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)

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 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 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.