International Congresses of Dipterology
Deceased Dipterists
The International Congresses of Dipterology would like to recognize those dipterists who have passed away in recent years by posting here their names and their dipteran families of interest. The posting of this list on the Internet was proposed by Council during the 6th International Congress of Dipterology held in Fukuoka, Japan, in September 2006. It was prepared by Neal Evenhuis of the Bishop Museum, who maintains a list of World Diptera Systematists. This list will be updated periodically. The date of birth of the deceased is given in parentheses where known.
| Dipterists who died in 2009 | |
| Büttiker, Willi (1921) | Culicidae |
Descous, Suzanne [née Bartel] (1932) |
Ceratopogonidae |
Dušek, Jindra (19??) |
Stratiomyidae, Syrphidae |
Fain, Alexandre Marie Alphonse Jean (1912) |
Simuliidae, Tabanidae |
| Griffiths, Graham C.D. (1937) | Agromyzidae, Anthomyiidae |
| Hynes, Hugh Bernard Noel (1917) | Chironomidae |
| Murray, Mitchell Durno (1925) | Calliphoridae |
| Pavan, Crodowaldo (1919) | Drosophilidae, Mycetophilidae, Sciaridae |
| Rettenmeyer, Carl Willam (1931) | Phoridae |
| Skidmore, Peter (1936) | Muscidae |
| Stuckenberg, Brian Roy (1930) | Anisopodidae, Apioceridae, Athericidae, Blephariceridae, Celyphidae, Chloropidae, Clusiidae, Conopidae, Lauxaniidae, Lonchopteridae, Mydidae, Opomyzidae, Psychodidae, Rhagionidae, Syrphidae, Tabanidae, Thaumaleidae, Vermileonidae |
| Dipterists who died in 2008 | |
| Chou Io [= Zhou Yao] (1910) | Phoridae |
| Corbet, Philip Steven (1929) | Culicidae |
| Edmiston, James Francis (1954) | Ephydridae |
| Ewen, Alwyn Bradley (1932) | Ceratopogonidae |
| Guimarães, José Henrique (1937) | Calliphoridae, Heleomyzidae, Tachinidae |
| Hurley, Richard Lester (1934) | Dolichopodidae |
| Ivanishchuk, Petr Petrovich (1947) | Tabanidae |
| Jamnback, Hugo Andrew (1926) | Ceratopogonidae, Simuliidae |
| Kachvorian, Eugenia Ashotovna (1942) | Simuliidae |
| Leclercq, Marcel (1924) | Tabanidae, Tephritidae |
| Marikovskii, Pavel Iustinovich (1912) |
Cecidomyiidae |
| McLellan, Ian Dudley (1924) | Thaumaleidae |
| Möhn, Edwin (1928) | Cecidomyiidae |
| Namba, Ryoji (1922) | Platystomatidae |
| Rosen, Leon (1926) | Culicidae |
| Shidrawi, Georges Romanos (1933) | Culicidae |
| Trouillet, Jean (1922) | Psychodidae |
| Walley, Gregory Stuart (1904) | Ceratopogonidae, Chironomidae, Sarcophagidae |
| Zlobin, Vladimir Vasilievich (1953) | Agromyzidae |
| Dipterists who died in 2007 | |
| Adisoemarto, Soenartono "Tony" (1936) | Asilidae, Stratiomyidae, Xylomyidae |
| Aitken, Thomas Henry Gardiner (1912) | Ceratopogonidae, Corethrellidae, Culicidae, Hippoboscidae, Muscidae, Tabanidae |
| Beiger, Maria (1921) | Agromyzidae |
| Bohart, Richard Mitchell (1913) | Culicidae |
| Chao, Chien-ming (1927) | Tachinidae |
| Coulson, Jack Richard (1931) | Dolichopodidae |
| Forattini, Oswaldo Paulo (1924) | Bibionidae, Ceratopogonidae, Culicidae, Dixidae, Psychodidae, Scatopsidae |
| Giles, Francis Edward (1913) | Ceratopogonidae |
| Givulescu, Razvan (1920) | Cecidomyiidae, Agromyzidae |
| Glukhova, Valentina Matveevna (1928) | Ceratopogonidae |
| Heed, William Battles (1926) | Drosophilidae |
| Hoffmann, Anita (1919) | Hippoboscidae |
| Kugler, Jehoshua (1915) | Chironomidae, Rhinophoridae, Tachinidae, Tephritidae |
| Leroux, Edgar Joseph (1922) | Ceratopogonidae |
