Seventy new Diptera -- key to the Pseudoleria, Helomyzidae, Tipulidae, Chiromidae, Dixinae, Orphnephilidae, Mycetophilidae

United States. Florida, 22. May 2009: Darner with small Ceratopogonidae, genus Forcipomyia, probably sucking blood from wing veins. © May Lattanzio, Florida, Bayou George

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Ceratopogonidae (Diptera Classification)

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United States. Florida, 22. May 2009: Darner with small Ceratopogonidae, genus Forcipomyia, probably sucking blood from wing veins. © May Lattanzio, Florida, Bayou George

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Ceratopogonidae (Diptera Classification)

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Australimyza glandulifera (Diptera Classification)

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Taxonomic name:

Australimyza glandulifera (Diptera Classification)

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Australimyza glandulifera (Diptera Classification)

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Australimyza glandulifera (Diptera Classification)

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Australimyza glandulifera (Diptera Classification)

Melaloncha xanthocauda

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Melaloncha (Diptera Classification)

Melaloncha stoneorum

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Melaloncha (Diptera Classification)

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.

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.

Behavior and host location cues of Apocephalus paraponerae (Diptera: Phoridae), a parasitoid of the giant tropical ant, Paraponera clavata (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

B. V. Brown and Feener, Jr., D. H., “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.

Life history parameters and description of the larva of Apocephalus paraponerae (Diptera: Phoridae), a parasitoid of the giant tropical ant Paraponera clavata (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

B. V. Brown and Feener, Jr., D. H., “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.

Revision of the Nearctic Thereva (Diptera: Asiloidea: Therevidae)

K. C. Holston and Irwin, M. E., “Revision of the Nearctic Thereva (Diptera: Asiloidea: Therevidae)”, Studia Dipterologica, Supplement, vol. 13, pp. 1-219, 2005.

Acknowledgements

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Sixty-one new Diptera

C. B. D. Garrett, Sixty-one new Diptera. Cranbrook: Privately published, 1925, p. 12 pp.

Seventy new Diptera -- key to the Pseudoleria, Helomyzidae, Tipulidae, Chiromidae, Dixinae, Orphnephilidae, Mycetophilidae

C. B. D. Garrett, Seventy new Diptera -- key to the Pseudoleria, Helomyzidae, Tipulidae, Chiromidae, Dixinae, Orphnephilidae, Mycetophilidae. Cranbrook: Privately published, 1925, p. 16 pp.

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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.