The Diptera, or true flies (mosquitoes, gnats, and house flies) comprise 12-15% of animal
species, and are the most ecologically diverse order of insects, spanning ecological roles …

Abstract For the kingdom Animalia, 1,552,319 species have been described in 40 phyla in a
new evolutionary classification. Among these, the phylum Arthropoda alone represents …

1. BY Thomas Pape, Vladimir Blagoderov & Mikhail B. Mostovski (for full contact details, see
Author names & addresses after Cited references). The title of this contribution should be …

Relationships among families of the lower Diptera (formerly suborder 'Nematocera') have
been exceptionally difficult to resolve. Multiple hypotheses based on morphology have been …

The phylogeny of the insect infraorder Bibionomorpha (Diptera) is reconstructed based on
the combined analysis of three nuclear (18S, 28S, CAD) and three mitochondrial (12S, 16S …

Abstract The North American fauna of Black Fungus Gnats (Diptera: Sciaroidea: Sciaridae)
currently comprises 25 genera and 166 species (including 8 species incertae sedis). 82 …

The Canadian Diptera fauna is updated. Numbers of species currently known from Canada,
total Barcode Index Numbers (BINs), and estimated numbers of undescribed or unrecorded …

Roraima is a Brazilian state located in the northern portion of the Amazon basin, with few
studies regarding its biodiversity. The Ecological Station of Maracá (Brazil, state of Roraima) …

The first and last occurrences of hexapod families in the fossil record are compiled from
publications up to end-2009. The major features of these data are compared with those of …

We provide the first molecular phylogeny of Keroplatidae and Lygistorrhinidae, families of
fungus gnats (Diptera: Bibionomorpha: Sciaroidea). Phylogenies reconstructed by Maximum …