| Lopes, Oscar de Souza (19??) | Culicidae |
| Nowell, Wesley Raymond (1924) | Dixidae |
| Peris [Torres], Salvador Vicente (1912) | Asilidae, Calliphoridae, Fanniidae, Rhinophoridae, Stratiomyidae, Syrphidae, Xylophagidae |
| Sublette, Mary Frances (1927) |
Chironomidae |
| Dipterists who died in 2006 | |
| Coleman, Richard Walter (1922) | Simuliidae |
| Cook, Edwin Francis (1918) | Chaoboridae, Scatopsidae, Stratiomyidae |
| Crichton, Michael Ian (1913) | Hippoboscidae |
| Davies, Lewis (1924) | Simuliidae |
| Fisher, Theodore William (1921) | Sciomyzidae |
| Galvão, Archibaldo Bello (19??) | Culicidae |
| Greathead, David John (1936) | Bombyliidae, Mythicomyiidae, Nemestrinidae |
| Harrison, Roy Alexander (1918) | Agromyzidae, Australimyzidae, Bibionidae, Canacidae, Chloropidae, Coelopidae, Drosophilidae, Ephydridae, Heleomyzidae, Helosciomyzidae, Keroplatidae, Muscidae, Mycetophilidae, Pallopteridae, Piophilidae, Pseudopomyzidae, Sciaridae, Sciomyzidae, Sphaeroceridae, Tethinidae |
| Hodges, Elaine Rita Snyder (1937) | Culicidae |
| Kleynhans, Kent Peter Noel (1935) | Muscidae |
| Lachaise, Daniel (1947) | Bombyliidae, Drosophilidae |
| Luna de Carvalho, Eduardo [Augusto] (1921) | Simuliidae |
| Lyneborg, Leif (1932) | Anthomyiidae, Apsilocephalidae, Asteiidae, Bombyliidae, Carnidae, Chyromyidae, Conopidae, Fanniidae, Muscidae, Mydidae, Otitidae, Platystomatidae, Stratiomyidae, Tabanidae, Therevidae |
| Pakalniskis, Saulis (1958) | Agromyzidae |
| Peterson, Bobbie Vernon (1928) | Bibionidae, Conopidae, Hippoboscidae, Phoridae, Simuliidae |
| Pschorn-Walcher, Hubert (1926) | Syrphidae |
| Ruppel, Robert Frank (1925) | Lonchaeidae |
| Sasa, Manabu (1916) | Chaoboridae, Chironomidae, Culicidae, Simuliidae |
| Spironello, Mike (1977) | Simuliidae |
| Wenzel, Rupert Leon (1915) | Hippoboscidae |
| Yang, Chi-kun (1925) | Anisopodidae, Asteiidae, Axymyiidae, Bibionidae, Bombyliidae, Cecidomyiidae, Celyphidae, Chloropidae, Cryptochetidae, Hybotidae, Keroplatidae, Lonchopteridae, Lonchopteridae, Megamerinidae, Mycetophilidae, Opomyzidae, Phoridae, Pipunculidae, Psilidae, Pipunculidae, Pyrgotidae, Rhagionidae, Sciaridae, Strongylophthalmyiidae, Syrphidae, Teratomyzidae, Tipulidae, Trichoceridae, Vermileonidae |
| Dipterists who died in 2005 | |
| Amerasinghe, Felix Prashantha (1948) | Culicidae |
| Beck, William Maser, Jr. (1918) | Chironomidae |
| Geissert, Fritz (1923) | Agromyzidae |
| Lavciev, Valentin Ivanov (1932) | Muscidae |
| Lehr, Pavel Andreevich (1923) | Asilidae |
| Nagatomi, Akira (1928) | Apsilocephalidae, Apystomyiidae, Asilidae, Athericidae, Bombyliidae, Canthyloscelididae, Coenomyiidae, Nemestrinidae, Pelecorhynchidae, Rachiceridae, Rhagionidae, Sciaridae, Stratiomyidae, Therevidae, Xylomyidae, Xylophagidae |
| Olejnícek, Jirí (1946) | Dolichopodidae |
| Oliveira, Sebastião José de (1918) | Agromyzidae, Chironomidae, Ephydridae |
| Thaler, Konrad (1940) | Sciaridae |
| Townsend, Joel Ives (1920) | Drosophilidae |
| Winkler, Eric Cornelis (1922) | Culicidae |
| Dipterists who died in 2004 | |
| Barbosa, Frederico Adolfo Simões (1916) | Ceratopogonidae |
| Bolwig, Niels (1911) | Ephydridae |
| Bradescu, Vladimir (1915) | Syrphidae |
| Bruijning, Conrad “Con” Friedrich Albert (1919) | Culicidae |
| Carcavallo, Rodolfo Ubaldo (1931) | Culicidae |
| Carpintero, Diego J. (19??) | Culicidae |
| Carson, Hampton Lawrence (1914) | Drosophilidae |
| Dolin, Vladimir Gdalovich (1932) | Tabanidae |
