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. Lonsdale, O. and Marshall, S.A. (2007). "Revision of the genus Phylloclusia (Diptera: Clusiidae).", The Canadian Entomologist, 139, pp. 778-792.

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  2. Lonsdale, O. and Marshall, S.A. (2007). "Revision of the North American Sobarocephala (Diptera: Clusiidae, Sobarocephalinae).", Journal of the Entomological Society of Ontario, 138, pp. 65-106.

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  3. Lonsdale, O. and Marshall, S.A. (2007). "Redefinition of the genera Clusiodes and Hendelia (Diptera: Clusiidae, Clusiodinae), with a review of Clusiodes.", Studia Dipterologica, 14, pp. 117-159.

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  4. Lonsdale, O. and Marshall, S.A. (2007). "Revision of the New World Heteromeringia (Diptera: Clusiidae: Clusiodinae).", Beiträge zur Entomologie, 57(1), pp. 37-80.

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  5. Marshall, S.A., Buck, M., and Lonsdale, O. (2007). "Lepidosina, a new genus of New World Sphaeroceridae (Diptera, Limosininae).", European Journal of Entomology (EJE), 104, pp. 573-599.

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  6. Marshall, S.A., Paiero, S.M., and Lonsdale, O. (2006). "New records of Orthoptera from Canada and Ontario. (http://www.entsocont.ca/files/files/Journal/2004/135_101_107.pdf)", Journal of the Entomological Society of Ontario, 135, pp. 101-107.

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  7. Lonsdale, O. and Marshall, S.A. (2006). "Revision of the New World Craspedochaeta Czerny.", Zootaxa, 1291, pp. 1-101.

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  8. Lonsdale, O. and Marshall, S.A. (2006). "Redefinition of the Clusiinae and Clusiodinae, description of the new subfamily Sobarocephalinae, revision of the genus Chaetoclusia and a description of Procerosoma gen. n. (Diptera: Clusiidae). (http://www.eje.cz/pdfarticles/1090/eje_103_1_163_Lonsdale.pdf)", European Journal of Entomology (EJE), 103, pp. 163-182.

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Research facility

960 Carling Avenue
Ottawa, ON K1A 0C6
Canada

Language

English