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A Catalogue of the Diptera of the Americas South of the United States. 1966-1984. Departamento de Zoologia, Secretaria da Agricultura, São Paulo, Brasil. [later Universidade Museu de Zoologia, São Paulo, Brasil; NCSU Libraries: QL531.C38]

Ahmed, T. V. 1978. Checklist of the mosquitoes of Bangladesh. Mosquito Systematics 19(3):187-200. [NCSU Libraries: QL536.M695]

Arnaud, P. H., Jr., 1978. A host-parasite catalog of North American Tachinidae (Diptera). United States Department of Agriculture, Science and Education Administration 1319:[i-ii], 1-860 [NCSU Libraries: Veterinary School: QL535.1.A7]

Atchley, W. R., W. W. Wirth, and T. C. Gaskins. 1975. A Bibliography and a Keyword-in- Context Index of the Ceratopogonidae (Diptera) from 1758 to 1973. Texas Tech Press, Lubbock. 300 pp. [NCSU Libraries: Z5858.D5 A85]

Barraclough, D. A., and J. G. H. Londt. 1985. Order Diptera (flies). pp. 283-321. In Scholtz, C. H., and E. Holm (eds.). Insects of Southern Africa. [viii] + 502 pp. [NCSU Libraries: QL485.A356 S36]

Bickel, D. J. 1982. Diptera. pp. 563-599. In Parker, S. P. (ed.). Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms. McGraw-Hill, New York. vol. 2. vi + 1232 pp. [NCSU Libraries: QH83.S89.5]

Bonne-Wepster, J., and N. H. Swellengrebel. 1953. Anophelines of Indo-Australian region. J. H. DeBussy, Amsterdam. 504 pp. [NCSU Libraries: QL536.B6]

Brauns, A. 1954. Puppen terricoler Dipterenlarven; eine Einfuhrung in die Kenntnis der Ruhestadien bodenlebender Zweifluglerlarven der Waldbiozonose auf systematischer Grundlage. "Musterschmidt" Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, Gottingen. 156 pp. [NCSU Libraries: QL538.B71]

Brunnetti, E. 1912. The Fauna of British India. Diptera, Nematocera Excluding Chironomidae and Culicidae. Taylor and Francis, London. xxviii + 581 pp. [keys, descriptions, plates and figures; NCSU Libraries: QL535.5.B7]

Carpenter, S. J., and W. J. LaCasse. 1954. Mosquitoes of North America (North of Mexico). University of California Press, Berkeley. [vii] + 360 pp. + 127 plates. [includes keys and illustrations; NCSU Libraries: QL536.C35]

Cole, F. R. 1969. The Flies of Western North America. University of California Press, Berkeley, California. [i-xi] + 693 pp. [includes keys and illustrations; NCSU Libraries: QL535.1.C63]

Colless, D. H., and D. K. McAlpine. 1991. Diptera (flies) pp. 717-786. In CSIRO (ed.). The Insects of Australia. A Textbook for Students and Research Workers. 2nd edition. Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Australia. 2 volumes. xvii + 1137 + vi pp. [NCSU Libraries: QL487.I5 1991]

Cook, E. F. 1971. The Australian Scatopsidae (Diptera). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplement 8:1-90. [keys to subfamilies and genera; NCSU Libraries: QL1.A861]

Crosskey, R. W. 1976. A taxonomic conspectus of the Tachinidae (Diptera) of the Oriental region. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology Supplement 26:1-338. [keys to subfamilies, tribes, genera, subgenera, species and subspecies for the region; NCSU Libraries: QL461.B651]

Crosskey, R. W. 1980. Catalogue of the Diptera of the Afrotropical Region. British Museum (Natural History), London, England. 1437 pp. [descriptions of families, listing of genera and subgenera; NCSU Libraries: QL535.6.A1 C37]

Curran, C. H. 1965. The Families and Genera of North American Diptera. 2nd edition. Tripp, Woodhaven, New York. 515 pp. [originally published in 1934; NCSU Libraries: QL535.I C8]

Darsie, R. F., Jr., and R. A. Ward. 1981. Identification and geographical distribution of the mosquitoes of North America, north of Mexico. Mosquito Systematics, Supplement 1:[i-iv], 1-131. [NCSU Libraries: QL536.D340]

Evenhuis, N. L. (ed.) 1989. Catalog of the Diptera of the Australasian and Oceanian Regions. Bishop Museum, Honolulu and E. J. Brill, Netherlands. 1,155 pp. [NCSU Libraries: QL535.8.A1 C38]

