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Editor, Dr J. K. Moulton (johnkmoulton@yahoo.com) Culicomorpha, minus Culicoidea (families Culicidae, Chaoboridae & Corethellidae) and Chironomidae
Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, 2431 Joe Johnson Drive, 205 Ellington Plant Sciences Bldg., The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-4560, USA   
Editor, Dr
Wojciech Giłka (scorpio@ocean.ug.gda.pl) Chironomidae
Department of Invertebrate Zoology, University of Gdansk,  Gdynia, Poland
Editor,
Dr G.W. Courtney (gwcourt@iastate.edu) Nematocera  (Culicoidea)
Department of Entomology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011-3140, USA

Editor, Dr D.J. Bickel (dan.bickel@austmus.gov.auAcalyptratae and Aschiza
(except Syrphoidea)
Australian Museum, 6-8 College Street Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia
Editor, Dr J. O'Hara
(oharaj@agr.gc.ca)
Oestroidea & Hippoboscoidea
Invertebrate Biodiversity, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada,  960 Carling avenue, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0C6, Canada
Editor, Dr
P.H. Kerr (pkerr@cdfa.ca.gov) Sciaroidea (Cecidomyiidae, Keroplatidae, Mycetophilidae, and Sciaridae)
California Department of Food and Agriculture, Plant Pest Diagnostics Branch, 3294 Meadowview Rd., Sacramento, CA 95832, USA
Editor, Dr B. Sinclair (Bradley.Sinclair@inspection.gc.ca) Empidoidea
Entomology, Ontario Plant Laboratories, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0C6

Editor, Dr
Shelah Morita (pangonid@gmail.com) Lower Brachycera
Smithsonian Institution, NMNH Diptera Unit, Washington, DC 20560, USA

Editor, Dr V. Blagoderov  (v.blagoderov@nhm.ac.uk) Tipuloidea (families Cylindrotomidae, Limoniidae, Pediciidae & Tipulidae), Trichoceridae and Bibionomorpha (families Bibionidae,  Pachyneuridae, Axymyiidae, Perissommatidae, Scatopsidae & Anisopodidae)
Department of Entomology The Natural History Museum Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK
Editor, Dr G.R. Curler (gcurler@gmail.com) Psychodidae, Tanyderidae, Blephariceridae, and Ptychopteridae
Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology 2431 Joe Johnson Drive 205 Ellington Plant Sciences Bldg. The University of Tennessee Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-4560 865-974-8411
Editor, Dr S.S. Nihei (silvionihei@gmail.com) Muscoidea 
Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão, Trav. 14, n.101, 05508-900, São Paulo/SP, Brasil.
Editor, Dr Jeff Skevington  (jhskevington@gmail.comSyrphoidea & Conopoidea
Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada 960 Carling Avenue, K.W. Neatby Building Ottawa, ON, K1A 0C6, Canada

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2012

Article 
Zootaxa 3180: 1–18 (1 Feb. 2012) 6 plate; 53 references                              Accepted: 5 Dec. 2011
Two new species of Pneumia Enderlein (Diptera, Psychodidae, Psychodinae) from the Palaearctic region
MARKÉTA OMELKOVÁ & JAN JEŽEK (Czech Republic)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3177: 59–65 (30 Jan. 2012) 3 plate; 4 references                              Accepted: 02 Dec. 2011
Wuelkerella toncekensis n. gen., n. sp. (Diptera: Chironomidae: Tanypodinae) from Argentina
DIEGO A. AÑÓN SUÁREZ (Argentina) & JAMES E. SUBLETTE (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3175: 1–23 (27 Jan. 2012) 3 plate; 43 references                           Accepted: 28 Nov. 2011
Syrphidae (Diptera) from the Greek island of Lesvos, with description of two new species
ANTONIO RICARTE (UK), ZORICA NEDELJKOVI
Ć (Serbia), GRAHAM E. ROTHERAY (UK),
RICHARD M. LYSZKOWSKI (UK), E. GEOFFREY HANCOCK (UK), KENNETH WATT (UK), STEPHEN M. HEWITT (UK), DAVID HORSFIELD (UK) & GEOFFREY WILKINSON (UK)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3173: 54–68 (25 Jan. 2012) 29 plate; 9 references                           Accepted: 30 Nov. 2011
Redescription of Notholimnophila Alexander and Acantholimnophila Alexander,
poorly known New Zealand endemics (Diptera: Tipulomorpha: Limoniidae)
GUILHERME CUNHA RIBEIRO (Brazil)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3164: 64–68 (18 Jan. 2012) 2 plate; 11 references                           Accepted: 22 Nov. 2011
A new species of Nemapalpus Macquart (Diptera, Psychodidae, Bruchomyiinae) from caverns in Minas Gerais State in southeastern Brazil
FREDDY BRAVO & RICARDO ANDRADE BARATA (Brazil)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3159: 59–64 (13 Jan. 2012) 3 plate; 13 references                           Accepted: 16 Nov. 2011
Heleodromia Haliday newly recorded from China with descriptions of two new species (Diptera: Empidoidea)
XIAOYAN LIU, JINJING WANG & DING YANG (China)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3159: 36–46 (13 Jan. 2012) 7 plate; 15 references                           Accepted: 15 Nov. 2011
Two new species of the genus Cymatopus Kertész from the Mariana Islands
 
(Diptera: Dolichopodidae)
KAZUHIRO MASUNAGA (Japan) & NEAL L. EVENHUIS (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3151: 1–27 (5 Jan. 2012) 9 plates; 33 references                           Accepted: 28 Oct. 2011
Taxonomic revision of the Amazonian species of Ropalomera Wiedemann, 1824 (Diptera: Ropalomeridae)
FREDERICO DUTRA KIRST & ROSALY ALE-ROCHA (Brazil)

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2011

Editorial
Zootaxa 3148: 222–229 (23 Dec. 2011
Order Diptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness

THOMAS PAPE, VLADIMIR BLAGODEROV & MIKHAIL B. MOSTOVSKI
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Monograph 
Zootaxa 3141: 1–268 (23 Dec. 2011) 5 plates; 557 references                     Accepted: 9 Nov. 2011
Nomenclatural Studies Toward a World List of Diptera Genus-Group Names. Part II: Camillo Rondani
JAMES E. O’HARA, PIERFILIPPO CERRETTI, THOMAS PAPE & NEAL L. EVENHUIS

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Article
Zootaxa 3136: 61–68 (19 Dec 2011) 3 plates; 20 references                        Accepted: 01 Nov. 2011
The flat-footed fly genus Seri Kessel & Kessel (Diptera: Platypezidae)
JEFFREY M. CUMMING & HEATHER J. CUMMING (Canada)
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Article
Zootaxa 3136: 45–60 (19 Dec 2011) 7 plates; 21 references                        Accepted: 14 Nov. 2011
New species and records of Nandeva Wiedenbrug, Reiss et Fittkau (Chironomidae: Chironominae)
TROND ANDERSEN (Norway), OLE A. SÆTHER (Norway) & ATILANO CONTRERAS-RAMOS (Mexico)

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Article
Zootaxa 3128: 58–66 (13 Dec. 2011) 5 plates; 8 references                           Accepted: 25 Oct. 2011
New Afrotropical and Oriental species of Micrepimera Matile (Diptera: Keroplatidae)
JAN ŠEVČÍK (Czech Republic) & LÁSZLÓ PAPP (Hungary)

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3122: 68–68 (07 Dec. 2011) 00 plates; 01 references                        Accepted: 30 Nov. 2011
Schizomyia botellus n.sp. – a new bud galling species from Apiaceae in Israel
NETTA DORCHIN & AMNON FREIDBERG (Israel)

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Article
Zootaxa 3118: 31–44 (05 Dec. 2011) 04 plates; 26 references                  Accepted: 28 Oct. 2011
Fanniidae and Muscidae (Insecta, Diptera) associated with burrows of the Altai Mountains Marmot (Marmota baibacina baibacina Kastschenko, 1899) in Siberia, with the description of new species
VERA S. SOROKINA & ADRIAN C. PONT (Russia)

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Article
Zootaxa 3112: 49–58 (29 Nov. 2011) 06 plates; 56 references                  Accepted: 11 Oct. 2011
Repeatability and precision in proboscis length measurements for long proboscid flies
SHELAH I. MORITA (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 3112: 36–48 (29 Nov. 2011) 05 plates; 50 references                  Accepted: 28 Oct. 2011
Three new species of Fergusonina Malloch gall-flies (Diptera: Fergusoninidae) from terminal leaf bud galls on Eucalyptus (Myrtaceae) in south-eastern Australia
LEIGH A. NELSON (Australia), SONJA J. SCHEFFER (USA) & DAVID K. YEATES (Australia)

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Article
Zootaxa 3102: 50–68 (18 Nov. 2011) 10 plates; 46 references                         Accepted: 11 Oct. 2011
Biology of the Afrotropical Sepedonella nana (Diptera: Sciomyzidae), whose larvae feed only on freshwater Aulophorus furcatus (Oligochaeta: Naididae)
JEANCLAUDE VALA & LOUIS GHÉLUS GBEDJISSI (France)

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Article
Zootaxa 3101: 38–46 (17 Nov. 2011) 4 plates; 20 references                  Accepted: 20 Oct. 2011
Mberu, a new neurigonine genus from southeastern Brazil (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)
RENATO SOARES CAPELLARI & DALTON DE SOUZA AMORIM (Brazil)

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Article
Zootaxa 3101: 1–37 (17 Nov. 2011) 19 plates; 44 references                  Accepted: 10 Oct. 2011
Taxonomy of Brazilian Psychoda Latreille, 1796 (Diptera, Psychodidae) with the description of thirteen new species
DANILO CORDEIRO, FREDDY BRAVO & CLAUDIO J. B. DE CARVALHO (Brazil)

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Article
Zootaxa 3100: 1–34 (16 Nov. 2011) 15 plates; 30 references                  Accepted: 19 Oct. 2011
Six unusual Cladotanytarsus Kieffer: towards a systematics of the genus
and resurrection of Lenziella Kieffer (Diptera: Chironomidae: Tanytarsini)
WOJCIECH GIŁKA (Poland)

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Article
Zootaxa 3097: 35–44 (14 Nov. 2011) 4 plates; 23 references                  Accepted: 11 Oct. 2011
Review of Ruppellia Wiedemann, 1830 (Diptera: Therevidae) in the Middle East
HAITHAM B. M. BADRAWY & SALWA K. MOHAMMAD (Egypt)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 3079: 1–110 (28 Oct. 2011) 44 plates; 56 references                   Accepted: 04 Aug. 2011
Systematics of New World Curtonotum Macquart (Diptera: Curtonotidae)
JOHN KLYMKO & STEPHEN A. MARSHALL

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Article
Zootaxa 3069: 63–68 (26 Oct. 2011) 2 plates; 6 references                  Accepted: 04 Oct. 2011
A new fossil Tanytarsus from Eocene Baltic amber, with notes on systematics of the genus (Diptera: Chironomidae)
WOJCIECH GIŁKA (Poland)

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Article
Zootaxa 3069: 43–62 (26 Oct. 2011) 10 plates; 36 references                  Accepted: 26 Sep. 2011
Notes on Canadian Ablabesmyia Johannsen, with keys to known Nearctic immatures of the genus (Diptera: Chironomidae)
OLE A. SÆTHER (Norway)

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Article
Zootaxa 3069: 26–42 (26 Oct. 2011) 8 plates; 41 references                  Accepted: 26 Sep. 2011
Notes on some tanypods from Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (Diptera: Chironomidae)
OLE A. SÆTHER (Norway)

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Article
Zootaxa 3062: 46–54 (19 Oct. 2011) 5 plates; 18 references                  Accepted: 23 Oct. 2011
A new species of Polypedilum Kieffer from bromeliads in Parque Nacional Cusuco, Honduras (Chironomidae: Chironominae) 
HUMBERTO F. MENDES (Norway), TROND ANDERSEN (Norway) & MERLIJN JOCQUÉ (Belgium)
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Article
Zootaxa 3062: 37–45 (19 Oct. 2011) 5 plates; 4 references                  Accepted: 07 Sep. 2011
Two new species of Opeatocerata Melander (Diptera, Empididae, Empidinae) from the Brazilian Amazon Basin
J.T. CÂMARA & J.A. RAFAEL (Brazil)
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Article
Zootaxa 3062: 1–12 (19 Oct. 2011) 3 plates; 42 references                  Accepted: 21 Sep. 2011
A review of the European species of the genus Tetragoneura Winnertz (Diptera: Mycetophilidae)
ALEXEI POLEVOI (Russia) & JEVGENI JAKOVLEV (Finland)
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Article
Zootaxa 3047: 54–62 (03 Oct. 2011) 4 plates; 17 references                  Accepted: 01 Sep. 2011
A new species of Tephritis Latreille (Diptera: Tephritidae) with an unusual wing pattern from Iran and its taxonomic implications 

