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Flies and Mosquitoes - English
URL: http://www.ent.iastate.edu/imagegal/diptera/

Entomology Image Gallery.

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Flies - English
URL: http://www.roberth.u-net.com/Diptera.htm#contents

Diptera are be divided into two suborders, the Nematocera, and the Brachycera. These two suborders can be distinguished morphologically by wing veination and antennal type in the adult forms, and by ecological habitats.

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Biosystematic Database of World Diptera - English
URL: http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/Diptera/biosys.htm

The BioSystematic Databases of World Diptera (BDWD) is a source of names and information about those names and the taxa to which they apply. The BDWD is a set of tools to aid users in finding information about flies. The two main components of the BDWD are the Nomenclator and the Species database and internet portal. The BioSystematic Database of World Diptera (BDWD) provides a comprehensive portal to knowledge about these dipterans as well as a framework to organize and integrate current and future data, information and knowledge. The linnaean system of names provides unique information keys within a hierarchical framework which can map our knowledge of life from a historical (phylogenetic) perspective.

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Biting Insects: Prevalence by Area and Season - English
URL: http://bitinginsects.siteideas.net/

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This is an interactive guide to small biting pests and their seasonal, habitat, and diurnal prevalence in North America.

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Dolichopodidae Homepage - English
URL: http://www.fortunecity.com/greenfield/porton/875/

All about Dolichopodidae (Diptera: Empidoidea) from Igor Grichanov.

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Malaria Database - English
URL: http://www.wehi.edu.au/MalDB-www/who.html

An information resource for scientists working in malaria research.

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Diptera - English
URL: http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/Diptera/diptera.htm

Flies (Diptera) are one of the most abundant and important groups of animals. Flies are found everywhere and do just about everything. The health of our world is in part dependent on these wonderful creatures.

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Catalog of the Diptera of the Australasian and Oceanian Regions - English
URL: http://www.bishop.hawaii.org/bishop/ento/aocat/

Originally published 23 August 1989, this catalog recorded approximately 16,000 species of flies occurring in the vast area of Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea, and the Pacific.Since then, there have been a number of publications that have made it necessary to publish an updated version of the catalog. This web version is intended to present the most up-to-date version of each family chapter of the catalog and will be continually updated as published information becomes available.

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Families of Diptera/NCState-AgNIC - English
URL: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/agnic/sys_entomology/taxon/diptera/index.html

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This page has resources on Diptera, the flies, gnats, and mosquitoes.

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Primary type specimens in the New Zealand Arthropod Collection (NZAC): Diptera - English
URL: http://www.landcare.cri.nz/science/nzac/?dipt_intro

This is a list of 806 primary type specimens of Diptera housed in the N.Z. Arthropod Collection (NZAC) held at the Mt Albert Research Centre, Auckland, and which since July 1992 have been under the stewardship of Landcare Research.

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Stiletto Flies: Therevidae - English
URL: http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/cee/therevid/stiletto_fly.html

Worldwide, the family Therevidae (Insecta: Diptera: Asiloidea) is poorly known and among the least understood of the flies (Order Diptera). Diptera are among the poorest known of the larger insect orders. Yet, this fascinating, medium-sized (>3,000 spp.) family of flies is critical to the sound functioning of arid and semiarid environments, including agroecosystems and forests in those zones. Individuals of this family are infrequently collected because the adults are usually secretive, frequenting habitats rarely sampled by collectors.

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Studia dipterologica - English
URL: http://www.studia-dipt.de/

Studia dipterologica - Journal of taxonomy, systematics, ecology and faunistics of Diptera - and Studia dipterologica Supplement.

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Diptera types in the Canadian National Collection of Insects - English
URL: http://sis.agr.ca/brd/tachinid/tacheng.html

Part 4. Tachinidae. The primary type material of the family Tachinidae (Diptera) housed in the Canadian National Collection of Insects, as of 31 December 1994, is cataloged. The Tachinidae collection contains 897 holotypes, 239 associated allotypes, 35 lectotypes (no associated allolectotypes), 2 neotypes, and 117 species that are represented by syntypes. Reference to the original description of each taxon is cited. Label data associated with the specimens are quoted fully, except for paratypes and paralectotypes. A bibliography and an index to named taxa are provided. Certain lectotype fixations, particularly by Mesnil for nominal species described by Villeneuve, are recognized for the first time.

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Diptera types in the Canadian National Collection of Insects - English
URL: http://sis.agr.ca/brd/tachinid/titlpag2.html

Part 2. Brachycera (exclusive of Schizophora). The primary type material of brachyceran Diptera (exclusive of Schizophora) housed in the Canadian National Collection of Insects and Arachnids, as of 31 December 1991, is cataloged. The collection contains 819 holotypes, 241 associated allotypes, 10 lectotypes, 4 associated allolectotypes, and 149 species that are represented by syntypes. Reference to the original description of each taxon is cited. Label data associated with the specimens are fully quoted. An addendum to Part 1 on the types of Nematocera is included that adds previously overlooked types of Cecidomyiidae, Mycetophilidae, and Thaumaleidae. A bibliography is provided.

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Intertidal flies of the genus Aphrostylus - English
URL: http://www.ex.ac.uk/~cnfrench/ics/cbru/diptera/flies.htm

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Cornish Biological Records Unit. Dolichopodids are small,often metallic, bristly flies found largely in damp habitats. They feed on soft-bodied organisms from which the body fluids are extracted by crushing and masticating the prey with labella at the apex of the proboscis. The larvae inhabit a range of wet substrates including mud, soil and rotting wood, and like the adults are carnivorous except for a few species which are phytophagous, developing in the stems of plants. The pupal stage is spent in a cocoon constructed by the final larval instar from detritus held together by a secretion of the labial glands. Respiration is aided by respiratory horns projecting through the wall of the cocoon.

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Diptera types in the Canadian National Collection of Insects - English
URL: http://sis.agr.ca/brd/tachinid/titlpag1.html

Part 1. Nematocera: Type material of the nematocerous Diptera housed in the Canadian National Collection, as of 31 December 1987, is cataloged. The collection contains 654 holotypes, 188 associated allotypes, 5 allotypes, 36 lectotypes, and 1 neotype. Fifty-two species are represented by syntypes, 423 by paratypes, and 40 by paralectotypes. Reference to the original description of each taxon is cited. Label data associated with the specimens are fully quoted, except in the case of paratypes and paralectotypes. A bibliography and an index to named taxa are provided.

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List of families (Insecta: Diptera) - English
URL: http://www.geller-grimm.de/famil.htm

Listing of Diptera by Fritz Geller-Grimm. German Names. English Names. Links.

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Catalogue of the fossil flies of the world (Insecta: Diptera) - English
URL: http://bernice.bishop.hawaii.org/bishop/ento/fossilcat/

Various family chapters of this on-line version are currently in preparation and will appear on the web soon. The list below indicates those that are currently available for viewing. Bookmark this page and keep returning for more updated versions and more family chapters available on the web. The family order and classification used here follows the standards for families for the Biosystematic Database of World Diptera, currently in preparation by F. Christian Thompson and Neal Evenhuis.

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How do myiasis - causing flies find their hosts? - English
URL: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/science/intro/entom/project4/index.html

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Traumatic myiasis is a debilitating and sometimes fatal condition of humans and animals caused by the feeding and development of fly larvae on the host's dead or living tissues, usually at the skin surface or in body orifices.

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HANAABU - Japanese
URL: http://www.osk.3web.ne.jp/~yonetsua/HANAABU.html

Published twice a year by the Dipterists Society of Japan, name means Flower-flies or Hover-flies, but it deals with overall Diptera.

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