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 ...

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.) ...

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.

Four new species of Limoniidae (Diptera) are described from the Inner-West Anatolian subregion of Turkey (provinces of Afyonkarahisar, Kütahya and Uşak), and their male genitalia are illustrated for ...

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.

Next was the UK Diptera synoptic collection. This collection was finished on Friday at 4.15pm ... One night even my Mum helped although she did spend a fair amount of time laughing at all the species ...

Buzzing insects may be seen as pests—but globally, hundreds of fly species migrate over long distances, with major benefits for people and nature, new research shows. Bugs such as houseflies ...

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 ...