The Society for the study of flies (Diptera)

British Isles Diptera
http://www.dipteristsforum.org.uk/ Dipterists Forum Web Site
http://www.hoverfly.org.uk Hoverfly Recording Scheme, UK, maps, checklist, NBN link, Newsletters
http://tachinidae.org.uk/ Tachinid Recording Scheme (details of scheme and papers and keys)
http://www.mallochsociety.org.uk/ the Malloch Society was formed in 1988 to improve knowledge and awareness of Diptera, particularly Scottish Diptera
http://www.uel.ac.uk/mosquito/ locus of the European Mosquito Bulletin
Leaf Mines
http://www.ukflymines.co.uk/ Provisional keys for the identification of the known leaf and stem mines of flies of Britain.
http://www.leafmines.co.uk/ project to photograph and record all the leaf mining fauna which occur in Britain.
Photo Sites
www.bioimages.org.uk Virtual Field Guide, photographs (with extensive Links pages)

Diptera (World)
http://www.diptera.info/ Diptera site maintained by Paul Beuk
http://www.syrphidae.com Diptera site maintained by Bastiaan Wakkie (Netherlands)
http://www.ak-diptera.de German Dipterist's Group
http://diptera.myspecies.info/ A community driven site for authoritative information on Diptera.
http://www.geller-grimm.de/asilidae.htm Robber Flies (Asilidae) by Fritz Geller-Grimm Diptera, entomology links and resources
http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Diptera Tree of Life Diptera page including links to collections, Diptera images and movies
http://diptera.myspecies.info/diptera/c … ho-diptera The Diptera Site maintained by Irina Brake; taxonomy, phylogeny and nomenclature of Diptera, Links to sites for individual Diptera Families
http://www.sciaroidea.info/ Fungus Gnats Online superfamily Sciaroidea, bibliography, specimen image database
http://milichiidae.info/ Milichiidae online
http://home.hccnet.nl/mp.van.veen/index_e.html Distribution data of Robberflies and Bombylid flies in the Netherlands. Keys and guides to a couple of fly families
http://www.tam.pp.fi/syrph/english.html Syrphidae of Finland; site with details of book
http://www.iol.ie/~millweb/syrph/syrphid.htm Syrph the Net web site (prediction of Syrphid fauna of a site from its ecology)
http://pte.au.poznan.pl/dipteron/ Dipteron Journal by Christian Kassebeer (in German with English summary)
http://www.nadsdiptera.org/ North American Dipterists Society, Fly Times newsletter
http://www.uoguelph.ca/nadsfly/Tach/TTimes/TThome.htm The Tachinid Times Newsletter, Nearctic Tachinid Resources
http://pte.au.poznan.pl/dipteron/ Bulletin of The Dipterological Section of The Polish Entomological Society
http://www.earthlife.net/insects/diptera.html Diptera page at Earthlife
http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/Diptera/biosys.htm The BioSystematic Database of World Diptera (BDWD) names and information about those names and the taxa to which they apply. Nomenclator to check names. reference database to printed works about flies, and collections
(also in http://www.faunaeur.org/index.php Fauna Europaea The scientific names of all European land and freshwater animals brought together in one authoritative database. Name search, distribution maps)
http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/aocat/ Catalogue of Diptera of Austrasian and Oceanian Regions, at Bishop Museum, Hawaii

On-Line Keys
http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfd/library/FI … 62001b.pdf modification of the Nearctic Manual key, families of Diptera, British Columbia
http://delta-intkey.com/britin/dip/www/intro.htm site using DELTA and Intkey, plates from the works of Curtis
http://www.online-keys.net/news.php Online keys incl. Sylvicola, Xylophagus, Asteiidae
http://home.hccnet.nl/mp.van.veen/fe_ento.html Netherlands Diptera site - Keys and provisional keys Conopidae, Rhagionidae and Athericidae, Therevidae, Bombyliidae of North West Europe
http://www.ento.csiro.au/biology/fly/fly.html Anatomical Atlas of Fly structure (needs broadband)

Taxonomy
http://nbn.nhm.ac.uk/nhm/ National Biodiversity Network's Species Dictionary, Natural History Museum
http://www.faunaeur.org/index.php Fauna Europaea The scientific names of all European land and freshwater animals brought together in one authoritative database. Name search, distribution maps
http://iczn.org/ International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) (also http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted-sites/iczn/code/ ICZN Code online)
Pronunciation
http://www.saltspring.com/capewest/pron.htm
http://www.ai.uga.edu/mc/latinpro.pdf
Other Aspects of Taxonomy
http://home.earthlink.net/~misaak/taxonomy.html Curiosities of Biological Nomenclature
http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/BOGUS/menke.html Funny or Curious Zoological Names

Museums & Collection Management
http://fenscore.man.ac.uk/ Federation for Natural Sciences Collections Research; searchable national database of collection information
http://www.texasento.net/equip.htm Insect collecting information, Texas Entomology site
http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/bsc/english/briefs.htm Biological Survey of Canada; Scientific Briefs, incl. Data Label Standards and the role of voucher specimens
http://www.insects.uku.co.uk/info/Making a colection.htm Introductory details of making Lepidoptera collection at UK Insects Info.
http://www.dissectiongroup.co.uk/ images (British) moth genitalia, Notes on techniques and photography

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/blogs/d … teway=true 'Diptera Curator’s Blog' - Erica McAlister


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