In the female insect, the spermatheca is an ectodermal organ responsible for receiving,
maintaining, and releasing sperm to fertilize eggs. The number and morphology of …

This chapter introduces and descibes the terms used for the identification of adult flies in this
manual, although the discussion of terms is not exclusively restricted to Diptera occurring in …

Abstract Background In the Mediterranean fruit fly (medfly), Ceratitis capitata, a highly
invasive agricultural pest species, polyandry, associated with sperm precedence, is a …

The evolution of the 'therevoid'clade, with an emphasis on window flies (Scenopinidae), is
presented by combining DNA sequence data with morphological characters for living and …

Flies are a model group for the study of mating systems because of their extensive
evolutionary diversification and ecological variation (see Yeates and Wiegmann, this …

The therevoid clade represents a group of four families (A psilocephalidae, E vocoidae, S
cenopinidae and T herevidae) of lower brachyceran D iptera in the superfamily A siloidea …

Agapophytinae subf. n. is a highly diverse lineage of Australasian Therevidae, comprising
eight described and two new genera: Agapophytus Guérin‐Méneville, Acupalpa Kröber …

The monotypic new family Ocoidae is described to accommodate Ocoa gen. n., small,
elongate, delicate, asiloid flies known from west‐central Chile, South America. Both sexes of …

The spermatheca of Murgantia histrionica (Hahn) was investigated using fluorescence,
scanning and transmission electron microscopy. The aim of the study was to elucidate the …

Female grasshoppers of acoustically communicating species assume series of reproductive
states that are associated with particular behaviours. Studies on laboratory populations of …