-mail: jklymko@uoguelph.ca

Marian A. Kohn, 18300 Ridgefield Rd. N.W., Seattle WA 98177, USA. E-mail: kohn@u.washington.edu

Dr. B.C. Kondratieff, Department of Entomology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA. Telephone: (303) 491-7314. E-mail: bkondrat@ceres.agsci.colostate.edu

Dr. Steven Krauth, Department of Entomology, University of Wisconsin- Madison, 237 Russell Laboratories, 1630 Linden Dr., Madison, WI 53706, USA. Telephone: (608) 262-0056. Fax: (608) 262-3322. E-mail: krauth@entomology.wisc.edu

Dr. William L. Krinsky, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, School of Medicine, Yale University, PO Box 208034, New Haven, CT 06520-8034, USA. Telephone: (203) 288-2360. E-mail: wkrinsky@krinsky.net Interests: Role of tabanids in pathogen transmission; research and practical aspects of forensic entomology.

Mr. Doug Kritsch, Invertebrate Biodiversity, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, K.W. Neatby Building, C.E.F., Ottawa, ON, K1A 0C6, Canada. Telephone: (613) 759-1787. E-mail: kritschd@agr.gc.ca

Dr. John C. Kunich, Roger Williams University School of Law, Ten Metacom Avenue, Suite 231 Bristol, RI 02809-5171, USA. Telephone: (401) 254-4615. Fax: (401) 254-4640. E-mail: jkunich@law.rwu.edu

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Dr. Robert S. Lane, Department of Entomology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. Telephone: (415) 642-4385. E-mail: blane@nature.berkeley.edu

Randy F. Lauff, Department of Biology, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS, B2G 2W5, Canada. E-mail: rlauff@juliet.stfx.ca Interests: Tabanidae of Canada.

Dr. David J. Lewis, Department of Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University, MacDonald Campus, Ste. Anne de Bellevue, PQ, H9X 1C0, Canada. E-mail: lewisd@nrs.mcgill.ca Interests: Diptera of cattle dung, livestock Diptera, biting flies (Culicidae, Simuliidae, Tabanidae, Ceratopogonidae), Diptera of sub-arctic peatlands.

Dr. Edward A. Lisowski, 2705 W Nob Hill Blvd Apt #J, Yakima, WA 98902-5168, USA. Telephone: (509) 248-4590. E-mail: lisowski@nwinfo.net Interests: Relationships of tephritid fruit flies with their host plants; winter insects; biodiversity of the Cascade Mountains in Washington State.

Dr. Robert W. Longair, Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, 2500 University Dr. NW, Calgary, AB, T2N 1N4, Canada.. Telephone: (403) 220-7387. Fax: (403) 289-9311. E-mail: longair@ucalgary.ca

Owen Lonsdale, Department of Environmental Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1, Canada. Telephone: (519) 824-4120, ext. 2582. E-mail: neoxabea@hotmail.com

Dr. Rolando López, USDA-ARS Vegetable Laboratory & CREC- Clemson University, 2700 Savannah Hwy., Charleston, SC 29414, USA. Telephone: (843) 402-5392. E-mail: rgutier@clemson.edu Interests: Behavioral ecology of Myiopharus doryphorae (Riley) and M. aberrans Townsend (Tachinidae); tachinid parasitoids of crop pests in Coleoptera, Hemiptera and Orthoptera.

Leon Lounibos, Florida Medical State Lab., 200 9^th St. SE, Vero Beach, FL 32962-4699, USA. Telephone: (561) 778-7200. E-mail: lpl@icon.vero.ufl.edu

Barbara A. Lund, 1194 Sunnybank Court, Victoria, BC, V8R 3B7, Canada. Telephone: (250) 658-6795.

Dr. Timothy J. Lysyk, Agriculture Canada Research Station, PO Box 3000 Main, Lethbridge, AB, T1K 3B2, Canada. E-mail: lysyk@agr.gc.ca Interests: Population ecology of muscoid Diptera; modelling; biological control; integrated pest management.

