Scientific articles
A.H. Kirk-Spriggs
Refereed journals, books and catalogues
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. (submitted). Diptera. In: Picker, M.D. & Griffiths, C.L. (eds). Alien and invasive animals - a South African perspective. Struik Publishers, Cape Town.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. (submitted). Dedication - the life, career and major achievements of Brian Roy Stuckenberg (1930-2009). African Invertebrates.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 2010. A revision of Afrotropical Quasimodo flies (Diptera: Curtonotidae: Schizophora). Part I - the genus Axinota van der Wulp, with the description of three new species. African Entomology 18: 99-126.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 2010. A revision of Afrotropical Quasimodo flies (Diptera: Curtonotidae: Schizophora). Part II - the East African Afromontane genus Tigrisomyia gen. n., with descriptions of four new species. African Entomology 18: 127-146.
Sinclair, B.J. & Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 2010. Alavesia Waters and Arillo - a Cretaceous-era genus discovered extant on the Brandberg Massif, Namibia (Diptera: Atelestidae). Systematic Entomology 35: 268-276.
Marshall, S.A., Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. & Klymko, J. (in press). 96. Curtonotidae. In: Brown, B.V., Borkent, A., Cumming, J.M., Woodley, N.E., Wood, D.M. & Zumbado, M., eds, Manual of Central American Diptera. 2. National Research Council Press, Ottawa, Canada, 2010.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. & Barraclough, D.A. 2009. The puparium of an Afrodina species (Diptera: Odiniidae) from South Africa, with a review of the known immature stages of Odiniidae and notes on biology and functional morphology. African Entomology 18: 161-169.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. & McGregor, A. 2009. Disjunctions in the Diptera (Insecta) fauna of the Mediterranean and southern Africa and a discussion of biogeographical implications. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 64: 32-52.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. & Stuckenberg, B.R. 2009. Afrotropical Diptera – rich savannas, poor rainforests. In Bickel, D., Pape, T. & Meier, R. (Eds.). Diptera diversity: status, challenges and tools. Brill Academic Publishers.
Audisio, P., Kirk-Spriggs, A.H., Cline, A.R., Trizzino, M., Antonini, G., Mancini, E. & De Biase, A. 2008. A new genus of pollen-beetle from South Africa (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae), with discussion of the generic classification of the subfamily Meligethinae. Insect Systematics & Evolution 39: 399–430.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 2008. A qualitative assessment of intra- and inter-specific variability in the spermathecal structure of the Curtonotum cuthbertsoni complex (Diptera: Ephydroidea: Curtonotidae) and an assessment of their value as species-level characters. African Entomology 16: 244–252.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 2008. A contribution to the knowledge of the immature stages of Curtonotum (Diptera: Curtonotidae), from Africa and the Middle East, with a discussion of relationships to other known Ephydroidea larvae. African Entomology 16: 226–243.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. & Evenhuis, N.L. 2008. A new species of Psiloderoides Hesse(Diptera: Mythicomyiidae) from the Brandberg Massif, Namibia. African Entomology 16(1): 122–126.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 2008. Order Diptera, family Curtonotidae. In van Harten, T. (ed.). The arthropods of the United Arab Emirates. Volume 1. Dar al Ummah Publishing, Abu Dhabi.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. & Freidberg, A. 2007. The Palaearctic species of Curtonotidae (Diptera: Schizophora), with special reference to the fauna of Israel. Bulletin de l’Institut r. des sciences naturelles de Belgique (Entomologie) 77: 133–146.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 2007. Description of the biology and immature stages of Eutropha lindneri Sabrosky (Diptera: Chloropidae: Chloropinae), based on survey material from the Namibian coast. African Entomology 15(2): 319–327.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 2007. Third instar larva and puparium of Archicollinella penteseta (Richards) (Diptera: Sphaeroceridae) from Namibian guano islands, with notes on the species’ biology and introduction to the Scilly Isles of Great Britain. African Entomology 15(1): 141–151.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 2007. A reappraisal of the type fossil of Curtonotum †gigas Théobald, 1937 (Diptera: Curtonotidae), a compression fossil of Early Oligocene age from Provence, France. Annals of the Eastern Cape Museums 6: 13–20.
Grichanov, I. Ya., Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. & Grootaert, P. 2006. An annotated checklist of Namibian Dolichopodidae (Diptera) with the description of a new species of Grootaertia and a key to species of the genus. African Invertebrates 47: 207–227.
Kurahashi, H. & Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 2006. The Calliphoridae of Namibia (Diptera: Ostroidea). Zootaxa 1322: 1–131 pp.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 2003. The immature stages of Fucellia capensis (Schiner) (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from the southwestern seaboard of Africa, with a review of the known immature stages and ecology of the genus. Cimbebasia 19: 95–109.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 2003. Foreword: African biogeography patterns – an introduction. Proceedings of the Workshop ‘African Diptera Biogeography & Gondwaland’, 5th International Congress of Dipterology, Brisbane, Australia, 29th September – 4th October 2002. Cimbebasia 19: 149–156.
