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Publications (31)      

1. Cook, Charles E., Jeremy J. Austin & Ronald H. L. Disney. 2004 A mitochondrial 12S and 16S rRNA phylogeny of critical genera of Phoridae (Diptera) and related families of Aschiza. Zootaxa 593: 1-11.
2. Disney, R. H. L. 1994 Scuttle flies: the Phoridae Chapman & Hall, London.: i-xii, 1-467, pl.1.
3. Disney, R. H. L. & Bradley J. Sinclair. 2008 Some Scuttle Flies (Diptera: Phoridae) of the Galápagos Islands Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 151(1): 115-132.
4.   Disney, Ronald H. L. 1990 A revised key to Australasian and Oriental Conicera (Diptera: Phoridae), with three new species. Ent Scand 21(3): 339-344.
5. Disney, Ronald H. L. 1991 Aenigmatistes (Diptera: Phoridae), Aschiza with a ptilinum! Bonner zoologische Beiträge 42(3-4): 353-368.
6. Disney, Ronald H. L. 1992 A new species and new records of Phoridae (Diptera) from New Zealand Giornale italiano di entomologia 6(31): 119-124.
7. Disney, Ronald H. L. 1992 A new species and new records of Phoridae (Diptera) from New Zealand Giornale italiano di entomologia 6(31): 119-124.
8.   Disney, Ronald H. L. 1997 The Micronesian Megaselia curtissima Beyer (Dipt., Phoridae) is a species of Woodiphora. Vol. 133, No. 1596-99: 115-116.
9. Disney, Ronald H. L. 2002 Revisionary notes on Chonocephalus Wandolleck (Diptera: Phoridae) with keys to species of the Holarctic Region. Zootaxa 60: 1-36.
10. Disney, Ronald H. L. 2003 R evision of the Afrotropical species of Dohrniphora DAHL (Diptera: Phoridae). Zootaxa 196: 1-24.
11. Disney, Ronald H. L. 2003 Seven new species of New World Puliciphora Dahl (Diptera: Phoridae) with a new key to the Neotropical species. Zootaxa 162: 1-22.
12. Disney, Ronald H. L. 2003 The dorsal abdominal glands and the higher classification of the Phoridae (Diptera). Zootaxa 293: 1-16.
13. Disney, Ronald H. L. 2004 Genera resembling Beckerina Malloch (Diptera: Phoridae). Zootaxa 518: 1-28.
14. Disney, Ronald H. L. 2005 Rudimentary halteres of some flightless female Phoridae (Diptera) reassessed, and some taxonomic implications. Zootaxa 1042: 39-54.
15. Disney, Ronald H. L. 2006 Eight new species of Megaselia Rondani (Diptera: Phoridae) from the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Yemen. Zootaxa 1371: 1-21.
16. Disney, Ronald H. L. 2006 Nine new species of Megaselia Rondani (Diptera: Phoridae) from the Seychelles. Zootaxa 1210: 1-25.
17. Disney, Ronald H. L. 2013 An unusually rich scuttle fly fauna (Diptera, Phoridae) from north of the Arctic Circle in the Kola Peninsula, N. W. Russia ZooKeys 342: 45-74.
18. Disney, Ronald H. L. & Anthony Russell-Smith. 2014 Additions to the British list of Megaselia Rondani (Diptera: Phoridae), including two new species, from the crowns of ancient pollarded trees Journal of Natural History.
19. Disney, Ronald H. L. & Sabine Prescher. 2018 A new species of Megaselia Rondani (Diptera: Phoridae) from Sweden Entomologist's monthly magazine 154(2): 142-144.
20. Disney, Ronald H. L. & Sibylle Häggqvist. 2018 Morphological recognition of the species of the Megaselia lucifrons (Schmitz) group (Diptera: Phoridae) Entomologist's monthly magazine 154(1): 1-7.
21. Disney, Ronald H. L., Olavi Kurina, Leho Tedersoo & Yvonne Cakpo. 2013 Scuttle flies (Diptera: Phoridae) reared from fungi in Benin African Invertebrates 54(2): 357–371.
22. Hartop, Emily, Brian V. Brown & Ronald H. L. Disney. 2015 Opportunity in our Ignorance: Urban Biodiversity Study Reveals 30 New Species and One New Nearctic Record for Megaselia (Diptera: Phoridae) in Los Angeles (California, USA) Zootaxa 3941(4): 451–484.
23. Hartop, Emily, Brian V. Brown & Ronald H. L. Disney. 2016 Flies from L.A., The Sequel: A further twelve new species of Megaselia (Diptera: Phoridae) from the BioSCAN Project in Los Angeles (California, USA) Biodiversity Data Journal 4: e7756.
24. Namaki Khameneh, Roya, Samad Khaghaninia & Ronald H. L. Disney. 2018 New records of the scuttle flies (Diptera, Phoridae) from Iran Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 4(3): 147–155.
25. Namaki Khameneh, Roya, Samad Khaghaninia & Ronald H. L. Disney. 2019 Scuttle flies (Diptera: Phoridae) from Ardabil province in Iran, with description of a new species of Megaselia Rondani Zoology in the Middle East 65(1): 70-74.
Namaki-Khameneh, Roya, Samad Khaghaninia & Ronald H. L. Disney. 2019 Scuttle flies (Diptera: Phoridae) from Ardabil province in Iran, with description of a new species of Megaselia Rondani Zoology in the Middle East 65(1): 70-74.
Namaki-Khameneh, Roya, Samad Khaghaninia, Ronald H. L. Disney & Naseh Maleki-Ravasan. 2021 Nine new species of scuttle flies, including one new genus (Diptera: Phoridae) from Iran Biologia 76: 2895–2912.
Pape, Thomas, Sven-olof Ulefors & Ronald H. L. Disney. 2013 Palaearctic Abaristophora (Diptera: Phoridae): First female of A. arctophila Schmitz, 1927 and a new species from N. W. Russia Zootaxa 3681(3): 249-256.
Sliman, Fatima Z., Ronald H. L. Disney & Kawtar Kettani. 2025 New records of Megaselia Rondani (Diptera: Phoridae) from Morocco with notes on distribution and habitats Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 11(2): 437-453.
Zuha, Raja M. & R. H. L. Disney. 2018 A new genus of scuttle fly (Diptera: Phoridae) from Malaysia Serangga 23(2): 92-98.
Zuha, Raja M. & Ronald H. L. Disney. 2018 Four new Megaselia species (Diptera: Phoridae) from animal carcasses in Bangi, Malaysia Zootaxa 4508(4): 551–561.
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