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Dr. John F. MacDonald, Department of Entomology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA. Telephone: (317) 494-4582. E-mail: john_macdonald@entm.purdue.edu

Dr. Richard A. MacKenzie, Wells NEER, 342 Laudholm Farm Rd., Wells, ME 04090, USA. Telephone: (207) 646-1555 ext.122. Fax: (207) 646-2930. E-mail: rmac@wellsnerrcec.lib.me.us

Dr. Karl N. Magnacca, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California-Berkeley, 137 Mulford Hall #3114, Berkeley, CA 94720-3114, USA. Telephone: (510) 642-4148. Fax: (510) 643-5438. E-mail: kmagnacca@alumni.wesleyan.edu Interests: Drosophilidae; systematics, phylogenetics, and biogeography of Hawaiian Diptera.

Shannon Mahony, Invertebrate Biodiversity, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, K.W. Neatby Building, C.E.F., Ottawa, ON, K1A 0C6, Canada. Telephone: (613) 759-1794. Fax: (613) 759-1927. E-mail: mahonys@agr.gc.ca

Dr. Chris T. Maier, Department of Entomology, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, P.O. Box 1106, New Haven, CT 06504, USA. Telephone: (203) 974-8476. Fax: (203) 974-8502. E-mail: chris.maier@po.state.ct.us Interests: Biology of Tabanidae and Syrphidae; Diptera of peatlands; endangered species; current projects include mate-seeking behaviour of xylophagous syrphids (Chalcosyrphus, Xylota, Temnostoma) and survey of Connecticut Tabanidae.

Robert Mangan, USDA-ARS, 2413 E. US Highway 83 Bldg 200, Kika De La Garza, Subtropical Agric. Res., Weslaco, TX 78596-8344, USA. Telephone: (956) 447-6316. E-mail: rmangan@weslaco.ars.usda.gov

Dr. Stephen A. Marshall, Department of Environmental Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1, Canada. Telephone: (519) 824-4120, ext. 52720. Fax: (519) 837-0442. E-mail: smarshal@evb.uoguelph.ca Interests: Systematics of Sphaeroceridae.

Dr. Ed Masteller, Behrend College, Pennsylvania State University, Station Road, Erie, PA 16563, USA. E-mail: e11@psu.edu

Dr. Wayne N. Mathis, Department of Systematic Biology, Entomology Section, Smithsonian Institution, 10^th Street & Constitution Ave. NW, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 169, Washington, DC 20013-7012, USA. Telephone: (202) 633-1014. E-mail: mathisw@si.edu Interests: Systematics and biogeography of Canacidae, Coelopidae, Ephydridae, Periscelididae, and Tethinidae.

Rudi Mattoni, Department of Geography, U.C.L.A., Los Angeles, CA 90024-1534. E-mail: mattoni@ucla.edu

Dr. David McCorquodale, Department of Behavioural and Life Sciences, University College of Cape Breton, Box 5300, Sydney, NS, B1P 6L2, Canada. Telephone: (902) 563-1260. Fax: (902) 563-1880. E-mail: david_mccorquodale@uccb.ca

Dr. John McCreadie, Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Alabama, Rm 124 Life Sciences Building, Mobile, AL 36688, USA. Telephone: (251) 460-6332. Fax: (251) 414-8220. E-mail: jmccread@jaguar1.usouthal.edu Interests: Ecology, life history and cytotaxonomy of Simuliidae; relationships between habitat characteristics and simuliid and chironomid species assemblages.

Dr. Richard W. Merritt, Department of Entomology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA. Telephone: (517) 355-8309. E-mail: merrittr@msu.edu Interests: Simuliidae, Culicidae, stable flies, aquatic insects in general.

Dr. Mark Metz, SEL-USDA, National Museum of Natural History, 10th Street & Constitution Ave. NW, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 169, Washington, DC 20013-7012, USA. E-mail: mmetz@sel.barc.usda.gov

Ms. Yue Ming, Department of Entomology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA. Interests: Molecular systematics on Rhagoletis (Tephritidae).

Dr. Shelah I. Morita, Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA. Telephone: (530) 752-3097. Fax: (530) 752-1449. E-mail: simorita@ucdavis.edu Interests: Tabanidae, Nemestrinidae, Tabanomorpha and fly pollination.

