Page maintained by Ken Merrifield. Thanks to all who have contributed the links that have been incorporated here. Last updated 24 November 2018.
Disclaimer: Inclusion of any sites or organisations does not constitute recommendation or endorsement. Errors and omissions excluded. No responsibility can be accepted for the contents of web sites, which may change.
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.brc.ac.uk/soldierflies-and-allies/ Soldierflies and Allies Recording Scheme
- http://scathophagidae.myspecies.info/ British Scathophagidae - Scathophagid recording scheme incl. key checklist and illustrations
- http://www.mallochsociety.org.uk/ the Malloch Society; particularly Scottish Diptera
- http://www.uel.ac.uk/mosquito/ the European Mosquito Bulletin
- http://www.biodiversityireland.ie/proje … /database/ National Biodiversity Database of Ireland Syphids incl keys and Syrph the net links, also Hymenoptera
- http://www.invertebrate-challenge.org.u … urces.aspx FSC Invertebrate Challenge, Shropshire Entomology newsletter, training and ID resources (incl. illustrations for features in Stubbs and Falk)
- http://davidjgibbs.webs.com/pipunculidae.htm The Pipunculidae Study Group, maps and test key to Genera
- http://www.blackfly.org.uk/index.html "A hub of information about blackflies and blackfly enthusiasts" The British Simuliid Group
Diptera (World)
- http://www.diptera.info/ Diptera site maintained by Paul Beuk
- http://diptera.org/ Systema Diptorum – 'the BioSystematic Database of World Diptera' by F. Christian Thompson and Thomas Pape, Nomenclator and the References database (formerly BioSystematic Database of World Diptera)
- http://www.syrphidae.com Diptera site maintained by Bastiaan Wakkie (Netherlands)
- http://www.ak-diptera.de German Dipterist's Group
- http://www.spessart-fliegen.de/ local Diptera web site for Germany by Juergen Kappert, photo gallery and details of specimen preparation and photography
- http://diptera.myspecies.info/ The (New) Diptera Site taxonomy, phylogeny and nomenclature of Diptera, Links to sites for individual Diptera Families
- http://www.geller-grimm.de/asilidae.htm Robber Flies (Asilidae) by Fritz Geller-Grimm Diptera, links and resources
- http://waarneming.nl/download/fotogidsAsilidae.pdf Robberflies of Netherlands & Belgium incl. Denmark & British Isles. An excellent photo-guide to northern European robberflies, by Reinoud van den Broek and André Schulten, is available to download - text in Dutch, superbly illustrated:
- http://home.hccnet.nl/mp.van.veen/conopidae/index.html Conopidae of Northwest Europe by Mark van Veen Therevidae, Conopidae, Rhagionidae), also sea-shells, grasshoppers and dragonflies
- http://dolicho.narod.ru/ "all about Dolichopodidae" Checklists Russia, Norway, Sweden, Bibliography, by Igor Grichanov at All-Russian Institute of Plant Protection Resources lists incl http://dolicho.narod.ru/SwedenGenera.htm key to Swedish (and most British) genera of Dolichopodidae and Campsicnemus. also http://dolicho.narod.ru/SwedenThrypticus.htm
- http://www.sciaroidea.info/ Fungus Gnats Online superfamily Sciaroidea, bibliography, specimen image database
- http://milichiidae.info/ Milichiidae online
- http://www.taxodros.uzh.ch/ TaxoDros The database on Taxonomy of Drosophilidae, Classification, Descriptions, References, Biodiversity
- 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://pte.au.poznan.pl/dipteron/ Bulletin of The Dipterological Section of The Polish Entomological Society
- 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 and The Tachinid Times newsletters at North American Dipterists Society (NADS)
- http://ccw.naturalis.nl/ Catalogue of the Craneflies of the World (CCW) Pjotr Oosterbroek, Amsterdam, Manual, literature
- http://sepsidnet-rmbr.nus.edu.sg/ "Sepsidnet is the digital equivalent of a reference collection. It can be used to confirm species identifications." At National University of Singapore (all but 3 of British species included at 2013)
- http://www.natuurpunt.be/uploads/ezines … e_2013.pdf Syrphidae Photo Guide by Andre Schulten
- http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/aocat/ Catalogue of Diptera of Austrasian and Oceanian Regions, at Bishop Museum, Hawaii