| Herting, Benno Wilhelm (1923) | Rhinophoridae, Tachinidae |
| Hurka, Karel (1931) | Hippoboscidae |
| Joost, Wolfgang (1937) | Empididae, Psychodidae, Ptychopteridae, Thaumaleidae |
| Kandybina, Mariya Nikolaevna (1926) | Tephritidae, Tipulidae |
| Lewis, Edward B (1918) | Drosophilidae |
| Lovemore, Desmond Frank (1928) | Glossinidae |
| Lu Baolin (1916) | Culicidae |
| McCrae, Angus Wilson Ritchie (1932) | Simuliidae |
| Mendl, Hans (1927) | Limoniidae, Tipulidae, Trichoceridae |
| Pennak, Robert William (1912) | Deuterophlebiidae |
| Povolny, Dalibor (1924) | Anthomyiidae, Calliphoridae, Hippoboscidae, Sarcophagidae |
| Prokopy, Ronald John (1935) | Tephritidae, Otitidae |
| Reeves, William Carlisle (1916) | Culicidae |
| Telford, Horace Spooner (1909) | Syrphidae |
| Zimmerman, Elwood Curtin (1912) | Dolichopodidae |
| Dipterists who died in 2003 | |
| Callot, Jacques Tony (1908) | Ceratopogonidae, Culicidae |
| Dicke, Robert Jerome (1912) | Culicidae |
| Downes, John Antony (1914) | Ceratopogonidae |
| Fredeen, Frederick John Hartley (1920) | Simuliidae |
| Juminer, Bertène (1927) | Psychodidae |
| Mamaev, Boris Mikhailovich (1932) | Cecidomyiidae |
| Mani, Mahadeva Subra (1908) | Cecidomyiidae, Ceratopogonidae |
| Norris, Kenneth Richard (1914) | Apioceridae, Mydidae |
| Paika, Inder Jit (1938) | Drosophilidae |
| Paulian, Renard (1913) | Culicidae, Phoridae, Sciaridae, Tabanidae |
| Perich, Michael Joseph (1957) | Culicidae |
| Roberti, Domenico (1912) | Cecidomyiidae |
| Roth, Louis Marcus (1918) | Culicidae |
| Ruehm, Walter (1926) | Simuliidae |
| Theowald, Br. [van Leeuwen, Theodorus] (1919) | Calliphoridae, Hybotidae, Limoniidae, Tipulidae |
| Torp Pedersen, Ernst (1929) | Syrphidae |
| Villalta, José Fernandez de (1913) | Cecidomyiidae |
| Vukovich, Mitar Vladimir (19??) | Tipulidae |
| Dipterists who died in 2002 | |
| Artemiev, Mikhail Mikhailovich (1943) | Psychodidae |
| Blickle, Robert L (1913) | Culicidae |
| Erzinclioglu, Zakaria (1951) | forensics, muscoids |
| Foote, Richard Herbert (1918) | Cecidomyiidae, Ceratopogonidae, Cryptochetidae, Dolichopodidae, Otitidae, Tephritidae |
| Franz, Herbert (1908) | Agromyzidae, Syrphidae, Tephritidae |
| Hardy, Dilbert Elmo (1914) | Asilidae, Asteiidae, Bibionidae, Calliphoridae, Canthyloscelididae, Cecidomyiidae, Ceratopogonidae, Chironomidae, Chyromyidae, Coelopidae, Dolichopodidae, Drosophilidae, Limoniidae, Milichiidae, Mydidae, Pipunculidae, Rhagionidae, Sciaridae, Scenopinidae, Tephritidae, Tethinidae, Xenasteiidae |
| Kim, Se Pyong (1938) | Lauxaniidae, Platystomatidae |
| Laarman, Jacob "Jaap" Jan (1921) | Culicidae |
| Lambrecht, Frank Laurence (1915) | Culicidae |
| Machado, Antonio de Barros (1912) | Culicidae, Glossinidae, Muscidae |
| Marks, Elisabeth Nesta "Pat" (1918) | Culicidae |
| McKeever, Sturgis (1921) | Corethrellidae |
| Quate, Lawrence Ward (1925) | Empididae, Psychodidae |
| Riegert, Paul William (1923) | Simuliidae |
| Spencer, Kenneth Angus (1916) | Agromyzidae |
| Dipterists who died in 2001 | |
| Alayo, Pastor (1915) | Bombyliidae |
| Brindle, Allan (1915) | Rhagionidae, Stratiomyidae |
| Brookman, Bernard (1912) | Asilidae, Culicidae |
| Capelle, Kenneth J. (1923) | Psilidae, Syrphidae |
| Cortés Peña, Raul Eduardo (1915) | Syrphidae, Tachinidae |
| Dessart, Paul Oscar Gustave (1931) | Ceratopogonidae |