Dr. J. Kevin Moulton, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, 214 Ellington Plant Sciences Building, University of Tennessee, 2431 Joe Johnson Drive, Knoxville, TN 37996-4560, USA. Telephone: (865) 974-7950. Fax: (865) 974-4744. E-mail: jmoulton@utk.edu

Dr. C. Steven Murphree, Biology Department, Belmont University, 1900 Belmont Boulevard, Nashville, TN 37212-3757, USA. Telephone: (615) 460-6221. Fax: (615) 460-5458. E-mail: murphrees@mail.belmont.edu Interests: 1) Larval taxonomy and ecology of North American Culicoides species and species in other genera of the Ceratopogonidae; 2) larval morphology of Anisopodidae.

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Maria Del Rosario Najera Vazquez, Servicios de Salud de Yucatan, Departamento de Epidemillogia, Calle 72 # 463, Entre 53 Y 55, Centro CP. 97000, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. Telephone: (99) 24-49-35. E-mail: mnajera@sureste.com Interests: Principally about mosquitoes, control and behaviour.

Dr. Stuart E. Neff, Department of Biology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA. Telephone: (215) 204-7238. E-mail: sneff@astro.temple.edu

Dr. C. Riley Nelson, Department of Integrative Biology, WIDB 401, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA. Telephone: (801) 422-1345. Fax: (801) 422-0090. E-mail: rileynelson@byu.edu Interests: Asilidae systematics; field surveys of insects, especially aquatics in general and Diptera in particular.

Tam Nguyen, Division of Invertebrate Zoology, The American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th St., New York, NY 10024, USA. E-mail: nguyen@amnh.org

Dr. Lewis T. Nielsen, Biology Department, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84117, USA.

Dr. Allen L. Norrbom, SEL-USDA, National Museum of Natural History, 10^th Street & Constitution Ave. NW, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 169, Washington, DC 20013-7012, USA. Telephone: (202) 382-1795. E-mail: anorrbom@sel.barc.usda.gov

Dr. John Novak, Department of Biology, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY 13346, USA. Telephone: (315) 824-1000. E-mail: jnovak@mail.colgate.edu

Dr. Wesley R. Nowell, 357 Reindollar Ave., Marina, CA 93933-3639, USA. Telephone: (831) 384-3227. Interests: Ecology and published data regarding family Dixidae worldwide with particular attention to collection records.

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Joshua Ogawa, Department of Zoology, 3029 Cordley Hall, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA. Telephone: (541) 737-8323. E-mail: ogawaj@science.oregonstate.edu Interests: Chaoboridae.

Patrick M. O'Grady, Division of Invertebrate Zoology, The American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024, USA. E-mail: ogrady@amnh.org Interests: Molecular systematics, phylogeny of Drosophilidae.

Dr. James E. O'Hara, Invertebrate Biodiversity, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, K.W. Neatby Building, C.E.F., Ottawa, ON, K1A 0C6, Canada. Telephone: (613) 759-1795. Fax: (613) 759-1927. E-mail: oharaj@agr.gc.ca Interests: Classification and evolution of the Tachinidae.

Mr. Robert E. Orth, Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA. E-mail: mbtime@verizon.net

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Steve Paiero, Department of Environmental Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1, Canada. Telephone: (519) 824-4120, ext. 52582. Fax: (519) 837-0442. E-mail: spaiero@uoguelph.ca

Mr. Mehrdad Parchami-Araghi, Department of Environmental Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada. Telephone: (519) 824-4120, ext. 2582; Fax: (519) 837-0442. E-mail: maraghi@uoguelph.ca

Matthew Petersen, Department of Entomology, 404 Science II Building, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50010-3222, USA. Telephone: (515) 294-1815. E-mail: mp13@iastate.edu Interests: Systematics and ecology of Tipulidae (s.l.)

John D. Plakidas, 111 Emerson Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15215, USA. Telephone: (412) 784-1873. E-mail: johnplakidas@comcast.net Interests: Systematics of North American porricondyline Cecidomyiidae.

Dr. Michal Polak, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA. E-mail: polakm@email.uc.edu

Dr. Harry D. Pratt, 104 South Almond Drive, Simpsonville, SC 29681, USA. Interests: Have published on Trichoceridae of eastern U.S. and am currently working on Trichoceridae of North America; have published on Sylvicola (Anisopodidae); currently studying Syrphidae of eastern U.S.