- http://www.kolumbus.fi/esko.viitanen/sp … idae_e.htm Finnish Crane flies, Trichoceridae, Ptychopteridae, Anisopodidae, Psychodidae incl Tipulid wing photographs http://www.kolumbus.fi/esko.viitanen/ti … wing_e.htm
- http://www.earthlife.net/insects/diptera.html Diptera page at Earthlife
- http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Diptera Tree of Life Diptera page including links to collections, Diptera images and movies
- 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://www.drawwing.org/ DrawWing is a software for analysis of insect wing images and extraction of some information about the wings. Incl some Diptera wing pictures
- http://www.pensoft.net/journals/zookeys … s-diptera- checklist of Italian soldierflies (Stratiomyiidae), by Franco Mason, includes a key to the five Italian species in genus Chorisops, and should be helpful in separating the two species we have in the UK (C. tibialis and C. nagatomii)
- http://phorid.net/zadbi/ "ZADBI is a 3-year National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to estimate fly biodiversity within a Costa Rican cloud forest." "A landmark research project using flies to estimate tropical biodiversity"
Leaf Mines (see also Galls)
- http://www.ukflymines.co.uk/ "The leaf and stem mines of British flies and other insects" (Coleoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera and Lepidoptera) by Brian Pitkin, Willem Ellis, Colin Plant and Rob Edmunds. "A total of 885 British leaf, stem, twig, bark and samara miners are included in this account. A total of 1, 100 insects are discussed, although not all are miners as all agromyzids recorded in Britain and Ireland whether miner or not are included."
- http://www.bladmineerders.nl/ Leaf miners of Europe (bilingual) includes Galls
Diptera Blogs
- https://twitter.com/flygirlNHM Erica McAlister @flygirlNHM Diptera Curator’s Blog'
- https://twitter.com/NHM_Diptera NHM Diptera @NHM_Diptera "News and views from @NHM_London's curators of Diptera. Follow us for behind the scenes stories about our collection of flies and the people who care for them."
- https://twitter.com/DipteristsForum Dipterists Forum @DipteristsForum The Society for the study of flies (Diptera) Affiliated to the British Entomological and Natural History Society (BENHS)
- http://chrisraper.org.uk/blog/ Chris Raper's Blog, also Articles on Collecting Insects, Malaise trapping, Parasitica
- http://stamfordsyrpher.blogspot.co.uk/ 'Syrphing Time' by Roger Morris, ".. an occasional diary of information to feed back to hoverfly recorders in the UK and elsewhere"
- http://northantsdiptera.blogspot.co.uk/ Northants Diptera Blogspot, Northamptonshire Diptera by John Showers
- http://flyobsession.net/ Diptera Blog by Brian V. Brown, Curator of Entomology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
- http://www.biodiversityinfocus.com/blog/about/ Entomology Blog by Morgan D. Jackson, Univ Guelph Canada, working on Micropezidae, Biodiversity, Taxonomy also photographs http://www.biodiversityinfocus.com/
Other Blogs
- http://squaremetre1.blogspot.co.uk/ Patrick Roper's Blog "The Square Metre at TQ 78286 18846" also details at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvO_8_Ch6lE
- https://windowboxwildlife.blogspot.com/ Window box wildlife Patrick Roper
- http://bugmanjones.com/ Entomology Blog by Richard Jones
- https://beetlesinthebush.wordpress.com/ Experiences and reflections of a Missouri entomologist by Ted C. MacRae
- https://simonleather.wordpress.com/cate … cs/page/2/ Blog by Prof Simon Leather, Harper Adams Univ. Aphids and ento equipment
Photo Sites
- www.bioimages.org.uk Virtual Field Guide, photographs British (with extensive Links pages)
- http://www.flickr.com/photos/63075200@N07/collections/ Steven Falk's Photostream, incl http://www.flickr.com/photos/63075200@N … 586945825/ Diptera ID photos
- https://www.flickr.com/photos/63075200@ … 686275806/ Steve Falk's Calliphoridae (blowflies) ID page on Flickr
- https://www.flickr.com/photos/63075200@ … 345084836/ Steve Falk's Rhinophoridae (woodlouse flies) ID page on Flickr
- https://www.flickr.com/photos/63075200@ … 490422881/ Steve Falk's Sarcophagidae (flesh flies & satellite flies) ID page on Flickr
- http://www.stevenfalk.co.uk/ Website incl. paintings for sale
