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Subfamily Ephydrinae


Studies of Ephydrinae (Diptera: Ephydridae), VII: Revision of the Genus Setacera Cresson
By Wayne N. Mathis
Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, Number 350, , 1982
Online here.

A systematic study of Coenia and Paracoenia (Diptera: Ephydridae)
By Wayne N. Mathis
Great Basin Naturalist, 1975
Vol 35, No 1, Article 8; pp 65-85

https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/gbn/vol35/iss1/8

A revision of the Nearctic species of Limnellia Malloch (Diptera: Ephydridae)
By Mathis, W.N.
Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 91(1): 250-293, 1978

Studies of Parydrinae (Diptera: Ephydridae), I: A Review of the Genus Brachydeutera Loew from the Oriental, Australian...
By Wayne N. Mathis and Kumar D Ghorpade
Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 1985
Access to the full article is currently at this link:
https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/5665

An adventive species of Brachydeutera Loew in North America (Diptera: Ephydridae)
By Mathis, W.N. and W.E. Steiner, Jr.
Journal of the New York Entomological Society 94 (1): 56-61, 1986
Preview at JSTOR. [I have pdf if anyone needs]

Reports Brachydeutera longipes as new to the United States, and includes key to North American species of Brachydeutera.

Synopses of North American Ephydridae (Diptera). III. The Tribe Notiphilini of the Subfamily Notiphilinae
By Ezra T. Cresson, Jr
Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 1946
Includes the following genera:
> Oedenops
> Paralimna (Phaiosterna and nominate Paralimna)
> Dichaeta
> Notiphila (Agrolimna and nominate Notiphila)
> Typopsilopa

Available here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25077550

Synopses of Nearctic Ephydridae (Diptera)
By A.H. Sturtevant and M.R. Wheeler
Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 1953
Vol 79, No 4 / pp. 151-257
https://www.jstor.org/stable/25077672

New Species and Taxonomic Clarifications for Shore Flies from the Delmarva States (Diptera: Ephydridae)
By Wayne N Mathis & Tadeusz Zatwarnicki
Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 2010
112(1), pp. 97-128

https://doi.org/10.4289/0013-8797-112.1.97