Hancock, D.L., Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. & Marais, E. 2003. New records of Namibian Tephritidae (Diptera: Schizophora), with notes on the classification of the subfamily Tephritinae. Cimbebasia 18: 49–70.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 2003. The immature stages of Sarcophaga (Liosarcophaga) namibia Reed (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) from the southwestern seaboard of Africa. Cimbebasia 18: 39–47
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H., Barraclough, D.A. & Meier, R. 2002. The immature stages of Katacamilla cavernicola Papp, the first described for the Camillidae (Diptera: Schizophora), with comparison to other known Ephydroidea larvae, and notes on biology. Journal of Natural History 36(9): 1105–1128.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H., Ismay, J.W., Ackland, M., Roháček, J., Mathis, W.N., Foster, G.A., Pape, T., Meier, R. & Cranston, P.S. 2001. Inter-tidal Diptera of southwestern African (Chironomidae, Sphaeroceridae, Chloropidae, Tethinidae, Canacidae, Ephydridae, Coelopidae, Anthomyiidae and Sarcophagidae). Cimbebasia 17: 85–135.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H., Ismay, J., Verdonck, F. & Kwaambwa, H.M. 2001. Behavioural and anatomical notes on Apotropina gregalis (Lamb) (Diptera: Chloropidae), forming aggregations in rock shelters and domestic dwellings in Namibia. Cimbebasia 17: 177–185.
Hancock, D.L., Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. & Marais E. 2001. An annotated checklist and provisional atlas of Namibian Tephritidae (Diptera). Cimbebasia 17: 41–72.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 2001. Biological observations of Meoneura prima (Becker) (Diptera: Carnidae) in Namibia. Cimbebasia 17: 251–252 (short note).
Davis, A., Holloway, J., Huijbregts, J., Krikken, J., Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. & Sutton, S.L. 2001. Dung beetles as indicators of change in the forests of northern Borneo. Journal of Applied Ecology 38: 593–616.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. & Marais, E. (eds). 2000. Dâures – biodiversity of the Brandberg Massif, Namibia. Cimbebasia Memoir 9, National Museum of Namibia, Windhoek, 1–389 pp.
Marais, E. & Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 2000. Inventorying the Brandberg Massif, Namibia (pp. 91–102). In Kirk-Spriggs, A. H. & Marais, E. (eds). Dâures – biodiversity of the Brandberg Massif, Namibia. Cimbebasia Memoir 9, National Museum of Namibia, Windhoek, 1–389 pp.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 2000. The immature stages of Sarcophaga forceps Blackith & Blackith, 1988 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae), reared from the flesh of a decomposing cowrie shell in Sulawesi, Indonesia. Studia Dipterologica 7: 125–131.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 1999. Female, immatures, and hymenopteran parasites of Sarcophaga inzi Curran, 1934 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae). Cimbebasia 15: 65–70.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. & Marais, E. 1999. Megaselia scalaris (Loew) (Diptera: Phoridae), a potential pest in field collected specimens. Cimbebasia 15: 163–164 (short note).
Audisio, P.A., Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. & Kirejtshuk, A.G. 1998. The Meligethes of the M. pubescens species-group from southern Africa (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae, Meligethinae). Entomologica Scandinavica 29(2): 169–198.
Davis, A.J., Huijbregts, J., Kirk-Spriggs, A.H., Krikken, J. & Sutton, S.L. 1997. 19 The ecology and behavior of arboreal dung beetles in Borneo (pp. 418–432). In Stork, N. E., Adis, J. & Didham, R. K. (eds). Canopy arthropods. Chapman & Hall, London.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. & Levey, B. 1997. Meligethes corvinus Erichson, 1845 (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) reaffirmed as a British species. British Journal of Entomology & Natural History.
Biström, O., Hendrich, L. & Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 1997. A new Hyphydrus species from Indonesia with a list of and a key to the oriental and australasian species (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 45(2): 305–313.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 1996. Pollen beetles Coleoptera: Kateretidae and Nitidulidae: Meligethinae. Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Vol. 5(6a), Royal Entomological Society of London, 1–157 pp.
Kirejtshuk, A.G. & Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 1995 [1996]. Viettherchnus Kirejtshuk, 1985 and Ceramphosia gen. n. from the Indo-Malayan Region (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae). Zoosystematica Rossica 4(1): 131–138.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 1995. Robert Henry Fernando Rippon (ca. 1836–1917), naturalist and zoological illustrator. Archives of Natural History 22(1): 97–118.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. & Mendel, H. 1994. A catalogue of British Elateroidea (Coleoptera) in the National Museum of Wales. Entomology Series No. 3, National Museum of Wales, 1–26 pp.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 1994. The Meligethes (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) of Montgomeryshire (Vice-county 47). British Journal of Entomology and Natural History 7: 71–76.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 1992. Meligethes haemorrhoidalis Förster (Col., Nitidulidae) in Britain. Entomologists’ Monthly Magazine 128: 25–29.
