Dr. Owen Lonsdale

Image Owen Lonsdale
Collection Manager, CNC

Collection Manager for the Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids & Nematodes; Manager of the National Identification Service (Invertebrates).

Current research and/or projects

Dr. Lonsdale is currently involved in the study of agriculturally significant flies and their relatives, especially the leaf-mining flies (Agromyzidae), which include a number of severe crop pests and invasive alien species.

Research and/or project statements

- Systematic revisions of the genera of Agromyzidae, especially those occurring in Canada.

- Global treatments of agromyzid genera and their hosts with a focus on agricultural impact and invasive species.

- Studies on specimen holding of the CNC, with a focus on name-bearing type specimens and taxonomic inventories.

Key publications

  1. Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes: Update for the AAFC Biological Control Working Group, 2023

    2024 - View publication details

  2. Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes: Update for the AAFC Biological Control Working Group, 2022.

    2022 - View publication details

  3. Fernandez-Triana, J, Douglas, HB, Brunke, A, Bouchard, P, Huber, JT, Gibson, GAP, Bennett, AMR, Lonsdale, O. 2021. Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes: update for the AAFC Biological Control Working Group, 2021. November 5, 2021.

    2021 - View publication details

  4. Fernandez-Triana, J., Douglas, H., Huber, J.T., Brunke, A., Lonsdale, O., Sinclair, B., Landry, J-F, Gibson, G., O'Hara, J.E., Bennett, A.M.R., and Mason, P. 2020. Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes: update for AAFC Biological Control Working Group. 1–4.

    2020 - View publication details

  5. Lonsdale, O. (2016). Revision of the genus allometopon Kertész (Diptera: Clusiidae). Zootaxa, [online] 4106(1), 1-127. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4106.1.1

    2016 - View publication details

  6. Lonsdale, O., Marshall, S.A. (2016). Revision of the family Nothybidae (Diptera: Schizophora), 4098(1), 1-42. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4098.1.1

    2016 - View publication details

  7. Stebaeva, S., Lonsdale, O., Babenko, A. (2016). Catalogue of type materials of springtails (Hexapoda, Collembola) in the Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids & Nematodes. Zootaxa, [online] 4088(3), 429-437. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4088.3.8

    2016 - View publication details

  8. Brooks, S.E., Sinclair, B.J., Cumming, J.M., O'Hara, J.E., Skevington, J.H., Lonsdale, O., and Cooper, B.E. (2015). Diptera types in the Canadian National Collection of Insects. Supplement. Edition 4.0. 95 pp., [Published on the Internet]. URL: http://www.nadsdiptera.org/Catalogs/CNCtypes/Suppl.htm. (Book)

    2015 - View publication details

  9. Lonsdale, O. (2015). "A new afrotropical species of Phytomyza in the subgenus Ptochomyza (Diptera: Agromyzidae).", African Invertebrates, 56(3), pp. 637-643.

    2015 - View publication details

  10. Lonsdale, O. (2014). World catalogue of the Family Tanypezidae (Diptera: Schizophora). Zootaxa, [online] 3857(3), 412-422. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3857.3.4

    2014 - View publication details

  11. Lonsdale, O. (2014). Revision of the old world sobarocephala (diptera: Clusiidae). Zootaxa, [online] 3760(2), 211-240. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3760.2.4

    2014 - View publication details

  12. Lonsdale, O. (2014). Redefinition and synonymy of genera in the Ophiomyia genus group, with the description of Euhexomyza new genus (Diptera: Agromyzidae). The Canadian Entomologist, [online] 146(5), 481-513. http://dx.doi.org/10.4039/tce.2014.2

    2014 - View publication details

  13. Lonsdale, O. (2013). "Review of the Families Tanypezidae and Strongylophthalmyiidae, with a Revision of Neotanypeza Hendel (Diptera: Schizophora).", Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 641, pp. 1-60.

    2013 - View publication details

  14. Lonsdale, O. (2013). "Review of the Families Tanypezidae and Strongylophthalmyiidae, with a Revision of Neotanypeza Hendel (Diptera: Schizophora).", Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. doi : 10.5479/si.19436696.641.1

    2013 - View publication details

  15. Lonsdale, O. (2013). Japanagromyza Sasakawa (Diptera: Agromyzidae) of Africa. Zootaxa, [online] 3709(5), 445-460. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3709.5.3

    2013 - View publication details

  16. Lonsdale, O. and Marshall, S.A. (2012). Sobarocephala (Diptera: Clusiidae: Sobarocesphalinae)-Subgeneric classification and Revision of the New World species., Canada. (Book)

    2012 - View publication details

  17. Lonsdale, O. and Huber, J.T. (2012). "Insect Collections of Canada Series: Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids & Nematodes, Ottawa.", Newsletter of the Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods), 30(2), pp. 15-40. (Newsletter)

    2012 - View publication details

  18. Lonsdale, O. and Marshall, S.A. (2012). "Sobarocephala (Diptera: Clusiidae: Sobarocephalinae) -Subgeneric classification and Revision of the New World species.", Zootaxa, 3370, pp. 1-307.

    2012 - View publication details

  19. Lonsdale, O. (2011). "The Liriomyza (Agromyzidae: Schizophora: Diptera) of California.", Zootaxa, 2850, pp. 1-123.

    2011 - View publication details

  20. Lonsdale, O. and Scheffer, S.J. (2011). "Revision of the Holly leaf-miners in the Nearctic (Phytomyza: Agromyzidae).", Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 104(6), pp. 1183-1206.

    2011 - View publication details

Research facility

960 Carling Avenue
Ottawa, ON K1A 0C6
Canada

Language

English