Dr. Gordon Pritchard, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, AB, T2N 1N4, Canada. Telephone: (403) 288-7441. Fax: (403) 289-9311. E-mail: gpritcha@ucalgary.ca Interests: Biology of Tipulidae and Tephritidae.

Dr. A. M. Pucât, 7223 114A St. NW, Edmonton, AB, T6G 1N1, Canada. Interests: Bionomics of Ceratopogonidae.

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William F. Rapp, 87 South Main Street, Pittsford, NY 14534-2128, USA. Telephone: (585) 248-2617. E-mail: billrapp@frontiernet.net Interests: Psychodidae, Phoridae, Sciaridae.

Mr. B.S. Rayburn, Centerville - Washington Park District, 221 North Main Street, Centerville, OH 45459, USA. Telephone: (513) 433-5155. Fax: (513) 433-6564.

Dr. Will Reeves, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, 1600 Clifton Rd. N.E., Atlanta, GA 30333, USA. E-mail: cui8@cdc.gov Interests: Symbiotic organisms in biting flies, Culicidae, Hippoboscidae, Nycteribiidae, Tabanidae.

Dr. John F. Reinert, Center for Medical, Agricultural, and Veterinary Entomology, USDA Agricultural Research Service, 1600/1700 S.W. 23rd Drive, Gainesville, FL 32608-1067, USA. FAX: (352) 374-5922. E-mail: jreinert@gainesville.usda.ufl.edu Interests: Systematics of mosquitoes of the tribe Aedini.

Stuart R. Reitz, USDA-ARS, Center for Biological Control, 310 South Perry Paige Bldg., Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL 32307, USA. Telephone: (850) 539-0369. Fax: (850) 539-0369. E-mail: sreitz@nettally.com Interests: Behavioral ecology and host-parasitoid interactions of the Tachinidae. Behavioral ecology of Agromyzidae, especially the genus Liriomyza.

Julian E. Garcia Rejon, Centro de Investigaciones Regionales "Dr. Hideyo Noguchi", Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan, Lab. de Arbovirologia, Apartado Postal 1247-A, C.P.97000, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. Telephone: (99) 24-57-55 ext. 136. Fax: (99) 23-61-20. E-mail: grejon@tunku.uady.mx Interests: Mosquitoes - control and behaviour, taxonomy, traping, field work etc.

Mr. Edward G. Riley, Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA. Telephone: (409) 845-9711. Fax: (409) 845-6305. E-mail: egrchryso@tamu.edu Interests: Collection manager; development of the general Diptera collection at TAMU.

Dr. Harold Robinson, Department of Systematic Biology, Botany Section, Smithsonian Institution, 10^th Street & Constitution Ave. NW, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 169, Washington, DC 20013-7012, USA. Telephone: (202) 357-2546. E-mail: robinson.harold@nmnh.si.edu

Dr. Henry W. Robison, Department of Biology, Southern Arkansas University, P.O.Box 9354, Magnolia, AR 71754-9354, USA. Telephone: (870) 235-4273. Fax: (870) 235-5005. E-mail: hwrobison@saumag.edu

Dr. George Roderick, ESPM - Insect Biology, University of California, 201 Wellman Hall, MC 3112, Berkeley, CA 94720-3112, USA. Telephone: (510) 643-3326. E-mail: roderick@nature.berkeley.edu

Dr. E.J. Rogers, Villa Grande, CA 95486-0114, USA.

Mr. Rick Rogers, 3301 Versante Dr., Bedford, TX 76021-4082, USA. Interests: Apioceridae, Asilidae, Bombyliidae, Mydidae, Tachinidae; especially interested in apiocerid genus Rhaphiomidas.

Thomas E. Rogers, Redd Pest Control Co., P.O.Box 9811, Jackson, MS 39286, USA.

John A. Rumph, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-6420, USA. Telephone: (509) 335-3488. E-mail: jrumph@wsu.edu

Dr. Alessandra Rung, Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA. E-mail: baptist@wam.umd.edu

Justin B. Runyon, Department of Entomology, Pennsylvania State University, 501 ASI Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA. Telephone: (814) 863-0102. E-mail: jbrunyon@psu.edu

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Mr. Vicente Sánchez, Center for Biological Control of Northeastern Forest Insects and Diseases, Northeastern Forest Experimental Station, 51 Mill Pond Road, Hamden, CT 06514, USA. Telephone: (203) 773-2021. Telephone: (203) 773-2012. Fax: (203) 773-2183. Interests: Biocontrol and ecological genetics of Tachinidae.

