Frederic Christian Thompson

Frederic Christian Thompson (1944–2021), U.S. entomologist. Spouse of Betty J. Thompson.

Systematic Entomology Laboratory, PSI, Agricultural Research Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture, NHB-0169 Smithsonian, Washington, D. C.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

30 taxon names authored by Frederic Christian Thompson

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1969

Thompson, F.C. 1969. Contribution to a generic revision of the Neotropical Milesinae (Diptera: Syrphidae). [Dissertation]. University of Massachusetts. 245 pp., 74 pls. hdl: 20.500.14394/16070 DOI: 10.7275/18739271 Reference page.

1972

Thompson, F.C. 1972. A contribution to a generic revision of the Neotropical Milesinae (Diptera: Syrphidae). Arquivos de Zoologia 23(2): 73–215. hdl: 10088/17138 Full text Reference page.

1976

Thompson, F.C., Vockeroth, J.R., Sedman, Y.S. & Papavero, N. 1976. "Family Syrphidae". A Catalogue of the Diptera of the Americas South of the United States. 46. Sao Paulo: Museum of Zoology of the University of Sao Paulo; 195 pp. PDF hdl: 10088/17070 Reference page.

1981

Thompson, F.C. 1981. Nomenclature of the European species of Neoascia Williston (Diptera: Syrphidae). Entomologica Scandinavica 12(4): 470–478. DOI: 10.1163/187631281X00562 hdl: 10088/17479 Reference page.

1982

Thompson, F.C., Vockeroth, J.R., Speight, M.C.D. 1982. The Linnaean species of flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Washington 10: 150–165. hdl: 10088/17482 Reference page.

1988

Thompson, F.C. 1988. Syrphidae (Diptera) described from unknown localities. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 96(2): 200–226. JSTOR hdl: 10088/17486 BHL Reference page.

1990

Evenhuis, N.L. & Thompson, F.C. Type designations of genus-group names of Diptera given d’Orbigny’s Dictionnaire Universel d’Histoire Naturelle. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 30: 226–258. PDF.

1991

Thompson, F.C. 1991. The flower fly genus Ornidia (Diptera: Syrphidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 93(2): 248–260. BHL Reference page.

1997

Thompson, F.C. 1997. Revision of the Eristalis flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) of the Americas South of the United States. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 99(2): 209–237. hdl: 10088/17085 BHL Reference page.

1999

Thompson, F.C. 1999. A key to the genera of the flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) of the Neotropical Region including the descriptions of genera and species and a glossary of taxonomic terms. Contributions on Entomology, International 3(3): 319–378. hdl: 10088/17492 Reference page.
Thompson, F.C., Evenhuis, N.L. & Sabrosky, C.W., 1999. Bibliography of the Family-Group Names of Diptera. Myia 10: 364–574. PDF hdl: 10088/17089 Reference page.

2000

Thompson, F.C., Thompson, B.J. & Fairman, J.E. 2000. Only in Costa Rica: New Neotropical flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae). Studia dipterologica 7(1): 33–43. hdl: 10088/17493 ResearchGate Reference page.

2003

Thompson, F.C. 2003. Austalis, a new genus of flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) with revisionary notes on related genera. Zootaxa 246: 1–19. Abstract & excerpt hdl: 10088/17105 full article (PDF) Reference page.

2007

Thompson, F.C. 2007. A new Costa Rican flower fly (Diptera: Syrphidae) and a replacement name for a neotropical flower fly genus. Studia dipterologica 14(1): 167–170. hdl: 10088/17058 Reference page.
Thompson, F. C., Thompson, B.J. 2007. A new Toxomerus species from Chile (Diptera: Syrphidae) (Eine neue Toxomerus-Art aus Chile (Diptera: Syrphidae)). Studia Dipterologica (2006) 13(2): 317–331. PDF hdl: 10088/4385 Reference page.

2008

Cheng, X.-Y. & Thompson, F.C. 2008. A generic conspectus of the Microdontinae (Diptera: Syrphidae) with the description of two new genera from Africa and China. Zootaxa 1879: 21–48. Abstract & excerpt PDF. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1879.1.3 . Reference page.
Thompson, F.C. 2008. A conspectus of New Zealand flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) with the description of a new genus and species. Zootaxa 1716(1): 1–20. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1716.1.1 hdl: 10088/9708 PDF. Reference page.

2009

Mengual, X., Ruiz, C., Rojo, S., Ståhls, G. & Thompson, F.C. 2009. A conspectus of the flower fly genus Allograpta (Diptera: Syrphidae) with description of a new subgenus and species. Zootaxa 2214: 1–28. Abstract & excerpt PDF DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2214.1.1 Reference page.
Wakeham-Dawson, A., Jones, A.G., Thompson, F.C. 2009. Falkland Islands Syrphidae (Diptera). Dipterists Digest 16: 65–71. hdl: 10088/14865 Reference page.

2010

Thompson, B.J. & Thompson, F. C. 2010. Two new remarkable flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) from New Zealand. Weta 39: 37–43. Online hdl: 10088/16775 Reference page.