SAMAD KHAGHANINIA (Iran), EBRAHIM ZARGHANI (Iran), SAEED MOHAMADZADE NAMIN (Iran) & VALERY A. KORNEYEV (Ukraine)

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Article
Zootaxa 3044: 28–48 (29 Sep. 2011) 9 plates; 29 references                  Accepted: 31 Aug. 2011
The gall midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) of Apiaceae in Israel 

NETTA DORCHIN (Germany) & AMNON FREIDBERG (Israel)

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Article
Zootaxa 3040: 34–42 (23 Sep. 2011) 3 plates; 29 references                  Accepted: 29 Aug. 2011
Saetheria Jackson from the Sino-Indian Region (Diptera: Chironomidae) 
CHUNCAI YAN (China), OLE A. SÆTHER (Norway) & XINHUA WANG (China)
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Article
Zootaxa 3038: 61–67 (22 Sep. 2011) 5 plates; 20 references                  Accepted: 24 Aug. 2011
Host records of Physocephala wulpi Camras, with a description of the puparium (Diptera: Conopidae) 
JENS-HERMANN STUKE (Germany), MARIANO LUCIA (Argentina) & ALBERTO H. ABRAHAMOVICH (Argentina)
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Article
Zootaxa 3038: 51–58 (22 Sep. 2011) 3 plates; 6 references                  Accepted: 16 Aug. 2011
Taxonomic notes, new species and identification key to the New World species of Toxophora Meigen (Diptera, Bombyliidae, Toxophorinae) 
ANDRÉ M. CUNHA, CARLOS JOSÉ E. LAMAS & MÁRCIA S. COURI (Brazil)
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Article
Zootaxa 3038: 1–28 (22 Sep. 2011) 7 plates; 25 references                  Accepted: 08 Jul. 2011
Oriental species of clusiid flies (Diptera: Clusiidae: Clusiinae) 
MITSUHIRO SASAKAWA (Japan)
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Article
Zootaxa 3031: 61–68 (16 Sep. 2011) 2 plates; 37 references                  Accepted: 11 Aug. 2011
Notes on winter flies Trichoceridae (Diptera) of Mongolia with description of new species
ANDRIUS PETRAŠIŪNAS & SIGITAS PODĖNAS (Lithuania)
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Article
Zootaxa 3031: 37–46 (16 Sep. 2011) 1 plates; 61 references                  Accepted: 22 Aug. 2011
Tentative key to robber fly (Diptera: Asilidae) subfamilies based on pupal cases 
D. STEVE DENNIS & JEFFREY K. BARNES (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 3023: 51–60 (12 Sep. 2011) 6 plates; 14 references                  Accepted: 22 Jul. 2011
A new European species of Drymeia Meigen (Diptera: Muscidae) near D. brumalis (Rondani), with observations of a unique prestomal teeth structure 

VERNER MICHELSEN (Denmark)

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Article
Zootaxa 3021: 1–31 (12 Sep. 2011) 13 plates; 40 references                  Accepted: 25 Jul. 2011
An illustrated key to fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) from Peninsular India and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands 
K.J. DAVID & S. RAMANI (India)
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Article
Zootaxa 3017: 51–68 (07 Sep. 2011) 5 plates; 48 references                  Accepted: 26 Jul. 2011
A faunal summary of Simulium (Montisimulium) with descriptions of five new species from China (Diptera: Simuliidae) 

CHEN HAN-BIN, LIAN GUO-SHENG & ZHANG CHUN-LIN (P.R. China)

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Article
Zootaxa 3016: 1–28 (07 Sep. 2011) 12 plates; 13 references                  Accepted: 03 Aug. 2011
Revision of the Neotropical genus Neoscutops Malloch (Diptera: Periscelididae) 
ROSALY ALE-ROCHA & GEOVÂNIA FREITAS (Brazil)
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Article
Zootaxa 3014: 59–64 (05 Sep. 2011) 2 plates; 13 references                  Accepted: 27 Jul. 2011
A new species and record of Bactrocera Macquart (Diptera,Tephritidae) from China 

XIAOLIN CHEN, LIBING ZHOU, SHAOJUN WANG, ZHIWEN LI & JIE LI (P.R. China)

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Article
Zootaxa 3014: 35–58 (05 Sep. 2011) 11 plates; 21 references                  Accepted: 4 Jul. 2011
Marksomyia, a new subgenus of Culicoides Latreille (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from the Australasian biogeographic region with descriptions of two new species 

GLENN BELLIS & ALAN DYCE (Australia)

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Article
Zootaxa 3014: 26–34 (05 Sep. 2011) 3 plates; 14 references                  Accepted: 2 Aug. 2011
A new species of Syringogastridae (Diptera, Acalyptratae) from the Amazon Basin and new records for Brazil 
J. A. RAFAEL, J. T. CÂMARA & M. J. A. HOLANDA (Brazil)
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Article
Zootaxa 3012: 21–30 (01 Sep. 2011) 5 plates; 30 references                  Accepted: 29 Jul. 2011
Morphology of preimaginal stages of Minettia longipennis Fabricius (Diptera: Lauxaniidae)
MAREK SEMELBAUER & MILAN KOZÁNEK (Slovakia)
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Article
Zootaxa 3007: 1–49 (29 Aug. 2011) 30 plates; 50 references                  Accepted: 28 Jun. 2011
A review of the Oriental and Australasian Ptilocera species (Diptera: Stratiomyidae) 
FRANCO MASON (Italy) & RUDOLF ROZKOŠNÝ (Czech Republic)
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Article
Zootaxa 2999: 45–62 (19 Aug. 2011) 5 plates; 35 references                  Accepted: 23 Jul. 2011
Descriptions and records of the Palaearctic Molophilus Curtis (Diptera, Limoniidae) 

JAROSLAV STARÝ

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 2999: 42–44 (19 Aug. 2011) 2 plates; 6 references                  Accepted: 7 Jun. 2011
Culicoides parauapebensis, a new species of the subgenus Hoffmania Fox from northern Brazil (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) 

ROSIMEIRE LOPES DA TRINDADE & MARIA LUIZA FELIPPE-BAUER

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Article
Zootaxa 2991: 44–48 (10 Aug. 2011) 3 plates; 7 references                  Accepted: 12 Jul. 2011
A remarkable new species of Rhaphium Meigen (Diptera, Dolichopodidae) from Sri Lanka
STEFAN NAGLIS (Switzerland) & PATRICK GROOTAERT (Belgium)
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Article
Zootaxa 2991: 13–20 (10 Aug. 2011) 2 plates; 38 references                  Accepted: 12 Jul. 2011
Preliminary use of DNA sequences for Dohrniphora (Diptera: Phoridae) phylogeny and taxonomy
JOHN M. HASH, BRIAN V. BROWN & PAUL T. SMITH (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 2987: 18–30 (05 Aug. 2011) 6 plates; 21 references                  Accepted: 1 Jul. 2011
Species of Chlorops Meigen from Palaearctic China (Diptera, Chloropidae) 

YUSI CUI & DING YANG (China)

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Article
Zootaxa 2979: 25–40 (28 Jul. 2011) 10 plates; 14 references                  Accepted: 13 Jun. 2011
A review of the genus Platypygus Loew (Mythicomyiidae: Platypyginae) in Iran,
with notes on Cyrtisiopsis maculiventris (Loew) n. comb.
BABAK GHARALI (Iran), NEAL EVENHUIS (USA), KARIM KAMALI (Iran) & ALI ASGHAR TALEBI
(Iran)
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Article
Zootaxa 2979: 1–24 (28 Jul. 2011) 16 plates; 18 references                  Accepted: 5 Jul. 2011
New species of Chersodromia from the Russian Far East
(Diptera: Empidoidea: Hybotidae: Tachydromiinae)
TAKUYA MAEDA (Japan)

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Article
Zootaxa 2975: 1–28 (25 Jul. 2011) 11 plates; 12 references                  Accepted: 30 Jun. 2011
Nine new species from China of the subgenera Chaetohomoneura and Neohomoneura in the genus Homoneura (Diptera, Lauxaniidae)

LI SHI, JUN CHAO WANG & DING YANG (China)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2964: 1–60 (13 Jul. 2011) 26 plates; 128 references                   Accepted: 21 Jun. 2011
A review of the monophyly and composition of the Bengaliinae with the description of a new genus and species, and new evidence for the presence of Melanomyinae in the Afrotropical Region (Diptera, Calliphoridae)
KNUT ROGNES

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2960: 1–77 (08 Jul. 2011) 22 plates; 16 references                   Accepted: 23 May 2011
A world revision of the bee fly tribe Usiini (Diptera, Bombyliidae) —Part 1: Usia subgenus Micrusia, U. versicolor (Fabricius) (= black-haired species) and Usia martini François
DAVID GIBBS

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Article
Zootaxa 2935: 41–46 (01 Jul. 2011) 3 plates; 14 references                  Accepted: 9 May 2011
Walkeromya plumipes (Philippi) (Diptera: Bombyliidae), a parasitoid associated
with carpenter bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Xylocopini) in Argentina
OMAR ÁVALOS-HERNÁNDEZ (Mexico), MARIANO LUCIA (Argentina), LEOPOLDO J. ÁLVAREZ
(Argentina) & ALBERTO H. ABRAHAMOVICH (Argentina)
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Article
Zootaxa 2932: 41–46 (28 Jun. 2011) 2 plates; 17 references                  Accepted: 15 Jun. 2011
A new stalk-eyed species of Batrachophthalmum Hendel
(Diptera, Richardiidae) from Colombia
CLAUDIO J. B. DE CARVALHO (Brazil), MARTA WOLFF (Colombia) & LISIANE D. WENDT (Brazil)

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Article
Zootaxa 2928: 49–56 (23 Jun. 2011) 10 plates; 12 references                       Accepted: 7 Jun. 2011
Two new species of Hilara (Diptera, Empididae) from northwestern Turkey
MUSTAFA CEMAL ÇIFTÇI & ABDULLAH HASBENLI (Turkey)

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Article
Zootaxa 2928: 29–40 (23 Jun. 2011) 0 plates; 59 references                       Accepted: 7 Jun. 2011
An updated checklist of the phlebotomine sand flies of Veracruz, Mexico
(Diptera: Psychodidae, Phlebotominae)
SERGIO IBÁÑEZ-BERNAL, TERESA SUÁREZ-LANDA & FREDY MENDOZA (Mexico)

