Commissioners
Dr
Thomas Pape
Overview:
Thomas Pape's research is primarily
focused on taxonomy, systematics, phylogeny and evolution
of two-winged insects (Diptera) with special emphasis on the
Tachinidae family-group (Calliphoridae, Oestridae, Rhinophoridae,
Sarcophagidae, Tachinidae). He has done extensive taxonomic and
nomenclatural revisions of flesh
flies and is a collaborator on the Biosystematic
Database of World Diptera, which contains about a quarter
of a million name records representing some 150,000 valid species.
Summary of Research & Education:
Thomas gained his PhD (1990)
in entomology from the Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen.
After two years at the Danish Bilharziasis Laboratory working
with mosquito vectors of malaria and lymphatic filariasis, he
spent 10 years as senior curator and head of entomology at the
Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm. Since 2004 he has
been associate professor at the Natural History Museum of Denmark.
Contact details:
Natural History Museum of Denmark
Zoological Museum
Universitetsparken 15
DK - 2100 Copenhagen
Denmark
Phone: +45 3532 1106<br>
Fax: +45 3532 1010<br>
E-mail: tpape (at) snm (dot) ku (dot) dk
Website: http://www.zmuc.dk/EntoWeb/staff/tpape.htm
Hoplacephala oryx Pape,
2006.
