PUBLICATIONS OF D.J. BICKEL
Last updated: 15 April 2016


1. Bickel, D.J. 1982. Order Diptera (149 encyclopedia articles), pp. 563 599 (Vol.2). In S. Parker, ed., Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw Hill, New York.

2. Bickel, D.J. 1983. Two new Australian Teuchophorus Loew (Diptera: Dolichopodidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 22: 39 46.

3. Bickel, D.J. 1985.  A revision of the Nearctic Medetera (Diptera: Dolichopodidae).  United States Department of Agriculture Technical Bulletin 1692: 1 109.

4. Bickel, D.J. 1986a. Atlatlia, a new genus of Dolichopodidae (Diptera) from Australia. Entomologica scandinavica 17: 165 171. [PDF]

5. Bickel, Daniel J., 1986b. Thrypticus and an allied new genus, Corindia, from Australia (Diptera: Dolichopodidae). Records of the Australian Museum 38(3): 135–151. [Published 1 December 1986]
http://dx.doi.org/10.3853/j.0067-1975.38.1986.179
http://www.australianmuseum.net.au/pdf/publications/179_complete.pdf

6. Bickel, D.J. 1986c. Australian species of Systenus (Diptera: Dolichopodidae). Records of the Australian Museum 38: 263 270. [PDF]

7. Bickel, D.J. 1987a. Kowmungia (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), a new genus from Australia. Invertebrate Taxonomy 1: 147 154. [PDF]

8. Bickel, D.J. 1987b. Babindellinae, a new subfamily of Dolichopodidae (Diptera) from Australia, with a discussion of symmetry in the dipteran male postabdomen. Entomologica scandinavica 18: 97 103. [PDF]

9. Bickel, D.J. 1987c. A Revision of the Oriental and Australasian Medetera  (Diptera: Dolichopodidae). Records of the Australian Museum 39: 131 182.

10. Bickel, D.J. & C.E. Dyte. 1989a. Family Dolichopodidae, pp. 398 418, In, N. Evenhuis, ed., A catalog of the Diptera of the Australasian and Oceanian region. Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu & E. J. Brill, Leiden. 1155pp. http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/aocat/doli.html

11. Bickel, D.J. 1989b. Book review. "Catalogue of Palearctic Diptera, Volume 6: Therevidae Empididae," A. Soos and L. Papp, eds.  Journal of the Australian Entomological Society.

12. Bickel, D.J. 1990a. Sex with a twist in the tail. New Scientist 1731: 24 27 (August 25, 1990). [PDF]

13. Bickel, D.J. 1990b. Book Review. "Moths of Australia", by I. Common. Melbourne University Press. General and Applied Entomology 22: 54.

14. Bickel, D.J. 1991. Book Review. Bibionidae (Insecta: Diptera), by R.A. Harrison, Fauna of New Zealand 20. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 18: 371.

15. Bickel, D.J. 1992. Sciapodinae, Medeterinae (Insecta: Diptera), with a generic review of the Dolichopodidae. Fauna of New Zealand 23,  74p.

16. Bickel, D.J. 1992. The Australian Sympycninae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae): Introduction and description of a new genus, Yumbera. Invertebrate Taxonomy 6: 1005-1017.

17. Bickel, D.J.  1993. Familia Dolichopodidae. In,  Solís, A. (ed.) Las Familias de insectos de Costa Rica. INBio (In Spanish).  http//:www.inbio.ac.cr/papers/insectoscr/Diptera.html

18. Bickel, D.J. 1994. The Australian Sciapodinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), with a review of the Oriental and Australasian faunas, and a world conspectus of the subfamily. Records of the Australian Museum Supplement 21: 1-394.

19. E. Turak & D.J. Bickel. 1994. Using biological indicators to monitor the health of freshwater ecosystems. New South Wales Environmental Protection Authority Technical Report 94/69: 1-75.

20. Bickel, D.J. 1995. Insects of Micronesia. Volume 13, no. 8. Diptera: Dolichopodidae Part I. Sciapodinae, Medeterinae and Sympycninae (part). Micronesica 27: 73-118. (1994).

