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BugGuide Gathering
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August 8-10, 2008
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The Soldier Flies or Stratiomyidae of California
By James, M. T.
University of California Press, 1960
Cite: 138779
This work is available for download as a PDF file by clicking this link. Technical, but (with patience and perseverance) helpful for working on California Stratiomyidae. Some comments:
  • There are keys to California genera and species...presumably complete as known and recognized by the author in 1960. (And modulo errors(?): e.g. the genus Euparyphus appears in couplet 16 of the key to genera, but I could not find the genus discussion or key to species anywhere within the PDF).
  • The PDF linked to above is missing pages 119 and 120 (which apparently contain various figures/plates).
  • Many range maps are included (some of them rotated in the PDF, just a minor irritation:-).

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