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Article
Zootaxa 2926: 55–60 (22 Jun. 2011) 2 plates; 16 references                       Accepted: 9 May 2011
Revision of Efflatouniella Kröber, 1927 (Diptera: Therevidae)
SALWA K. MOHAMMAD & HAITHAM B. M. BADRAWY (Egypt)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2921: 39–46 (16 Jun. 2011) 3 plates; 21 references                     Accepted: 23 May 2011
Tetrigimyia minor, a new genus and species of Tachinidae (Diptera) parasitic on Formosatettix larvatus (Orthoptera: Tetrigidae) in Japan
HIROSHI SHIMA & HAJIME TAKAHASHI (Japan)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2916: 1–34 (14 Jun. 2011) 20 plates; 11 references                        Accepted: 17 May 2011
Oriental Teratomyzidae (Diptera: Schizophora)
LÁSZLÓ PAPP (Hungary)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2915: 61–65 (13 Jun. 2011) 2 plates; 7 references                        Accepted: 19 May 2011
A new species of the Neotropical genus Itatingamyia Albuquerque (Diptera: Muscidae)
KIRSTERN L. F. HASEYAMA & CLAUDIO J. B. DE CARVALHO (Brazil)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2915: 39–51 (13 Jun. 2011) 4 plates;15 references                        Accepted: 24 May 2011
New species and records of Antillocladius Sæther and Litocladius Mendes, Andersen et Sæther from Brazil and Costa Rica (Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae)
HUMBERTO F. MENDES, TROND ANDERSEN & LINN K. HAGENLUND (Norway)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2915: 29–38 (13 Jun. 2011) 5 plates; 5 references                        Accepted: 24 May 2011
Description of the immature stages and redescription of the adults of Culex (Culex) lahillei Bachmann & Casal (Diptera: Culicidae)
MAGDALENA LAURITO, WALTER RICARDO ALMIRÓN
& GUSTAVO CARLOS ROSSI (Argentina)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2915: 1–19 (13 Jun. 2011) 7 plates;37 references                        Accepted: 25 May 2011
Chironomidae from Gough, Nightingale and Tristan da Cunha islands
OLE A. SÆTHER & TROND ANDERSEN (Norway)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2913: 38–46 (10 Jun. 2011) 5 plates; 35 references                        Accepted: 10 May 2011
A taxonomic discussion of the genus Phalacrotophora Enderlein, 1912 (Diptera: Phoridae), with the description of two new species from Southeast Asia
GÁBOR DÁNIEL LENGYEL (Hungary)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2906: 61–65 (3 Jun. 2011) 2 plates; 8 references                            Accepted: 3 Mar. 2011
A new Australian species of Chasmia Enderlein (Diptera: Tabanidae: Diachlorini), a genus newly recorded from Australia
GREG DANIELS (Australia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2892: 47–52 (26 May 2011) 3 plates; 15 references                       Accepted: 21 Apr. 2011
The identity of Paratrizygia conformis Tonnoir (Diptera, Mycetophilidae), with comments on its systematic position
DALTON DE SOUZA AMORIM (Brazil), SARAH SIQUEIRA OLIVEIRA (Brazil) & ERICA MCALISTER
(UK)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2892: 33–46 (26 May 2011) 7 plates; 16 references                       Accepted: 11 Apr. 2011
The genus Manota Williston (Diptera, Mycetophilidae) in Japan, with a key to the Palaearctic species of the genus
HEIKKI HIPPA (Sweden), JOSTEIN KJÆRANDSEN (Sweden) & TOYOHEI SAIGUSA (Japan)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2888: 1–22 (24 May 2011) 14 plates; 19 references                      Accepted: 31 Mar. 2011
Review of the yellow-bodied species of the genus Timia (Diptera: Ulidiidae) with description of two new species
TATIANA V. GALINSKAYA (Russia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2885: 23–32 (20 May 2011) 4 plates; 28 references                       Accepted: 7 Apr. 2011
The first Rhynchomicropteron Annandale, 1912 (Diptera, Phoridae) species from the Palearctic region, with taxonomic and faunistic notes on the fauna of Israel
GÁBOR DÁNIEL LENGYEL (Hungary)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2872: 49–57 (9 May 2011) 11 plates; 14 references                     Accepted: 30 Mar. 2011
Cytotaxonomy of Simulium (Montisimulium) ghoomense (Diptera: Simuliidae) from the Darjeeling Hills, India
WILLIE HENRY (India), SACHIN THAPA (India), PETER H. ADLER (USA), SUBRATA KUMAR DEY
(India) & RAKESH VARMA (India)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2866: 61–68 (4 May 2011) 4 plates; 5 references                           Accepted: 11 Apr. 2011
A new species of Neolasioptera (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) from Parkinsonia aculeata (Leguminosae) in Argentina for possible use in biological control in Australia, with a key to Neotropical species of Neolasioptera
RAYMOND J. GAGNÉ (USA), FERNANDO MC KAY (Argentina) & TIM A. HEARD (Australia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2863: 35–48 (2 May 2011) 6 plates; 11 references                         Accepted: 1 Mar. 2011
Morphological variation in S. minusculum Lutz and S. oyapockense Floch
and Abonnenc and a redescription of the larva of S. minusculum (Diptera, Simuliidae) in the Neotropical Region
LUIS MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ (UK), ANTHONY JOHN SHELLEY (UK), MARILZA MAIA–HERZOG (Brazil)
& ANTONIO PAULINO ANDRADE LUNA DIAS (Brazil)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2863: 1–34 (2 May 2011) 17 plates; 18 references                        Accepted: 24 Feb. 2011
A revision of Frutillaria Richards and Penola Richards (Diptera: Sphaeroceridae: Archiborborinae)
JOEL H. KITS & STEPHEN A. MARSHALL (Canada)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2858: 1–60 (29 Apr. 2011) 2 plates; 334 references                     Accepted: 3 Dec. 2010
A preliminary bibliographic survey of the insects found in poultry houses from the Neotropical Region, with remarks on selected taxa shared with native birds' nests

OSVALDO DI IORIO & PAOLA TURIENZO
(Argentina)
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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2852: 1–83 (29 Apr. 2011) 0 plates; 74 references                         Accepted: 22 Nov. 2010
The Muscidae described by J. W. Zetterstedt (Insecta: Diptera)

ADRIAN C. PONT (UK),
WITH AN APPENDIX BY CHRISTER BERGSTRÖM (Sweden) & ADRIAN C. PONT
(UK)
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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2850: 1–123 (29 Apr. 2011) 54 plates; 114 references                      Accepted: 7 Apr. 2011
The Liriomyza (Agromyzidae: Schizophora: Diptera) of California 
OWEN LONSDALE (USA)
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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2849: 1–314 (29 Apr. 2011) 120 plates; 153 references                 Accepted: 15 Mar. 2011
A revision of the genera Pseudosmittia Edwards, 1932, Allocladius Kieffer, 1913, and Hydrosmittia gen. n. (Diptera: Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae) 

LEONARD C. FERRINGTON JR. (USA) & OLE A. SÆTHER (Norway)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2837: 67–85 (29 Apr. 2011) 5 plates; 14 references                    Accepted: 20 Jan. 2011
Revision of the genus Stenogephyra Lyneborg (Diptera: Therevidae: Phycinae)
DONALD W. WEBB & MARTIN HAUSER (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2836: 51–61 (28 Apr. 2011) 9 plates; 42 references                          Accepted: 5 Apr. 2011
A new species of the genus Mesosmittia Brundin, 1956 (Diptera: Chironomidae) from the Neotropics with a cladistic analysis of the genus using quantitative characters
MARIANO DONATO (Argentina)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2835: 61–67 (28 Apr. 2011) 2 plates; 15 references                       Accepted: 22 Mar. 2011
New species and records of Anastrepha (Diptera: Tephritidae) from Brazil
ALLEN L. NORRBOM (USA) & MANOEL A. UCHÔA (Brazil)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2835: 1–29 (28 Apr. 2011) 12 plates; 33 references                       Accepted: 23 Mar. 2011
Revision of the Bengalia spinifemorata species-group (Diptera, Calliphoridae)
KNUT ROGNES (Norway)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2832: 51–55 (26 Apr. 2011) 2 plates; 10 references                       Accepted: 22 Mar. 2011
Description of a new species of Macronychia Rondani (Diptera: Sarcophagidae: Miltogramminae), with a key to the New World species of the genus
PABLO RICARDO MULIERI & JUAN CARLOS MARILUIS (Argentina)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2829: 46–58 (22 Apr. 2011) 0 plates; 36 references                         Accepted: 22 Mar. 2011
Faunistic and bibliographical inventory of the blackflies (Diptera: Simuliidae)
of Morocco
BOUTAÏNA BELQAT (Maroc), PETER H. ADLER (USA) & ROGER W. CROSSKEY (UK)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2824: 62–68 (19 Apr. 2011) 4 plates; 9 references                          Accepted: 21 Feb. 2011
A new species of black fly (Diptera: Simuliidae) with
an entirely yellow thorax from Darjeeling, India
HIROYUKI TAKAOKA (Japan), SACHIN THAPA (India) & WILLIE HENRY (India)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2822: 1–40 (18 Apr. 2011) 25 plates; 24 references                        Accepted: 17 Feb. 2011
New species of the genus Corynoneura Winnertz (Diptera, Chironomidae) from Brazil
SOFIA WIEDENBRUG & SUSANA TRIVINHO-STRIXINO (Brazil)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2821: 62–68 (15 Apr. 2011) 4 plates; 5 references                        Accepted: 10 Mar. 2011
Vitilevumyia, an enigmatic new genus of Stratiomyidae from Fiji (Diptera)
NORMAN E. WOODLEY (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2821: 1–18 (15 Apr. 2011) 7 plates; 33 references                          Accepted: 7 Feb. 2011
Review of the Japanese species of Paramerina (Diptera: Chironomidae: Tanypodinae), with a key to the known males
HIROMI NIITSUMA, RISA SUZUKI & HIDEAKI KATO (Japan)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2810: 56–62 (6 Apr. 2011) 3 plates; 12 references                          Accepted: 1 Mar. 2011
A new species of the South American genus Arthurella Albuquerque (Diptera: Muscidae), with a key to species and new records
LUCIANO DAMIÁN PATITUCCI, JUAN CARLOS MARILUIS & FERNANDO HERNÁN ABALLAY
(Argentina)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2810: 47–55 (6 Apr. 2011) 2 plates; 18 references                           Accepted: 8 Feb. 2011
Anopheles (Cellia) rampae n. sp., alias chromosomal form K of the Oriental Maculatus Group (Diptera: Culicidae) in Southeast Asia
PRADYA SOMBOON (Thailand), DAMRONGPAN THONGWAT (Thailand) & RALPH E. HARBACH (UK)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2810: 26–36 (6 Apr. 2011) 5 plates; 24 references                          Accepted: 10 Mar. 2011
Three new species of Docosia Winnertz from central and southern Europe
(Diptera: Mycetophilidae)
OLAVI KURINA (Estonia) & JAN ŠEV
ČÍK (Czech Republic)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2810: 15–25 (6 Apr. 2011) 6 plates; 22 references                            Accepted: 8 Feb. 2011
Acidiella longipennis Hendel, the type species of Acidiella Hendel (Diptera: Tephritidae: Trypetini), with recognition of two new allied species from Myanmar
HO-YEON HAN (Korea)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2808: 49–56 (4 Apr. 2011) 3 plates; 16 references                            Accepted: 7 Mar. 2011
Panava a senior synonym of Wulpisca, and description of new species of Panava and Dexosarcophaga (Bezzisca) from the Brazilian Amazon (Diptera, Sarcophagidae)
FERNANDO DA SILVA CARVALHO FILHO & MARIA CRISTINA ESPOSITO (Brazil)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2806: 60–68 (31 Mar. 2011) 2 plates; 30 references                       Accepted: 1 Mar. 2011
Records of phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera, Psychodidae, Phlebotominae)
with a description of a new species of Sergentomyia França & Parrot from Khao Yai National Park, Thailand
GREGORY R. CURLER (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2806: 1–23 (31 Mar. 2011) 9 plates; 9 references                          Accepted: 10 Feb. 2011
A review of the genus Hoplocheiloma Cresson (Diptera: Micropezidae)
S. A. MARSHALL (Canada)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2803: 57–62 (29 Mar. 2011) 1 plates; 12 references                     Accepted: 28 Feb. 2011
Taxonomic review of the lepida-group of Fannia R.-D. (Diptera: Fanniidae)
DONG ZHANG, JING WANG, MING-FU WANG & KAI LI (P.R. China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2802: 41–50 (28 Mar. 2011) 10 plates; 15 references                     Accepted: 10 Feb. 2011
Three new species of the genus Macgregoromyia Alexander, with a key to world species (Diptera, Tipulidae)
QIFEI LIU & DING YANG (P.R. China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2802: 34–40 (28 Mar. 2011) 3 plates; 9 references                        Accepted: 22 Feb. 2011
Three new species of Telmatoscopus Eaton, 1904 (Diptera, Psychodidae) from Brazil
FREDDY BRAVO, ISYS SOUZA, CLAUDINEY BIRAL DOS SANTOS & ADELSON LUIZ FERREIRA (Brazil)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2795: 46–64 (18 Mar. 2011) 5 plates; 37 references                         Accepted: 8 Jan. 2011
Alotanypus vittigera (Edwards) comb. nov.: adult redescription, immature description and a phylogenetic analysis of the genus (Diptera: Chironomidae: Tanypodinae)
AUGUSTO SIRI, MARIANO DONATO, GERMÁN ORPELLA & JULIETA MASSAFERRO (Argentina)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2792: 41–50 (16 Mar. 2011) 7 plates; 7 references                          Accepted: 28 Jan. 2011
Three new species and a new key to the Diplonevra Lioy (Diptera: Phoridae)
from Australia
R. H. L. DISNEY (UK)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2786: 27–41 (9 Mar. 2011) 6 plates; 32 references                          Accepted: 24 Jan. 2011
Two new species of Larsia Fittkau, 1962 (Diptera: Chironomidae: Tanypodinae)
from Neotropical Region, with a checklist of Larsia species of the world
CAROLINE SILVA NEUBERN DE OLIVEIRA & FABIO LAURINDO DA SILVA (Brazil)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2784: 39–50 (7 Mar. 2011) 8 plates; 25 references                         Accepted: 15 Dec. 2010
Prochetostoma expandens (Diptera: Tephritidae) sp. n., a fruit parasite of Ilex integra Thunberg (Aquifoliaceae) in Japan
MASAHIRO SUEYOSHI (Japan) & HO-YEON HAN (Korea)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2784: 20–32 (7 Mar. 2011) 12 plates; 12 references                         Accepted: 21 Jan. 2011
Four new species of the subgenus Sinoropeza Alexander, with a key to world species (Diptera, Tipulidae, Dolichopeza)
QIFEI LIU & DING YANG (P.R. China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2780: 20–28 (1 Mar. 2011) 7 plates; 9 references                             Accepted: 15 Jan. 2011
A new species of Downeshelea Wirth & Grogan and a redescription of the male of Downeshelea cebacoi (Lane & Wirth) (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)
MARIA LUIZA FELIPPE-BAUER (Brazil), TIAGO DO NASCIMENTO DA SILVA (Brazil), ENALY SILVA
RIBEIRO (Brazil) & ART BORKENT (Canada)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2778: 58–68 (28 Feb. 2011) 6 plates; 14 references                        Accepted: 25 Jan. 2011
Description of the immature stages of Culex (Culex) ameliae Casal and Culex (Culex) articularis Philippi (Diptera: Culicidae)
MAGDALENA LAURITO, WALTER RICARDO ALMIRÓN
& GUSTAVO CARLOS ROSSI (Argentina)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2778: 1–57 (28 Feb. 2011) 10 plates; 127 references                      Accepted: 29 Nov. 2010
New taxonomic and nomenclatural data on Sarcophaga (Heteronychia) (Diptera: Sarcophagidae), with description of six new species
DANIEL WHITMORE (Italy)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2777: 61–68 (25 Feb. 2011) 4 plates; 10 references                        Accepted: 24 Dec. 2010
Two new Patagonian species of Atrichopogon (Meloehelea) (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)
PABLO I. MARINO (Argentina), ANDREA TÓTHOVÁ (Czech Republic) &
GUSTAVO R SPINELLI (Argentina)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2771: 53–61 (22 Feb. 2011) 5 plates; 20 references                        Accepted: 15 Jan. 2011
The genus Keilbachia Mohrig (Diptera, Sciaridae) in New Caledonia, with the description of five new species
PEKKA VILKAMAA (Finland), HEIKKI HIPPA (Sweden) & WERNER MOHRIG (Germany)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2764: 49–60 (14 Feb. 2011) 7 plates; 17 references                          Accepted: 5 Jan. 2011
The genus Paragus Latreille (Diptera: Syrphidae) in Iran, with the description of a new species
EBRAHIM GILASIAN (Iran) & VERA S. SOROKINA (Russia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2763: 39–60 (11 Feb. 2011) 5 plates; 14 references                           Accepted: 6 Jan. 2011
New species and new records of Manota Williston (Diptera, Mycetophilidae) from Thailand, with a key to the Oriental and Palaearctic species
HEIKKI HIPPA (Sweden)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2762: 37–48 (10 Feb. 2011) 4 plates; 20 references                        Accepted: 14 Dec. 2010
Description of Chaetocladius longivirgatus sp. n., with a review of C. suecicus (Kieffer) (Diptera: Chironomidae)
ELISABETH STUR (Norway) & MARTIN SPIES (Germany)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2760: 39–52 (8 Feb. 2011) 4 plates; 26 references                           Accepted: 15 Dec. 2010
Glyptotendipes Kieffer and Demeijerea Kruseman from Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, with the description of four new species (Diptera: Chironomidae)
OLE A. SÆTHER (Norway)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2756: 40–52 (3 Feb. 2011) 8 plates; 12 references                             Accepted: 4 Dec. 2010
Revision of the genus Oedematopus (Diptera, Dolichopodidae) with the description of a new genus and a key to the Neotropical genera of Hydrophorinae
STEFAN M. NAGLIS (Switzerland)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2750: 65–68 (27 Jan. 2011) 5 plates; 6 references                          Accepted: 10 Dec. 2010
A new species of Terellia (Diptera: Tephritidae) from Iran with a key to the species of the tarbinskiorum group
SAEED MOHAMADZADE NAMIN, JAMASB NOZARI & AREZOO NAJARPOOR (Iran)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2748: 1–17 (25 Jan. 2011) 6 plates; 5 references                            Accepted: 22 Dec. 2010
Revision of the New World Hendelia (Diptera: Clusiidae: Clusiodinae)
OWEN LONSDALE & STEPHEN A. MARSHALL (Canada)

