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Order Diptera - Flies
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Although out of print, and in some respects out of date, I have consulted this tome numerous times where I had nothing else available.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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The morphology, higher level phylogeny and classification of the Empidoidea (Diptera) By Sinclair, B.J. & Cumming, J.M.
Zootaxa, Vol. 1180 (Magnolia Press, Auckland, New Zealand), 2006
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Adults of the Subfamily Tanypodinae in North America By Selwyn S. Roback
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1971
Includes key to species and brief species descriptions.
There have been a few taxonomic changes since 1971, notably the new tribe Natarsini, a few promotions and demotions of genera and subgenera within Macropelopina, and synonomy of Roback's subgenus Calotanypus with Djalmabatista.
Google books link: http://books.google.com/books?id=lYTr8SHK1u0C.
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The Black Flies (Simuliidae) of North America By Peter H. Adler et al.
Cornell University Press, 2004
Excerpt from publisher's description follows.
"Each of the 254 species known from the continent north of Mexico, including 43 new species, is treated in detail. Each species account summarizes all pertinent information on taxonomy, morphology, cytology, physiology, molecular systematics, and bionomics. The book is copiously illustrated with more than 1,100 figures, including color drawings of larvae and adult thoraxes, by some of the world’s foremost scientific illustrators. Additional figures and photographs show chromosomal and morphological features, portraits of important researchers, control efforts, natural enemies, oviposition behavior, and cladograms.
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