21. Bickel, D.J. 1996a. My first pocket guide: Insects. National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C. 80 pp.

22. Bickel, D.J. & Wei Lien-meng. 1996b. Dolichopodidae (Diptera) from southwestern China. Part I. Oriental Insects 30: 251-277.

23. Bickel, D.J. 1996c. Thinempis, a new genus from Australia and New Zealand (Diptera: Empididae), with notes on the tribal classification of the Empidinae. Systematic Entomology 21: 115-128.

24. Bickel, D.J. 1996d. Smoke Flies (Diptera: Platypezidae) and the Sydney bushfires. Australian Entomologist 23: 77-78.

25. Bickel, D.J. 1996e. Australian Asyndetus Loew and Cryptophleps Lichtwardt (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), with notes on the Oriental and Western Pacific faunas. Invertebrate Taxonomy 10: 1151-1170.

26. Bickel, D.J. 1997a. Restricted and widespread taxa in the Pacific: biogeographic processes in the fly family Dolichopodidae (Diptera), pp. 331-346. In, A. Keast & S. Miller (eds.),  The origin and evolution of Pacific Island biotas, New Guinea to eastern Polynesia: Patterns and processes. SPB Academic Publishing bv, Amsterdam. viii + 531 pp.

27. Bickel, D.J. 1997b Is the parthenogenetic Hawaiian fly Diaphorus parthenus (Hardy & Kohn) an Australian stowaway? Records of the Hawaiian Biological Survey for 1996- Part 2: Notes. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 49: 32-37. [PDF]

28. Bickel, D.J.  1997. True  Flies,  Order Diptera, pp. 542-544,  in  J. Healey, ed., Encyclopedia of Australian wildlife”,  Reader’s Digest (Australia),  Surry Hills, NSW,  624 pp.

29. Bickel, D.J. & B.J. Sinclair. 1997c. The Dolichopodidae (Diptera) of the Galápagos  Islands, with notes on the New World fauna.  Entomologica Scandinavica 28: 241-270.

30. Bickel, D.J.  1998.  Synonymic notes on some of Thomson's New World Dolichopodidae (Diptera). Entomological News 109: 61-65.

31. Bickel, D.J. 1998 (1995). A Fossil Gymnopternus Loew (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from the Florissant Beds, Colorado. Psyche 102: 169-172.

32. Bickel, D.J. 1998. The Dolichopodidae of Midway Atoll, with a new species of Dactylomyia Aldrich, and taxonomic notes on the subfamily Neurigoninae. Records of the Hawaiian Biological Survey for 1997- Part 1: Articles. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 56: 45-55.
33. Bickel, D.J. 1998. Australian, Melanesian, and Micronesian Acropsilus Mik (Diptera: Dolichopodidae). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 141:1-17. [PDF]

34. Bickel, D.J. 1998. Cunomyia, a distinctive new hilarine fly genus from the Tasmanian World Heritage Area (Diptera: Empididae). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 132: 59-63.

35. Bickel, D.J. 1999. Australian Sympycninae II: Syntormon Loew and Nothorhaphium gen. nov., with a treatment of the Western Pacific fauna, and notes on the subfamily Rhaphiinae and Dactylonotus Parent (Diptera: Dolichopodidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 13: 179-206.

36. Bickel, D.J. 1999. The Oriental Genus Mastigomyia Becker (Diptera: Dolichopodidae). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 47: 287-294.

37. Bickel, D.J. 1999. Australian Antyx Meuffels & Grootaert and the New Caledonian connection (Diptera: Dolichopodidae). . Australian Journal of Entomology 38: 168-175.

38. Bickel, D.J. 1999 What museum collections reveal about species accumulation, richness, and rarity: an example from the Diptera, in “The Other 99% - the Conservation and Biodiversity of Invertebrates. Transactions of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1999:174-181.

