Art Borkent

Art Borkent (born 1953), Canadian entomologist.

• Research Associate of the Royal British Columbia Museum, the American Museum of Natural History, and Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, 691-8th Ave. SE, Salmon Arm, British Columbia,V1E 2C2, Canada.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 82 taxon names authored by Art Borkent

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1984

• Borkent, A. 1984. The systematics and phylogeny of the Stenochironomus complex (Xestochironomus, Harrisius, and Stenochironomus) (Diptera: Chironomidae). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 116(Supplement S128): 1–269. DOI: 10.4039/entm116128fv . Reference page. 

2004

• Borkent, A. & Craig, D.A. 2004. Austroconops Wirth and Lee, a Lower Cretaceous genus of biting midges yet living in Western Australia: a new species, first description of the immatures and discussion of their biology and phylogeny (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae). American Museum Novitates 3449: 1–67. hdl: 2246/2814 . BHL. Reference page. 

2008

• Borkent, A. 2008. The frog-biting midges of the World (Corethrellidae: Diptera). Zootaxa 1804: 1–456. Abstract & excerpt. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1804.1.1 . Reference page. 

2012

• Borkent, A. 2012. The pupae of Culicomorpha—morphology and a new phylogenetic tree. Zootaxa 3396: 1–98. Preview Reference page. 
• Borkent, A. & Grafe, T.U. 2012. The frog-biting midges of Borneo—from two to eleven species (Corethrellidae: Diptera). Zootaxa 3279: 1–45. Preview PDF Reference page. 
• Spinelli, G.R., Marino, P.I. & Borkent, A. 2012. A revision of biting midges of the subgenera Forcipomyia (Metaforcipomyia) and F. (Saliohelea) from Costa Rica (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Zootaxa 3419: 1–52. Preview Reference page. 

2013

• Spinelli, G.R., Borkent, A. & Ronderos, M.M. 2013. Two new peculiar species of Neotropical Brachypogon Kieffer (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Zootaxa 3702(1): 90–96. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3702.1.6 Reference page. 

2014

• Borkent, A. 2014. The pupae of the biting midges of the World (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), with a generic key and analysis of the phylogenetic relationships between genera. Zootaxa 3879(1): 1–327. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3879.1.1 . Reference page. 
• Borkent, A. 2014: World catalog of extant and fossil Chaoboridae (Diptera). Zootaxa 3796(3): 469–493. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3796.3.4 Reference page. 
• Borkent, A. 2014. World catalog of extant and fossil Corethrellidae (Diptera). Zootaxa 3796(3): 453–468. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3796.3.3 Reference page. 
• Stur, E. & Borkent, A. 2014. When DNA barcoding and morphology mesh: Ceratopogonidae diversity in Finnmark, Norway. ZooKeys 463: 95–131. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.463.7964 Reference page. 

2015

• Borkent, A. 2015: New combinations and changes in the classification of Ceratopogonidae (Diptera, biting midges). Zootaxa 3972(4): 599–600. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3972.4.12. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 
• Borkent, A. & Brown, B.V. 2015: How to inventory tropical flies (Diptera)—One of the megadiverse orders of insects. Zootaxa 3949(3): 301–322. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3949.3.1. Preview (PDF) Full article (PDF) Reference page. 

2016

• Borkent, A. & Grimaldi, D.A. 2016. The Cretaceous Fossil Burmaculex antiquus Confirmed as the Earliest Known Lineage of Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae). Zootaxa 4079(4): 457–466. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4079.4.5Reference page. 
• Gil-Azevedo, L.H., Corrêa, C.C.D. & Borkent, A. 2016. FAMILY CORETHRELLIDAE. In Wolff, M.I., Nihei, S.S. & Carvalho, C.J.B. de (eds.), Catalogue of Diptera of Colombia. Zootaxa 4122(1): 178–181. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4122.1.18. Reference page. 

2018

• Borkent, A. 2018. The State of Phylogenetic Analysis: Narrow Visions and Simple Answers —Examples from the Diptera (flies). Zootaxa 4374(1): 107–143. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4374.1.7 Full article (PDF) Reference page. 
• Borkent, A., Brown, B.V., Adler, P.H., Amorim, D. de S., Barber, K.N., Bickel, D.J., Boucher, S., Brooks, S.E., Burger, J., Burington, Z.L., Capellari, R.S., Costa, D.N.R., Cumming, J.M., Curler, G., Dick, C.W., Epler, J.H., Fisher, E., Gaimari, S.D., Gelhaus, J., Grimaldi, D.A., Hash, J., Hauser, M., Hippa, H., Ibáñez-Bernal, S., Jaschhof, M., Kameneva, E.P., Kerr, P.H., Korneyev, V., Korytkowski, C.A., Kung, G-A., Kvifte, G.M., Lonsdale, O., Marshal, S.A., Mathis, W.N., Michelsen, V., Naglis, S., Norrbom, A.L., Paiero, S.M., Pape, T., Pereira-Colavite, A., Pollet, M., Rochefort, S., Rung, A., Runyon, J., Savage, J., Silva, V.C., Sinclair, B.J., Skevington, J.H., Stireman, J.O. III, Swann, J., Vilkamaa, P., Wheeler, T., Whitworth, T.L., Wong, M.A., Wood, D.M., Woodley, N.E., Yau, T., Zavortnik, T.J. & Zumbado, M.A. 2018. Remarkable fly (Diptera) diversity in a patch of Costa Rican cloud forest: Why inventory is a vital science. Zootaxa 4402(1): 53–90. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4402.1.3. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 
• Shults, P. & Borkent, A. 2018. Pupae of the Nearctic species of Culicoides Latreille subgenus Monoculicoides Khalaf (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Zootaxa 4504(4): 451–472. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4504.4.1 pdf Reference page. 

2019

• Borkent, A. 2019. The Phylogenetic Relationships of Cretaceous Biting Midges, with a Key to All Known Genera (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). American Museum Novitates 3921: 1–48. DOI: 10.1206/3921.1 . hdl: 2246/6927 .
• Savage, J., Borkent, A., Brodo, F., Cumming, J.M., Curler, G., Currie, D.C., deWaard, J.R., Gibson, J.F., Hauser, M., Laplante,L., Lonsdale, O., Marshall, S.A., O'Hara, J.E., Sinclair, B.J. & Skevington, J.H. 2019. Diptera of Canada. Pp 397–450. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.819.27625 Reference page. 

2020

• Borkent, A. & Dominiak, P. 2020. Catalog of the biting midges of the world (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Zootaxa 4787(1): 1–377. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4787.1.1 . PDF. Reference page. 

2022

• Borkent, A., Dominiak, P. & Díaz, F. 2022. An Update and Errata for the Catalog of the Biting Midges of the World (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Zootaxa 5120(1): 53–64. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5120.1.3 . Reference page. 
• Dorff, N., Borkent, A., Curler, G. & Madriz, R.I. 2022. A new species of hyporheic Corethrella Coquillett from North America (Diptera: Corethrellidae). Journal of Natural History 56(13–16): 1007–1028. DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2022.2090868 . Reference page. 

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