Dr. Jade Savage, Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences, Bishop's University, 2600 College Street, Sherbrooke, QC, J1M 0C8, Canada. Telephone: (819) 822-9600, ext. 2362. Fax: (819) 822-9661. E-mail: jsavage@ubishops.ca

Dr. Aubrey G. Scarbrough, Department of Entomology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA. E-mail: saubrey05@comcast.net Interests: general biology, behavioral ecology and systematics of asilid flies particularly Ommatius Wiedemann.

Dr. Sonja J. Scheffer, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Room 314, 10300 Baltimore Ave., Beltsville, MD 20750-0000, USA. Telephone: (301) 504-5317. E-mail: ssheffe@sel.barc.usda.gov

Dr. Evert I. Schlinger, World Spider-Parasitoid Lab., 1550 Alisos Ave., P.O. Box 1869 Santa Ynez, CA 93460, USA. Telephone: (805) 686-1618. E-mail: newacrofly@earthlink.net Interests: Acroceridae. Now that I have retired from teaching, I plan to finish a 40-year monographic study of these spider parasitoids and their old and rather unusual biogeographic patterns as expressed by their spider-host relationships since pre-Cretaceous times.

Dr. Urs Schmidt-Ott, Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago, Cummings Life Science Center, Room 921b, 920 E. 58th Street, Chicago, IL 60637-1508, USA. Telephone: (773) 834 9798. Fax: (773) 702 3172. E-mail: uschmid@uchicago.edu Interests: Developmental genetics and evolution of Diptera; currently looking for a source of Syrphid embryos in North America.

Virginia Scott, Entomology Museum, Henderson Bldg, Campus Box 218, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0218, USA. Telephone: (303) 492-6270. E-mail: scottv@spot.colorado.edu

Dr. Yale Sedman, Department of Biological Sciences, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL 61455, USA.

Dr. Scott C. Sherman, Biology Program, Science Education, SEHNAP, New York University, 239 Greene Street, Rm 200 East Bldg, Washington Square, New York, NY 10003, USA. Telephone: (718) 238-2055. Interests: Systematics, biology, zoogeography and medical/veterinary importance of world Tabanidae; Asilidae and history of dipterology.

Dr. Bradley J. Sinclair, Entomology - Ontario Plant Laboratories, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, K.W. Neatby Building, C.E.F., Ottawa, ON, K1A 0C6, Canada. Telephone: (613) 759-1787. Fax: (613) 759-1927. E-mail: sinclairb@inspection.gc.ca

Dr. John Sivinski, Center for Medical, Agricultural and Veterinary Entomology, USDA-ARS, 1600 SW 23^rd Drive, P.O. Box 14565, Gainesville, FL 32604, USA. E-mail: jsivinski@gainesville.usda.ufl.edu

Dr. Jeffrey Skevington, Invertebrate Biodiversity, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, K.W. Neatby Bldg. C.E.F., Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0C6, Canada. Telephone: (613) 759-1647. Fax: (613) 759-1927. E-mail: skevingtonj@agr.gc.ca Interests: Systematics and ecology of Pipunculidae, Conopidae, Therevidae, Chloropidae. Phylogenetics of Eremoneura. Hilltopping.

Dr. Thomas P. Sluss, Department of Biology, Fort Lewis College, 1000 Rim Drive, Durango, CO 81301, USA. Telephone: (970) 247-7450. E-mail: sluss_t@fortlewis.edu

James J. Smith, Department of Zoology, 203 Natural Sciences Bldg., Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1115, USA. Telephone: (517) 353-9283. Fax: (517) 432-2789. E-mail: jimsmith@msu.edu Interests: Evolution of Tephritidae, in particular the systematics and biogeography of Rhagoletis, and the relative roles of selection and drift on morphological and molecular character evolution.

Dr. Stephen M. Smith, Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1, Canada. E-mail: smithsm@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca

Dr. Gary Steck, Division of Plant Industry, Florida Department of Agriculture, P.O. Box 147100, Gainesville, FL 32614-7100, USA. Telephone: (904) 372-3505, ext 188. Fax: (904) 372-2501. E-mail: steckg@doacs.state.fl.us Interests: Tephritidae: immature stages, biochemical systematics of cryptic species complexes, molecular and population genetic studies of medfly.