39. Bickel, D.J. 2000a. New World Achradocera in Hawaii and French Polynesia, with a discussion of the genus (Diptera: Dolichopodidae).  Records of the Hawaiian Biological Survey for 1999, Bishop Museum Occasional Papers. Part 2: Notes. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 57: 14-20.

40. Bickel, D.J. 2000b. BOOK REVIEW, Bugledich, E-M. A. 1999. Diptera: Nematocera. In Wells, A. & Huston,W.W.K.(eds). Zoological Catalogue of Australia, Volume 30.1. Melbourne:CSIRO Publishing. Quarterly Review of Biology 75: 331-332.

41. Bickel, D.J. & Elliott, M. (2001) Diptera: Dolichopodidae. In Houston, W.W.K. (ed.) Australian Biological Resources Study ABIF-Fauna. http://www.environment.gov.au/abrs/work/zoocat/chcklist.htm
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42. Bickel, D.J. 2002a. The Sciapodinae of New Caledonia (Diptera: Dolichopodidae). Zoologia Neocaledonica, Mémoires du Muséum National d’Histoire naturelle, Paris. 187: 11-83.

43. Bickel, D., ed. 2002b.  Insects and Spiders, Home Reference Library, Fog City Press, San Francisco, 320 pp

44. Bickel, D.J. 2002c. Bandella, a new hilarine fly genus from Australia (Diptera: Empididae).
Records of the Australian Museum: 54: 313-324.

45. Bickel, D. J. 2003. New synonyms in the Nearctic and Neotropical Sciapodinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae).Studia dipterologica 9: 545-560.

46. Bickel, D. J. 2004. Alishania, a new genus with remarkable female terminalia from Taiwan, with notes on Chrysotimus Loew (Diptera: Dolichopodidae). Bishop Museum Bulletin in Entomology 12: 27-34.

47. Bickel, D. J. &  M. C. Hernández 2004. Neotropical Thrypticus (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) reared from water hyacinth, Eichhornia crassipes, and other Pontederiaceae. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 97: 437-449.  http://iris.esa.catchword.org/freepdfs/00138746/v97n3s8.pdf
[PDF]

48. Kitching, R.L., Bickel, D. J., Creagh, A. C., Hurley, K., &  Symonds, C. 2004. The biodiversity of Diptera in Old World rain forest surveys: a comparative faunistic analysis. Journal of Biogeography 31: 1185-1200. [PDF]

49. Austin A.D., D. K. Yeates, G. Cassis, M.J. Fletcher, J. LaSalle, J. F. Lawrence, P. B. McQuillan, L. A. Mound, D. J. Bickel, P. J. Gullan, D. F. Hales, & G. S. Taylor. 2004. Insects ’Down Under’ – Diversity, endemism and evolution of the Australian insect fauna: examples from select orders. Australian Journal of Entomology 43: 216-234. [PDF]

50. Bickel, D. J. 2004. Maipomyia (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), a new genus from Chile. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 106: 843-849.

51. Bickel, D.J. & E.M. Tasker. 2004. Tree trunk invertebrates in Australian forests: conserving unknown species and complex processes. pp. 888-899,  in D. Lunney, ed. Conservation of Australia’s Forest Fauna (2nd. ed.) Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, Mosman, Australia. 1072 pp. [PDF]

52. Evenhuis, N. L. & Bickel, D.J. 2005. The NSF-Fiji Terrestrial Arthropod Survey - Overview.  Fiji Arthropods I. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 82: 3 – 25. http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/fiji/fiji-arthropods/pdf/FAI-02.pdf

53.  Bickel, D.J. 2005. Plagiozopelma (Diptera: Dolichopodidae: Sciapodinae) from Fiji, Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands. Fiji Arthropods I. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 82: 47 – 61. http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/fiji/fiji-arthropods/pdf/FAI-05.pdf

54. Kitching, R.L., Bickel, D. J., &  Boulter, S. 2005. Guild analyses of Dipteran assemblages: a rationale and investigation of seasonality and stratification in selected rainforest faunas, pp. 388-415. In, D. Yeates & B. Wiegmann (eds.), The Evolutionary Biology of Flies.  Columbia University Press, New York, 440 pp. [PDF]

55.  Bickel, D.J. 2005. A new genus, Phasmaphlpes, and new species of Cryptophleps Lichtwardt from the western Pacific, with notes on Australasian Diaphorinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae). Fiji 4Arthropods II. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 84: 17 – 34. http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/fiji/fiji-arthropods/pdf/FAII-04.pdf

56. Bickel, D.J. 2006a.  Eugowra, a new fly genus from Australia (Diptera: Empididae). Records of theAustralian Museum. 58: 119-124.

