Dipterological Links

Provided here are links to other websites throughout the world that offer significant dipterological content. The following lists will continue to grow as other sites become known to us and new sites are added to the Internet. If you have suggestions for additional links, then please send them to Jim O'Hara.

Off-site links to dipterologically-oriented web pages

American Mosquito Control Association
Assembling the Tree of Life Project - Diptera - Brian M. Wiegmann et al.
Asilidae (robber flies) home page - Fritz Geller-Grimm
BioSystematic Database of World Diptera - F. Christian Thompson
Canadian National Collection of Insects, Diptera Unit - Jeffrey M. Cumming
Catalog of the Diptera of the Australasian and Oceanian Regions - Neal L. Evenhuis
Catalogue of the crane flies (Tipulidae) of the world - Pjotr Oosterbroek
Catalogue of the fossil flies of the world - Neal L. Evenhuis
Ceratopogonidae web pages - Steve Murphree
Ceratopogonidae of Costa Rica - Art Borkent
Chironomid home page and Chironomus newsletter
Chironomidae of Florida and other chironomid resources - John Epler
Chironomidae Research Group, University of Minnesota - Leonard C. Ferrington, Jr.
Crane flies (Tipulidae) of Pennsylvania - Chen Young
Diptera of Costa Rica - Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad
Diptera.info - Paul Beuk
Diptera Site - Smithsonian and Systematic Entomology Lab., Washington
Dipterists Forum - Stuart Ball
Directory of European Dipterists - Fritz Geller-Grimm
Directory of South American Dipterists - Claudio J.B. de Carvalho
FlyBase - a database of the Drosophila genome
Fruit flies (Tephritidae) of the Afrotropical Region - Marc De Meyer & Ian White
German Dipterists' home page - Frank Menzel
Lyman Entomological Museum and Research Laboratory - McGill University
Mosquito (Culicidae) identification resources at Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit
Mosquito (Culicidae) Systematic Catalog
Mydidae home page - Torsten Dikow
Phoridae (phorid flies) - Brian V. Brown
Sarcophagidae - Thomas Pape
Sarcophagidae Central - Gregory A. Dahlem
Studia dipterologica - Journal of taxonomy, systematics, ecology and faunistics of Diptera
Syrphidae website - Bastiaan Wakkie
Tachinid Recording Scheme - UK Tachinidae, Chris Raper
Tephritidae (fruit fly) taxonomy pages - Allen L. Norrbom
Therevidae (stiletto flies) - Michael Irwin
Tree of Life Web Project, Diptera - Brian M. Wiegmann & David K. Yeates
University of Guelph Insect Collection - Steve Marshall
Volucella - Dieter Doczkal & Ulrich Schmid
World Diptera systematists home page - Neal L. Evenhuis

Off-site links to Diptera type holdings

ASCT - NSW Agricultural Scientific Collections Unit, New South Wales, Australia
BPBM - Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawai'i, USA
CAS - Department of Entomology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, USA
CUI - Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
DEI - Deutsches Entomologisches Institut, Eberswalde, Germany
LACM - Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California, USA
MCZ - Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
OSU - Department of Entomology, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
ZMUC - Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen, Denmark [incl. Fabricius types]