Bryan D. Lessard

Bryan D. Lessard, Australian entomologist.

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(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Lessard, B.D., Wallman, J.F. & Dowton, M. 2010. Incorrect report of cryptic species within Chrysomya rufifacies (Diptera: Calliphoridae). Invertebrate Systematics 23(6): 507–514. DOI: 10.1071/IS09019 . Reference page.

Lessard, B.D. & Yeates, D.K. 2011. New species of the Australian horse fly subgenus Scaptia (Plinthina) Walker 1850 (Diptera: Tabanidae), including species descriptions and a revised key. Australian Journal of Entomology 50(3): 241–252. DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-6055.2011.00809.x Reference page.

Lessard, B.D. & Yeates, D.K. 2012. Anzomyia (Diptera: Tabanidae: Pangoniinae: Scionini): a new genus of Australian and New Zealand horse fly, including the description of three new species. Insect Systematics & Evolution 43(2): 101–116. DOI: 10.1163/187631212X637526 . Reference page.
Lessard, B.D. & Yeates, D.K. 2012. Seven new Australian species of the Southern Hemisphere horse fly subgenus Scaptia (Pseudoscione) (Diptera: Tabanidae), including descriptions and a revised key. Journal of Medical Entomology 49(6): 1206–1225. Abstract and full article (PDF). Reference page.

Lessard, B.D. & Yeates, D.K. (eds.) 2013. A volume celebrating the life of Don Colless, Australian dipterist 1922–2012. Zootaxa 3680(1): 1–211. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3680.1.1 Reference page.
Lessard, B.D. & Yeates, D.K. 2013. New species of the hairy-eyed horse fly subgenera Scaptia (Myioscaptia) Mackerras, 1955 and Scaptia (Scaptia) Walker, 1850 (Diptera: Tabanidae) from Australia. Zootaxa 3680(1): 118–129. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3680.1.8 Reference page.
Lessard, B.D., Cameron, S.L., Bayless, K.M., Wiegmann, B.M. & Yeates, D.K. 2013. The evolution and biogeography of the austral horse fly tribe Scionini (Diptera: Tabanidae: Pangoniinae) inferred from multiple mitochondrial and nuclear genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 68(3): 516–540. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2013.04.030 . Reference page.

Lessard, B.D. 2014. Revision of the austral horse fly tribe Scionini (Diptera: Tabanidae). Austral Entomology 53(2): 203–239. DOI: 10.1111/aen.12076 Reference page.

Shin, S., Bayless, K.M., Winterton, S.L., Dikow, T., Lessard, B.D., Yeates, D.K., Wiegmann, B.M., Trautwein, M.D. 2017 (Online) 2018 (Print). Taxon sampling to address an ancient rapid radiation: A supermatrix phylogeny of early brachyceran flies (Diptera). Systematic Entomology 43(2): 277–289. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12275 . Reference page.