2011

Wiegmann, B.M., Trautwein, M.D., Winkler, I.S., Barr, N.B., Kim, J.-W., Lambkin, C., Bertone, M.A., Cassel, B.K., Bayless, K.M., Heimberg, A.M., Wheeler, B.M., Peterson, K.J., Pape, T., Sinclair, B.J., Skevington, J.H., Blagoderov, V., Caravas, J., Kutty, S.N., Schmidt-Ott, U., Kampmeier, G.E., Thompson, F.C., Grimaldi, D.A., Beckenbach, A.T., Courtney, G.W., Friedrich, M., Meier, R. & Yeates, D.K. 2011. Episodic radiations in the fly tree of life. PNAS 108(14): 5690–5695. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.10126751 . Reference page.

2012

Thompson, F.C. 2012: Fabulous flower flies for famous fly fanatics (Diptera: Syrphidae). A tribute to the dipterists of the Canadian National Collection. The Canadian Entomologist 144(1): 1–16. DOI: 10.4039/tce.2012.4 Reference page.
Thompson, F.C. 2012: Costarica Mengual & Thompson, 2009 (Insecta: Diptera: Syrphidae) junior homonym of Costarica Kocak & Kemal, 2008 (Insecta: Orthoptera): proposed replacement by Tiquicia nom. nov. Zootaxa 3360: 68–68. Preview PDF Reference page.
Skevington, J.H. & Thompson, F.C. 2012. Review of New World Sericomyia (Diptera: Syrphidae), including description of a new species. The Canadian Entomologist 144: 216–247. DOI: 10.4039/tce.2012.24 ResearchGate Reference page.

2013

Thompson, F.C. 2013: A new Psilota flower fly (Diptera: Syrphidae) from Vietnam. Entomologist's monthly magazine 149(1790–92): 181–185. [Not seen] Reference page.
Thompson, F.C. 2013: A new Afrotropical cerioidine flower fly with an overview of the group (Diptera: Syrphidae, Cerioidini). Entomologist's monthly magazine 149(1787–89): 71–77. [Not seen] Reference page.
Thompson, F.C. 2013. The contribution of single species description papers: why is this questioned and why the discrimination? Entomologist's monthly magazine 149(1787–89): 70. [Not seen] Reference page.
Thompson, F.C. 2013: A new Afrotropical cerioidine flower fly (Diptera: Syrphidae). Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft 86(3–4): 145–150. DOI: 10.5169/seals-403067 Reference page.
Miranda, G.F.G., Young, A.D., Locke, M.M., Marshall, S.A., Skevington, J.H. & Thompson, F.C. 2013. Key to the Genera of Nearctic Syrphidae. Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification 23: 1–351. DOI: 10.3752/cjai.2013.23 Reference page.

2014

Thompson, F.C. 2014: A new species of Myolepta from Burma, with a key to Oriental Myolepta species (Diptera: Syrphidae). Entomologist's monthly magazine 150(1799-1801): 87-92. [Not seen] Reference page.
Thompson, F.C. 2014: Flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) of Christmas Island, Indian Ocean. Australian entomologist 41(3): 129–134. Full article (PDF) on informit Reference page.
Thompson, F.C. & Skevington, J.H. 2014. Afrotropical flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae). A new genus and species from Kenya, with a review of the melanostomine group of genera. Zootaxa 3847(1): 97–114. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3847.1.5 Reference page.
Xie, H., Cunningham, S.A., Yeates, D.K. & Thompson, F.C. 2014. A new sericomyiine flower fly from China (Diptera: Syrphidae). Zootaxa 3860(1): 81–86. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3860.1.4 ResearchGate Reference page.

2015

Mengual, X. & Thompson, F.C. 2015: Australian Allograpta Osten Sacken (Diptera, Syrphidae). Zookeys 513: 65–78. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.513.9671 Full article Reference page.

2017

Thompson, F.C. 2017: First Calcaretropidia Flower Fly (Diptera: Syrphidae) Known from New Guinea: The Description of a New Species. Entomological News 127(2): 93–98. DOI: 10.3157/021.127.0202. Reference page.
Thompson, F.C. 2017. Two new flower fly groups from the Orient (Diptera: Syrphidae) with the description of a new species. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 153: 171–178. [not seen] Reference page.

2018

Mengual, X., Miranda, G.F.G. & Thompson, F.C. 2018. Unraveling Ocyptamus and the Baccha legacy (Diptera: Syrphidae): redefinition of groups and new species descriptions. Zootaxa 4461(1): 1–44. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4461.1.1 Reference page.

2019

Goeldlin de Tiefenau, P. & Thompson, F.C. 2019. A new flower fly from the Afrotropics (Diptera: Syrphidae). Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 155(3): 159–162. DOI: 10.31184/M00138908.1553.3967 Reference page.

2023

Bergh, J.C., Marek, P.E., Short, B.D., Skevington, J.H. & Thompson, F.C.† 2023. The identity of Neocnemodon calcarata (Loew) (Diptera: Syrphidae), a specialized flower fly predator of Woolly Apple Aphid. Studia dipterologica. Supplement 23: 316 pp. hdl: 10919/117415 Reference page.
Ståhls, G., Rotheray, G. & Thompson, F.C.† 2023. Exploring the intra-tribal relationships of Volucellini (Diptera: Syrphidae) using molecular and morphological characters. In: Contributions to Dipterology in honour of F. Christian Thompson. Studia Dipterologica Supplement, AMPYX VERLAG, Halle, 23: 237–244. hdl: 10138/568034 [pagination differs from original] Reference page.