Twenty years of Dipterology through the pages of Zootaxa

Whitmore, Daniel; Gaimari, Stephen D; Nihei, Silvio S; Evenhuis, Neal L; Kurina, Olavi; Borkent, Christopher J; Sinclair, Bradley J; O'Hara, James E; Zhang, Zhi-Qiang; Moulton, John K; Cunha Ribeiro, Guilherme; Bickel, Daniel J; Gi?ka, Wojciech; Andersen, Trond; Rossaro, Bruno; Whittington, Andrew E; Einicker Lamas, Carlos José; Heller, Kai; Kehlmaier, Christian; Courtney, Gregory W

Twenty years of Dipterology through the pages of Zootaxa

Resource type

Journal article

Creator (person)

Whitmore, Daniel

Gaimari, Stephen D

Nihei, Silvio S

Evenhuis, Neal L

Kurina, Olavi

Borkent, Christopher J

Sinclair, Bradley J

O'Hara, James E

Zhang, Zhi-Qiang

Moulton, John K

Cunha Ribeiro, Guilherme

Bickel, Daniel J

Gi?ka, Wojciech

Andersen, Trond

Rossaro, Bruno

Whittington, Andrew E

Einicker Lamas, Carlos José

Heller, Kai

Kehlmaier, Christian

Courtney, Gregory W

Kerr, Peter H

Blagoderov, Vladimir

ORCID

Date published

May 28, 2021

Abstract

We present a summary and analysis of the Diptera-related information published in Zootaxa from 2001 to 2020, with a focus on taxonomic papers. Altogether, 2,527 papers on Diptera were published, including 2,032 taxonomic papers and 1,931 papers containing new nomenclatural acts, equivalent to 22% of all publications with new nomenclatural acts for Diptera. The new nomenclatural acts include 7,431 new species, 277 new genera, 2,003 new synonymies, and 1,617 new combinations. A breakdown by family of new taxa and new replacement names proposed in the journal during the last two decades is provided, together with a comparison of Zootaxa’s output to that of all other taxonomic publications on Diptera. Our results show that the journal has contributed to 20% of all biodiversity discovery in this megadiverse insect order over the last 20 years, and to about 31% in the last decade.