- http://www.edphillipswildlife.com/ Ed Phillips Wildlife "Insect, Macro and Wildlife Images"
- http://www.natuurpunt.be/uploads/ezines … e_2013.pdf Syrphidae Photo Guide by Andre Schulten
- http://cyrille.dussaix.pagesperso-orange.fr/ Europensis Syrphidae photo site by Pierre Mille photosite of European Syrphidae, in French, Bibliography, illustrated key to genera
- http://www.spessart-fliegen.de/ photographs of Diptera in northeastern part of the Spessart in Germany by Dr. Jürgen Kappert, Also details of techniques and identification
- http://www.biodiversityinfocus.com/ " the photography of entomologist Morgan D. Jackson." Blogs about Biodiversity, Taxonomy, Diptera (Univ. Guelph Canada, working on Micropezidae)
- http://aramel.free.fr/ Petit cours illustré d'entomologie, "environ 25 000 photos, 415 pages et plus de 150 dessins..." incl videos
- https://insecte.org/ "Le site du Monde des insectes est le lieu de rencontre de tous les passionnés d'insectes et autres arthropodes, quels que soient leurs niveaux, leurs approches et leurs objectifs." The site of the world of insects is the meeting place of all the enthusiasts of insects and other arthropods, whatever their levels, their approaches and objectives. Gallery incl. Diptera & Forum (in French)
- http://micropics.org.uk/text_index.htm Invertebrate photographs including Diptera; author of stacking program CombineZ
- https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/combinez/info Yahoo support group for CombineZ
- http://www.kolumbus.fi/esko.viitanen/index_e.htm Insect photographs by Esco Vitanen in Finland, incl craneflies and their wings.
- https://corzonneveld.nl/diptera/Diptera.php Natural History Photographs by Cor Zonneveld, Netherlands, Diptera, also most insect orders, plants, fungi
- https://arthropodafotos.de/dbfa.php?lan … 8_dipt_bra Natural History Photographs by Marion Friedrich
- https://macroid.ru/ Photo gallery in Russian
- https://www.biodiversidadvirtual.org/insectarium/ Spanish Photo gallery, animals, plants including habitats
On-Line Keys (see also Photo Sites
- 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/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.hbrg.org.uk/FoHW/Pollenia/Key.pdf key to UK Pollenia at Highland Biological Recording Group site
- https://sites.google.com/site/mikesinsectkeys/Home Mike Hackston's illustrated identification aids for insects from pictures in older publications. Coleoptera from Joy and illustrations for public RES keys: Diptera on overflow site
- https://sites.google.com/site/mikesinsectkeys2/ Cecidomyiidae, Dolichopodidae, Empididae, Hybotidae and others being added
- http://www.iikculicoides.net/ an interactive identification key for Culicoides (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) females from the Western Palaearctic region. 2012
- http://www.eafe.org/Members_area_files/ … _imago.pdf Key for identification of European and Mediterranean blowflies (Diptera, Calliphoridae) of forensic importance Adult flies by Krzysztof Szpila
- http://thetopshamnaturalist.blogspot.co … ttles.html photographs and updated C&H key to 7 green-bottle species
- http://www.mydiptera.webege.com/diptera.html Key for the identification of the world suborders of Diptera. Based on "Manual of Nearctic Diptera" and other Internet material Leif Karlsson
- http://ccw.naturalis.nl/literature.php Draft British Cranefly keys by Alan Stubbs and John Kramer hosted on Catalogue of the Craneflies of the World, 'Search Literature' Author "Stubbs Kramer" for current keys
- http://www.ento.csiro.au/biology/fly/fly.html Anatomical Atlas of Fly structure (needs broadband)
- https://www.giand.it/diptera/intro/?lang=en Italian site (English translation) on Flies [Insecta: Diptera], including diagrams of anatomy and morphological nomenclature
Taxonomy
- https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/uk-species.html the UK Species Inventory, maintained by the Natural History Museum - see also the UKSI 'snadbox' which provides additional search and reference tools: http://nbn-sd-dev.nhm.ac.uk/index.php
- 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://bionames.org/ "A database linking taxonomic names to their original descriptions, to taxa, and to phylogenies."