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Erratum 
Zootaxa 2743: 68 (18 Jan. 2011
Erratum:
MARTIN, JON, SUBLETTE, JAMES E. & CALDWELL, BROUGHTON A. (2010) Description of Chironomus quinnitukut, n. sp., closely related to the C. decorus group in North America, with characterization of an additional larval form from halobiontic habitats. Zootaxa, 2716, 29–41.
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Article 
Zootaxa 2743: 56–62 (18 Jan. 2011) 3 plates; 7 references                          Accepted: 14 Dec. 2010
Phylogeny of Pnyxiopalpus Vilkamaa & Hippa, with the description of P. persimplex sp. n. (Diptera, Sciaridae)
PEKKA VILKAMAA (Finland) & HEIKKI HIPPA (Sweden)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2743: 40–48 (18 Jan. 2011) 4 plates; 21 references                         Accepted: 14 Dec. 2010
Redescriptions of species of Bryophaenocladius Thienemann, 1934 (Diptera: Chironomidae) described by Brundin (1947)
JING DU (P.R. China), XIN-HUA WANG (P.R. China) & OLE SÆTHER (Norway)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2743: 27–39 (18 Jan. 2011) 5 plates; 38 references                         Accepted: 10 Dec. 2010
Exploring unknown life stages of Arctic Tanytarsini
(Diptera: Chironomidae) with DNA barcoding
ELISABETH STUR & TORBJØRN EKREM (Norway)

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Article
Zootaxa 2741: 38–58 (17 Jan. 2011) 0 plates; 121 references                       Accepted: 19 Nov. 2010
Catalogue of the Bolitophilidae and Diadocidiidae of the World
(Insecta: Diptera)
DIMITAR BECHEV (Bulgaria) & PETER CHANDLER (UK)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2740: 1–23 (14 Jan. 2011) 9 plates; 24 references                           Accepted: 22 Dec. 2010
New species of and taxonomic notes on Anastrepha (Diptera: Tephritidae)
ALLEN L. NORRBOM (USA) & CHESLAVO A. KORYTKOWSKI (Panama)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2736: 44–56 (11 Jan. 2011) 5 plates; 33 references                            Accepted: 7 Dec. 2010
Comparative morphology of the male terminalia of the subtribe Rhinotorina
(Diptera, Heleomyzidae, Rhinotorini)
JULIA C. ALMEIDA & ROSALY ALE-ROCHA (Brazil)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2735: 35–56 (10 Jan. 2011) 19 plates; 28 references                      Accepted: 17 Nov. 2010
Three new cryptic species of the genus Merodon Meigen (Diptera: Syrphidae)
from the island of Lesvos (Greece)
SNEŽANA RADENKOVI
Ć (Serbia), ANTE VUJIĆ (Serbia), GUNILLA STÅHLS (Finland), CELESTE PÉREZ-BAÑÓN (Spain), SANTOS ROJO (Spain), THEODORA PETANIDOU (Greece) & SMILJKA ŠIMIĆ (Serbia)
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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2735: 28–30 (10 Jan. 2011) 1 plates; 16 references                           Accepted: 7 Dec. 2010
The identity of the frog fly Caiusa coomani Séguy, 1948 (Diptera, Calliphoridae)
KNUT ROGNES (Norway)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2733: 63–68 (6 Jan. 2011) 8 plates; 27 references                              Accepted: 1 Dec. 2010
Heterotrissocladius Spärck from China (Diptera: Chironomidae)
FANQING KONG & XINHUA WANG (P.R. China)

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2010

Monograph 
Zootaxa 2731: 1–62 (24 Dec. 2010) 29 plates; 35 references                          Accepted: 16 Oct. 2010
New species of black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) from Nepal
HIROYUKI TAKAOKA (Japan) & SUCHITRA SHRESTHA (Nepal)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2729: 1–35 (23 Dec. 2010) 19 plates; 23 references                            Accepted: 1 Dec. 2010
A revision of the Hawaiian and Wake Island species of
the genus Conchopus Takagi (Diptera, Dolichopodidae)
KAZUHIRO MASUNAGA & TOYOHEI SAIGUSA (Japan)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2728: 39–49 (22 Dec. 2010) 4 plates; 14 references                        Accepted: 28 Oct. 2010
New species of Lopescladius (Cordiella) Coffman et Roback (Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae) from Brazil
LINN K. HAGENLUND, TROND ANDERSEN & HUMBERTO F. MENDES (Norway)
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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2726: 68 (20 Dec. 2010) 0 plates; 5 references                                 Accepted: 20 Nov. 2010
Pericoma nielseni nom. nov., a replacement name for Pericoma formosa Nielsen, 1964, preoccupied by Pericoma formosa Meunier, 1905 (Diptera: Psychodidae)
GUNNAR MIKALSEN KVIFTE (Norway)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2726: 59–67 (20 Dec. 2010) 4 plates; 11 references                         Accepted: 17 Nov. 2010
Two new species of Paratanytarsus (Diptera: Chironomidae) from southeast of Brazil
SUSANA TRIVINHO-STRIXINO (Brazil)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2726: 34–58 (20 Dec. 2010) 15 plates; 36 references                       Accepted: 30 Nov. 2010
Procladius Skuse from Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, with keys to some females and immature stages of the genus (Diptera: Chironomidae)
OLE A. SÆTHER (Norway)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2721: 47–54 (14 Dec. 2010) 4 plates; 15 references                          Accepted: 16 Nov. 2010
The Stegana (Steganina) biprotrusa species group from the Oriental Region (Diptera: Drosophilidae)
LIANG WU, JIAN-JUN GAO & HONG-WEI CHEN (China)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2717: 53–61 (8 Dec. 2010) 4 plates; 18 references                           Accepted: 11 Nov. 2010
Notes on the genus Procystiphora Felt, 1915 (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) with description of one new species inducing galls in branchlets of a bamboo in China
KELONG JIAO & WENJUN BU (China)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2716: 42–52 (8 Dec. 2010) 5 plates; 47 references                           Accepted: 22 Nov. 2010
The immature stages of the biting midge Culicoides debilipalpis Lutz (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)
MARÍA M. RONDEROS, CARLA G. CAZORLA & GUSTAVO R. SPINELLI (Argentina)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2716: 29–41 (8 Dec. 2010) 7 plates; 19 references                           Accepted: 10 Nov. 2010
Description of Chironomus quinnitukut, n. sp., closely related to the C. decorus group in North America, with characterization of an additional larval form from halobiontic habitats
JON MARTIN (Australia), JAMES E. SUBLETTE (USA) & BROUGHTON A. CALDWELL (USA)
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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2705: 1–81 (3 Dec. 2010) 24 plates; 93 references                          Accepted: 1 Oct. 2010
A review of the genus Dexia Meigen in the Palearctic and Oriental Regions (Diptera: Tachinidae)
CHUN-TIAN ZHANG (P.R. China), HIROSHI SHIMA (Japan) & XIAO-LIN CHEN (P.R. China)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2699: 1–142 (3 Dec. 2010) 43 plates; 41 references                          Accepted: 19 Oct. 2010
Revision of the New World Dohrniphora Dahl species lacking large hind tibial setae (Diptera:
Phoridae)
BRIAN V. BROWN & GIAR-ANN KUNG (USA)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2695: 1–197 (3 Dec. 2010) 127 plates; 159 references                      Accepted: 16 Nov. 2010
Review of the Holarctic Corynoptera
Winnertz, 1867, s. str. (Diptera, Sciaridae)
HEIKKI HIPPA
(Sweden), PEKKA VILKAMAA (Finland) & KAI HELLER (Germany)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2689: 27–36 (26 Nov. 2010) 4 plates; 47 references                           Accepted: 2 Nov. 2010
Description of the larva and pupa and redescription of the adults of Isostomyia paranensis (Brèthes) (Diptera: Culicidae)
RAÚL E. CAMPOS (Argentina) & THOMAS J. ZAVORTINK (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2689: 1–14 (26 Nov. 2010) 7 plates; 18 references                              Accepted: 4 Oct. 2010
A new species of Parachironomus Lenz, 1921 (Diptera: Chironomidae: Chironominae), and description of immature stages of two other species from the Neotropical Region
SUSANA TRIVINHO-STRIXINO, FABIO LAURINDO DA SILVA & FABIO OLIVEIRA ROQUE
(Brazil)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2683: 1–22 (22 Nov. 2010) 11 plates; 18 references                          Accepted: 29 Oct. 2010
A taxonomic study on Chrysotus Meigen (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from southwest China: descriptions of eleven new species belonging to the redefined C. laesus-group
LIANMENG WEI & LILI ZHANG (P.R. China)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2675: 57–64 (12 Nov. 2010) 1 plates; 26 references                           Accepted: 12 Oct. 2010
Tvetenia vitracies (Sæther, 1969), a synonym of Tvetenia tshernovskii (Pankratova, 1968), comb. n. (Diptera: Chironomidae)
ANDREY A. PRZHIBORO (Russia) & OLE A. SÆTHER (Norway)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2675: 47–56 (12 Nov. 2010) 4 plates; 33 references                           Accepted: 19 Oct. 2010
Notes on the species of the genus Hyadina from China (Diptera: Ephydridae)
DAN ZHOU, JUNHUA ZHANG & DING YANG (P.R. China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2670: 3 1–51 (8 Nov. 2010) 11 plates; 32 references                             Accepted: 6 Oct. 2010
Redescription of the Australian metallic-green tomato fly,
Lamprolonchaea brouniana (Bezzi) (Diptera: Lonchaeidae), with notes on the Australian Lamprolonchaea fauna
MARK J. BLACKET & MALLIK B. MALIPATIL (Australia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2669: 45–56 (8 Nov. 2010) 6 plates; 15 references                             Accepted: 20 Sep. 2010
Four new Neotropical species of Stilobezzia (Acanthohelea) Kieffer (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)