Dr. Wallace A. Steffan, Burpee Museum of Natural History, 813 North Main Street, Rockford, IL 61103-6971, USA. Telephone: (815) 965-3433. E-mail: wsteffane@wvam.org

Mr. Bruce A. Steinly Jr., Miami University, The Western College, 125 Peabody Hall, Oxford OH, 45056, USA.

Dr. John O. Stireman III, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, 3640 Colonel Glenn Highway, 235A, BH, Wright State University, Dayton, OH 45435, USA. Telephone: (937) 775-3192. E-mail: john.stireman@wright.edu Interests: The evolution and ecology of the Tachinidae (esp. Exoristinae) and other dipteran parasitoids.

Dr. John G. Stoffolano Jr., Department of Entomology, University of Massachusetts, Fernald Hall, Amherst, MA 01003-2410, USA. Telephone: (413) 545-1046. Fax: (413) 545-2115. E-mail: stoff@ent.umass.edu Interests: Research on the biologies of the blowfly, Phormia regina, and the saltmarsh tabanid, Tabanus nigrovittatus. Specific aspects of biology include the regulatory mechanisms of both feeding and reproductive behavior. Special emphasis is given to how nutrition of flies influences egg development and the expression of mating behavior.

Dr. John Strazanac, Plant & Soil Sci. / Entomology, West Virginia University, P.O. Box 6108, Morgantown, WV 26506-6108, USA. Telephone: (304) 293-6023, ext. 4345. Fax: (304) 293-2960. E-mail: jstrazan@wvu.edu

Dr. James E. Sublette, 3550 N. Winslow Dr., Tucson, AZ 85715, USA. Telephone: (520) 751-9983. Fax: (520) 722-2783. E-mail: jim-mary@j-msublette.com Interests: Chironomidae as water quality indicators in New Mexico streams; Nearctic and Neotropical Chironomidae, especially Tanytarsini.

Dr. Xuekui Sun, 81 Waterton Crescent, Richmond Hill, Ontario L4B 4L3, Canada. Telephone: (905) 326-8091. E-mail: xuekuisun@hotmail.com

Dr. James F. Sutcliffe, Department of Biology, Trent University, Peterborough, ON, K9J 7B8, Canada. Telephone: (705) 748-1265. Fax: (705) 748-1246. E-mail: jsutcliffe@trentu.ca Interests: Behavior of Simuliidae; biting fly host location; host attractants; sensory physiology; feeding morphology; ultrastructure of insect sensillae.

Bruce D. Sutton, Florida Department of Agriculture, Division of Plant Industry, 1911 SW 34th St., Gainesville, FL 32608, USA. E-mail: suttonb@doacs.state.fl.us

John Swann, 107-1935 West 1st Ave., Vancouver, BC, V6J 1G7, Canada. E-mail: john.swann@telus.net Interests: Milichiidae and Sphaeroceridae.

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Aynsley Thielman, West Nile Virus Investigative Unit, Mosquito Division, Biological Sciences Department, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, L2S 3A1, Canada. Telephone: (905) 688-5550 ext 3408. Fax: (905) 688-1855. E-mail: athielma@brocku.ca

Dr. F. Christian Thompson, SEL-USDA, National Museum of Natural History, 10^th Street & Constitution Ave. NW, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 169, Washington, DC 20013-7012, USA. Telephone: (202) 382-1800. Fax: (202) 786-9422. E-mail: cthompso@sel.barc.usda.gov

Michelle Trautwein, Department of Entomology, North Carolina State University, Box 7613, Raleigh, NC 27695-7613, USA. E-mail: mdtrautw@ncsu.edu

Dr. William J. Turner, Department of Entomology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, USA. Telephone: (509) 335-5504. E-mail: turnerwj@mail.wsu.edu

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Dr. Karl R. Valley, Bureau of Plant Industry, Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, Harrisburg, PA 17110, USA. Telephone: (717) 787-4843. Fax: (717) 783-3275. E-mail: kvalley@state.pa.us

Dr. J.R. Vockeroth, Invertebrate Biodiversity, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, K.W. Neatby Bldg. C.E.F., Ottawa, ON, K1A 0C6, Canada. Telephone: (613) 759-1786. Interests: Syrphidae, Mycetophilidae.