- http://www.organismnames.com/ "ION contains the organism names related data gathered from the scientific literature for Thomson Reuters' Zoological Record® database. Viruses, bacteria and plant names will be added from other Thomson Reuters databases such as BIOSIS Previews®."
- http://www.eol.org/ Encyclopaedia of Life EOL Global access to knowledge about life on Earth
- http://www.catalogueoflife.org/search/node Catalogue of Life search
- http://www.sp2000.org/ "Species 2000 is an autonomous federation of taxonomic database custodians, involving taxonomists throughout the world. Our goal is to collate a uniform and validated index to the world's known species (plants, animals, fungi and microbes)."
- http://www.itis.gov/ "Welcome to ITIS, the Integrated Taxonomic Information System! Here you will find authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world. We are a partnership of U.S., Canadian, and Mexican agencies (ITIS-North America); other organizations; and taxonomic specialists. ITIS is also a partner of Species 2000 and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). The ITIS and Species 2000 Catalogue of Life (CoL) partnership is proud to provide the taxonomic backbone to the Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)."
- http://www.gbif.org/dataset/d7dddbf4-2c … 099caae36c "GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, often called the Nub taxonomy, is a single synthetic management classification with the goal of covering all names GBIF is dealing with."
- http://biostor.org/ "BioStor Articles from the Biodiversity Heritage Library"
- http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ The Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community. Scans of classic literature and some recent journals
- http://collections.si.edu/search/ Species names and specimens in Smithsonian Institution
- http://animaldiversity.org/ "Animal Diversity Web (ADW) is an online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology at the University of Michigan"
- http://www2.nrm.se/en/welcome.html.en Entomology at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Type images and checklist of specimens
- http://iczn.org/ International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) (also http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted-sites/iczn/code/ ICZN Code online)
- http://www.ala.org.au/ Atlas of Living Australia, lists names of organisms if found in Australia. List of collections
- http://www.biolib.cz/en/main/ BioLib is an international encyclopedia of plants, fungi and animals.
- http://www.researchgate.net/ "Advance your research Discover scientific knowledge, and make your research visible. Our mission is to connect researchers and make it easy for them to share and access scientific output, knowledge, and expertise. On ResearchGate they find what they need to advance their research."
- http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/list/2012/3450.html A mega-journal for zoological taxonomists in the world
- http://www.abctaxa.be/ Abc Taxa is the product of the Belgian National Focal Point to the Global Taxonomy Initiative, a series of peer-reviewed manuals dedicated to capacity building in zoological and botanical taxonomy, in collection management and in good practices in taxonomic and curatorial research.
- http://www.studia-dipt.de/ Studia dipterologica (ISSN 1433-4968) is a journal of taxonomy, systematics, ecology and faunistics of Diptera
- http://www.entomologi.no/journals/nje/nje.htm Norwegian Journal of Entomology "NJE is a continuation of Fauna Norvegica Serie B (1979-1998), Norwegian Journal of Entomology (1975-1978), and Norsk entomologisk Tidsskrift (1921-1974). With its long tradition, the journal provides important documentation of the Norwegian fauna over time for future research and management." In English
- http://cybertaxonomy.eu/ "The EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy is a collection of open source tools and services which together cover all aspects of the taxonomic workflow."
- http://insecta.pro/ Insecta.pro (ex Lepidoptera.pro) website is devoted to the class of the same name invertebrate animals. In the relevant sections you will find updated taxa tree, catalog of insects species with selection parameters, gallery with thousands of photos, online service for maintaining entomological collections linked to the website catalog with ability to share information with other users, as well as the community of experts and hexapod fans.