CARLA G. CAZORLA & GUSTAVO R. SPINELLI (Argentina)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2668: 1–20 (5 Nov. 2010) 26 plates; 24 references                             Accepted: 14 Oct. 2010
Discovery of Griphophanes Grootaert & Meuffels and Nepalomyia Hollis in the
Afrotropical Region with a key to Afrotropical genera of Peloropeodinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)
IGOR YA. GRICHANOV (Russia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2663: 1–35 (1 Nov. 2010) 17 plates; 41 references                            Accepted: 23 Sep. 2010
Keys to the genera and species of blow flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) of the West
Indies and description of a new species of Lucilia Robineau-Desvoidy
TERRY WHITWORTH (USA)
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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2662: 66–68 (29 Oct. 2010) 1 plates; 12 references                          Accepted: 14 Aug. 2010
A new species of moth fly (Diptera, Psychodidae, Psychodinae) collected from
Bromeliads in Florida
RÜDIGER WAGNER (Germany) & LAWRENCE J. HRIBAR (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2661: 33–46 (29 Oct. 2010) 5 plates; 12 references                             Accepted: 1 Oct. 2010
Bothaella manhi, a new species of tribe Aedini (Diptera: Culicidae) from the Cuc Phuong National Park of Vietnam based on morphology and DNA sequence
SHELLEY COOK (UK), NGO GIANG LIEN (Vietnam), ERICA MCALISTER (UK)
& RALPH E. HARBACH (UK)
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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2656: 67–67 (25 Oct. 2010) 0 plates; 4 references                                Accepted: 4 Oct. 2010
A nomenclatural note on European Chalarus (Diptera: Pipunculidae):
a new synonymy of C. elegantulus Jervis, 1992
CHRISTIAN KEHLMAIER (Germany)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2656: 1–40 (25 Oct. 2010) 13 plates; 64 references                           Accepted: 24 Sep. 2010
Taxonomic revision of the New World genus Chlorotabanus Lutz, 1913
(Diptera: Tabanidae)
TIAGO KÜTTER KROLOW & AUGUSTO LOUREIRO HENRIQUES (Brazil)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2654: 1–16 (22 Oct. 2010) 7 plates; 12 references                             Accepted: 28 Sep. 2010
A review of stalk-eyed fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae: Trypetinae)

