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Neal L. Evenhuis is affiliated with the Bernice P. Bishop Museum in the United States. Their work is primarily situated within the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a focus on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science, Ecology, Ecological Modeling, and Genetics.

Their research addresses multiple interconnected topics, including:

  • Diptera species taxonomy and behavior
  • Insect behavior and control techniques
  • Hymenoptera taxonomy and phylogeny
  • Species distribution and climate change
  • Fossil insects in amber
  • Forest insect ecology and management
  • Forensic entomology and Diptera studies

Neal L. Evenhuis has contributed to several publication venues, with the most frequent being:

  • Zootaxa
  • The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine
  • ZooKeys
  • Biodiversity Information Science and Standards
  • Neotropical Entomology

Noteworthy recent papers authored or co-authored by Neal L. Evenhuis include:

  • Renaming taxa on ethical grounds threatens nomenclatural stability and scientific communication, 2023, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
  • Tightening the requirements for species diagnoses would help integrate DNA-based descriptions in taxonomic practice, 2023, PLoS Biology
  • Catalogue of the Diptera (Insecta) of Morocco- an annotated checklist, with distributions and a bibliography, 2022, ZooKeys
  • Phylogenomics reveals accelerated late Cretaceous diversification of bee flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae), 2020, Cladistics
  • Twenty years of Dipterology through the pages of Zootaxa, 2021, Zootaxa

Frequent collaborators in Neal L. Evenhuis's research include:

  • Thomas Pape
  • Carlos José Einicker Lamas
  • Babak Gharali
  • Mark S. Harvey
  • Daniel Whitmore

Best Publications

  • Catalogue of the fossil flies of the world (Insecta: Diptera)

    N. L. Evenhuis

  • Biology of Toxorhynchites

    and W A Steffan;N L Evenhuis

  • World Catalog of Bee Flies: Diptera : bombyliidae

    N. L. Evenhuis;David J. Greathead

  • Annotated keys to the genera of African Bombylioidea (Diptera : Bombyliidae ; Mythicomyiidae)

    D.J. Greathead;N.L. Evenhuis

  • World review of the genus Strongylophthalmyia Heller (Diptera: Strongylophthalmyiidae). Part I: Introduction, morphology, species groups, and review of the Strongylophthalmyia punctata subgroup.

    Neal L. Evenhuis

  • New species without dead bodies: a case for photo-based descriptions, illustrated by a striking new species of Marleyimyia Hesse (Diptera, Bombyliidae) from South Africa.

    Stephen A. Marshall;Neal L. Evenhuis

  • Fauna Europaea: Diptera – Brachycera

    Thomas Pape;Paul Beuk;Adrian Charles Pont;Anatole I Shatalkin

  • Catalog of the Keroplatidae of the World (Insecta : Diptera)

    Neal L. Evenhuis

  • Genera of Mythicomyiidae (Insecta, Diptera) new to the fauna of Morocco, with descriptions of new species.

    Neal L. Evenhuis;Kawtar Kettani

  • Phthiria vaganoides sp. nov. (Bombyliidae, Phthiriinae, Phthiriini) from Northern Iran with the first record of Phthiria fulva Meigen, 1804 reared from a lepidopteran and description of the pupa

    Babak Gharali;Neal Evenhuis

  • A new genus for Painter amp; Painter's Villa "celer"-group in the New World (Diptera: Bombyliidae).

    Neal L Evenhuis

  • Review of the genus Cyrtosia Perris (Diptera: Mythicomyiidae: Platypyginae) in Iran, with description of three new species

    Babak Gharali;Neal Evenhuis

  • Nomenclatural Studies Toward a World List of Diptera Genus-Group Names. Part II: Camillo Rondani

    James E. O’Hara;Pierfilippo Cerretti;Thomas Pape;Neal L. Evenhuis

  • ZooBank: the open-access register for zoological taxonomy: Technical Discussion Paper

    Andrew Polaszek;Philippe Bouchet;Neal L. Evenhuis

  • Nomenclatural Studies Toward a World List of Diptera Genus-Group Names Part VII: Johann Wilhelm Meigen.

    Neal L. Evenhuis;Thomas Pape

  • A new species of Chrysanthrax Osten Sacken (Diptera: Bombyliidae) from Costa Rica parasitic on an ant lion (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae).

    Neal L. Evenhuis

  • The hazards of Nomenclatural Archaeology? The Diptera names of Theodorus van Swinderen in his 1822 Index Rerum Naturalium quae conservantur in Museo Academico Groningano.

    Neal L. Evenhuis

  • World Catalog of Bee Flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae): Corrigenda and Addenda

    Neal L. Evenhuis;David J. Greathead

  • Battling the un-dead: the status of the Diptera genus-group names originally proposed in Johann Wilhelm Meigen's 1800 pamphlet.

    Neal L. Evenhuis;Thomas Pape

  • Nomenclatural Studies Toward a World List of Diptera Genus-Group Names. Part I: André-Jean-Baptiste Robineau-Desvoidy

    Neal L. Evenhuis;James E. O’Hara;Thomas Pape;Adrian C. Pont

Frequent Co-Authors

Shane T. Ahyong
Shane T. Ahyong Australian Museum
Christopher B. Boyko
Christopher B. Boyko American Museum of Natural History
Dávid Murányi
Dávid Murányi Eszterházy Károly Catholic University
Robert M. Timm
Robert M. Timm University of Kansas
Maureen Coetzee
Maureen Coetzee University of the Witwatersrand

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