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Publications since 1992

Bickel, D.J. 1992. 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. 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. and 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. 1996a. My first pocket guide: Insects. National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C. 80 pp.

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

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

Bickel, D.J. 1996e. 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. 1997a. Restricted and widespread taxa in the Pacific: biogeographic processes in the fly family Dolichopodidae (Diptera), pp. 331-346. In, A. Keast and 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. 1997b. Is the parthenogenetic Hawaiian fly Diaphorus parthenus (Hardy and 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. and B.J. Sinclair. 1997c. 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. 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. A ustralian Antyx Meuffels and Grootaert and the New Caledonian connection (Diptera: Dolichopodidae). A ustralian 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, in The Other 99% - the Conservation and Biodiversity of Invertebrates. Transactions of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1999:174-181.

Bickel, D.J. 2000a. New World Achradocera in Hawaii and French Polynesia, with a discussion of the genus (Diptera: Dolichopodidae). Records of the Hawaiian Biological Survey for 1999, Bishop Museum Occasional Papers. Part 2: Notes. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 57: 14-20.

Bickel, D.J. and M. Elliott, 2001. Diptera: Dolichopodidae. In Houston, W.W.K. (ed.) Australian Biological Resources Study ABIF-Fauna.

Bickel, D.J. 2002a. The Sciapodinae of New Caledonia (Diptera: Dolichopodidae). Zoologia Neocaledonica, Mémoires de Museum National d'Histoire naturelle, Paris.187: 11-83.

Bickel, D., ed. 2002b. Insects and Spiders, Home Reference Library, Fog City Press, San Francisco, 320 pp

Bickel, D.J. 2002c. Bandella, a new hilarine fly genus from Australia (Diptera: Empididae). Records of the Australian Museum: 54: 313-324.

Bickel, D J 2003. New synonyms in the Nearctic and Neotropical Sciapodinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae).Studia dipterologica 9: 545-560.

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