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Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » "Orthorrhapha" (Brachycera excluding Aschiza and Schizophora) » Stratiomyomorpha » Soldier flies (Stratiomyidae)
The Soldier Flies or Stratiomyidae of California
By James, M. T.
University of California Press, 1960
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: [list]
  • 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).
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    Contributed by Aaron Schusteff on 22 August, 2007 - 3:56pm

    Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera)
    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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    Contributed by Aaron Schusteff on 17 July, 2009 - 4:28am

    Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera)
    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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    Contributed by Keith Bayless on 17 February, 2008 - 11:18pm

    Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera)
    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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    Contributed by Keith Bayless on 17 February, 2008 - 11:15pm

    Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera)
    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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    Contributed by Stephen Cresswell on 28 April, 2007 - 9:50am

    Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera)
    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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    Contributed by Hartmut Wisch on 13 November, 2006 - 10:24pm

    Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta)
    KEYS TO THE INSECTS OF THE FAR EAST OF THE USSR
    By Lehr, P. A. et al.
    LENINGRAD NAUKA PUBLISHING HOUSE, 1988
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    Contributed by WonGun Kim on 23 August, 2009 - 5:18pm

    Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta)
    Insect Life and Insect Natural History
    By S. W. Frost
    Dover Publications, Inc., 1959
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    Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 2 August, 2009 - 7:55am

     
     
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