| Downes, William Lawrence, Jr. (1926) | Calliphoridae, Rhinophoridae, Sarcophagidae |
| Goot, Volkert Simon van der (1928) | Syrphidae |
| Gorodkov, Kiril Borissovich (1932) | Heleomyzidae, Scathophagidae |
| Hackman, Walter Leopold Victor (1916) | Agromyzidae, Drosophilidae, Heleomyzidae, Lonchaeidae, Mycetophilidae, Opomyzidae, Scathophagidae, Sphaeroceridae |
| Hurlbut, Herbert Sumner (1908) | Culicidae |
| Keilbach, Rudolf (1908) | Anisopodidae, Bibionidae, Ceratopogonidae, Chironomidae, Dixidae, Dolichopodidae, Empididae, Limoniidae, Mycetophilidae, Phoridae, Psychodidae, Scatopsidae, Tipulidae [all fossil taxa] |
| Knight, Kenneth Lee (1915) | Culicidae |
| Kratochvíl, Josef (1915) | Limoniidae, Sciaridae |
| Leleup, Narcisse (1912) | Culicidae |
| Martinovsky, Jaroslav (1938) | Keroplatidae, Scatopsidae, Thaumaleidae, Tipulidae, Trichoceridae |
| Sylvén, Edvard Nils Hjalmar (1920) | Cecidomyiidae |
| Zherichin, Valadimir Vasilievich (1945) | Empididae |
| Dipterists who died in 2000 | |
| Aellen, Villy (1926) | Hippoboscidae |
| Beaucornu-Saguez, Françoise (?) | Ceratopogonidae, Simuliidae |
| Beerman, Wolfgang (1921) | Genetics |
| Blackith, Robert Edmund (1923) | Sarcophagidae |
| Ceianu, Igor (1925) | Lauxaniidae |
| Cepelák, Jirí (1917) | Calliphoridae, Conopidae, Sarcophagidae, Syrphidae, Tachinidae |
| Clergue-Gazeau, Monique (1931) | Simuliidae |
| De Meillon, Botha (1902) | Ceratopogonidae, Culicidae, Psychodidae, Simuliidae |
| De Santis, Luis (1914) | Sarcophagidae |
| Fisher, Elizabeth Gault (1909) | Bolitophilidae, Ditomyiidae, Keroplatidae, Mycetophilidae |
| Gentili, Giuseppe (1912) | Bibionidae, Limoniidae, Trichoceridae |
| Kano, Rokuro (1920) | Calliphoridae, Culicidae, Muscidae, Sarcophagidae |
| Matile, Loïc Henri Marcel (1938) | Bolitophilidae, Diadocidiidae, Keroplatidae, Lygistorrhinidae, Mycetophilidae, Unplaced Sciaroidea |
| Ngu, Dang Van (1910) | Culicidae |
| Nicholson, Harry Page (1913) | Simuliidae |
| Okada, Toyohi (1910) | Ceratopogonidae, Curtonotidae, Diastatidae, Drosophilidae, Ephydridae, Thaumaleidae |
| Pletsch, Donald J. (1912) | Culicidae |
| Skuf’in, Konstantin Vasilievich (1907) | Syrphidae, Tabanidae |
| Smith, Marion Edmonds (1926) | Culicidae |
| Sommerman, Kathryn Martha (1915) | Simuliidae |
| Starkey, Gordon S (1917) | Culicidae |
| Tozoni, Sílvia Helena Sanchez (1963) | Anisopodidae |
| Weber, Mihályi (1918) | Empididae, Hybotidae |
| Dipterists who died in 1999 | |
| Arnell, J. Hal (1941) | Culicidae |
| Bal, Dattatreya Vaman (1905) | Hippoboscidae |
| Doby, Jean-Marie (1925) | Simuliidae |
| Fukuhara, Narao (1925) | Agromyzidae |
| Genduso, Pietro (1922) | Tachinidae |
| Gillies, Michael “Mick” Thomas (1920) | Culicidae |
| Guibé, Jean [Marius René] (1910) | Chironomidae |
| Kauri, Hans (1906) | Tabanidae |
| Mettler, Lawrence Eugene (1929) | Drosophilidae |
| Miyazaki, Ichiro (1907) | Culicidae |
| Nakane, Takehiko (1920) | Sciaridae |
| Peyton, Edward L (1929) | Culicidae |
| Reiss, Friedrich (1937) | Chironomidae |
| Rozeboom, Lloyd Eugene (1908) | Culicidae, Hippoboscidae, Psychodidae |
| Salmon, John Tenison (1910) | Chloropidae, Ephydridae |
| Scanlon, John Earl (1925) | Culicidae |
| Stone, Alan (1904) | Anisopodidae, Bibionidae, Chaoboridae, Culicidae, Simuliidae, Tabanidae, Tephritidae |
| Théodoridès, Jean (1926) | Simuliidae |
First published on the Internet in January 2007
Last update: 8 March 2010
J.E. O'Hara & N.L. Evenhuis