Scientific publications from the BioSCAN project

by Brian V. Brown

• Brown, B.V., and E. Hartop. 2014. Recognition of Megaselia arizonensis (Malloch, 1912) (Diptera: Phoridae), a common North American fly. Contributions in Science 522: 45-49. PDF


• Brown, B. V., A. Borkent, R. Wetzer, and D. Pentcheff. 2014. New types of inventories at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. American Entomologist 60: 231-234. PDF


• Hartop, E.A., B.V. Brown, & R.H.L.Disney. 2015. Opportunity in our Ignorance: Urban Biodiversity Study Reveals 30 New Species and One New Nearctic Record for Megaselia (Diptera: Phoridae) in Los Angeles (California, USA). Zootaxa 3941 (4): 451–484. PDF


• Grimaldi D, Ginsberg PS, Thayer L, McEvey S, Hauser M, Turelli M, Brown, B. (2015) Strange Little Flies in the Big City: Exotic Flower-Breeding Drosophilidae (Diptera) in Urban Los Angeles. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0122575. PDF


• Brown, B.V. and E.A Hartop. 2016. Big data from tiny flies: patterns revealed from over 42,000 phorid flies (Insecta: Diptera: Phoridae) collected over one year in Los Angeles, California, USA. Urban Ecosystems. DOI 10.1007/s11252-016-0612-7.PDF


• Hartop, E. A., B.V. Brown, & R.H.L. Disney. 2016. New flies from L.A., The Sequel: Twelve further new species of Megaselia (Diptera: Phoridae) from the BioSCAN Project in Los Angeles (California, USA). Biodiversity Data Journal, e7756.PDF


• Hartop, E.A., M.A. Wong, and C.S. Eiseman. 2016. A new species of Megaselia Rondani (Diptera: Phoridae) from the BioSCAN Project in Los Angeles, California, with clarification of confused type series for two other species. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 118(1):93-100. PDF


• Brown, B.V. & E.A. Hartop. 2017. Mystery mushroom malingerers: Megaselia marquezi Hartop et al. 2014 (Diptera: Phoridae). Biodiversity Data Journal. PDF


• Hartop, E.A., E. Long, C. Bornstein, L. Gonzalez, and B.V. Brown. 2018. Urban Nature Gardens at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County attract “wildlife spectacle” of insect pollinators. pp. 29-50 in Hartop, E.A. and B.V. Brown (editors). Beyond pests: Biodiversity in the urban environment. International Congress of Entomology 25-30 September 2016, Orlando, Florida, USA. Zoosymposia 12:1-89. PDF


• Hartop, E.A., L.A. Gonzalez, B.V.Brown. 2018. Backyard Biodiversity: Unraveling life histories of the new fly species discovered by the BioSCAN Project proves harder than first assumed. Journal of Negative Results. 12: 1-8. PDF


• Ganjisaffar, F., E.J. Talamas, M.C. Bon , L. Gonzalez, B.V. Brown, and T.M. Perring. 2018. Trissolcus hyalinipennis Rajmohana & Narendran (Hymenoptera, Scelionidae), a parasitoid of Bagrada hilaris (Burmeister) (Hemiptera, Pentatomidae), emerges in North America. Journal of Hymenoptera Research. 65: 111-130. PDF


• Kempf, J. 2019. Documenting range expansions of two species using community science participants. American Arachnology. 83:14-17.


• McGlynn, T. P., E. K. Meineke, C. A. Bahlai, E. Li, E. A. Hartop, B. J. Adams, and B. V. Brown. 2019. Temperature accounts for the biodiversity of a hyperdiverse group of insects in urban Los Angeles. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B. PDF


• Adams, B.J., E. Li, C.A. Bahlai, E.K. Meineke, T.P. McGlynn, and B.V. Brown. 2020. Local and landscape scale variables shape insect diversity in an urban biodiversity hotspot. Ecological Applications. PDF


• Amorim, D.S. and B.V.Brown. 2020. Urban Scatopsidae (Diptera) of Los Angeles, California, United States. Insect Systematics and Diversity, 4: 1–41.


• Brown, B.V. and J.E. Vendetti. 2020. Megaselia steptoeae (Diptera: Phoridae): specialists on smashed snails. Biodiversity Data Journal 8: e50943 PDF