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Family Stratiomyidae - Soldier flies


Microchrysa flaviventris (Wiedemann), a new immigrant soldier fly in the United States (Diptera: Stratiomyidae)
By Woodley N.E.
Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 111: 527-529, 2009

New North American records for the Palearctic soldier fly, Chloromyia formosa (Scopoli) (Diptera, Stratiomyidae)
By Hoebeke E.R., Pechuman L.L.
Entomological News 93: 177-179, 1982

Notes on my monograph of Odontomyia (Diptera, Stratiomyidae)
By James M.T.
Bull. Brooklyn Ent. Soc. 34: 220, 1939

The status of Odontomyia arcuata Loew, O. inaequalis Loew, and their close relatives in western North America (D: Stratiomyidae)
By James M.T.
J. Kans. Ent. Soc. 47: 222‒226, 1974

The genus Odontomyia in America north of Mexico (Diptera, Stratiomyidae)
By M.T. James
Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 29:, 517-550, 1936
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The species of Hermetia of the aurata group (Diptera: Stratiomyidae)
By James M.T., Wirth W.W.
Proceedings of the United States National Museum 123: 1-19, 1967

Notes on Nemotelus (Dipt. Stratiomyidae)
By James MT
Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 31: 86-91, 1936
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New Species of the Genus Nemotelus from the Western United States (Diptera: Stratiomyidae)
By Hanson, WJ
Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 133-146, 1963
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contains a key to the species the subgenus Camptopelta found in America north of Mexico
Note: Although the key is labelled "Key to Species in America North of Mexico", it doesn't include Nemotelus kansensis and it doesn't use the presence or absence of R4 as a character state.