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Introduction to the order Diptera
Importance of Diptera to man
Selected List of Natural History Museums Having Diptera Collections
Europe
- Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule, Zurich, type database
- Hope Entomological Collections, Oxford; Bigot & Verral-Collin collections database
- Linnean collections, London; type images
- Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris
Research
Research Reports
- NAMES: The Keys To Biodiversity (Thompson)
- Rare and Little Known Flies (Various Authors)
- Flower Fly (Syrphidae) Projects (Thompson)
Translations
- Wiedemann Prefaces (Translated by Adrian Pont)
Diptera Classification Notes
Modern attempts at Diptera family classification are based on the work of Willi Hennig (1948, 1952, 1954, 1958, 1965, 1971), which was summarized in this treatment in the Handbook of Zoology in 1973. This was the last united version of Diptera family classification. Since then numerous papers on various groups have been published.
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Seventy new Diptera -- key to the Pseudoleria, Helomyzidae, Tipulidae, Chiromidae, Dixinae, Orphnephilidae, Mycetophilidae
, Seventy new Diptera -- key to the Pseudoleria, Helomyzidae, Tipulidae, Chiromidae, Dixinae, Orphnephilidae, Mycetophilidae. Cranbrook: Privately published, 1925, p. 16 pp.
Sixty-one new Diptera
, Sixty-one new Diptera. Cranbrook: Privately published, 1925, p. 12 pp.
Acknowledgements
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Revision of the Nearctic Thereva (Diptera: Asiloidea: Therevidae)
, “Revision of the Nearctic Thereva (Diptera: Asiloidea: Therevidae)”, Studia Dipterologica, Supplement, vol. 13, pp. 1-219, 2005.
Life history parameters and description of the larva of Apocephalus paraponerae (Diptera: Phoridae), a parasitoid of the giant tropical ant Paraponera clavata (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
, “Life history parameters and description of the larva of Apocephalus paraponerae (Diptera: Phoridae), a parasitoid of the giant tropical ant Paraponera clavata (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)”, Journal of Natural History, vol. 25, pp. 221-321, 1991.
Behavior and host location cues of Apocephalus paraponerae (Diptera: Phoridae), a parasitoid of the giant tropical ant, Paraponera clavata (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
, “Behavior and host location cues of Apocephalus paraponerae (Diptera: Phoridae), a parasitoid of the giant tropical ant, Paraponera clavata (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)”, Biotropica, vol. 23, pp. 182-187, 1991.
Flies –Pollinators on two wings
by Axel Ssymank, Bonn & Carol Kearns, Santa Clara
see http://www.bfn.de/0502_skripten.html
1. Diptera as pollinators
Diptera, the true flies, are an important, but neglected group of pollinators. Diptera can be distinguished from other insects by their two membranous front wings and the highly reduced halteres that represent the remnants of the second pair of wings. They are an ancient group, and were probably among the first pollinators of early flowering plants.
Drosophila
Wrking on Drosophila is a great expecince, specilay in The Indian subcontinent where huge number of species, great environmental variations, diversity of sources. overall it is like heaven for researcher who are working on ecology and evolution of Drosophila.
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