David Gibbs (born 26 November 1958)David Gibbs CV
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Career

After attending secondary and

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from 1970 to 1977 he visited the Langley College of Higher Education in

Langley, Berkshire Langley, also known as Langley Marish, is a suburb of Slough in Berkshire, South East England. It is east of the town centre of Slough, and west of Charing Cross in Central London. It was a separate civil parish until the 1930s, when the built ...

from 1977 to 1979. In 1980 he joined the

University of Sheffield , mottoeng = To discover the causes of things , established = – University of SheffieldPredecessor institutions: – Sheffield Medical School – Firth College – Sheffield Technical School – University College of Sheffield , type = Pu ...

where he graduated in 1983. Gibbs works as professional survey entomologist since 1984. Since 1991 he is a

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. In particular he studied

Diptera Flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name being derived from the Greek δι- ''di-'' "two", and πτερόν ''pteron'' "wing". Insects of this order use only a single pair of wings to fly, the hindwings having evolved into advanced ...

Hymenoptera Hymenoptera is a large order (biology), order of insects, comprising the sawfly, sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants. Over 150,000 living species of Hymenoptera have been described, in addition to over 2,000 extinct ones. Many of the species are Par ...

, and

Hemiptera Hemiptera (; ) is an order (biology), order of insects, commonly called true bugs, comprising over 80,000 species within groups such as the cicadas, aphids, planthoppers, leafhoppers, Reduviidae, assassin bugs, Cimex, bed bugs, and shield bugs. ...

. In 2007 and 2009, he described the newly discovered

bee flies The Bombyliidae are a family of flies, commonly known as bee flies. Adults generally feed on nectar and pollen, some being important pollinators. Larvae are mostly parasitoids of other insects. Overview The Bombyliidae are a large family of fl ...

'' Mythenteles andalusiaca'' from Andalusia and '' Mythenteles rameli'' from Greece. Besides several papers on birds, insects, and ecology, Gibbs contributed to the books ''Irian Jaya, Indonesia, 21 January - 12 March 1991. With notes from 1992: A site guide for birdwatchers'' (1993), ''Wallacea'' (1996), and ''Pigeons and Doves: A Guide to the Pigeons and Doves of the World'' (2001, with Eustace Barnes and John Cox). In 1994, Gibbs discovered the

Vanikoro white-eye The Vanikoro white-eye (''Zosterops gibbsi'') is a species of bird in the family Zosteropidae. It is endemic to Vanikoro in the Santa Cruz Islands of Temotu Province in the south-east of the Solomon Islands chain.Dutson, Guy. (2008). A new specie ...

(''Zosterops gibbsi'') which was scientifically described and named for him by Guy Dutson in 2008.Dutson, Guy. (2008). A new species of White-eye Zosterops and notes on other birds from Vanikoro, Solomon Islands. Ibis 150(4): 698-706.

References

External links

Official website and CV
British ornithologists British entomologists British ecologists Alumni of the University of Sheffield 1958 births Living people {{UK-entomologist-stub