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Dr. Gilbert P. Waldbauer, 807 A Ramblewood Court, Savoy, IL 61874, USA.

Dr. Ian Walker, Departments of Biology, and Earth & Environmental Sciences, North Kelowna Campus, Okanagan University College, 3333 College Way, Kelowna, BC, V1V 1V7, Canada. Telephone: (250) 762-5445 local 7559 (office); (250) 762-5445 local 7519 (lab). Fax: (250) 470-6004. E-mail: iwalker@ouc.bc.ca

J.B. Wallace, Department of Entomology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA.

Dr. John R. Wallace, Department of Biological Sciences, Millersville University, Millersville, PA 17551, USA. Telephone: (717) 872-3418. Fax: (717) 872-3985. E-mail: john.wallace@millersville.edu

Erin J. Watson, Department of Entomology, Louisiana State University, 404 Life Sciences Bldg., Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA. Telephone: (225) 578-1812. Fax: (225) 578-1643. E-mail: ewatson@agctr.lsu.edu

Dr. Donald W. Webb, Center for Biodiversity, Illinois Natural History Survey, Natural Resources Building, 1816 South Oak, Champaign, IL 61820, USA. Telephone: (217) 333-6846. Fax: (217) 333-4949. E-mail: dwebb@inhs.uiuc.edu Interests: Systematics of Mecoptera, Rhagionidae, Vermelionidae, Solvidae, Therevidae and Xylophagidae.

Dr. Howard V. Weems Jr., Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Bureau of Entomology, Florida Department of Agriculture, Division of Plant Industry, P.O. Box 147100, Gainesville, FL 32614-7100, USA. Telephone: (904) 372-3505. Fax: (904) 372-2501. Interests: North American Syrphidae.

Dr. Jeffrey D. Wells, Department of Biology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506-6057, USA. Telephone: (304) 293-5201 ext. 31526. Fax: (304) 293-6363. E-mail: jdwells@mail.wvu.edu

Dr. Dawn M. Wesson, Department of Tropical Medicine, Tulane Medical Center, 1430 Tulane Ave. Sl-29A, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA. Telephone: (504) 584-2643. E-mail: wesson@tulane.edu Interests: Molecular phylogeny of the Culicidae; use of rDNA ITS2 region for species identification in mosquitoes and ticks; Culicidae-related nematocerous Diptera.

Lisa Westberry, 206 Deerwood Circle, Griffin, GA 30223, USA. Telephone: (770) 227-9205. E-mail: lisa.westberry@dot.state.ga.us

Dr. Robert A. Wharton, Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-2475, USA. Telephone: (409) 845-7972. Fax: (409) 845-7977. E-mail: rawbaw2@tamu.edu

Dr. M.R. Wheeler, 1313 Ardenwood Rd., Austin, TX 78722-1005, USA.

Dr. Terry A. Wheeler, Department of Natural Resource Sciences, McGill University, MacDonald Campus, Ste. Anne de Bellevue, PQ, H9X 3V9, Canada. Telephone: (514) 398-7937. Fax: (514) 398-7990. E-mail: terry.wheeler@mcgill.ca Interests: 1) systematics of Chloropidae, especially Chloropinae, 2) higher classification and morphology of acalyptrate Diptera; 3) zoogeography of acalyptrate families; 4) inventory work on acalyptrate Diptera of North American grasslands.

Dr. Terry Whitworth, 2533 Inter Avenue, Puyallup, WA 98372, USA. E-mail: wpctwbug@aol.com Interests: Protocalliphora (Calliphoridae) taxonomy and biology and calliphorid taxonomy. See website birdblowfly.com.

