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Current Council Members

The Council is composed of up to 15 dipterists who represent as diverse a group as possible both geographically and by dipterological discipline. Election and duties of Council members are detailed in the Constitution of the International Congresses of Dipterology.

The last Business Meeting of the Council was held on 20 July 2023 at the 10th International Congress of Dipterology, Reno, U.S.A. The next scheduled meeting of the Council will be the Midterm Meeting in 2025, at a date to be confirmed.


Ashley H. Kirk-Spriggs, Chair
Senior Curator of Diptera
African Natural History Research Trust
Street Court, Kingsland
Leominster, Herefordshire HR6 9QA
UNITED KINGDOM
E-mail: ashley.kirk-spriggs@anhrt.org.uk
Interests: Systematics of Afrotropical Diptera (especially Curtonotidae), biogeography, bioinventory.
Daniel Bickel, Vice Chair
Entomology, Australian Museum
6 College Street
Sydney, NSW 2010
AUSTRALIA
E-mail: Dan.Bickel@austmus.gov.au
Interests: Systematics of Dolichopodidae and study of insect inclusions in Cape York amber.
John Midgley, Secretary/Treasurer
Department of Natural Sciences
KwaZulu-Natal Museum
237 Jabu Ndlovu Street
Pietermaritzburg, 3200, KZN
SOUTH AFRICA
E-mail: jmidgley@nmsa.org.za
Interests: Afrotropical Diptera, Syrphidae, lower Brachycera, taxonomy and Diptera conservation.
Dalton de Souza Amorim
Departamento de Biologia - Emeritus Professor
FFCLRP, Universidade de São Paulo
Av. Bandeirantes 3900
14.040-901 Ribeirão Preto, SP
BRAZIL
E-mail: dsamorim@usp.br
Interests: Lower dipteran taxonomy, homology, morphology, phylogenetic reconstruction, biogeography, Diptera evolution.
Yuchen Ang
Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum
National University of Singapore
2 Conservatory Drive, 117377
SINGAPORE
E-mail: nhmay@nus.edu.sg
Interests: Oriental Diptera, acalyptrate taxonomy, morphology, cybertaxonomy, largescale integrative taxonomy and dark taxa.
Xiaolin Chen
Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution
Institute of Zoology
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing 100101, CHINA
E-mail: xlchen@ioz.ac.cn
Interests: Taxonomy and Systematics of Diptera (particularly Tephritidae, Platystomatidae, Ulidiidae and Agromyzidae); insect image automatic recognition.
Netta Dorchin
School of Zoology, the George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences
and the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 6997801
ISRAEL
E-mail: ndorchin@tauex.tau.ac.il
Interests: Taxonomy, phylogeny and systematics (Cecidomyiidae), evolution and ecology of gall-inducing insects, weed and insect biocontrol.
Stephen D. Gaimari
North American Dipterists Society
P.O. Box 231113
Sacramento
CA 95823
USA
E-mail: sgaimari@dipterists.org
Interests: Systematics and biogeography of Lauxanioidea, Odiniidae, and other Acalyptratae, and Therevidae and other Asiloidea.
Jessica P. Gillung
Lyman Entomological Museum
Department of Natural Resource Sciences
McGill University, 21111 Lakeshore Road
Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec H9X 3V9
CANADA
E-mail: jessica.gillung@mcgill.ca
Interests: Biodiversity science, lower Brachycera, macroevolution, phylogenomics, bioinformatics and pollination ecology.

Valery Korneyev
I.I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Kyiv
UKRAINE

E-mail: valery.korneyev@gmail.com
Interests: Systematics of Tephritidae, Ulidiidae, Pyrgotidae and Ctenostylidae.

Kazuhiro Masunaga
Lake Biwa Museum
1091 Oroshimo
Kusatsu
Shiga 525-0001
JAPAN
E-mail: masunaga-kazuhiro@biwahaku.jp
Interests: Systematics and biogeography of Dolichopodidae.

Erica McAlister
Natural History Museum
Cromwell Road
South Kensington
London SW7 5BD
UNITED KINGDOM
E-mail: e.mcalister@nhm.ac.uk
Interests: Culicidae, Mycetophilidae and Lower Brachycera.

Ximo Mengual
Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig
Leibniz-Institut zur Analyse des Biodiversitätswandels
Adenauerallee 127, 53113 Bonn
GERMANY
E-mail: x.mengual@leibniz-lib.de
Interests: Ecology, biology, systematics and taxonomy of Syrphidae, phylogenetics and phylogenomics.

Sarah Oliveira
Instituto de Ciências Biológicas (ICB 1)
Universidade Federal de Goiás
Avenida Esperança, s/n, Campus Samambaia, CEP 74.690-900
Goiânia, Goiás, BRASIL
E-mail: oliveira.sarahcv@gmail.com/ssoliveira@ufg.br
Interests: Neotropical Diptera, Bibionomorpha, Mycetophilidae, taxonomy, phylogeny and Diptera surveys.

Jeffrey Skevington
Carleton University
Department of Biology
1125 Colonel By Drive
Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6
CANADA
E-mail: jhskevington@gmail.com
Interests: Systematics of Syrphidae, Pipunculidae and Conopidae.


First published on the Internet in June 2003
Last update: 27 September 2023
J.E. O'Hara