Ashley Howard Kirk-Spriggs

Ashley Howard Kirk-Spriggs (born 1962), British entomologist

Department of Entomology, National Museum, P.O. Box 266, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa.

IPNI standard form: Kirk-Spriggs

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Grichanov, I.Ya., Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. & Grootaert, P. 2006. An annotated checklist of Namibian Dolichopodidae (Diptera) with the description of a new species of Grootaertia and a key to species of the genus. African Invertebrates 47(1): 207–227. hdl: 10520/EJC84561 . Reference page.

Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. & Evenhuis, N.L. 2008. A new species of Psiloderoides Hesse (Diptera: Mythicomyiidae) from the Brandberg Massif, Namibia. African Entomology 16(1): 122–126. DOI: 10.4001/1021-3589-16.1.122 . Reference page.

Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 2010. A revision of Afrotropical Quasimodo flies (Diptera: Curtonotidae: Schizophora). Part I – the genus Axinota van der Wulp, with the description of three new species. African Entomology 18(1): 99–126. DOI: 10.4001/003.018.0110 Reference page.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 2010. A revision of Afrotropical Quasimodo flies (Diptera: Curtonotidae: Schizophora). Part II – the East African afromontane genus Tigrisomyia gen. n., with descriptions of four new species. African Entomology 18(1): 127–146. DOI: 10.4001/003.018.0111 Reference page.

Kirk-Spriggs, A.H., Kotrba, M. & Copeland, R.S. 2011. Further details of the morphology of the enigmatic African fly Mormotomyia hirsuta Austen (Diptera: Mormotomyiidae). African Invertebrates 52(1): 145–165. DOI: 10.5733/afin.052.0107. PDF Reference page.

Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. & Wiegmann, B.M. 2013. A revision of Afrotropical Quasimodo flies (Diptera: Schizophora; Curtonotidae). Part IV—the continental Afrotropical species of Curtonotum Macquart, with descriptions of thirteen new species and a combined phylogenetic analysis of the Curtonotidae. Zootaxa 3684(1): 1–166. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3684.1.1 Reference page.

Jordaens, K., Georgen, G., Kirk-Spriggs, A.H., Vokaer, A., Backeljau, T. & De Meyer, M. 2015. A second New World hoverfly, Toxomerus floralis (Fabricius) (Diptera: Syrphidae), recorded from the Old World, with description of larval pollen-feeding ecology. Zootaxa 4044(4): 567–576. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4044.4.6. Preview (PDF) Reference page.
Swart, V.R., Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. & Copeland, R. 2015. A new species of Alhajarmyia Stuckenberg (Diptera: Vermileonidae), the first wormlion fly described from East Africa and its biogeographical implications. Zootaxa 4044(4): 556–566. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4044.4.5. Preview (PDF) Full article (PDF) Reference page.