Dr. Brian M. Wiegmann, Department of Entomology, North Carolina State University, Box 7613, Raleigh, NC 27695-7613, USA. Telephone: (919) 515-1653. E-mail: bwiegman@unity.ncsu.edu

Matthew W. Wihlm, Department of Entomology, 407 Science II Building, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50010-3222, USA. E-mail: mwihlm@iastate.edu

Ms. Holly Williams, Department of Systematic Biology, Entomology Section, Smithsonian Institution, 10^th Street & Constitution Ave. NW, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 169, Washington, DC 20013-7012, USA. Telephone: (202) 357-2355. E-mail: williamsh@si.edu

Issac S. Winkler, Department of Entomology, 4112 Plant Sciences Building, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA. E-mail: isw@umd.edu

Dr. Shaun L. Winterton, CDFA, Plant Pest Diagnostics Branch, 3294 Meadowview Rd., Sacramento, CA, 95832-1448, USA. Telephone: (916) 262-1149. Fax: (916) 262-1190. E-mail: swinterton@cdfa.ca.gov

Lin Wong, Department of Entomology, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park, Toronto, ON, M5S 2C6, Canada. E-mail: lin.wong@utoronto.ca

Dr. D. Monty Wood, Invertebrate Biodiversity, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, K.W. Neatby Bldg. C.E.F., Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0C6, Canada. Telephone: (613) 759-1784. Fax: (613) 722-9213. E-mail: mgwood@mac.com Interests: Tachinidae; Simuliidae; phylogenetic relationships of family-group taxa; homologies of male genitalia.

Dr. Norman E. Woodley, SEL-USDA, National Museum of Natural History, 10^th Street & Constitution Ave. NW, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 169, Washington, DC 20013-7012, USA. Telephone: (202) 382-1802. Fax: (202) 786-9422. E-mail: nwoodley@sel.barc.usda.gov Interests: Brachycera "Orthorrhapha"; Tachinidae; revision of Belvosia (Tachinidae).

Dr. Wade B. Worthen, Biology Department, Furman University, Greenville, SC 29613, USA. E-mail: worthen@furman.edu Interests: Effects of predation, larval density, disturbance and microclimate on larval survival and community structure of mycophagous flies (Drosophilidae).

Christopher A. Wright, 9153 Allman, Lenexa, KS 66219, USA. Fax: (913) 492-7009. Email: cawright33@juno.com Interests: Various projects concerning assessment of freshwater habitats using aquatic macroinvertebrates. Specialize in the identification of immature chironomids.

Dr. Dale A. Wrubleski, Institute for Wetland and Waterfowl Research, P.O. Box 1160, Stonewall, MB, R0C 2Z0, Canada. Telephone: (204) 467-3317. Fax: (204) 467-9426. E-mail: d_wruble@ducks.ca Interests: Effects of agricultural activities on prairie wetlands; food web dynamics in prairie wetlands; ecology of Chironomidae in wetlands.

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Longlong Yang, Department of Entomology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7613, USA. Telephone: (919) 515-3429. Fax: (919) 515-7746. E-mail: lyang5@unity.ncsu.edu Interests: Molecular Systematics and evolution of Diptera, currently Family Therevidae.

Dr. Jong S. Yoon, National Drosophila Species Resource Center, Department of Biological Sciences, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403, USA. Telephone: (419) 372-2742. Fax: (419) 372-7690. E-mail: JSYoon@bgnet.bgsu.edu

Mr. Charles L. Young, 65 Dudley Lane, Madison, CT 06443, USA. Telephone: (203) 245-2889. E-mail: chaslyoung@hotmail.com Interests: Interested in family Asilidae.

Dr. Chen W. Young, Section of Invertebrate Zoology, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 4400 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15213-4080, USA. Telephone: (412) 688-8669. Fax: (412) 688-8670. E-mail: youngc@carnegiemuseums.org Interests: Systematics of Tipulidae, especially taxonomy, natural history, ecology and biogeography.

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Mr. Richard S. Zack, James Entomological Collection, Department of Entomology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-6432, USA. E-mail: zack@mail.wsu.edu

Michael P. Zeller, 13410 Dunham Road, Meadville, PA 16335, USA. Telephone: (814) 332-6890. Fax: (814) 333-1431. E-mail: mzeller@state.pa.us Interests: Studying flies that lay their eggs on and cause damage to Giant Hogweed and related plant species, for use as a biological control of this State and Federal noxious weed.

Manuel A. Zumbado, Unidad de Atrópodos, Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBio), 22-3100, Santo Domingo, Heredia, Costa Rica. Telephone: (506) 507-8222. Fax: (506) 507-8274. E-mail: mzumbado@inbio.ac.cr Interests: Diptera inventory of Costa Rica.