XIAOLIN CHEN, YANZHOU ZHANG, JIE LI & CHAODONG ZHU (P.R. China)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2653: 60–68 (21 Oct. 2010) 4 plates; 14 references                           Accepted: 21 Sep. 2010
Two new species of the genus Angarotipula Savchenko, with a key to world species (Diptera, Tipulidae)
QIFEI LIU & DING YANG (P.R. China)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2653: 37–50 (21 Oct. 2010) 2 plates; 55 references                           Accepted: 28 Sep. 2010
Type designations of Diptera (Insecta) in the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana
NEAL L. EVENHUIS (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2651: 43–51 (20 Oct. 2010) 0 plates; 51 references                             Accepted: 1 Oct. 2010
Systematics of Anopheles (Cellia) yaeyamaensis sp. n., alias species E of
the An. minimus complex in southeastern Asia (Diptera: Culicidae)
PRADYA SOMBOON (Thailand), ANGELA RORY (UK), YOSHIO TSUDA (Japan), MASAHIRO
TAKAGI (Japan) & RALPH E. HARBACH (UK)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2648: 32–44 (18 Oct. 2010) 6 plates; 10 references                           Accepted: 20 Sep. 2010
Species of the subgenus Acutipula Alexander from Henan, east-central China
(Diptera, Tipulidae)
YAN LI & DING YANG (P.R. China)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2645: 64–68 (14 Oct. 2010) 6 plates; 10 references                             Accepted: 5 Sep. 2010
A new Chersodromia Walker (Diptera: Hybotidae) from
shore of the Sea of Azov (Russia)
PATRICK GROOTAERT (Belgium) & IGOR SHAMSHEV (Russia)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2645: 49–54 (14 Oct. 2010) 4 plates; 13 references                           Accepted: 28 Sep. 2010
A new Mesozoic-aged rhagionemestriid fly (Diptera: Nemestrinoidea)
from China
ANDRÉ NEL (France)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2644: 25–46 (13 Oct. 2010) 10 plates; 40 references                         Accepted: 20 Sep. 2010
A systematic review of the genus Tanypus Meigen from Japan, with a description of T. nakazatoi sp. nov. (Diptera: Chironomidae: Tanypodinae)
TADASHI KOBAYASHI (Japan)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2641: 55–61 (11 Oct. 2010) 3 plates; 14 references                           Accepted: 15 Sep. 2010
A second known species of Eratomyia Amorim & Rindal
(Diptera, Rangomaramidae, Chiletrichinae) from Colombia
DALTON DE SOUZA AMORIM & RAFAELA LOPES FALASCHI (Brazil)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2638: 1–24 (6 Oct. 2010) 4 plates; 28 references                               Accepted: 11 Sep. 2010
Coetzeemyia, a new subgenus of Aedes, and a redescription of the holotype female of Aedes (Coetzeemyia) fryeri (Theobald) (Diptera: Culicidae) 
YIAU-MIN HUANG, WAYNE N. MATHIS & RICHARD C. WILKERSON (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2629: 29–46 (29 Sep. 2010) 13 plates; 19 references                           Accepted: 6 Sep. 2010
Four new species of Paratrizygia Tonnoir from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest (Diptera, Mycetophilidae, Sciophilinae)
SARAH SIQUEIRA OLIVEIRA & DALTON DE SOUZA AMORIM (Brazil)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2627: 1–19 (27 Sep. 2010) 8 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 24 Aug. 2010
First record of the genus Empidideicus (Diptera: Bombylioidea: Mythicomyiidae) from Iran, with description of six new species
BABAK GHARALI (Iran), KARIM KAMALI (Iran), NEAL EVENHUIS (USA), ALI ASGHAR TALEBI
(Iran) & JAFAR KHALGANI (Iran)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2622: 49–60 (23 Sep. 2010) 7 plates; 6 references                             Accepted: 21 Aug. 2010
A new species and key for Rhaphiomidas Osten Sacken (Diptera: Mydidae)
MATTHEW H. VAN DAM (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2619: 49–55 (21 Sep. 2010) 3 plates; 7 references                            Accepted: 14 Aug. 2010
Blood sucking midges of Leptoconops (Holoconops Kieffer)
(Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from India
ABHIJIT MAZUMDAR, NARAYAN C. SAHA & PRASANTA K. CHAUDHURI (India)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2619: 14–26 (21 Sep. 2010) 18 plates; 10 references                        Accepted: 21 Aug. 2010
Two new species and two new synonyms of Systropus Wiedemann, 1820 from Palaearctic China (Diptera: Bombyliidae)
WEINA CUI & DING YANG (P.R. China)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2618: 47–60 (20 Sep. 2010) 6 plates; 5 references                            Accepted: 26 Aug. 2010
Review of the genus Paramanota Tuomikoski (Diptera, Mycetophilidae), with the description of new fossil and recent species
HEIKKI HIPPA (Sweden)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2614: 18–32 (16 Sep. 2010) 6 plates; 18 references                            Accepted: 28 Jul. 2010
New species of Cryptochironomus Kieffer, 1918
(Diptera: Chironomidae: Chironominae) from Brazil
FABIO LAURINDO DA SILVA, SUSANA TRIVINHO STRIXINO & HELIANA ROSELY NEVES
OLIVEIRA (Brazil)
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Erratum 
Zootaxa 2609: 68 (13 Sep. 2010
Erratum: KERR, PETER H. (2010) Phylogeny and classification of Rhagionidae, with
implications for Tabanomorpha (Diptera: Brachycera). Zootaxa, 2592, 1–133.
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Article 
Zootaxa 2608: 45–56 (10 Sep. 2010) 5 plates; 4 references                                Accepted: 4 Aug. 2010
Four new species of Saetherocladius Andersen et Mendes from Mata Atlântica, Brazil (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae)
TROND ANDERSEN (Norway), HUMBERTO F. MENDES (Norway) & LUIZ C. PINHO (Brazil)
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 2602: 67–68 (3 Sep. 2010) 1 plates; 9 references                                Accepted: 7 Aug. 2010
Ristocordyla nom. nov. (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) a replacement name for the
subgenus Paracordyla Tuomikoski, 1966, nec Hallmann, 1912
EIRIK RINDAL & GEIR SØLI (Norway)
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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2597: 1–87 (31 Aug. 2010) 1 plates; 272 references                           Accepted: 15 Jul. 2010
An annotated catalogue of the Muscidae (Diptera) of Siberia
VERA S. SOROKINA (Russia) & ADRIAN C. PONT (UK)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2592: 1–133 (31 Aug. 2010) 26 plates; 390 references                        Accepted: 21 Jul. 2010
Phylogeny and classification of Rhagionidae, with implications for
Tabanomorpha (Diptera: Brachycera)
PETER H. KERR (USA)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2581: 1–246 (31 Aug. 2010) 61 plates; 111 references                        Accepted: 1 May 2010
A taxonomic revision of Australian Conopidae (Insecta: Diptera)
MARGARET A SCHNEIDER (Australia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2575: 38–48 (24 Aug. 2010) 3 plates; 33 references                           Accepted: 23 Jul. 2010
New species and new records of Fannia Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera, Fanniidae) from the Brazilian Amazon Region
LISIANE DILLI WENDT (Brazil)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2575: 1–37 (24 Aug. 2010) 8 plates; 149 references                           Accepted: 28 Jul. 2010
Review of the Sarcophaginae (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) of Buenos Aires Province (Argentina), with a key and description of a new species
PABLO RICARDO MULIERI JUAN CARLOS MARILUIS & LUCIANO DAMIÁN PATITUCCI
(Argentina)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2560: 51–60 (6 Aug. 2010) 3 plates; 51 references                                 Accepted: 9 Jul. 2010
The synonymies of Dolichopus lepidus lepidus Staeger, 1842 —
demasculinisations, lectotype designations and a nomen oblitum (Diptera, Dolichopodidae)
CHRISTOPH GERMANN (Switzerland), JERE KAHANPÄÄ (Finland), MARC POLLET (Belgium),
LUCIA POLLINI (Switzerland) & MARCO VALERIO BERNASCONI (Switzerland)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2560: 42–50 (6 Aug. 2010) 4 plates; 14 references                              Accepted: 12 Jul. 2010
The genus Ctenosciara Tuomikoski in China, with descriptions of three new species (Diptera, Sciaridae)
HONG WU, SU-JIONG ZHANG & JUNHAO HUANG (P.R. China)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2559: 36–46 (5 Aug. 2010) 6 plates; 15 references                                Accepted: 3 Jul. 2010
Adult morphology of Paramorganiella adventurosa Tonnoir (Diptera: Mycetophilidae: Sciophilinae), including a description of the unique maxillary palpi
MATHIAS JASCHHOF, STEPHAN M. BLANK & UWE KALLWEIT (Germany)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2556: 1–39 (2 Aug. 2010) 2 plates; 86 references                                Accepted: 12 Jul. 2010
The Muscidae (Diptera) of Vanuatu
MARCIA S. COURI (Brazil), ADRIAN C. PONT (UK) & CHRISTOPHE DAUGERON (France)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2553: 35–59 (29 Jul. 2010) 13 plates; 18 references                          Accepted: 28 Jun. 2010
Systematics of Bulbostyla, a new subgenus of Sarcophaga Meigen, and change of status for Robackina Lopes (Diptera: Sarcophagidae)
MARJOLAINE GIROUX & TERRY A. WHEELER (Canada)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2545: 1–22 (22 Jul. 2010) 4 plates; 11 references                              Accepted: 17 Jun. 2010
Nearctic species related to Diogmites angustipennis Loew (Diptera: Asilidae)
JEFFREY K. BARNES (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2542: 18–32 (20 Jul. 2010) 7 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 23 Jun. 2010
New species of Rhegmoclematini (Diptera: Scatopsidae) from Mexico
HERÓN HUERTA & FELIPE DZUL (Mexico)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2540: 48–58 (19 Jul. 2010) 6 plates; 18 references                            Accepted: 15 Jun. 2010
Revision of Neodischistus Painter, 1933 (Diptera, Bombyliidae, Bombyliinae)
CARLOS JOSÉ EINICKER LAMAS & CAROLINA YAMAGUCHI (Brazil)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2540: 1–47 (19 Jul. 2010) 25 plates; 55 references                            Accepted: 15 Jun. 2010
An overview of the Afrotropical Ommatiinae (Diptera: Asilidae) with a key to genera
A.G. SCARBROUGH (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2538: 60–68 (16 Jul. 2010) 4 plates; 5 references                              Accepted: 15 Jun. 2010
Two new species of the genus Spartimas Enderlein from China (Diptera: Stratiomyidae)
TING-TING ZHANG & DING YANG (P.R. China)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2535: 49–60 (14 Jul. 2010) 8 plates; 6 references                             Accepted: 17 Jun. 2010
New species of Anastrepha Schiner (Diptera, Tephritidae) from remnant area of the Atlantic Rain Forest and surroundings in the state of Espírito Santo, Brazil
KEIKO URAMOTO & ROBERTO ANTONIO ZUCCHI (Brazil)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2531: 57–63 (9 Jul. 2010) 3 plates; 14 references                              Accepted: 22 Jun. 2010
The Stegana (Oxyphortica) convergens species group from the Oriental region (Diptera: Drosophilidae)
YU CHENG, MIAOFENG XU & HONGWEI CHEN (China)
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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2524: 65–68 (1 Jul. 2010) 1 plates; 10 references                               Accepted: 12 Jun. 2010
Long-distance introduction: first New World record of Stevenia deceptoria (Loew) and a key to the genera of New World Rhinophoridae (Diptera)
PABLO RICARDO MULIERI (Argentina), LUCIANO DAMIÁN PATITUCCI (Argentina), JUAN
CARLOS MARILUIS (Argentina) & THOMAS PAPE (Denmark)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2524: 51–62 (1 Jul. 2010) 5 plates; 18 references                               Accepted: 8 Jun. 2010
Descriptions of three new species of Psychodidae (Diptera) from the southeastern United States
GREGORY R. CURLER & JOHN K. MOULTON (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2520: 49–65 (28 Jun. 2010) 25 plates; 25 references                           Accepted: 5 Jun. 2010
Re-description and new combination of five New World species of Chrysotus Meigen, with comments on the Neotropical genus Lyroneurus Loew (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)
RENATO SOARES CAPELLARI & DALTON DE SOUZA AMORIM (Brazil)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2517: 53–61 (24 Jun. 2010) 10 plates; 21 references                         Accepted: 26 May 2010
New species of the genus Neurigona (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from China
MENGQING WANG, HONGYIN CHEN & DING YANG (P.R. China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2516: 49–67 (23 Jun. 2010) 9 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 28 May 2010
Description of a new genus and six new species of Tachinidae (Diptera) from Asia and New Guinea
HIROSHI SHIMA (Japan), HO-YON HAN (South Korea) & TAKUJI TACHI (Japan)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2515: 45–64 (23 Jun. 2010) 14 plates; 18 references                             Accepted: 1 Jun. 2010
Revision of the Neotropical genus Carrerapyrgota Aczél (Diptera, Pyrgotidae)
with the description of two new species
RAMON LUCIANO MELLO, CARLOS JOSÉ EINICKER LAMAS & JOSÉ ALBERTINO RAFAEL
(Brazil)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2512: 47–55 (21 Jun. 2010) 4 plates; 17 references                            Accepted: 19 May 2010
Two new yellow-legged species of the genus Hybos from Vietnam (Diptera: Empidoidea: Hybotinae)
SHAN HUO (P.R. China), PATRICK GROOTAERT (Belgium) & DING YANG (P.R. China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2507: 37–43 (16 Jun. 2010) 3 plates; 25 references                           Accepted: 18 May 2010
A new species of Hydrobaenus Fries, 1830 (Diptera, Chironomidae) from Algeria
KARIMA ZERGUINE (Algeria) & BRUNO ROSSARO (Italy)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2503: 1–61 (11 Jun. 2010) 4 plates; 137 references                           Accepted: 17 May 2010
The Muscidae (Diptera) of New Caledonia
MARCIA S. COURI (Brazil), ADRIAN C. PONT (UK) & CHRISTOPHE DAUGERON (France)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2502: 56–60 (11 Jun. 2010) 2 plates; 8 references                              Accepted: 18 May 2010
A new species of the genus Malaisemyia Alexander from China, with an updated key to the world species (Diptera, Pediciidae)
MENG MAO & DING YANG (P.R. China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2499: 39–56 (9 Jun. 2010) 4 plates; 32 references                             Accepted: 10 May 2010
Revision of the cluster flies of the Pollenia haeretica species-group (Diptera, Calliphoridae)
KNUT ROGNES (Norway)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2497: 1–36 (7 Jun. 2010) 10 plates; 80 references                                Accepted: 3 May 2010
The problems with Polypedilum Kieffer (Diptera: Chironomidae), with the description of Probolum subgen. n.
OLE A. SÆTHER(Norway), TROND ANDERSEN (Norway), LUIZ C. PINHO (Brazil) & HUMBERTO F. MENDES (Norway)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2490: 47–54  (1 Jun. 2010) 4 plates; 17 references                            Accepted: 17 Apr. 2010
A new Neotropical species of the genus Stenochironomus Kieffer (Diptera: Chironomidae) with wood-mining larvae
GALILEU P. S. DANTAS (Brazil), NEUSA HAMADA (Brazil) & HUMBERTO F. MENDES (Norway)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2485: 16–32 (27 May 2010) 3 plates; 42 references                           Accepted: 12 Mar. 2010
A review of the Oriental Japanagromyza Sasakawa (Diptera: Agromyzidae), with descriptions of four new species
MITSUHIRO SASAKAWA (Japan)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2472: 1–77 (14 May 2010) 35 plates; 35 references                          Accepted: 16 Apr. 2010
Neotropical Allocladius Kieffer, 1913 and Pseudosmittia Edwards, 1932 (Diptera: Chironomidae)
TROND ANDERSEN, OLE A. SÆTHER & HUMBERTO F. MENDES (Norway)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2471: 1–84 (14 May 2010) 0 plates; 394 references                           Accepted: 8 Apr. 2010
World Catalog of the Family Canacidae (including Tethinidae) (Diptera), with keys to the supraspecific
taxa
LORENZO MUNARI (Italy) & WAYNE N. MATHIS (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2453: 62–68  (13 May 2010) 2 plates; 12 references                          Accepted: 25 Mar. 2010
Chinese Paracladius Hirvenoja, with the description of P. ovatus sp. n. (Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae)
YUE FU (China), XINHUA WANG (China) & TROND ANDERSEN (Norway)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2453: 42–47  (13 May 2010) 3 plates; 9 references                            Accepted: 13 Apr. 2010
Two new species of the subgenus Planempis, with a key to the species of China (Diptera: Empidoidea: Empididae)
JINJING WANG, ZHU LI & DING YANG (China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2453: 1–24  (13 May 2010) 12 plates; 8 references                              Accepted: 8 Apr. 2010
The genus Anastoechus Osten Sacken, 1877 (Diptera: Bombyliidae) from China, with descriptions of four new species
GANG YAO (China), DING YANG (China) & NEAL L. EVENHUIS (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2448: 26–34  (7 May 2010) 4 plates; 11 references                            Accepted: 31 Mar. 2010
Two new species of phlebotomine sand flies (Diptera: Psychodidae, Phlebotominae) from Quintana Roo, Mexico
SERGIO IBÁÑEZ-BERNAL, EMIGDIO MAY-UC, & EDUARDO A. REBOLLAR-TELLEZ (Mexico)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2441: 41–52  (30 Apr. 2010) 4 plates; 17 references                         Accepted: 16 Mar. 2010
Two new species of the genus Apolysis (Apolysini, Bombyliidae, Diptera) from the north of Iran
BABAK GHARALI (Iran), KARIM KAMALI (Iran), NEAL EVENHUIS (USA) & ALI ASGHAR
TALEBI (Iran)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2441: 27–40  (30 Apr. 2010) 1 plates; 29 references                         Accepted: 23 Mar. 2010
Systematic ambiguity in the well-established model system insect Scathophaga stercoraria (Diptera: Scathophagidae): sister species S. soror revealed by molecular evidence
MARCO VALERIO BERNASCONI, DAVID BERGER & WOLF U. BLANCKENHORN (Switzerland)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2441: 20–26  (30 Apr. 2010) 5 plates; 8 references                             Accepted: 8 Mar. 2010
A new species of Apolysis Loew, 1860 from China (Diptera: Bombyliidae, Usiinae, Apolysini)
GANG YAO (China), DING YANG (China), NEAL L. EVENHUIS (USA), & BABAK GHARALI (Iran)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2437: 1–37 (26 Apr. 2010) 5 plates; 183 references                          Accepted: 22 Mar. 2010
Distribution and new synonymy in European biting midges of the genus Dasyhelea Kieffer (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)
PATRYCJA DOMINIAK & RYSZARD SZADZIEWSKI (Poland)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2431: 1–42 (20 Apr. 2010) 21 plates; 58 references                          Accepted: 10 Mar. 2010
Thienemanniella Kieffer from East Asia, with a systematic review of the genus (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae)
YUE FU (China), OLE SÆTHER (Norway) & XINHUA WANG (China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2428: 47–54 (16 Apr. 2010) 5 plates; 26 references                        Accepted: 9 Mar. 2010
Flavizona Huo, a new genus of Syrphini from China, with a key to genera of Syrphini in China
KE-KE HUO & FU-MIN SHI (P.R. China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2428: 22–36 (16 Apr. 2010) 10 plates; 20 references                        Accepted: 15 Mar. 2010
A new black fly species from Brazil, closely related to Simulium guianense Wise (Diptera, Simuliidae), revealed by morphology and DNA barcoding
NEUSA HAMADA, MATEUS PEPINELLI, ALINE MATTOS-GLÓRIA & SERGIO LUIZ BESSA LUZ
(Brazil)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2425: 31–44 (13 Apr. 2010) 4 plates; 27 references                      Accepted: 9 Mar. 2010
New species and records of Anastrepha Schiner (Diptera: Tephritidae) from Colombia
NELSON A. CANAL (Colombia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2424: 42–50 (13 Apr. 2010) 6 plates; 11 references                      Accepted: 6 Mar. 2010
The Central Asian Herina (Diptera: Ulidiidae), with the description of a new species from Afghanistan
ELENA P. KAMENEVA & IGOR G. PLJUSHTCH (Ukraine)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2423: 63–68 (12 Apr. 2010) 4 plates; 8 references                               Accepted: 1 Mar. 2010
Contarinia manii sp. n. (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae): inducer of a remarkable gall on Acacia ferruginea in southern India
KEITH M. HARRIS (UK)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2421: 35–48 (8 Apr. 2010) 7 plates; 16 references                              Accepted: 11 Feb. 2010
Five new species of Coniceromyia Borgmeier (Diptera: Phoridae) from the Atlantic Forest, Brazil
DANILO CESAR AMENT & DALTON DE SOUZA AMORIM (Brazil)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2420: 53–62 (7 Apr. 2010) 4 plates; 15 references                              Accepted: 20 Feb. 2010
A new species of the genus Monopelopia from South Brazil, with keys to the
Neotropical–Nearctic species (Diptera: Chironomidae: Tanypodinae)
CAROLINE SILVA NEUBERN DE OLIVEIRA (Brazil), HUMBERTO FONSECA MENDES (Norway) &
MÁRIO ANTÔNIO NAVARRO DA SILVA (Brazil)
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 2417: 66–68 (2 Apr. 2010) 2 plates; 8 references                                Accepted: 3 Feb. 2010
Notes on the status of some species of the Medetera jacula group (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)
OLEG P. NEGROBOV (Russia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2417: 40–50 (2 Apr. 2010) 2 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 22 Feb. 2010
Review of the species of Betasyrphus Matsumura, 1917 (Diptera: Syrphidae) from Madagascar with description of a new species
AXEL SSYMANK (Germany)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2415: 43–53 (31 Mar. 2010) 7 plates; 12 references                           Accepted: 24 Feb. 2010
Description of the immature stages of Wyeomyia (Spilonympha) howardi Lane & Cerqueira (Diptera: Culicidae) with a redescription of the adults
DORALICE DI PACE PALACIO, RICARDO LOURENÇO-DE-OLIVEIRA & MONIQUE DE
ALBUQUERQUE MOTTA (Brazil)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2412: 53–62 (29 Mar. 2010) 6 plates; 36 references                          Accepted: 25 Feb. 2010
Phylogeny and biogeography of the genus Piezura Rondani (Diptera: Fanniidae)
MING-FU WANG, DONG ZHANG & HU AO (China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2412: 1–20 (29 Mar. 2010) 8 plates; 33 references                          Accepted: 16 Feb. 2010
Cryptotendipes Lenz from Manitoba, Canada, with keys to known immatures of the genus (Diptera: Chironomidae)
OLE A. SÆTHER (Norway)

