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Archisargidae
Archisargidae (Rohdendorf) is an extinct Jurassic family of brachyceran flies in Archisargoidea, known from Central and East Asia (Karabastau, Daohugou) and one Australian species, Calosargus talbragarensis.
Archisargoidea
Archisargoidea is an extinct superfamily of primitive lower Brachycera flies (Diptera) of the Middle Jurassic to mid-Cretaceous, with families Archisargidae, Eremochaetidae, Kovalevisargidae, and Orientisargidae, known from Kazakhstan and China and probably parasitoid.
Archizelmiridae
Archizelmiridae is an extinct family of sciaroid flies (Diptera) from the Middle Jurassic to Late Cretaceous, established by Rohdendorf in 1962 for Archizelmira kazachstanica; six species in four genera, including Burmazelmira with the only aristate antennae outside Brachycera.
Cenozoic Diptera
Cenozoic Diptera are fossil flies preserved as compression fossils in Paleogene and Neogene lake sediments rather than amber, known from over 3,100 species at sites like Florissant and Green River.
Culicoides
Culicoides biting midges (Ceratopogonidae), genus erected by Latreille 1809; 1–3 mm blood-feeding flies, over 1,400 species worldwide, primary vectors of bluetongue, African horse sickness, and Oropouche viruses.
Diptera genera of uncertain geological placement
Diptera genera of uncertain geological placement are named fossil fly genera that cannot be confidently assigned to a specific geological period, family, or amber deposit, as flagged by the Fossil Diptera Catalog.
Diptera in amber
Diptera in amber are flies preserved as inclusions in fossilized tree resin, abundant in Burmese, Baltic, and Dominican amber, including extinct families and the oldest known mosquitoes.
Diptera taxonomy
Diptera taxonomy is the classification of the true flies, an order split into Nematocera and Brachycera, whose oldest fossils date to the Triassic 240 million years ago.
Dipterologiae Italicae prodromus
Dipterologiae italicae prodromus, Camillo Rondani's Latin monograph on Italian Diptera published in Parma from 1856 (six or seven volumes, sources differ), with dichotomous keys and species descriptions still used in fly taxonomy.
Entomologia Carniolica
Entomologia Carniolica, Scopoli's 1763 Latin catalog of Carniola's insects, 420 pages, 1,153 arthropod species, Linnaean method, published by Trattner in Vienna, foundational for Slovenian and Italian entomology.
Eremochaetidae
Eremochaetidae is an extinct family of brachyceran flies from the Late Jurassic to Late Cretaceous of Asia and Burmese amber, erected by Ussatchov in 1968, with endoparasitoid females bearing needle-like ovipositors.
Fur Formation
The Fur Formation, known in Danish as moler, is a Danish clayey diatomite deposit about 55 million years old, famed for its exceptionally preserved early Eocene fossils.
La Pedrera de Rúbies Formation
La Pedrera de Rúbies Formation, also called La Pedrera de Meià, a Barremian (about 130-125 Ma) lithographic limestone Konservat-Lagerstätte in Sierra del Montsec, Lleida, Catalonia, with Montsechia vidali, Noguerornis gonzalezi, and 112 holotypes.
Leptoconops
Leptoconops (black gnats) is a genus of diurnal, aggressively biting midges in Ceratopogonidae, subfamily Leptoconopinae, with seven subgenera; coastal and desert pests, rarely disease vectors, recently revised in Europe and India.
List of Aedes species
List of Aedes species: Aedes Meigen, 1818, largest genus of mosquito tribe Aedini (932–969 species, 74 subgenera), including vectors Ae. aegypti and Ae. albopictus; covers taxonomy, vectors, invasive spread, regional checklists.
List of Asilidae genera
Genera of Asilidae (robber flies): 550+ genera, 7,200+ species of venomous predatory flies; cataloged by Hull 1962, classified into 14 subfamily taxa sensu Dikow 2009, type genus Asilus.
List of Diptera families
Diptera families: the roughly 157 family-level divisions of true flies, from Culicidae and Syrphidae to Tachinidae, organized into lower Diptera, Brachycera, Cyclorrhapha, and Calyptratae, with keys and catalogs.
List of hoverfly species of Great Britain
Hoverfly species of Great Britain: family Syrphidae, about 280-284 British species (Chandler 2012; JNCC 2014). Includes Volucella zonaria, largest at 2 cm; Hoverfly Recording Scheme led by Ball and Morris.
List of mosquito genera
The list of mosquito genera covers the genus-level groupings of the mosquito family Culicidae, with 41 genera in the traditional classification and over 100 under schemes that split Aedes.
Messel pit
Messel pit (Grube Messel), former oil shale quarry near Darmstadt, Germany; Eocene maar lake deposit (48 Ma) with exceptionally preserved fossils of over 1000 species; Germany's first natural UNESCO World Heritage site (1995).
Obsolete Diptera names
Obsolete Diptera names are family- and genus-group names of flies no longer valid through ICZN suppression, synonymy, or homonymy; about 80,000–85,000 of some 250,000 names are invalid.
Protodiptera
Protodiptera (Paratrichoptera) is an extinct Upper Permian insect group once proposed as the stem group of true flies (Diptera). Its type species Permotipula patricia from New South Wales was later excluded from Diptera because of hind wings, leaving its placement controversial.
Regional Diptera faunas: checklists and multi-region compendia
Regional Diptera fauna lists are published inventories of the fly species recorded from a defined country or region, compiled from literature, museum specimens, and field surveys.
Strashilidae
Strashilidae (type genus Strashila, species S. daohugouensis) are extinct Middle Jurassic flies from Daohugou, Inner Mongolia, once thought to be feather-grasping dinosaur ectoparasites but reinterpreted in 2013 as amphibious, paedomorphic dipterans related to Nymphomyiidae.
Tanyderidae
Tanyderidae, the primitive crane flies, is a small nematocerous fly family with 38 extant species in 10 genera, patterned plesiomorphic wings, aquatic stream larvae, and a fossil record from the Lower Jurassic of Eurasia.
Zhangsolvidae
Zhangsolvidae (Nagatomi & Yang, 1998) is an extinct Cretaceous family of stout, long-proboscid brachyceran flies in Stratiomyomorpha, related to Xylomyidae and Stratiomyidae; genera include Zhangsolva, Buccinatormyia, Linguatormyia, and Cratomyia from China, Brazil, Spain, Myanmar, and South Korea.