The Soldier Flies or Stratiomyidae of California

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The Soldier Flies or Stratiomyidae of California

By James, M. T.
University of California Press, 1960
Cite: 138779 with citation markup [cite:138779]

Available from the Essig Museum web site at the link: http://essig.berkeley.edu/documents/cis/cis06_5.pdf. The treatment is technical, but (with patience and perseverance) helpful for working on California Stratiomyidae. Some comments:

There are keys to California genera and species...but they are not complete as known and recognized by the author in 1960: e.g. the Euparyphus-Aocletus complex appears in couplet 16 of the key to genera, but is not discussed further; and the subfamily Pachygastrinae is not treated). Also, genus Odontomyia is treated under the name Eulalia.
The PDF linked to above is missing pages 119 and 120 (which apparently contain various figures/plates).
No (labelled) wing venation reference diagrams appear in the text...so the general diagrams here and here may be helpful (as well as many more here).
Many range maps are included (some of them rotated in the PDF, a minor irritation).

PostScript (9/19/2020): A better scan (including the missing pages/plates) is available via an online book-viewer interface at the link below: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.32106012600430&view=2up&seq=1.

Contributed by Aaron Schusteff on 22 August, 2007 - 3:56pm
Last updated 19 September, 2020 - 3:53pm

Does anybody have an original version of this document ?

It would be wonderful if the missing plates could be posted:
Plates 1 to 5 (p. 116(?) & p. 117) and
Plates 7 and 8 (p. 119 & p. 120).

… Emile, 2 October, 2011 - 9:32am

Missing plates 7 & 8 now available online

HathiTrust has an online accessible version of this reference with the missing plates 7 & 8 from pp. 119-120...e.g. see link below:

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.32106012600430&view=2up&seq=46

Apparently "pp. 116-117" are the (unnumbered) pages preceding the first plate (i.e. Plate 5 on page 118) and (strangely) there are no "Plates 1-5" at the end of the book (note the book info summary on the 2nd page indicates "Pp. 79-121, plates 6-10, 19 maps").

… Aaron Schusteff, 19 September, 2020 - 3:19pm

Thanks, Aaron !

… Emile, 20 September, 2020 - 8:44am

New link

The link to the document has changed.
For the new link click here.

… Emile, 28 March, 2008 - 12:16pm

Thanks Emile

...I corrected/updated the link to the document.

… Aaron Schusteff, 7 September, 2009 - 5:53pm

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