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Family Dolichopodidae - Longlegged Flies

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

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

A revision of the Nearctic species of Liancalus Loew (Diptera, Dolichopodidae)

By Justin B. Runyon, Richard L. Hurley
ZooKeys 483: 97-147, 2015

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Contributed by Iustin Cret on 23 February, 2015 - 11:25pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Flies (Diptera) » Orthorrhapha » Empidoidea » Longlegged Flies (Dolichopodidae) » Medeterinae » Medetera

A revision of the Nearctic Medetera (Diptera, Dolichopodidae)

By Bickel D.J.
USDA Tech. Bull. 1692. 109 pp., 1985

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Contributed by v belov on 3 July, 2017 - 1:34pm

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

Notes on southeastern North American species of Condylostylus and Sciapus (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)

By G.C. Steyskal
The Florida Entomologist, 56 (4): 359-360, 1973

Online here.

"Additional characters to separate Condylostylus caudatus (Wiedemann) and C. graenicheri (Van Duzee) and revisions to the author's 1966 key to North American species of Sciapus are given."

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Contributed by Brad Barnd on 3 February, 2012 - 6:32pm

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

The Australian Sciapodinae

By Daniel J. Bickel
Australian Museum, 1994

Full title: The Australian Sciapodinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), with a review of the Oriental and Australasian faunas, and a world conspectus of the subfamily

This 394 page paper revises the genus-level classification of Sciapodinae worldwide.

It is available free on the Australian Museum web site.

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Contributed by John F. Carr on 31 October, 2010 - 2:43pm

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

Orthogenya Dolichopodidae: Hydrophorinae

By Hurley, R.L.
Flies of the Nearctic region Volume VI. Orthogenya. Part 6, Number 2, Pp. 113–224, 1995

series editor: Graham C. D. Griffiths
publisher's website for the 1995 section
This one deals with Hydrophorus, Hydatostega, and Scellus

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Contributed by Steve Scholnick on 30 January, 2018 - 9:22pm

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

Orthogenya Dolichopodidae: Hydrophorinae

By Hurley, R.L
Griffiths Flies of Nearctic Region, Volume 6 Part 6 No. 1, 1-112, 1985

publisher's website for the 1985 section

This part deals with Hydrophorus

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Contributed by Steve Scholnick on 30 January, 2018 - 9:22pm

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