57. Bickel, D.J. 2006b.  Munburra,  a new fly genus from tropical Australia (Diptera: Empididae). Records of theAustralian Museum. 58: 129-132.

58. Hamilton, J.R., Yeates, D.K., Hastings, A., Colless, D.H., McAlpine, D.K., Bickel, D., Cranston, P.S., Schneider, M.A., Daniels, G. & Marshall, S. 2006.  On The Fly: The Interactive Atlas and Key to Australian Fly Families. (CD ROM). Australian Biological Resources Study/Centre for Biological Information Technology (CBIT).

59. Bickel, D.J. 2006c. Parentia (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from Fiji: a biogeographic link with New Caledonia and New Zealand. In: Evenhuis, N.L. and Bickel, D.J. (eds.), Fiji Arthropods V. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 89: 45-50. http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/fiji/fiji-arthropods/pdf/FAV-03.pdf

60. Bickel, D. J. 2006d. Papallacta (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), a new stenopterous genus from the páramo of Ecuador. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 149: 209-213, figs. 1-4.

61. Bickel, D.J. 2006e. The Amblypsilopus pulvillatus species group (Diptera: Dolichopodidae: Sciapodinae), a radiation in the western Pacific. In: Evenhuis, N.L. and Bickel, D.J. (eds.), Fiji Arthropods VI. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 90: 51-66. http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/fiji/fiji-arthropods/pdf/FAVI-04.pdf

62. Bickel, D.J. 2007a  Replacement name for Alishania Bickel, 2004 (Diptera Dolichopodidae).
Zootaxa 1398: 68.  http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2007/zt01398p068.pdf

63. Bickel, D.J.  2007b. The Mesoamerican Mesorhaga (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), with a taxonomic review of the New World fauna. Zootaxa 1411:47-67. http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2007f/z01411p067f.pdf

64. Bickel, D.J. 2007c.   Pharcoura (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), a new genus from Chile.  Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 150: 5-12.

65. Bickel, D.J. 2008a.  Krakatauia (Diptera: Dolichopodidae: Sciapodinae) from the southwest Pacific, with a focus on the radiation in Fiji. In: Evenhuis, N.L. and Bickel, D.J. (eds.), Fiji Arthropods X. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 97: 21-64.
http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/fiji/fiji-arthropods/pdf/FA-X-03r.pdf

67. Bickel, D.J. 2008c. Pouebo (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), a remarkable new genus from New Caledonia, with secondary symmetry in the male postabdomen. Zoologia Neocaledonica 6, Mémoires du Muséum National d’Histoire naturelle 197: 49–55.
 

Bickel, D.J. 2008. Krakatauia (Diptera: Dolichopodidae: Sciapodinae) from the southwest Pacific, with a focus on the radiationin Fiji. In: Evenhuis, N.L. et Bickel,D.J. (eds.), Fiji Arthropods X. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 97: 21-64.[open access 4.4 MB: http://www.bishopmuseum.org /]
Bickel, D.J. 2008. The Dolichopodinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) of New Caledonia, with descriptions and records from Australia, New Zealand and Melanesia. In Grandcolas P. (ed.), Zoologia Neocaledonica 6. Biodiversity studies in New Caledonia. Zoologia Neocaledonica, Mémoires du Muséum National d’Histoire naturelle 197: 13–47.
Bickel D. J. 2008. Pouebo (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), a remarkable new genus from New Caledonia, with secondary symmetry in the male postabdomen, in Grandcolas P. (ed.), Zoologia Neocaledonica 6. Biodiversity studies in New Caledonia. Memoires du Museum national d’Histoire naturelle 197: 49-55. Paris ISBN: 978-2-85653-605-6.