Evenhuis, N. L. 1989. Appendix 1: Diptera of Antarctica and Subantarctic islands. In Catalog of the Diptera of Australasian and Oceanic regions. Bishop Museum Special Publication 86. [NCSU Libraries: QL535.8.A1 C38 1989]

Evenhuis, N. L. 1994. Catalogue of the Fossil Flies of the World (Insecta: Diptera). Backhuys Publishers, Leiden, The Netherlands. [viii] + 600 pp. [catalogues and collections; NCSU Libraries: QE832.D6 E84]

Feng, L. C. 1958. Mosquitoes of China. Scientific Publisher, Beijing. 250 pp. [keys, figures, in Chinese; NCSU Libraries: QL536.C580]

Ferrar, P. 1987. A Guide to the Breeding Habits and Immature Stages of Diptera, Cyclorrhapha. (Entomonograph 8.) E. J. Brill, Leiden. Scandinavian Science Press, Copenhagen. 907 pp. [Diptera morphology, bibliography, figures; NCSU Libraries: QL538.F47]

Flies of the Nearctic Region. 1982 - [parts by various authors]. E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagshuchhandlung. [beginning date: 1982; NCSU Libraries: QL531.F54]

Foote, B. A. (coordinator), F. C. Thompson, G. A. Dahlem, D. S. Dennis, T. A. Stasny, and H. J. Teskey. 1991. Order Diptera. pp. 690 - 915. In Stehr, F. W. (ed.). Immature Insects. Kendall/Hunt, Dubuque, Iowa. Vol. 2. xvi + 975 pp. [NCSU Libraries: QL468.544]

Forattini, O. P. 1957. Culicoides da Região Neotropical. Pública da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. 526pp. [in Spanish; NCSU Libraries: QL536.F67]

Gagné, R. J. 1989. The Plant-feeding Gall Midges of North America. Comstock Publishing Associates, Ithaca, New York. xi + 356 pp. [NCSU Libraries: QL537.C33 G34]

Gagné, R. J. 1994. The Gall Midges of the Neotropical Region. Comstock Publishing Associates, Ithaca. xiv + 352 pp. [NCSU Libraries: QL537.C33 G33]

Griffiths, G. C. D. 1994. Relationships among the major subgroups of Brachycera (Diptera): a critical review. Canadian Entomologist 126:861-880. [NCSU Libraries: QL461 .C3]

Gupta, J. P., and K. K. Panigrahy. 1987. Some further additions to the list of Indian fauna of Drosophilidae. Proceedings of the Zoological Society, Calcutta 36(12):57-66.

Hall, J. C. 1981. A Review of the North and Central American Species of Paravilla Painter (Diptera: Bombyliidae). University of California Press, Berkeley, i-x + 198 pp. [NCSU Libraries: QL537.B65 H35]

Harrison, R. A. 1959. Acalypterate Diptera of New Zealand. New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Bulletin 128:[i]-vii, 1-382 pp. [NCSU Libraries: S381.A35]

Hennig, W. 1968. Die Larvenformen der Dipteren. (pt.2). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin. 458 pp. [NCSU Libraries: QL531.H45]

Hennig, W. 1973. Diptera (Zweiflügler). Handbuch der Zoologie 4(2) (31):1-337. [in German; NCSU Libraries: QL45.H2]

Huckett, H. C. 1965. The Muscidae of northern Canada, Alaska, and Greenland (Diptera). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 42:1-369. [NCSU Libraries: QL461.E627 1965]

Hull, F. M. 1973. Beeflies of the World: the Genera of the Family Bombyliidae. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C. xiii + 687 pp. [NCSU Libraries: QL537.B75 H85]

Jobling, B. 1987. Anatomical Drawings of Biting Flies. British Museum (Natural History) in association with Wellcome Trust, London. 119 pp.

Knight, K. L., and A. Stone. 1977. A catalog of the mosquitoes of the world (Diptera: Culicidae). Thomas Say Foundation (College Park, Maryland) 6:[i]-xi, 1-611. [covers through 1973; NCSU Libraries: QL536.K53]

Lindner, E. 1938. Die Fliegen der Palaearktischen Region. E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagbuchhandlung, Stuttgart. [multiple volumes with various pagination; NCSU Libraries: QL531.L55]

Maa, T. C. 1971. Studies in bat flies (Diptera: Streblidae, Nycteribiidae). Pacific Insects Monograph 28:1-248. Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Entomology Department, Honolulu, Hawaii. [includes bibliography; NCSU Libraries: QL461.P218]

McAlphine, J. F. 1990. Insecta: Diptera (adults). pp. 1211-1252. In Dindal, D. (ed.). Soil Biology Guide. John Wiley & Sons, New York. xviii + 1349 pp. [keys to genus for adaphic taxa of the Nearctic region; NCSU Libraries Reference Collection: QH84.8.S632]

