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Family Chyromyidae


A first account of Chyromyidae (Diptera: Acalyptratae) from continental Central and South America and some Caribbean Islands....
By Ebejer, MJ
Zootaxa 5319 (3): 301–331, 2023
Full title: "A first account of Chyromyidae (Diptera: Acalyptratae) from continental Central and South America and some Caribbean Islands, with descriptions of new species"

In addition to a review of the Neotropical fauna, there are some notes on Nearctic species of Gymnochyromyia (pg. 306).

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5319.3.1

Notes on the Dipterous Genus Chyromya R-D
By Malloch JR
Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 16:179-181, 1914
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The key includes Chyromya femorella Fallen 1820 and C. flava Linnaeus 1758 as well as 3 species now placed in Gymnochiromyia: Gymnochiromyia concolor Malloch 1914, G. minima Becker 1904, and G. nigrimana Malloch 1914.

An additional Chyromya species listed in Nearctica, C. oppidana Scopoli 1763, isn't included in the key.

The genus Chyromya Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera, Chyromyidae) in Britain, with description of a new species
By Gibbs, D.
Dipterists Digest 14: 13-22, 2007

Family groups of Diopsoidea and Nerioidea (Diptera: Schizophora): Definition, history and relationships
By Lonsdale O.
Zootaxa 4735: 1‒177, 2020

Comparative morphology of the male terminalia of Tephritidae and other Cyclorrhapha
By Sueyoshi M.
Isr. J. Entomol. 35: 477-496, 2005

Western Diptera: Descriptions of new genera and species of Diptera from the region west of the Mississippi and especially from C
By Osten Sacken, C. R. Baron von
Bulletin of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories 3: 189-354., 1877
I used this for original descriptions of Asilidae.

Full title:
Western Diptera: Descriptions of new genera and species of Diptera from the region west of the Mississippi and especially from California.

Found here.

Pollinating flies (Diptera): A major contribution to plant diversity and agricultural production
By Ssymank A., Kearns C.A., Pape T., Thompson F.C.
Biodiversity 9: 86‒89, 2011

New Diptera from North and Central America
By Curran C.H.
Am. Mus. novitates 415: 1-16, 1930