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Erratum 
Zootaxa 2411: 68 (26 Mar. 2010
Erratum—SCABROUGH, A.G. & TOMASOVIC, G. (2010) Ommatomyia, a new genus from
Vietnam (Diptera: Asilidae: Ommatiinae). Zootaxa, 2366, 46–54.
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Article 
Zootaxa 2402: 61–67 (18 Mar. 2010) 2 plates; 12 references                             Accepted: 8 Feb. 2010
A new genus and two new species of Pachygastrinae from the Oriental region
(Diptera: Stratiomyidae)
ZAIHUA YANG & MAOFA YANG (China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2401: 52–60 (17 Mar. 2010) 5 plates; 11 references                            Accepted: 3 Feb. 2010
Four new species of the genus Brithura Edwards from China, with an updated key to world species (Diptera, Tipulidae)
QIFEI LIU & DING YANG (China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2401: 30–40 (17 Mar. 2010) 5 plates; 10 references                           Accepted: 22 Feb. 2010
Finnish species of Nemotelus (Diptera: Stratiomyidae), with description of a new species
JERE KAHANPÄÄ (Finland)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2400: 57–65 (16 Mar. 2010) 5 plates; 20 references                           Accepted: 10 Feb. 2010
Hurleyella, a new genus of Nearctic Dolichopodidae (Diptera)
JUSTIN B. RUNYON & HAROLD ROBINSON (USA)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2398: 1–65 (12 Mar. 2010) 26 plates; 44 references                           Accepted: 21 Jan. 2010
New genera, species and host plant records
of Nearctic and Neotropical Tephritidae (Diptera)
ALLEN L. NORRBOM (USA), BRUCE D. SUTTON (USA), GARY J. STECK (USA) & JOSÉ MONZÓN (Guatemala)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2397: 48–60 (12 Mar. 2010) 5 plates; 20 references                            Accepted: 3 Feb. 2010
Contributions to Nearctic Stupkaiella Vaillant (Diptera: Psychodidae)
GREGORY R. CURLER & JOHN K. MOULTON (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2397: 41–47 (12 Mar. 2010) 2 plates; 10 references                          Accepted: 29 Jan. 2010
Parameristomerinx copelandi—a new genus and species of Afrotropical Pachygastrinae and a new generic synonym of Dolichodema Kertész
(Diptera: Stratiomyidae)
NORMAN E. WOODLEY (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2397: 29–40 (12 Mar. 2010) 18 plates; 33 references                         Accepted: 25 Jan. 2010
A molecular phylogenetic analysis of genus Anevrina (Diptera: Phoridae), with the description of a new species and updated world key
PAUL T. SMITH & BRIAN V. BROWN (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2397: 1–14 (12 Mar. 2010) 8 plates; 25 references                              Accepted: 3 Feb. 2010
New Azana species from Western North America (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) 
PETER H. KERR (USA)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2387: 28–38 (3 Mar. 2010) 6 plates; 11 references                            Accepted: 29 Jan. 2010
The genus Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) in New Zealand
MATHIAS JASCHHOF & CATRIN JASCHHOF (Germany)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2386: 59–64 (2 Mar. 2010) 2 plates; 10 references                            Accepted: 15 Dec. 2009
Two new species of Psychodidae (subfamilies Trichomyiinae and Psychodinae)
from Germany associated with decaying wood
BERNADETT BERAN, DIETER DOCZKAL, KURT PFISTER & RÜDIGER WAGNER (Germany)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2386: 49–58 (2 Mar. 2010) 4 plates; 19 references                            Accepted: 25 Jan. 2010
A new species of the genus Ablabesmyia Johannsen from the Neotropics and description of the pupa of Ablabesmyia bianulata Paggi (Diptera: Chironomidae: Tanypodinae)
AUGUSTO SIRI & ANALÍA C. PAGGI (Argentina)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2374: 1–139 (26 Feb. 2010) 35 plates; 28 references                         Accepted: 16 Nov. 2009
Revision of the femoralis group of Blepharoneura Loew
(Diptera: Tephritidae)
ALLEN L. NORRBOM & MARTY CONDON (USA)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2373: 1–265 (26 Feb. 2010) 8 plates; 417 references                          Accepted: 21 Jan. 2010
Nomenclatural Studies Toward a World List of Diptera Genus-Group Names. Part I: André-Jean-Baptiste Robineau-Desvoidy
NEAL L. EVENHUIS (USA), JAMES E. O’HARA (Canada), THOMAS PAPE (Denmark) & ADRIAN C. PONT (UK)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2368: 40–48 (24 Feb. 2010) 4 plates; 11 references                            Accepted: 15 Jan. 2010
The genus Zygoneura Meigen in China, with descriptions of three new species
(Diptera, Sciaridae)
SU-JIONG ZHANG, HONG WU & JUNHAO HUANG (P.R. China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2368: 1–39 (24 Feb. 2010) 19 plates; 41 references                            Accepted: 26 Nov. 2009
A taxonomic revision of Stibasoma Schiner, 1867 (Diptera: Tabanidae)
MAUREN TURCATEL, CLAUDIO JOSÉ BARROS DE CARVALHO & JOSÉ ALBERTINO RAFAEL
(Brazil)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2366: 46–54 (23 Feb. 2010) 3 plates; 27 references                            Accepted: 11 Jan. 2010
Ommatomyia, a new genus from Vietnam (Diptera: Asilidae: Ommatiinae)
AUBREY G. SCABROUGH (USA) & GUY TOMASOVIC (Belgium)

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Correspondence  
Zootaxa 2359: 65–67 (15 Feb. 2010) 1 plates; 10 references                            Accepted: 5 Jan. 2010
The karyotype of Chironomus acerbiphilus Tokunaga, 1939 (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Poland
IZABELA JABLONSKA-BARNA (Poland), PARASKEVA MICHAILOVA (Bulgaria), ANDRZEJ
KOWNACKI (Poland) & PETER H. LANGTON (Ireland)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2359: 43–57 (15 Feb. 2010) 5 plates; 40 references                            Accepted: 21 Jan. 2010
Taxonomic status of Nimbocera Reiss, 1972, a junior synonym of Tanytarsus van der Wulp, 1874 (Diptera: Chironomidae)
ANGELA M. SANSEVERINO, SUSANA TRIVINHO-STRIXINO & JORGE L. NESSIMIAN (Brazil)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2359: 35–42 (15 Feb. 2010) 4 plates; 16 references                            Accepted: 5 Jan. 2010
Two new species of Phora Latreille (Diptera: Phoridae) from China, with a key to species
GUANGCHUN LIU & BAOLIANG WANG (China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2357: 63–67 (11 Feb. 2010) 3 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 5 Jan. 2010
Three new species of scuttle fly (Diptera: Phoridae) from Indonesia 
R. H. L. DISNEY (UK)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2350: 22–34 (3 Feb. 2010) 5 plates; 21 references                           Accepted: 16 Dec. 2009
The genus Phthinia Winnertz (Diptera, Mycetophilidae) in the Neotropical region, with the first records from Brazil
SARAH SIQUEIRA OLIVEIRA & DALTON DE SOUZA AMORIM (Brazil)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2350: 1–21 (3 Feb. 2010) 10 plates; 27 references                           Accepted: 5 Dec. 2009
A systematic review of the genus Parapsectra Reiss (Diptera: Chironomidae:
Tanytarsini) with description of a new species from Poland
WOJCIECH GIŁKA & NATALIA JA
ŻDŻEWSKA (Poland)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2344: 39–51 (26 Jan. 2010) 5 plates; 18 references                           Accepted: 27 Nov. 2009
Ommatius Wiedemann, 1821, normus species-group (Diptera, Asilidae): description of two new species and comments on Brazilian species
RODRIGO VIEIRA, FREDDY BRAVO & JOSÉ ALBERTINO RAFAEL (Brazil)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2344: 1–16 (26 Jan. 2010) 9 plates; 20 references                           Accepted: 24 Dec. 2009
Species of the genus Metalimnobia Matsumura from China (Diptera, Limoniidae)
MENG MAO & DING YANG (P.R. China)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2342: 1–64 (22 Jan. 2010) 30 plates; 35 references                           Accepted: 5 Nov. 2009
Revision of the Neotropical subfamily Eurychoromyiinae
(Diptera: Lauxaniidae)
STEPHEN D. GAIMARI (USA) & VERA C. SILVA (Brazil)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2338: 1–22 (19 Jan. 2010) 7 plates; 35 references                           Accepted: 24 Dec. 2009
Review of Afrotropical Thienemanniella Kieffer (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae)
YUE FU (P.R. China), TOR CHRISTIAN HESTENES (Norway) & OLE SÆTHER (Norway)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2333: 41–58 (12 Jan. 2010) 8 plates; 11 references                           Accepted: 18 Nov. 2009
Revision of the Neotropical genus Cheiromyia Dyte (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)
SCOTT E. BROOKS (Canada), JEFFREY M. CUMMING (Canada) & MARC A. A. POLLET (Belgium)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2333: 1–25 (12 Jan. 2010) 15 plates; 21 references                           Accepted: 26 Nov. 2009
Notes on Oriental and Australasian Manotinae (Diptera, Mycetophilidae), with
the description of thirteen new species
HEIKKI HIPPA (Sweden) & JAN ŠEV
ČÍK (Czech Republic)
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2009 

