Fauna of New Zealand 71: Fanniidae (Insecta: Diptera) - Contributor notes
Domínguez, MC; Pont, AC 2014. Fauna of New Zealand. 71, 91 pages.
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ISSN 0111-5383 (print),
ISSN 1179-7193 (online)
;
no.
71.
ISBN 978-0-478-34745-6 (print),
ISBN 978-0-478-34746-3 (online)
).
Published 30 Jun 2014
ZooBank: http://zoobank.org/References/1B70674A-0283-4696-80A8-03BC38ED4B28
DOI: 0.7931/J2/FNZ.71
Contributor notes
Contributor M. Cecilia Domínguez was born in British Columbia, Canada. She has been living in Argentina since 1985, where she studied biology and later completed a Doctorate at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba on the taxonomy, systematics, and biogeography of the southern South American species of the genus Fannia (Fanniidae). While completing her thesis she spent nine months at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, in Oxford, U.K. This allowed her to complete a cladistic and biogeographic analysis of the Fanniidae, which included representatives of this family from other regions of the world including the as yet undescribed species from New Zealand. From 2006 to 2008, Domínguez worked as a postdoctoral associate at IADIZA (Instituto Argentino de Investigaciones de Zonas Áridas), CCT (Centro Científico Tecnológico) Mendoza, in Mendoza Argentina, where she began with the taxonomic revision of other genera within Fanniidae. Currently she is working as a researcher for the CONICET (National Council for Scientific and Technological Research) of Argentina. Her main interests are the systematics and biogeography of Fanniidae, biogeographic studies of Earth history and of other groups of insects (especially from Patagonia or southern South America) as well as the role of the Fanniidae in forensic entomology.
Contributor Adrian C. Pont was born in the U.K., where he has lived all his life. He began collecting and studying flies of the family Muscidae (which at the time also included the Fanniidae) as a teenager. After graduating in Modern Languages at the University of Oxford, he was able to convert an obsession into a profession by joining the staff of the then British Museum (Natural History) in London where he worked on the Diptera section for 25 years, rising to become head of section and a Principal Scientific Officer. In 1988 he resigned from the Museum and since then has been working as an independent dipterist. For the past 25 years he has been an Honorary Associate Curator at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, and in 1994 obtained the degree of Doctor of Science from Oxford University on the basis of his published work. He is also a Scientific Associate of the Natural History Museum, London, and an Associate in Research of the B.P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawai'i, U.S.A. He has authored or co-authored over 270 papers and books on Fanniidae, Muscidae, Sepsidae, and historical aspects of dipterology. Although now formally retired, he remains active as a taxonomist and has no plans to give up work.