When describing a fly, many people think of the ubiquitous house fly (Musca domestica); whereas, some biologists might envision the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster). Both are good examples of ...
image: Identification of the first luciferin-producing insect belonging to the order Diptera in the Neotropics paves the way for researchers to investigate other biochemical functions of the molecule ...
ALL students of the order Diptera will welcome the continuance of this wholly admirable treatise. It is a model of what a faunistic work should be and, unlike so many volumes of a similar nature, it ...
Alexander, Charles P. 1929. "New species of crane flies from South America. Part 3. (Family Tipulidae, order Diptera)." Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 22, (4) 768–788.