Holloway, J.D., Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. & Vun Khen, C. 1992. The response of some rain forest insect groups to logging and conversion to plantation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (B) 335: 425–436.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 1992. 32. Host specificity and seasonality in two species of Meligethes (Col., Nitidulidae), associated with the white dead nettle, Lamium album L. (pp. 393–398). In Harley, R. M. & Reynolds, T. (eds). Advances in labiate science. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. & Wiesner, J. 1992. A catalogue of the historic and recent collections of tiger beetles (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) in the National Museum of Wales. Entomology Series No. 1, National Museum of Wales, 1–15 pp.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. & Foster, G.N. 1992. A catalogue of the British Hydraenidae (Coleoptera) in the the National Museum of Wales. Entomology Series No. 2, National Museum of Wales, 1–9 pp.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 1991. The G.B. Walsh collection of Meligethes Stephens (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae), with notes on published records. Naturalist 116: 107–111.
Bacchus, M.E. & Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 1991. The Meligethes (Col., Nitidulidae) described by T. Marsham & J. F. Stephens–changes in nomenclature and type designation. Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine 127: 209–214.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 1991. Kateretidae & Nitidulidae (pp. 121–128). In Cooter, J. (ed). A coleopterist’s handbook (3rd edition). The Amateur Entomologists’ Society, Grosvenor Press, 1–294 pp.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 1991. The rare pollen beetle Meligethes brevis Sturm (Col., Nitidulidae) and its status in Britain. Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine 127: 99–105.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 1990. Meligethes fulvipes Brisout (Col., Nitidulidae), new to Wales. Entomologists’ Monthly Magazine 126: 238 (short note).
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 1990. Chapter 30. Preliminary studies of rice pests and some of their natural enemies in the Dumoga Valley, Sulawesi Utara, Indonesia (pp. 319–328). In Knight, W. J. & Holloway, J. D. (eds). Insects and the rainforests of South East Asia (Wallacea), The Royal Entomological Society of London.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 1989. Observations of the Naked bat (Cheiromeles torquatus) and its earwig ectoparasite Arixenia esau in S.E. Sabah. Malayan Naturalist 42(283): 9–11.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 1988. Meligethes gagathinus Erichson, 1845 (Col., Nitidulidae) a distinct species–a correction to the British checklist. Entomologists’ Monthly Magazine 124: 148 (short note).
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 1988. A description of the female and puparium of Tomosvaryella singula Hardy (Diptera: Pipunculidae). Entomologists’ Monthly Magazine 124: 181–185.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 1987. A new species of Scoliocephalus Becker (Diptera: Ephydridae) from the Cape Verde Islands, with a key to the known species. Entomologists’ Monthly Magazine 123: 69–71.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 1986. The puparium of Placopsidella cynocephala Kertesz (Diptera: Ephydridae) and notes on its biology. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft Bulletin de la Societe Entomologique Suisse 59: 481–485.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 1986. The puparia of some West African species of Mepachymerus and Steleocerellus (Diptera: Chloropidae). Journal of Natural History 20: 767–776.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 1985. Meligethes heteropus Gerstaecker, 1871, a new pest to Bulrush millet in West Africa. Bulletin of Entomological Research 75: 443–449.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 1984. Oeciacus hirundinis (Jenyns, 1938) new to Wales. Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine 120: 222 (short note).