Pronunciation
- http://capewest.ca/pron.html Pronunciation of Biological Latin by Peter Ommundsen (Cape West Publishing, Canada)
- http://www.ai.uga.edu/mc/latinpro.pdf Latin Pronunciation Demystified by Michael A. Covington University of Georgia
Other Aspects of Taxonomy
- http://www.curioustaxonomy.net/ Curiosities of Biological Nomenclature
- http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/BOGUS/menke.html Funny or Curious Zoological Names (404 Jan 2017)
Museums & Collection Management
- http://fenscore.man.ac.uk/ Federation for Natural Sciences Collections Research; searchable national database of collection information
- http://www.natsca.org/ Natural Science Collections Association, with database of Museums and collections
- http://www.texasento.net/equip.htm Insect collecting information, Texas Entomology site
- http://www.uoguelph.ca/debu/ University of Guelph Insect Collection, Ontario, Canada's oldest insect collection, World Catalogue of Sphaeroceridae download, Photoguide to Insect Orders
- http://biologicalsurvey.ca/ The Biological Survey of Canada (BSC) is a not-for-profit organization that helps to coordinate scientific research among specialists on the Canadian biota.
- http://biologicalsurvey.ca/briefs details of labels standards, role of voucher specimens etc. at The Biological Survey of Canada
- 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://thornesinsects.com/en/links.html "Thorne's Insect Shoppe is dedicated to bringing you the best quality in dead, dried insects for the collector and artisan." Canada with links to mounting techniques
- http://www.nhm.ac.uk/natureplus/blogs/d … teway=true Diptera Curator’s Blog' - Erica McAlister
- http://chrisraper.org.uk/blog/ Chris Raper's Blog, also Articles on Collecting Insects, Malaise trapping, Parasitica
- https://groups.freecycle.org/group/Muse … /posts/all Museum Freecycle
- Data Label templates
- http://www.insectnet.com/downloads.htm Excel spreadsheet template
- http://www.bugtag.com/ Word for Windows Macro for data labels
- http://nbn.org.uk/Tools-Resources/NBN-D … onary.aspx UK Species Inventory / NBN Species Dictionary at NHM
- http://data.nhm.ac.uk/ Natural History Museum NHMUK (BM(NH) online Data Portal
General Entomology and Recording sites
- http://www.amentsoc.org/ AES Amateur Entomologist' Society, Insect factsheets and details of Insect Orders, Entomological Glossary
- http://www.benhs.org.uk BENHS British Entomological and Natural History Society
- http://www.royensoc.co.uk/ "The Royal Entomological Society plays a major national and international role in disseminating information about insects and improving communication between entomologists."
- http://www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology/ Natural History Museum (BM(NH)) Entomology Department
- http://www.nhm.ac.uk/science/projects/worldmap measuring biodiversity value & conservation priority BM(NH)
- http://scratchpads.eu/ Scratchpads home page with details http://scratchpads.eu/about
- http://www.bugbios.com/ insect site with links
- http://www.earthlife.net/insects/orders-key.html Key to Orders of Insects
- http://www.kendall-bioresearch.co.uk/key.htm Key to Orders of Insects (David A Kendall BSc PhD Consulting Entomologist)
- http://www.amentsoc.org/insects/glossary/ Amateur Entomologists' Society Entomologists' Glossary:
- http://www.bijlmakers.com/glossary/glossary.htm database of technical terms re Entomology etc. © Hein Bijlmakers.
- https://insects.tamu.edu/fieldguide/glossary.htm Glossary of Entomological and other (often American) terms at Texas A&M University
- http://www.ento.csiro.au/biology/fly/fly.html Anatomical Atlas of Fly structure (needs broadband)
- http://www.lakelandwildlife.co.uk/collections.htm Virtual Fauna of Lakeland Website (incl Hets, Coleoptera, Lepidoptera)
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/ PubMed comprises more than 23 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE
- http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/ … index.html "The UK species inventory aims to compile the names of all UK species from a series of comprehensive and authoritative checklists."
- http://www.tombio.uk/idsignpost "Identification resources for biological identification in the UK" at Tomorrow’s Biodiversity FSC project