FNZ 36 - Leptophlebiidae (Ephemeroptera) - Contributors
Towns, DR; Peters, WL 1996. Leptophlebiidae (Insecta: Ephemeroptera). Fauna of New Zealand 36, 144 pages.
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ISSN 0111-5383 (print),
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no.
36.
ISBN 0-478-09303-9 (print),
).
Published 19 Aug 1996
ZooBank: http://zoobank.org/References/B1ECE903-3693-45EF-887C-43BFB1937FE0
CONTRIBUTORS
Contributor David Towns is scientist in charge of the Auckland Regional Science Unit of the Department of Conservation. He has been a conservation biologist for DoC since its inception in 1987, and previously was a scientist (herpetology: amphibians and reptiles) with the New Zealand Wildlife Service. David became involved with mayflies when studying the invertebrates that inhabit kauri forest streams near Auckland as part of his PhD thesis. This work led to a research project with Professor William L. Peters of Florida A & M University between 1977 and 1979, in which they described several new species and genera identified during the kauri forest studies. Further collecting in New Zealand, with funds obtained while he was Senior Teaching Fellow at the University of Adelaide between 1979 and 1982, enabled David to begin a comprehensive revision of the entire fauna of Leptophlebiidae. This revision was largely completed in collaboration with Bill Peters at Tallahassee in 1993, while David was on study leave.
Contributor William L. Peters is Professor of Entomology and Director of the Center for Studies in Entomology at Florida A & M University, in Tallahassee, U.S.A. He has been a faculty member there since completing his PhD at the University of Utah in 1966. Bill is active in the graduate faculty of three universities in the State of Florida, and is currently Chairman of the Alumni Advisory Board of the Division of Biological Sciences at the University of Kansas. He studies the Leptophlebiidae and other Ephemeroptera worldwide, and has published over 100 research papers. His travels to collect and rear mayflies have included New Caledonia, Australia, Southeast Asia, Europe, and North, Central, and South America.