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• Lambkin, C.L. et al. 2013: The phylogenetic relationships among infraorders and superfamilies of Diptera based on morphological evidence. Systematic entomology, 38(1): 164–179. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2012.00652.x
• Pape, T., Blagoderov, V. & Mostovski, M.B. 2011. Order Diptera Linnaeus, 1758. Pp 222–229 In Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2011. Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 1–237. Open access. Reference page. . (PDF) Reference page. 

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• Amorim, D.S.; Yeates, D. 2006: Pesky gnats: ridding dipteran classification of the Nematocera. Studia dipterologica, 13: 3–9.
• Bertone, M.A.; Courtney, G.W.; Wiegmann, B.M. 2008: Phylogenetics and temporal diversification of the earliest true flies (Insecta: Diptera) based on multiple nuclear genes. Systematic entomology, 33: 668–687. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2008.00437.x
• Bickel, D. 2009: Biogeography of Diptera in the southwest Pacific. pp. 257–275 in: Pape, T.; Bickel, D.; Meier, R. (eds.) 2009: Diptera diversity: status, challenges and tools. Koninklijke Brill NV.
• Bickel, D. 2009: Why Hilara is not amusing: the problem of open-ended taxa and the limits of taxonomic knowledge. pp. 279–301 in: Pape, T.; Bickel, D.; Meier, R. (eds.) 2009: Diptera diversity: status, challenges and tools. Koninklijke Brill NV.

• Borkent, A. 2018. The State of Phylogenetic Analysis: Narrow Visions and Simple Answers —Examples from the Diptera (flies). Zootaxa 4374(1): 107–143. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4374.1.7 Full article (PDF) Reference page. 

• Borkent, A. & Brown, B.V. 2015: How to inventory tropical flies (Diptera)—One of the megadiverse orders of insects. Zootaxa 3949(3): 301–322. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3949.3.1 . Preview (PDF) Full article (PDF) Reference page. 

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• Chaladze, G. 2017. Taxonomy should be more photography based–eliminate need of physical specimen to study morphology. Zootaxa 4247(3): 331–331. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4247.3.6 . Reference page. 
• Convey, P.; Block, W. 1996: Antarctic Diptera: ecology, physiology and distribution. European journal of entomology, 93: 1–13.
• Courtney, G.W. et al. 2009: Biodiversity of Diptera. pp. 185–222 in: Foottit, R.G.; Adler, P.H. (eds.) 2009: Insect biodiversity: science and society. Blackwell Publishing Ltd. ISBN 9781405151429

• Erwin, T. 2013: FLIES – The Natural History and Diversity of Diptera. ZooKeys, 261: 85–86. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.261.4628 Reference page. 
• Evenhuis, N.L. 2010: Type designations of Diptera (Insecta) in the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana. Zootaxa, 2653: 37–50. Preview

• Evenhuis, N.L. & Pape, T. 2017. Battling the un-dead: the status of the Diptera genus-group names originally proposed in Johann Wilhelm Meigen’s 1800 pamphlet. Zootaxa 4275(1): 1–74. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4275.1.1 . Reference page. 

• Evenhuis, N.L., Pape, T. & Pont, A.C. 2016. Nomenclatural Studies Toward a World List of Diptera Genus-Group Names. Part V: Pierre-Justin-Marie Macquart. Zootaxa 4172(1): 1–211. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4172.1.1 . Full article (PDF) ISBN 978-1-77557-528-3 (paperback); ISBN 978-1-77557-529-0 (Online edition) Reference page. 

• Evenhuis, N.L., O'Hara, J.E., Pape, T. & Pont, A.C. 2010. Nomenclatural studies toward a world list of Diptera genus-group Names. Part I: André-Jean-Baptiste Robineau-Desvoidy. Zootaxa 2373: 1–265. Preview PDF Reference page. 
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• Friedemann, K.; Schneeberg, K.; Beutel, R.G. 2014: Fly on the wall – attachment structures in lower Diptera. Systematic entomology, 39(3): 460–473. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12064 Reference page. 

• el-Hawagry, M.S., Abdel-Dayem, M.S., Elgharbawy, A.A. & al-Dhafer, H.M. 2016. A preliminary account of the fly fauna in Jabal Shada al-A’la Nature Reserve, Saudi Arabia, with new records and biogeographical remarks (Diptera, Insecta). ZooKeys 636: 107-139. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.636.9905 . Reference page. 
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• Savage, J., Borkent, A., Brodo, F., Cumming, J.M., Curler, G., Currie, D.C., deWaard, J.R., Gibson, J.F., Hauser, M., Laplante,L., Lonsdale, O., Marshall, S.A., O'Hara, J.E., Sinclair, B.J. & Skevington, J.H. 2019. Diptera of Canada. Pp 397–450. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.819.27625 Reference page. 
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• Wolff, M.I., Nihei, S.S. & Carvalho, C.J.B. de (eds.), 2016. Catalogue of Diptera of Colombia. Zootaxa 4122(1): 1–949. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4122.1.1 Title Page (PDF). ISBN 978-1-77557-961-8 (paperback); ISBN 978-1-77557-962-5 (Online edition). Reference page. 

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Links

• Systema Dipterorum Version 1.0. Last updated: 10 August 2010