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order Diptera

• Common name(s):  true flies
• Links:
  • Tree of Life
  • The Diptera Site
  • Fossil Diptera Catalog
• Ecology:
  • Terrestrial.
• Citations (6):
  • Linnaeus. 1758. Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. 584-607   >> Note: Insecta: Diptera
  • Latreille. 1810. Considérations générales sur l'ordre naturel des animaux composant les classes des Crustacés, des Arachnides, et des Insectes; avec un tableau méthodique de leurs genres, disposés en familles. 1-444  
  • MacLeay. 1821. Horae Entomologicae: or Essays on the Annulose Animals 1(Part 2):161-524 >> Note: Haustellata: Diptera
  • Westwood. 1838[1839]. An introduction to the modern classification of insects; founded on the natural habits and corresponding organisation of the different families 1:29   >> Note: Antliostomata: Diptera
  • Labandeira. 1994. Milwaukee Public Museum Contributions in Biology and Geology 88:35 >> Note: Diptera (= Muscida)
  • Grimaldi & Engel. 2005. Evolution of the Insects 491

• synonym Muscida
• suborder Brachycera

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