D. K.  McAlpine, ?3.13. Family Platystomatidae?, in Contributions to a Manual of Palaearctic Diptera, Vol 3: Higher Brachycera, L.  Papp and Darvas, B., Eds. Budapest: Science Herald, 1998, pp. 193-199.

D. K.  McAlpine and Shatalkin, A. I., ?3.8. Family Pseudopomyzidae?, in Contributions to a Manual of Palaearctic Diptera, Vol 3: Higher Brachycera, L.  Papp and Darvas, B., Eds. Budapest: Science Herald, 1998, pp. 155-163.

D. K.  McAlpine, ?3.7. Family Cypselosomatidae?, in Contributions to a Manual of Palaearctic Diptera, Vol 3: Higher Brachycera, L.  Papp and Darvas, B., Eds. Budapest: Science Herald, 1998, pp. 151-154.

D. K.  McAlpine, ?3.33. Family Heterocheilidae?, in Contributions to a Manual of Palaearctic Diptera, Vol 3: Higher Brachycera, L.  Papp and Darvas, B., Eds. Budapest: Science Herald, 1998, pp. 345-347.

D. K.  McAlpine, ?3.32. Family Helcomyzidae?, in Contributions to a Manual of Palaearctic Diptera, Vol 3: Higher Brachycera, L.  Papp and Darvas, B., Eds. Budapest: Science Herald, 1998, pp. 341-344.

D. K.  McAlpine, ?3.31. Family Coelopidae?, in Contributions to a Manual of Palaearctic Diptera, Vol 3: Higher Brachycera, L.  Papp and Darvas, B., Eds. Budapest: Science Herald, 1998, pp. 335-340.

D. K.  McAlpine, ?3.30. Family Teratomyzidae?, in Contributions to a Manual of Palaearctic Diptera, Vol 3: Higher Brachycera, L.  Papp and Darvas, B., Eds. Budapest: Science Herald, 1998, pp. 331-334.

D. H.  Colless and McAlpine, D. K., ?Diptera (Flies)?, in The Insects of Australia, D. H.  Colless and McAlpine, D. K., Eds. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1970, pp. 656-740.

D. H.  Colless and McAlpine, D. K., ?34. Diptera (Flies)?, in The insects of Australia. A textbook for students and research workers. Supplement 1974, Canberra, Australia: Devision of Entomology, CSIRO, Melbourne University Press, 1974, pp. 91-96.

D. H.  Colless and McAlpine, D. K., ?Diptera (Flies)?, in The insects of Australia: A textbook for students and research workers, vol. 2, Carlton: Division of Entomology, CSIRO, Melbourne University Press, 1991, pp. 717-786.

D. K.  McAlpine, ?A new genus of flies possibly referable to Cryptochetidae (Diptera, Schizophora)?, Australian Entomological Magazine, vol. 3(3), pp. 45-56, 1976.

D. K.  McAlpine, ?A new genus of australian littoral flies (Diptera: ?Canacidae)?, Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Washington, vol. 10, pp. 108-117, 1982.

D. K.  McAlpine, ?Taxonomic notes on the genus Zale McAlpine (Diptera: Canacidae)?, Australian Entomological Magazine, vol. 11(6), pp. 81-82, 1985.

D. K.  McAlpine, ?The Australian genera of Heleomyzidae (Diptera: Schizophora) and a reclassification of the family into tribes?, Records of the Australian Museum, vol. 36, pp. 203-251, 1985.

D. K.  McAlpine, ?Marginidae, a new Afrotropical family of Diptera (Schizophora: ? Opomyzoidea)?, Annals of the Natal Museum, vol. 32, pp. 167-177, 1991.

D. K.  McAlpine, ?Some examples of reduced segmentation of the arista in Diptera-Cyclorrhapha, and some phylogenetic implications?, Studia dipterologica, vol. 9, pp. 3-19, 2002.

B. J.  Sinclair and McAlpine, D. K., ?Zinza, a new genus of Rhinotorine flies from Northern Queensland, Australia (Diptera: Heleomyzidae)?, Records of the Australian Museum, vol. 47, pp. 225-230, 1995.