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Genus Megaphorus
The families and genera of North American Diptera By Charles H. Curran
An interesting old book, 512 pages. Available as a free download from this web page (PDF is 33MB). I don't know, but I get the feeling it may be a bit of a "classic". A biographical summary on the author appears here.
Written as the thesis for a D.Sc. degree from University of Montreal in 1933.
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Manual of Neactic Diptera Volume 2 By Varies for each chapter; edited by J.F. McAlpine, B.V. Petersen, G.E. Shewell, H.J. Teskey, J.R. Vockeroth, D.M. Wood.
Research Branch Agriculture Canada, 1987
Out of print. This volume includes: corrections to Volume 1; keys to genera for all Schizophoran flies, e.g. Aschiza, Acalyptratae, and Calyptratae.
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Manual of Neactic Diptera Volume 1 By Varies for each chapter; edited by J.F. McAlpine, B.V. Petersen, G.E. Shewell, H.J. Teskey, J.R. Vockeroth, D.M. Wood.
Research Branch Agriculture Canada, 1981
Out of print. This volume includes: introduction; chapters on morphological terms for adults and larva; keys to family for adults and larvae; keys to genera for all non-Schizophoran flies, e.g. "Nematocera", "Orthorrhapha," and Empidoidea.
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A Catalog of the Diptera of America North of Mexico By Alan Stone, et al.
United States Department of Agriculture, 1965
Nomenclature is dated, of course. One nice feature is range information.
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The Flies of Western North America By Frank R. Cole and Evert I. Schlinger
University of California Press, 1968
Although out of print, and in some respects out of date, I have consulted this tome numerous times where I had nothing else available. It has been a very valuable resource.
Since this book is out of print, the Amazon link doesn't seem to work. See here for internet availability: 1.
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Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival By Bernd Heinrich
Harper Perennial, 2009
Reprint edition of original 2002 hardcover edition which can be purchased via Amazon.com via private sellers here.
This is a fascinating book which deals with how animals prepare, adapt, and survive freezing temperatures. Although bird, mammal and amphibian species are also covered, there is plenty of information on arthropod winter survival strategies.
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Keys to the insects of the Far East of the USSR, Vol. 2. Homoptera and Heteroptera By Lehr, P. A., ed.
Leningrad, Nauka Publishing House, 1988
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Insect Life and Insect Natural History By S. W. Frost
Dover Publications, Inc., 1959
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