Forcipomyia (Euprojoannisia) dolichopodida Chan & Linley (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae), collected from leaves of the water lettuce, Pistia stratiotes L., is described in all stages. It resembles F. (Eu.) ...

The Florida Entomologist Vol. 92, No. 2, Jun., 2009 Studies on the Genus Onesia (Diptera: Ca... Studies on the Genus Onesia (Diptera: Calliphoridae) from China, with the Descriptions of Two New ...

Entomologists have now prepared a database with information to accurately identify and name almost 157,000 flies, gnats, maggots, midges, mosquitoes and related species in the order Diptera.

Plaumann (Brazil: Nova Teutonia) and the Biologia Centrali Americana collection. The British and Irish Collection contains 1,200 drawers of pinned specimens covering the vast majority of British and ...

Bugs such as houseflies, fruitflies, blowflies, hoverflies and mosquitoes all belong to an order called Diptera -- which contains over 125,000 known species, and possibly over a million in total.

Maggots, those white, squirmy, wormy things, are the larval form of the Diptera species. In other words, they are baby flies. It turns out they really thrive in chronic, poorly healing wounds — ...

In addition to deterring predators, this camouflage permits certain flower fly species to lay their eggs in other creatures’ nests. Hoverflies and other Diptera species can be distinguished from bees ...