Passing of
by Art Borkent
I
regret to inform you that our valued colleague J. Antony
Downes, preceeded
in death by his wife Sheila, died in his sleep on
The
following is a list of his publications that, as far as I know, includes
all those that concern Ceratopogonidae (plus
a few extras that do not).
Downes, J.A. 1950. Habits and life-cycle of Culicoides nubeculosus
Mg. Nature 166:510-511.
Downes, J.A. and D.S. Kettle. 1952. Descriptions of three
species of Culicoides Latreille (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) new to science, together with notes
on, and a revised key to the British species of the pulicaris
and obsoletus groups. Proceedings
of the Royal Entomological Society of
Downes, J.A. 1955. Observations on
the swarming flight and mating of Culicoides
(Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Trans. R. Entomol.
Soc. Lond. 106:213‑236, pls. 1‑2.
Downes, J.A. 1955. The food habits
and description of Atrichopogon pollinivorus sp. n. (Diptera:
Ceratopogonidae). Trans. R. Ent. Soc. London 106:439-453.
Downes, J.A. 1958. Assembly and mating in the biting Nematocera. Proceedings of the Tenth
International Congress of Entomology,
Downes, J.A. 1958. The genus Culicoides (Diptera:
Ceratopogonidae) in
review. Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress
of Entomology,
Downes, J.A. 1958. The feeding habits of biting flies and their significance
in classification. Annual
Review of Entomology 3:249-266.
Downes, J.A. 1962. What is an arctic
insect? Canadian Entomologist 94:143-162.
Downes, J.A. 1965. Adaptations of insects in the arctic. Annual
Review of Entomology 10:257-274.
Downes, J.A. and D.H. Colless.
1967. Mouthparts of the biting and blood-sucking type
in Tanyderidae and Chironomidae
(Diptera). Nature 214:1355-1356.
Downes, J.A. 1968. Notes on the organs and processes of sperm-transfer in the
lower Diptera. Canadian Entomologist 100:608-617.
Downes, J.A. 1969. The swarming and mating flight of Diptera.
Annual Review of Entomology 14:271-298.
Downes, J.A. and S.M. Smith. 1969. New or little known
feeding habits in Empididae (Diptera). Canadian
Entomologist 101:404-408.
Downes, J.A. 1971. The ecology of
blood-sucking Diptera: an evolutionary perspective. pp. 232-258 In A.M. Fallis
(ed.) Ecology and physiology of parasites: a symposium.
Downes, J.A. 1973. Biting flies:
the necessity for a new systematics. pp. 115-123. In Biting fly control and environmental
quality. Proceedings of a symposium held at the
Downes, J.A. 1976. A new species
of Brachypogon (Diptera:
Ceratopogonidae), the first record of the genus
in
Downes, J.A. 1977. Evolution of feeding habits in Ceratopogonidae. Mosquito News 37:279-280.
Downes, J.A. 1977. Leptoconops
- Leptoconopidae? Mosquito News 37:277.
Downes, J.A. 1977. Distribution and differentiation in the subgenus Monoculicoides. Mosquito News 37:279.
Downes, J.A. 1977. Evolution of feeding habits in Ceratopogonidae. Mosquito News 37:279-280.
Downes, J.A. 1978. Feeding
and mating in the insectivorous Ceratopogoninae
(Diptera). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of
Downes, J.A. 1978. The Culicoides variipennis
complex: a necessary re-alignment of nomenclature (Diptera:
Ceratopogonidae). Canadian Entomologist 110:63-69.
Downes, J.A. and W.W. Wirth. 1981. 28.
Ceratopogonidae. pp. 393‑421 in Manual
of Nearctic Diptera.
Volume 1. Agriculture
Downes, J.A. 1983. Two weeks
on
Downes, J.A. 1988. The post‑glacial colonization of the north Atlantic islands. Memoirs of the Entomological Society
of
Downes, J.A. and D.H. Kavanaugh,
eds.. 1988. Origins of
the North American insect fauna. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada
144, iii + 168 pp.
De Meillon,
B. and J.A. Downes. 1986. Subsaharan Ceratopogonidae
(Diptera). X. Report on species collected in
the Drakensberg,