This is an interactive site for dipterists from all continents dealing with all aspects of dipterology (the study of Diptera: flies and midges) and dipterists. Here you can submit all your links to dipterological websites and events, post your dipterological queries in the forum, submit articles and news on Diptera, and contribute pictures for the Diptera Gallery. Submissions are open for members and members can contribute to the forums. Please contact me if you want to submit pictures.
Enjoy the site and help to build it up to a significant entry point for dipterological research.
One day an Englishman, a Scotsman, and an Irishman walked into a pub together. They each bought a pint of Guinness Beer. Just as they were about to enjoy their creamy beverage, three flies landed in each of their pints, and were stuck in the thick head.
The Englishman pushed his beer away in disgust.
The thrifty Scotsman fished the fly out of his beer, and continued drinking it, as if nothing had happened.
The Irishman, too, picked the fly out of his drink, held it out over the beer, and started yelling, "SPIT IT OUT, SPIT IT OUT YOU LITTLE FLY!!!!" -- Joke
Amendment of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature
The International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature proposes the following amendment of the fourth edition of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (hereafter "the Code"), to allow electronic publishing coupled with archiving of works and registration of new scientific names. In addition to electronic publication, the proposal perforce addresses methods of publication in general. It is followed by an explanation of the procedure for amendment and adoption, and discussion of the reasoning behind the proposal. Comments from the community of zoologists are sought, whether to oppose, support, or suggest improvements and alternatives for the various parts of this proposal. Full text of the proposed amendment
Everyone is kindly invited to make reprints available through the Downloads section at Diptera.info. Any reprint that is available on the internet can be added to the Downloads section, as long as the link is permanent. If so desired, I am willing to host reprints in electronic format (preferably as PDF's) on the Diptera.info server and include the links in the Downloads section. This may be of interest to dipterists who do not have any webspace available to host their own reprints.
Please, use the site's contact email to send any (links to) reprints you would like to have included.
I have the possibility to scan printed versions and created searchable pdf's but this is time consuming and creates rather large files when the number of pages increases. You can also contact me about converting such reprints to pdf.
The Center for Vector Biology at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New
Jersey will be hosting 'The International Symposium on the Asian Tiger
Mosquito: Ecology, Evolution, Epidemiology and Control', 12-13 February
2009.
The Schlinger Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Diptera Systematics
The Diptera Unit of the Smithsonian Department of Entomology (USNM) is pleased to announce the Schlinger Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in support of the BioSystematic Database of World Diptera. The recipient will conduct collections-based systematics research on flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) and will contribute to the development of the BioSystematic Database of World Diptera as well as other Smithsonian-lead initiatives, such as the Encyclopedia of Life (EoL) and the Consortium for the Barcodes of Life (CBoL).
First Announcement: 5th International Symposium on Syrphidae
This is the first announcement on the 5th International Symposium on Syrphidae.
The 5th International Symposium on Syrphidae will be held in Serbia, near Novi Sad (the capital city of Province Vojvodina), in the National Park Fru?ka gora (http://www.npfruskagora.co.yu/english/turizam/kako-stici.htm), from the 18th to the 21st of June 2009.
Yesterday we had some troubles with the forum and, I am partly pleased to say, this was due to the popularity of the site. The other part of me is slightly embarrassed, because I knew the problem would arise at one point but a logical error prevented me from anticipating it now. The content management system (CMS), by default, has a database structure that allows 65536 posts. As we are 'only just' 64000 I though I did not need to take action yet, hoping that it would not be needed before the CMS is upgraded later this year. I overlooked that the database numbers each post individually and the maximum ID number would be reached earlier. SO yesterday evening I changed the setting for the posts table in the database and we should not have any problems anymor in this century. I did not realise that the attachments table carried the same setting for post ID and no attachments were allowed. I changed the setting in that table, too. W should not have problems anymore.
I apologise for not anticipating this issue in the proper way and for any posts/images that may have been lost in this way.
wchinyangaon 29 November 2008 20:43:58
i think it is possible for such a phenomen to take place ,,, it. not supprising cause flies ,mosquitos etc are known for vomiting what they have into the host or food and they take fresh blood or juices .. so this might have that they will be very full. and they just bubble. View Article Comment
Zeegerson 24 November 2008 19:26:37
It seems I diagree with myself, or something went wrong in the title, this is clearly a male aurigera (not aurulans).
David Gibbson 13 November 2008 13:16:05
I would call this Oscinella maura (Fallén, 1820), in GB only one with white antennae (I think), not sure about Holland. View Photo Comment
Hesperinidae is another new family record for Greece from Project Kerkini , Kai Heller emailed me yesterday to say he had found H. imbecillus masquarading as a Sciarid in a tube I sent him.
15 ºC and very sunny here today! very pleasant. Hybotids, chironomids, some muscids makes the feast. and some Salix caprea beginning to blossom!! Earlier than usual!
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, Kai Heller emailed me yesterday to say he had found H. imbecillus masquarading as a Sciarid 
At least, you can appreciate the northern lights outside 
Three long months to go before next season