McAlpine, J. R., B. V. Peterson, G. E. Shewell, H. J. Teskey, J. R. Vockeroth, and D. M. Wood. 1981, 1987, 1989. Manual of Nearctic Diptera. Vol. 1 (1981): Agriculture Canada Monograph 27. pp. i-vi, 1-674. Vol. 2 (1987): Agriculture Canada Monograph 28. pp. 675-1332. Vol. 3 (1989): Agriculture Canada Monograph 32. pp. i- vi, 1333-1581. [treats 108 families, 2150 genera; NCSU Libraries: QL534.M36]

Merritt, R. W., and K. W. Cummins (eds.). 1996. An Introduction to the Aquatic Insects of North America. 3rd edition. Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co., Dubuque, Iowa. xiii + 862 pp. [Diptera: chapters 22-26 by various authors; keys to families and genera, pp. 486-508; NCSU Libraries: QL473.I57 1996]

Michaelson, V. 1996. Neodiptera: new insights into the adult morphology and higher level phylogeny of Diptera (Insecta). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 117:71-102. [NCSU Libraries: QL1.L6]

Moucha, J. 1976. Horse-flies (Diptera: Tabanidae) of the world. Synoptic catalogue. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Prague Supplementum 7:1-319. [includes illustrations; NCSU Libraries: QL537.T25 C49]

Oldroyd, H. 1964. The Natural History of Flies. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London. [i-xiv] + 324 pp. [includes illustrations; NCSU Libraries: QL533.04]

Papp, L. and B. Darvas (eds.). 1997. Contributions to a Manual of Palaearctic Diptera (with Special Reference to Flies of Economic Importance), Vol. 2, Nematocera and Lower Brachycera. Science Herald, Budapest. 592 pp.

Peterson, A. 1951. Larvae of Insects. Part II. Coleoptera, Diptera, Neuroptera, Siphonaptera, Mecoptera, Trichoptera. Edwards Brothers, Ann Arbor, Michigan. v + 416 pp. [keys; NCSU Libraries: QL494.P4]

Rohdendorf, B. 1974. The Historical Development of Diptera. University of Alberta Press, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. xv + 360 pp. [original Russian edition published by Nauka, vol. 100, Transactions of the Institute Paleontology, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow, includes keys to genera; NCSU Libraries: QE832.D6 R613]

Sellers, W. F. 1943. The Nearctic species of parasitic flies belonging to Zenillia and allied genera. Proceedings of the United States Natural Museum 93:1-108. [NCSU Libraries: Gov. Doc. SI 3.6:93]

Smith, K.G.V. 1989. An introduction to the immature stages of British flies. Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects 10. (Royal Entomological Society of London, London) [some other numbers in this series also treat larval insects; NCSU Libraries: QL482.G8 R58]

Stein, P. 1919. Genera of Anthomyiidae of the World. Archiv Fur Naturgeschichte 1:85-178. [in German; NCSU Libraries: QH5.A51]

Stone, A., C. W. Sabrosky, W. W. Wirth, R. H. Foote, J. R. Coulson (and others). 1965. A catalog of the Diptera of America north of Mexico. United States Department of Agriculture Handbook 276:1-1969. [NCSU Libraries: Gov. Doc.: A1.76.276]

Stubbs, A., and P. Chandler (eds.). 1978. A dipterist's handbook. The Amateur Entomologist 15:i-ix, 1-255. Hanworth, Middlesex.

Teskey, H. J. 1990. Insecta: Diptera (larvae). pp. 1253-1276. In Dindal, D. (ed.). Soil Biology Guide. John Wiley & Sons, New York. xviii + 1349 pp. [keys to genus for adaphic taxa of the Nearctic region; NCSU Libraries Reference Collection: QH84.8.S632]

Thompson, F. C. 1990. Biosystematic information: dipterists ride the third wave. pp. 179-201. In Kosztarab, M., and C. W. Schaefer (eds.). Systematics of the North American Insects and Arachnids: Status and Needs. (Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station Information Series 90-1.) Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg. xii + 247 pp. [NCSU Libraries: S541.5.V5 I53]

Webber, R. T. 1941. Synopsis of the Tachinid flys of the genus Tachinomyia with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the United States Natural Museum 90:287-304. [NCSU Libraries: Gov. Doc. SI 3.6:90]

Yeates, D. K., and B. M. Wiegmann. 1999. Congruence and controversy: toward a higher-level phylogeny of Diptera. Annual Review of Entomology 44:397-428.

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