Short articles and reports
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. (submitted). Review – Seventh International Congress of Dipterology, San José, Costa Rica, 8–13 August 2010. African Invertebrates.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. & Mostovski, M. 2010. Major initiative on Afrotropical flies. Antenna 34: 57.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. & Mostovski, M. 2010. Major initiative on Afrotropical flies. Rostrum 75: 2.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 2010. Major collection donations to National Museum, Bloemfontein. Rostrum 75: 2.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 2001. Information wanted on fly species. Republikein 25.7.2001: 4.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 2001. Fly data sought. Namibian 27.7.2001: 13.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 2001. Namibia –Insect@thon – a Namibian competition project (pp. 18–19). In Freiberg, H. (ed). Report on the International Workshop on “Internet-Based Nature Observations Projects”, 11–12 December 2000, Bonn, Germany. German Centre for Documentation and Information in Agriculture (ZADI), 1–27 pp.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. & Mann, D.J. 2000. Gyrinus suffriani Scriba (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae) and other aquatic Coleoptera from Crymlyn Bog National Nature Researve, Glamorgan, Wales. Latissimus 12: 2
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 1995. A note on specimen labels. Coleopterist 4(1): 2.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 1994. Two name changes to the British list of Meligethes Stephens, 1830 (Nitidulidae). Coleopterist 3(1): 9.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 1993. Recent records of Meligethes (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) from Cardiganshire (V.C. 46). Dyfed Invertebrate Group Newsletter 27: 24–26.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. & Berge Henegouwen, A. van 1991. Sphaeridium marginatum in Britain. Balfour-Brown Club Newsletter 49: 7.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H., Fowles, A.P. & Boyce, D.C. 1991. Records of Meligethes (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) and related genera from Cardiganshire (V.C. 46). Dyfed Invertebrate Group Newsletter 21: 20–25.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 1990. A preliminary list of the Coleoptera of Kenfig Burrows National Nature Reserve. Kenfig Wildlife report 1990.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 1988. Project No. 41 insect collections (pp. 45–46). In Danum Valley Rain Forest Research and Training Programme, Annual Report for 1987. Yayasan Sabah, 1–46.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 1987. A preliminary catalogue of the insects from Sulawesi (Project Wallace) and Maluku, Indonesia, held in the National Museum of Wales. National Museum of Wales, 1–32 pp.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 1986. Expedition to Dieppe, Normandy, list of species taken. Bulletin of the Amateur Entomologist’ Society 55: 49–53.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 1983. Oeciacus hirundinis (Jenyns, 1938) new to Wales. Heteropterists’ Newsletter. No. 1 Nature Conservancy Council Publication.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 1981. British Necrophorus and Necrodes beetles and their life cycle. Bulletin of the Amateur Entomologists’ Society 40(332): 114–119.
Congress abstracts
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. & Mustovski, M. 2010. Dedication - the life and career of Brian Roy Stuckenburg (1930-2009). In: Abstracts Volume - 7th International Congress of Dipterology, 8-13 August 2010, San José, Costa Rica, Ramada-Herradura International Conference Center, p. 124.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. & Mustovski, M. 2010. Official launch of Manual of Afrotropical Diptera project. . In: Abstracts Volume - 7th International Congress of Dipterology, 8-13 August 2010, San José, Costa Rica, Ramada-Herradura International Conference Center, p. 125.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. Wiegmann, B.M. & McGregor, G. 2010. Systematics and biogeography of Afrotropical Quasimodo flies (Curtonotidae). In: Abstracts Volume - 7th International Congress of Dipterology, 8-13 August 2010, San José, Costa Rica, Ramada-Herradura International Conference Center, p. 126.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 2002. Biodiversity studies of Namibian Diptera (p. 114). In Anon (ed). Fifth International Congress of Dipterology, Abstracts Volume, 29th September to 4th October 2002 (The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia), xxv+1–283 pp.+xiii.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 2002. African biogeography patterns – an introduction (p. 112). In Anon (ed). Fifth International Congress of Dipterology, Abstracts Volume, 29th September to 4th October 2002 (The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia), xxv+1–283 pp.+xiii.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. & Ismay, J.W. 2002. The immature stages of two fly species occurring on the Namibian coast: Eutropha lindneri Sabrosky (Chloropidae) and Sarcophaga namibia Reed (Sarcophagidae) (p. 113). In Anon (ed). Fifth International Congress of Dipterology, Abstracts Volume, 29th September to 4th October 2002 (The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia), xxv+1–283 pp.+xiii.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. & Barraclough, D.A. 1998. The immature stages of Katacmilla cavernicola Papp, the first described for the Camillidae (pp. 104–105). In Ismay, J.W. (ed). Fourth International Congress of Dipterology, Abstracts Volume, 6–13th September (Oxford: UK), 1–275 pp.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. & Pape, T. 1998. The distribution of Sarcophagidae (Diptera) related to the biomes of Namibia (p. 105). In Ismay, J.W. (ed). Fourth International Congress of Dipterology, Abstracts Volume, 6–13th September (Oxford: UK), 1–275 pp.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 1998. The Namibian National Collection of Insects – an African resourse (pp. 103–104). In Ismay, J.W. (ed). Fourth International Congress of Dipterology, Abstracts Volume, 6–13th September (Oxford: UK), 1–275 pp.
Book reviews
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 2001. Winston, J.E. 1999. Describing species. Practical taxonomic procedures for biologists. Cimbebasia 17: 257–258.
Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 1999. Pape, T. 1996. Catalogue of the Sarcophagidae of the World (Insects: Diptera). Cimbebasia 15: 165–166.
Obituary notices
Bacchus, M.E. & Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 1990. Obituary, Dr Alan Maurice Easton (1907–1989). Antenna 14(2): 61–63.
Bacchus, M.E. & Kirk-Spriggs, A.H. 1990. Obituary, and Bibliography of Alan Maurice Easton (1907–1989). Entomologists’ Monthly Magazine 126: 89–96.