68. Yeates, D.K,  Bickel, D.J., McAlpine, D.K. & Colless, D.H. 2009a. Diversity, Relationships and Biogeography of Australian Flies, pp. 227–256. In, T. Pape, D. J. Bickel & R. Meier, eds,  Diptera Diversity: Status, Challenges and Tools, Brill, Leiden.

69. Bickel, D. J. 2009b. Biogeography of Diptera in the Southwest Pacific, pp. 257–275. In, T. Pape, D. J. Bickel & R. Meier, eds,  Diptera Diversity: Status, Challenges and Tools, Brill, Leiden.

70. Bickel, D. J. 2009c. Why Hilara is not amusing:  the problem of open–ended taxa and the limits of taxonomic knowledge, pp. 279–301. In, T. Pape, D. J. Bickel & R. Meier, eds,  Diptera Diversity: Status, Challenges and Tools, Brill, Leiden.

Bickel, D.J. 2009. Amblypsilopus (Diptera: Dolichopodidae: Sciapodinae) from the Southwest Pacific, with a Focus on the Radiation in Fiji and Vanuatu. In:
Evenhuis, N.L. et Bickel, D.J. (eds.), Fiji Arthropods XIII. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 103: 3-61. [open access 0.9 MB: http://www.bishopmuseum.org]
Bickel D.J. 2009. The first species described from Cape York amber, Australia: Chaetogonopteron bethnorrisae n.sp. (Diptera: Dolichopodidae). Denisia 26:
35-39.
Bickel, D.J. 2009. Dolichopodidae (long-legged flies). In Brown, B.V. et al., eds., Manual of Central American Diptera. Volume 1. NRC Research Press,
Ottawa, p. 671-694.
Bickel D.J. and Arnaud P.H., Jr. 2011. Medetera johnthomasi (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), a new species from California with notes on the aberrans species group. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 87(2): 124-129.

  • Bickel D.J. 2012. Parallel evolution in Patagonian Pinacocerus and Australian Yumbera (Diptera: Dolichopodidae: Sympycninae), with the description of new species. Canadian Entomologist, 144(1): 52-61. [open access]
  • Bickel D. 2013. Phrudoneura (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from Australia and Melanesia. Zootaxa 3680(1): 38-54.
  • Bickel D. 2013. The Dolichopodidae (Diptera): a highly diverse family in Baltic and other Tertiary ambers. In: 6th International Congress on Fossil Insects, Arthropods and Amber Byblos, April 2013: 42.
  • Bickel Daniel J. 2013. The family Dolichopodidae (Diptera) of the Pilbara region, Western Australia in its Australasian biogeographic context, with the description of 19 new species. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 83: 291-348.
  • Bickel, D. 2014. Baltic amber Dolichopodidae: a rich and abundant fauna. In: 8th International Congress of Dipterology, Potsdam 2014, Abstract volume: 38.
  • Bickel D. J. 2014. Corindia (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from New Caledonia and the Papuan Region, in Guilbert E, Robillard T, Jourdan H & Granccolas P, (eds), Zoologia Neocaledonica 8. Biodiversity studies in New Caledonia, Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris: 201-207 (Memoires du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle; 206), ISBN: 978-2-85653-707-7.
  • Bickel D.J. (2014). Pindaia (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) a new genus from New Caledonia and Australia, in Guilbert E, Robillard T, Jourdan H & Granccolas P, (eds), Zoologia Neocaledonica 8. Biodiversity studies in New Caledonia, Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris: 209-218 (Memoires du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle; 206), ISBN: 978-2-85653-707-7.
  • Bickel, D. & McEvey, S. 2014. Diptera diversity on Mt Wilhelm, Papua New Guinea: faunal change with elevation. In: 8th International Congress of Dipterology, Potsdam 2014, Abstract volume: 39.


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