Thomas Pape

Associate Professor, Curator

Natural History Museum of Denmark
Universitetsparken 15
2100 København Ø

Office: 11, 02-4-411
Phone: +45 353-21106
Phone (Reception desk): +45 353-21120
Mobile: +45 287-51106
E-mail: tpape@snm.ku.dk

Primary research areas

Systematics, taxonomy, phylogeny, biogeography and evolution of two-winged insects (Diptera) with special emphasis on the calyptrate families. Diptera nomenclature. Large-scale biodiversity inventories.

Current research

Systematics, taxonomy, phylogeny, biogeography and evolution of the Calyptratae (Diptera):

• Collaborator on the Systema Dipterorum; 
• Participant in the FlyTree project;
• Web-editor for the World of Flesh Flies;
• Comparative larval morphology of Miltogramminae (with K. Szpila, University of Torun);
• Phylogeny of the Calyptrata based on molecular data (with R. Meier, Singapore National University and S. Kutty, Natural History Museum, London) and morphology (with V. Michelsen, Natural History Museum of Denmark);
• Taxonomy, systematics and phylogeny of the Sarcophagidae;
• Taxonomy, systematics, phylogeny and phylogeography of the Rhinophoridae;
• Evolution and historical ecology of the Oestridae.

Online Diptera Nomenclator
Online bibliography on flesh fly literature
Webpages for flesh flies

Teaching

Teaching:

Entomology: structure, phylogeny and biology of terrestrial arthropods (with other staff members/research associates of the Entomology Department; for 3rd or 4th year students in spring terms).

Phylogenetic systematics; (with other staff members of the Natural History Museum of Denmark; international PhD course on principles and analytical methodology, two weeks in March in uneven years.

Supervision:

M.Sc: Søren Bagge, Copenhagen University. --- Thesis title: Reproductive biology of the four Danish fleshflies in the genus Sarcophaga (s.str.).

Areas of interest