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Species Rhopalomyia californica - Coyote Brush Bud Gall Midge

 
 
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The Plant-Feeding Gall Midges of North America
By Raymond J. Gagne
Cornell University Press, 1989
If you've gotten as far as figuring out that your gall was made by a midge (Cecidomyiidae), you should be able to figure out the species from this book's illustrations and keys.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Although out of print, and in some respects out of date, I have consulted this tome numerous times where I had nothing else available.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.

KEYS TO THE INSECTS OF THE FAR EAST OF THE USSR
By Lehr, P. A. et al.
LENINGRAD NAUKA PUBLISHING HOUSE, 1988

Insect Life and Insect Natural History
By S. W. Frost
Dover Publications, Inc., 1959

 
 
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