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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Subfamily Oscinellinae


Phylogeny and revised classification of the tribe Elachipterini (Diptera: Chloropidae)
By Julia J. Mlynarek & Terry A. Wheeler
Zootaxa, 2018
Abstract at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30313416

The Hippelates Flies or Eye Gnats: Preliminary Notes
By Sabrosky, C.W.
The Canadian Entomologist 73(2): 23-27, 1941

Notes on Hippelates (Diptera: Chloropidae), with a new Brazilian species
By Aldrich, J.M.
Proceedings of The Entomological Society of Washington 33: 69-72, 1931
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from the paper: "It is not proposed to revise the genus herein, but merely to give some notes along with the description of the new species." The paper contains a section on distinguishing between H. plebejus, H. nobilis, and H. proboscideus

The Genera of Flies in the Subfamily Botanobiinae with Hind Tibial Spur
By Malloch, J.R.
Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 46:239-266, 1914
old revision of Hippelates, Pseudohippelates, Prohippelates and Ceratobarys

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A New Species of Eribiolus from California (Diptera, Chloropidae)
By Curtis W. Sabrosky
The Pan-Pacific Entomologist, 1950
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/254712#page/96/mode/1up

A New Nearctic Species of Stenoscinis, with Key to the Species of the Western Hemisphere (Diptera, Chloropidae)
By Curtis W. Sabrosky
Entomological News (American Entomological Society), 1961
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2666387#page/31/mode/1up

Conioscinella Zetterstedti Andersson (Diptera: Chloropidae), A Chloropid Fly With Polymorphic Wing Reduction
By Terry A. Wheeler
The Canadian Entomologist, 1994
Abstract at https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/canadian-entomologist/article/conioscinella-zetterstedti-andersson-diptera-chloropidae-a-chloropid-fly-with-polymorphic-wing-reduction-new-to-the-nearctic-and-central-palaearctic-regions/C0A1F7FA57839900E862A8DF3448B31F

A revision of the Nearctic Species of the Genus Gaurax (Diptera, Chloropidae)
By Sabrosky CW
American Midland Naturalist 45(2): 407-431, 1951
available at JSTOR