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DIPTERA (two-winged flies)

Sets of Photographs

These relate to individual finds ("biological records") of the organism.

Taxon Summary # images # photos # macrophotos Date Vice-county Country
Diptera? Imago 55 38 17 16 Jul 2007 Cardigan Wales
Diptera? Imago 14 3 11 16 Jul 2007 Cardigan Wales
Diptera? Imago 6 6 29 Jun 2006 East Sussex England
Diptera? Larva 5 5 24 Aug 2002 Berks England
Diptera Larva 1 1 15 Apr 1976 West Sussex England
Diptera 1 1 22 May 1975 Berks England

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #subtaxa #photos #macrophotos #microphotos #refs
Suborder BRACHYCERA (short-horned flies) 82 291 618   60
Suborder CYCLORRHAPHA (a suborder of flies) 339        
Section (Zoo.) Aschiza (a section of flies) 93 547 426 9 61
Section (Zoo.) Schizophora (a section of flies) 246 928 2096 185 244
Suborder NEMATOCERA (thread-horned flies) 139 556 903 50 102
Suborder PUPIPARA (bat flies and flat flies) 4 20 4   2

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Diptera Info: www.diptera.info Diptera Info
Online-Keys.net: http://www.online-keys.net/infusions/keys/keys_view.php Online-Keys.net
Colyer, C.N. & Hammond, C.O., 1951 Flies of the British Isles
Guthrie, M., 1989 Animals of the Surface Film
Haenni, J-P, 2004 Les Mouches - planches d'Eugène Séguy / Flies - plates by Eugène Séguy
McAlpine, J.F. et al, 1981 Manual of Nearctic Diptera
Oldroyd, H., 1954 Diptera 1. Introduction and Key to Families
Pearce, E.K., 1921 Typical Flies - a photographic atlas
Scudder, G.G.E. & Cannings, R.A., 2006 The Diptera Families of British Columbia
Stubbs, A., 2003 Dipterists Forum Starter Pack
Cercle de Mycologie de Mons (Belgique): (Page perso de JJ. Wuilbaut): http://users.skynet.be/jjw.myco.mons Cercle de Mycologie de Mons (Belgique): (Page perso de JJ. Wuilbaut)

Dung

Skidmore, P., 1991 Insects of the British Cow-Dung Community

Families

Ball, S., in prep. British Families of Diptera
Families of British Diptera: http://www.dipteristsforum.org.uk/wiki/families:diptera_families Families of British Diptera
Unwin, D.M., 1981 A Key to the Families of British Diptera

Host plants

Kirk, W.D.J., 1992 Insects on Cabbages and Oilseed Rape

Larvae

Smith, K.V.G., 1989 An Introduction to the immature stages of British Flies

Leaf-miners

György Csóka, 2003 Levélaknák és Levélaknázók - Leaf Mines and Leaf Miners
Robbins, R., 1990 A Provisional Atlas of The Leaf Miners of Warwickshire, with notes on others occurring in the Midlands

Miners

Leaf and stem mines of British flies and other insects: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/research/projects/british-insect-mines/index.html Leaf and stem mines of British flies and other insects
Leaf and stem mines of British flies and other insects: http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/research/projects/british-insect-mines/index.html Leaf and stem mines of British flies and other insects

on thistles

Redfern, M., 1995 Insects and Thistles

Plant galls

Redfern, M. & Shirley, P., 2002 British Plant Galls - Identification of galls on plants and fungi
Redfern, M. & Shirley, P., 2011 British Plant Galls
Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986 Provisional Keys to British Plant Galls

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 142 general literature references to DIPTERA (two-winged flies)

DIPTERA may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
ANIMALIA
(animals)
ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)
INSECTA
(insects)

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 3696 feeding and other relationships of DIPTERA (two-winged flies)

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