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Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Calyptratae » Oestroidea » Blow Flies (Calliphoridae) » Calliphorinae » Calliphora

Revision of the Nearctic Calliphora Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Calliphoridae)

By Tantawi TI, Whitworth TL, Sinclair BJ
Zootaxa 4226: 301–347, 2017

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Contributed by v belov on 14 April, 2018 - 4:38pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Tephritoidea » Fruit Flies (Tephritidae) » Tephritinae » Tephritini

Seed Predation in Wild Populations of Chamisso Arnica (Arnica chamissonis Less: Asteraceae) and New Host Records for Campiglossa

By Robert L. Johnson, Val J. Anderson, Adam T. Yankee, and Zachary Anderson
Western North American Naturalist, 2017

77(1), pp.14-21

https://doi.org/10.3398/064.077.0103

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Contributed by Spencer Pote on 18 August, 2021 - 7:54pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Opomyzoidea » Periscelididae » Cyamops

Notes on the genus Cyamops Melander (Diptera: Periscelididae), including description of ten new species

By Baptista A, Mathis W
Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 102:481-506, 2000

@ Biodiversity Heritage Library
NB: none of the new species in the paper are from North America but the paper contains a key to New World species

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Contributed by Steve Scholnick on 24 April, 2023 - 2:37pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Acalyptratae" » Opomyzoidea » Periscelididae » Cyamops

A Revision of the New World Cyamops Melander (Diptera: Periscelididae)

By Baptista A, Mathis W
Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, Number 563, 1994

https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.563
@ the Smithsonian Libraries site

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Contributed by Steve Scholnick on 24 April, 2023 - 2:35pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Empidoidea » Longlegged Flies (Dolichopodidae) » Dolichopodinae » Dolichopus

The Dipterous genus Dolichopus in North America

By M. C. Van Duzee, F. R. Cole, and J. M. Aldrich
United States National Museum Bulletin 116, 1921

This is the last revision of the entire genus Dolichopus in North America (it will also work in Mexico, which has no additional species). Descriptions of all species are included. The key to species was supplemented a decade later(1) to account for species described in the 1920s, but dozens more species have been described since the 1930s.

Full text via Google books

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Contributed by John F. Carr on 4 October, 2013 - 8:35am

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Empidoidea » Longlegged Flies (Dolichopodidae) » Dolichopodinae » Dolichopus

Key to Nearctic Dolichopus Latreille (Diptera)

By M. C. Van Duzee and C. H. Curran
American Museum Novitates 683 and 684, 1934

This is the last key to the entire genus Dolichopus for North America. Robinson (1964) has a key to males of Southeastern species. Stekyskal (1973) has a key to "Group B."

Full text of vol. 683 at AMNH (males)
Full text of vol. 684 at AMNH (females)

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Contributed by John F. Carr on 11 August, 2011 - 9:12am

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Empidoidea » Longlegged Flies (Dolichopodidae) » Diaphorinae » Chrysotus

A revision of the North American species of the dipterous genus Chrysotus

By Van Duzee, M.C.
Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences 13(3):3-53, 1924

full text on Google Books
This reference is cited on the guide’s genus page but lacked a BugGuide citation number
Van Duzee's key to maleChrysotus includes 2 species that BugGuide places in the genus Achradocera (Chrysotus barbatus = Achradocera barbata, Chrysotus arcuatus = Achradocera arcuata)

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Contributed by Steve Scholnick on 15 December, 2018 - 2:39pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Empidoidea » Longlegged Flies (Dolichopodidae) » Hydrophorinae » Hydrophorus

A Revision of the North American Species of the Dipterous Genus Hydrophorus

By Aldrich, J. M.
Psyche 18:45-69, 1911

Google Books link from the genus page

downloadable PDF from the publisher

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Contributed by Steve Scholnick on 23 January, 2018 - 10:53pm

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