James Edward O’Hara

James Edward O’Hara (1952–), Canadian entomologist.

Canadian National Collection of Insects, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1A 0C6.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Herting, B., Tschorsnig, H.-P. & O’Hara, J.E. 1999. Case 3084. Musca geniculata De Geer, 1776 and Stomoxys cristata Fabricius, 1805 (currently Siphona geniculata and Siphona cristata; Insecta, Diptera): proposed conservation of usage of the specific names by the replacement of the lectotype of M. geniculata by a neotype. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 56: 235–239. Reference page.

O’Hara, J.E. & Wood, D.M. 2004. Catalogue of the Tachinidae (Diptera) of America north of Mexico. Memoirs on Entomology, International 18. 410 pp. ISBN 1-56665-078-X. Abstract and Introduction. Reference page.

O’Hara, J.E., Shima, H. & Zhang, C. 2009. Annotated catalogue of the Tachinidae (Insecta: Diptera) of China. Zootaxa 2190: 1–236. Abstract & excerpt PDF. Reference page.

Evenhuis, N.L., O'Hara, J.E., Pape, T. & Pont, A.C. 2010. Nomenclatural studies toward a world list of Diptera genus-group Names. Part I: André-Jean-Baptiste Robineau-Desvoidy. Zootaxa 2373: 1–265. Preview PDF DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2373.1.1 ResearchGate Reference page.

O’Hara, J.E. 2011. Cyber nomenclaturalists and the “CESA itch”. Zootaxa 2933: 57–64. Preview PDF
O’Hara, J.E., Cerretti, P., Pape, T. & Evenhuis, N.L. 2011. Nomenclatural studies toward a world list of Diptera genus-group names. Part II: Camillo Rondani. Zootaxa 3141: 1–268. Preview PDF DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3141.1.1 ResearchGate Reference page.

Cerretti, P., Wood, D.M. & O'Hara, J.E. 2012. Neoethilla, a new genus for the first record of the Ethillini from the New World (Diptera, Tachinidae, Exoristinae). ZooKeys 242: 25–41. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.242.3974 . Reference page.

Mulieri, P.R., Patitucci, L.D., Bachmann, A.O. & O’Hara, J.E. 2013. The type specimens of Tachinidae (Diptera) housed in the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia”, Buenos Aires. Zootaxa 3670(2): 157–176. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3670.2.3 Reference page.
O'Hara, J.E. 2013. History of tachinid classification (Diptera, Tachinidae). ZooKeys 316: 1–34. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.316.5132 . Reference page.
O’Hara, J.E., Raper, C.M., Pont, A.C. & Whitmore, D. 2013. Reassessment of Paleotachina Townsend and Electrotachina Townsend and their removal from the Tachinidae (Diptera). ZooKeys 361: 27–36. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.361.6448 . Reference page.

Cerretti, P., Lo Giudice, G. & O’Hara, J.E. 2014. A new Loewia Egger (Diptera: Tachinidae) from Turkey, with taxonomic and nomenclatural remarks on congeners. Zootaxa 3754(4): 450–460. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3754.4.6 . Reference page.
Cerretti, P., O’Hara, J.E., Wood, D.M., Shima, H., Inclan, D.J. & Stireman, J.O., III 2014. Signal through the noise? Phylogeny of the Tachinidae (Diptera) as inferred from morphological evidence. Systematic Entomology 39(2): 335–353. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12062 . Reference page.
Michelsen, V. & O’Hara, J.E. 2014. A review of genus-group names in Diptera (Insecta) that J.C. Fabricius “borrowed” from other dipterists and proposed as new in his systematic works from 1775 to 1805. Zootaxa 3873(1): 73–81. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3873.1.6 . Reference page.

O'Hara, J.E., Cerretti, P. & Dahlem, G.A. 2015. First North American record of the Palaearctic rhinophorid Stevenia deceptoria (Loew) (Diptera: Rhinophoridae). Zootaxa 4058(2): 293–295. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4058.2.11. Preview (PDF) Full article (PDF) Reference page.
Rognes, K., O'Hara, J.E. & Cerretti, P. 2015. The identity of Tachina westermanni Wiedemann, 1819 (Diptera: Calliphoridae or Tachinidae) with a solution to a nomenclatural problem. Zootaxa 3957(4): 467–479. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3957.4.7. Preview (PDF) Full article (PDF) Reference page.

O'Hara, J. & Cerretti, P. 2016. Annotated catalogue of the Tachinidae (Insecta, Diptera) of the Afrotropical Region, with the description of seven new genera. ZooKeys 575: 1–344. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.575.6072 . Reference page.

O'Hara, J.E., Henderson, S.J. & Wood, D.M. 2020. Preliminary checklist of the Tachinidae (Diptera) of the world. Version 2.1. PDF document, 1039 pp. PDF (accessed 28 October 2024). Reference page.

O'Hara, J.E., Wood, D.M., González, C.R. 2021. Annotated catalogue of the Tachinidae (Insecta, Diptera) of Chile. ZooKeys 1064: 1–200. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1064.62972 . Reference page.

O'Hara, J.E. 2022. Type species fixed under Article 70.3.2 of the Code for generic names in Tachinidae (Diptera). In: Evenhuis, N.L. & Pape, T. (eds.) Systema Dipterorum Nomenclatural Notes. II. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 143: 17–32. PDF. Internet Archive Reference page.

O'Hara, J.E. 2024. Cordyligasterini Townsend, 1914 recognized as the valid tribal name for the former Sophiini Townsend, 1936 (Diptera, Tachinidae). In: Evenhuis, N.L. & Pape, T. (eds.) Systema Dipterorum Nomenclatural Notes. IV. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 157: 11–18. PDF. Internet Archive Reference page.