Dr Daniel J. Bickel

Senior Research Scientist
BS., PhD

Research interests

1. Systematics of Diptera, especially the families Dolichopodidae and Empididae
2. Biogeography of Oriental- Australian region
3. Fossil Diptera, especially amber
4. Diptera faunistics and ecology

Address:
Entomology
Division of Invertebrate Zoology
Australian Museum
6 College Street
Sydney NSW 2010
Australia

Phone:
(+612) 9320 6347

Fax:
(+612) 9361 5479

Email:
Email Dan Bickel

Research publications

Bickel, D.J., 1982. Order Diptera (149 encyclopedia articles), pp. 563-599 (Vol.2). In S. Parker, ed., Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York.

Bickel, D.J., 1983. Two new Australian Teuchophorus Loew (Diptera: Dolichopodidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 22: 39-46.

Bickel, D.J., 1985. A revision of the Nearctic Medetera (Diptera: Dolichopodidae). United States Department of Agriculture Technical Bulletin 1692: 1-109.

Bickel, D.J., 1986. Atlatlia, a new genus of Dolichopodidae (Diptera) from Australia. Entomologica scandinavica 17: 165-171.

Bickel, D.J., 1986. Thrypticus and an allied new genus, Corindia from Australia (Diptera: Dolichopodidae). Records of the Australian Museum 38: 135-151.

Bickel, D.J., 1986. Australian species of Systenus (Diptera: Dolichopodidae). Records of the Australian Museum 38: 263-270.

Bickel, D.J., 1987. Kowmungia (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), a new genus from Australia. Invertebrate Taxonomy 1: 147-154.

Bickel, D.J., 1987. Babindellinae, a new subfamily of Dolichopodidae (Diptera) from Australia, with a discussion of symmetry in the dipteran male postabdomen. Entomologica scandinavica 18: 97-103.

Bickel, D.J., 1987. A Revision of the Oriental and Australasian Medetera (Diptera: Dolichopodidae). Records of the Australian Museum 39: 131-182.

Bickel, D.J., & C.E. Dyte. 1989. Family Dolichopodidae, pp. 398-418, In, A Catalog of Australasian and Oceanian Diptera, E. J. Brill, Leiden.

Bickel, D.J., 1989. Book review. "Catalogue of Palearctic Diptera, Volume 6: Therevidae-Empididae," A. Soos and L. Papp, eds. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society.

Bickel, D.J., 1990. Sex with a twist in the tail. New Scientist 1731: 24-27 (August 25, 1990).

Bickel, D.J., 1990. Book Review. "Moths of Australia", by I. Common. Melbourne University Press. General and Applied Entomology 22: 54.

Bickel, D.J., 1991. Book Review. Bibionidae (Insecta: Diptera), by R.A. Harrison, Fauna of New Zealand 20. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 18:371.

Bickel, D.J., 1991. Sciapodinae, Medeterinae (Insecta: Diptera), with a generic review of the Dolichopodidae. Fauna of New Zealand 23, 74p.

Bickel, D.J., 1992. The Australian Sympycninae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae): Introduction and description of a new genus, Yumbera. Invertebrate Taxonomy 6: 1005-1017.

Bickel, D.J., 1993. Familia Dolichopodidae. In Guia de Campa de las Familias de Insectos de Costa Rica. Museo Nacional de Costa Rica, San Jose (p.67-70; also available on Internet)

Bickel, D.J., 1994. The Australian Sciapodinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), with a review of the Oriental and Australasian faunas, and a world conspectus of the subfamily. Records of the Australian Museum Supplement 21: 1-394.

Turak, E. & D.J. Bickel, 1994. Using biological indicators to monitor the health of freshwater ecosystems. New South Wales Environmental Protection Authority Technical Report 94/69: 1-75.

Bickel, D.J., 1995. Insects of Micronesia. Volume 13, no. 8. Diptera: Dolichopodidae Part I. Sciapodinae, Medeterinae and Sympycninae (part). Micronesica 27: 73-118. (1994).

Bickel, D.J., 1996. My first pocket guide: Insects. National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C. 80 pp.

Bickel, D.J. & Wei Lien-meng, 1996. Dolichopodidae (Diptera) from southwestern China. Part I. Oriental Insects 30: 251-277.

Bickel, D.J. 1996, Thinempis, a new genus from Australia and New Zealand (Diptera: Empididae), with notes on the tribal classification of the Empidinae. Systematic Entomology 21: 115-128.

Bickel, D.J., 1996. Smoke Flies (Diptera: Platypezidae) and the Sydney bushfires. Australian Entomologist 23: 77-78.

Bickel, D.J., 1996. Australian Asyndetus Loew and Cryptophleps Lichtwardt (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), with notes on the Oriental and Western Pacific faunas. Invertebrate Taxonomy 10: 1151-1170.

Bickel, D.J., 1996. Restricted and widespread taxa in the Pacific: biogeographic processes in the fly family Dolichopodidae (Diptera), pp. 331-346. In, A. Keast & S. Miller (eds.), The origin and evolution of Pacific Island biotas, New Guinea to eastern Polynesia: Patterns and processes. SPB Academic Publishing bv, Amsterdam. viii + 531 pp.

Bickel, D.J., 1997. Is the parthenogenetic Hawaiian fly Diaphorus parthenus (Hardy & Kohn) an Australian stowaway? Records of the Hawaiian Biological Survey for 1996- Part 2: Notes. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 49: 32-37.

Bickel, D.J., 1997. True Flies, Order Diptera, pp. 542-544, in J. Healey, ed., Encyclopedia of Australian wildlife", Reader's Digest (Australia), Surry Hills, NSW, 624 pp.

Bickel, D.J. & B.J. Sinclair, 1997. The Dolichopodidae (Diptera) of the Galápagos Islands, with notes on the New World fauna. Entomologica Scandinavica 28: 241-270.

Bickel, D.J., 1998. Synonymic notes on some of Thomson's New World Dolichopodidae (Diptera). Entomological News 109: 61-65.

Bickel, D.J., 1998 (1995). A Fossil Gymnopternus Loew (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from the Florissant Beds, Colorado. Psyche 102: 169-172.

Bickel, D.J., 1998. The Dolichopodidae of Midway Atoll, with a new species of Dactylomyia Aldrich, and taxonomic notes on the subfamily Neurigoninae. Records of the Hawaiian Biological Survey for 1997- Part 1: Articles. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 56: 45-55.

Bickel, D.J., 1998. Australian, Melanesian, and Micronesian Acropsilus Mik (Diptera: Dolichopodidae). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 141:1-17.

Bickel, D.J., 1998. Cunomyia, a distinctive new hilarine fly genus from the Tasmanian World Heritage Area (Diptera: Empididae). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 132: 59-63.

Bickel, D.J., 1999. Australian Sympycninae II: Syntormon Loew and Nothorhaphium gen. nov., with a treatment of the Western Pacific fauna, and notes on the subfamily Rhaphiinae and Dactylonotus Parent (Diptera: Dolichopodidae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 13: 179-206.

Bickel, D.J., 1999. The Oriental Genus Mastigomyia Becker (Diptera: Dolichopodidae). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 47: 287-294.

Bickel, D.J., 1999. Australian Antyx Meuffels & Grootaert and the New Caledonian Connection (Diptera: Dolichopodidae). . Australian Journal of Entomology 38: 168-175.

Bickel, D.J., 1999. What museum collections reveal about species accumulation, richness, and rarity: an example from the Diptera. Transactions of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1999:174-181.

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