 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2325: 65-67 (23 Dec. 2009) 1 plates; 3 references                         Accepted: 20 Oct. 2009
A new synonymy and a new species of Mydidae (Diptera) from Madagascar
B. C. KONDRATIEFF (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2325: 1-28 (23 Dec. 2009) 12 plates; 11 references                          Accepted: 28 Oct. 2009
Notes on the Homoneura (Homoneura) beckeri group from the Oriental Region,
with descriptions of ten new species from China (Diptera: Lauxaniidae)
LI SHI & DING YANG (P.R. China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2318: 427-439 (22 Dec. 2009) 4 plates; 38 references                     Accepted: 28 Oct. 2009
The Bibionidae (Diptera) of Sardinia, with description of two new species
JEAN-PAUL HAENNI (Switzerland)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2318: 440-449 (22 Dec. 2009) 2 plates; 22 references                     Accepted: 28 Oct. 2009
The Scatopsidae (Diptera) of Sardinia, with description of a new species
JEAN-PAUL HAENNI (Switzerland)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2318: 450-506 (22 Dec. 2009) 4 plates; 132 references                     Accepted: 28 Oct. 2009
The fungus gnats (Diptera: Bolitophilidae, Keroplatidae, Mycetophilidae) of Sardinia, with description of six
new species
PETER J. CHANDLER (UK)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2318: 507-530 (22 Dec. 2009) 9 plates; 67 references                     Accepted: 28 Oct. 2009
A review of the soldier flies (Diptera: Stratiomyidae) of Sardinia
FRANCO MASON (Italy), RUDOLF ROZKOŠNÝ (Czech Republic) & MARTIN HAUSER (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2318: 531-544 (22 Dec. 2009) 3 plates; 29 references                     Accepted: 28 Oct. 2009
Systematics of the Euro-Mediterranean Empis (Kritempis) (Diptera: Empididae: Empidinae)
CHRISTOPHE DAUGERON (France)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2318: 545-551 (22 Dec. 2009) 2 plates; 18 references                     Accepted: 28 Oct. 2009
Three new species of Chloropidae (Diptera) from southern Sardinia
EMILIA P. NARTSHUK (Russian Federation)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2318: 552-565 (22 Dec. 2009) 5 plates; 25 references                     Accepted: 28 Oct. 2009
Phylogeny and re-definition of the genus Melanophora (Diptera: Rhinophoridae), with description of a new
species from Sardinia
PIERFILIPPO CERRETTI (Italy) & THOMAS PAPE (Denmark)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2318: 566-588 (22 Dec. 2009) 5 plates; 69 references                     Accepted: 28 Oct. 2009
A review of the Sarcophaga (Heteronychia) (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) of Sardinia
DANIEL WHITMORE (Italy)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2315: 51-65 (21 Dec. 2009) 6 plates; 26 references                          Accepted: 5 Dec. 2009
The Pegomya maculata species group (Diptera Anthomyiidae) in Europe, with
description of a new species
VERNER MICHELSEN (Sweden) & D. MICHAEL ACKLAND (UK)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2315: 31-38 (21 Dec. 2009) 0 plates; 13 references                          Accepted: 17 Nov. 2009
A redescription of Rheotanytarsus lamellatus Reiss in all stages
(Diptera: Chironomidae) and new records from Argentina
EVA GABRIELA TEJERINA & ANALÍA CONSTANCIA PAGGI (Argentina)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2311: 55-65 (15 Dec. 2009) 4 plates; 7 references                          Accepted: 26 Nov. 2009
A taxonomic revision of the genus Metadrinomyia Shima (Diptera: Tachinidae)
with descriptions of two new species
HYE-WOO BYUN & HO-YEON HAN (South Korea)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2308: 58-64 (10 Dec. 2009) 4 plates; 18 references                          Accepted: 20 Oct. 2009
Species of the genus Limnellia from China (Diptera: Ephydridae)
JUNHUA ZHANG & DING YANG (P.R. China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2308: 1-28 (10 Dec. 2009) 13 plates; 20 references                          Accepted: 2 Nov. 2009
A key to Siberian flies of the genus Coenosia Meigen (Diptera, Muscidae) with
the descriptions of three new species
VERA S. SOROKINA (Russia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2306: 59-65 (8 Dec. 2009) 3 plates; 7 references                          Accepted: 10 Nov. 2009
First record of the genus Atrichobrunettia Satchell in Mexico, with the
description of a new species (Diptera, Psychodidae, Psychodinae)
SERGIO IBÁÑEZ-BERNAL (Mexico)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2306: 51-58 (8 Dec. 2009) 2 plates; 21 references                          Accepted: 28 Oct. 2009
Morphological description of the pupa and fourth-instar larva and redescription
of the adults of Psorophora (Psorophora) pallescens Edwards (Diptera: Culicidae)
MARINA STEIN, MAGDALENA LAURITO, GUSTAVO CARLOS ROSSI & WALTER RICARDO
ALMIRÓN (Argentina)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2300: 39-46 (30 Nov. 2009) 2 plates; 20 references                          Accepted: 27 Oct. 2009
A new Neotropical species of the genus Parochlus Enderlein, 1912
(Chironomidae: Podonominae) and new distribution in Argentina
MARIANA S. RODRÍGUEZ, ANALÍA C. PAGGI & ANA MEDINA (Argentina)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2299: 29-43 (27 Nov. 2009) 6 plates; 31 references                          Accepted: 3 Nov. 2009
Taxonomic revision of the Pegomya meridiana species group (Diptera:
Anthomyiidae) including natural enemies of invasive Hypericum spp. (Clusiaceae)
VERNER MICHELSEN (Sweden)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2299: 19-28 (27 Nov. 2009) 5 plates; 11 references                          Accepted: 27 Oct. 2009
Two new species of Oxycera and description of the female of O. signata Brunetti
from China (Diptera, Stratiomyidae)
ZAIHUA YANG, LIANMENG WEI & MAOFA YANG China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2299: 1-18 (27 Nov. 2009) 8 plates; 43 references                          Accepted: 28 Oct. 2009
Studies on Anopheles (Kerteszia) homunculus Komp (Diptera: Culicidae)
 
MARIA ANICE MUREB SALLUM (Brazil), CECILIA L. S. DOS SANTOS (Brazil), RICHARD C. WILKERSON (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2295: 64-68 (23 Nov. 2009) 1 plates; 14 references                          Accepted: 27 Oct. 2009
Description of a new species of Tabanidae (Diptera) from the Amazon region:
Catachlorops (Rhamphidommia) dubius sp. nov. and a key to species of the subgenus
AUGUSTO LOUREIRO HENRIQUES & TIAGO KÜTTER KROLOW (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2295: 46-54 (23 Nov. 2009) 4 plates; 15 references                          Accepted: 27 Oct. 2009
Description of the immatures of the predaceous midge Bezzia blantoni Spinelli
& Wirth (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)
RONDEROS, MARIA M. & GUSTAVO R. SPINELLI (Argentina)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2295: 31-45 (23 Nov. 2009) 7 plates; 19 references                          Accepted: 29 Oct. 2009
Asiorrhina, a new Oriental genus of Lygistorrhinidae (Diptera: Sciaroidea) and
its phylogenetic position
VLADIMIR BLAGODEROV (UK), HEIKKI HIPPA (Sweden), JAN ŠEV
ČÍK (Czech Republic)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2295: 15-24 (23 Nov. 2009) 3 plates; 20 references                          Accepted: 24 Oct. 2009
Neotype designation and redescription of adult male and immature stages of
Anopheles (Nyssorhynchus) pictipennis (Philippi) (Diptera: Culicidae)
CHRISTIAN R. GONZÁLEZ (Chile) & MARIA ANICE MUREB SALLUM (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2288: 51-60 (12 Nov. 2009) 5 plates; 10 references                          Accepted: 13 Oct. 2009
A review of of the Holarctic Sepedon fuscipennis and S. spinipes groups with
description of a new species (Diptera: Sciomyzidae)
KAUPO ELBERG (Estonia) , RUDOLF ROZKOŠNÝ (Czech Reoublic) & LLOYD KNUTSON (Italy)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2287: 1-44 (11 Nov. 2009) 20 plates; 53 references                          Accepted: 1 Oct. 2009
Corynoneura Winnertz from East Asia, with a systematic review of the genus (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae)
YUE FU (P.R. China), OLE A. SÆTHER (Norway) & XINHUA WANG (P.R. China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2282: 1-50 (5 Nov. 2009) 7 plates; 132 references                          Accepted: 12 Oct. 2009
Curt Schrottky (1874–1937): South American entomology at the beginning of
the 20th century (Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera, Diptera)
CLAUS RASMUSSEN (Peru), BOLÍVAR RAFAEL GARCETE-BARRETT (Brazil) & RODRIGO B.
GONÇALVES (Brazil)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2281: 68 (4 Nov. 2009) 0 plates; 3 references                          Accepted: 2 Oct. 2009
Validation of the genus Blagorrhina Hippa, Mattsson & Vilkamaa gen. n.
(Diptera: Lygistorrhinidae)
HEIKKI HIPPA (Sweden), INGEGERD MATTSSON† & PEKKA VILKAMAA (Finland)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2279: 51-59 (2 Nov. 2009) 2 plates; 22 references                          Accepted: 22 Sep. 2009
New species of Neotropical Melanagromyza Hendel (Diptera: Agromyzidae)
from Asteraceae flower heads
MARINA REITER BRAUN, ANGELO PIRES DO PRADO & THOMAS MICHAEL LEWINSOHN
(Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2274: 51-61 (28 Oct. 2009) 16 plates; 9 references                          Accepted: 9 Oct. 2009
Four new species of Paraclius Loew (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)
from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, and notes on the systematic position of Cheiromyia Dyte
RENATO SOARES CAPELLARI & DALTON DE SOUZA AMORIM (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2273: 49-58 (27 Oct. 2009) 7 plates; 7 references                          Accepted: 28 Sep. 2009
Four distinctive new Neotropical species of Coniceromyia Borgmeier
(Diptera: Phoridae) with patterned-wings
GIAR-ANN KUNG (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2273: 1-48 (27 Oct. 2009) 0 plates; 314 references                          Accepted: 21 Aug. 2009
Catalog of the New World Biting Midges North of Mexico
(Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)
ART BORKENT (Canada) & WILLIAM L. GROGAN, JR (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2272: 1-20 (23 Oct. 2009) 12 plates; 25 references                          Accepted: 9 Sep. 2009
Review of the genus Keilbachia Mohrig (Diptera: Sciaridae), with the
description of eleven new species
PEKKA VILKAMAA (Finland), FRANK MENZEL (Germany) & HEIKKI HIPPA (Sweden)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2268: 59-64 (20 Oct. 2009) 5 plates; 23 references                          Accepted: 3 Oct. 2009
The Dolichopus planitarsis species group in the Palearctic Region with the
description of a new species from the Russian Altai (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)
ANATOLII V. BARKALOV, OLEG P. NEGROBOV & IGOR YA. GRICHANOV (Russia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2268: 23-40 (20 Oct. 2009) 10 plates; 17 references                          Accepted: 2 Oct. 2009
Description and comparison of morphological structures of the eggs of
Anopheles hyrcanus group and related species (Diptera: Culicidae) from the Republic of Korea
LEOPOLDO M. RUEDA (USA), TRACY L. BROWN (USA), HEUNG-CHUL KIM (USA), TERRY A.
KLEIN (USA), AMPORN THONGKUKIATKUL (Thailand) & VAN SHERWOOD (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2265: 1-26 (15 Oct. 2009) 9 plates; 24 references                          Accepted: 15 Sep. 2009
Review of the genus Onconeura Andersen et Sæther (Diptera: Chironomidae),
with the description of four new species from Brazil
SOFIA WIEDENBRUG (Brazil), HUMBERTO F. MENDES (Norway), MATEUS PEPINELLI (Brazil) &
SUSANA TRIVINHO-STRIXINO (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2264: 58-64 (14 Oct. 2009) 3 plates; 9 references                          Accepted: 15 Sep. 2009
Description of three new species of Nemapalpus (Diptera, Psychodidae,
Bruchomyiinae) from Atlantic Forest in southeastern Brazil
CLAUDINEY BIRAL DOS SANTOS (Brazil), ALOÍSIO FALQUETO (Brazil) & BRUCE ALEXANDER
(UK)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2263: 21-30 (13 Oct. 2009) 4 plates; 14 references                          Accepted: 12 Sep. 2009
Morphological redescription of the immature and adult stages of Culex (Culex)
acharistus Root (Diptera: Culicidae)
MAGDALENA LAURITO, WALTER RICARDO ALMIRÓN & GUSTAVO CARLOS ROSSI
(Argentina)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2261: 52-62 (9 Oct. 2009) 1 plates; 33 references                          Accepted: 17 Sep. 2009
Argentine Philornis Meinert species (Diptera: Muscidae) with synonymic notes

MÁRCIA S. COURI (Brazil), LEANDRO R. ANTONIAZZI (Argentina), PABLO BELDOMENICO
(Argentina) & MARTIN QUIROGA (Argentina)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 2251: 1-76 (8 Oct. 2009) 27 plates; 75 references                           Accepted: 30 Jul. 2009
Revision of the Oriental species of the Bengalia peuhi speciesgroup
(Diptera, Calliphoridae) 
KNUT ROGNES
(Norway)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2249: 33-43 (7 Oct. 2009) 4 plates; 8 references                          Accepted: 15 Sep. 2009
First records of Tachydromia Meigen and Tachypeza Meigen (Diptera:
Hybotidae) from Viet Nam, with descriptions of four new species
PATRICK GROOTAERT (Belgium) & IGOR SHAMSHEV (Russia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2245: 32-46 (2 Oct. 2009) 5 plates; 25 references                          Accepted: 4 Sep. 2009
Revision of the species of Elaphropeza Macquart, 1827 (Diptera: Hybotidae,
Tachydromiinae) from Amazon Basin and some remarks about E. ciliatocosta (Bezzi, 1904)
RAFAEL A.P. FREITAS-SILVA & ROSALY ALE-ROCHA (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2239: 45-54 (24 Sep. 2009) 3 plates; 21 references                          Accepted: 1 Sep. 2009
Biting midges of the genus Atrichopogon Kieffer (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)
described by Kieffer from Taiwan
RYSZARD SZADZIEWSKI & PATRYCJA DOMINIAK (Poland)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2221: 58-66 (4 Sep. 2009) 7 plates; 9 references                          Accepted: 17 Aug. 2009
Langkawiana maculata gen. et sp. n. from Malaysia and its systematic position
in the tribe Robsonomyiini (Diptera: Keroplatidae)
JAN ŠEV
ČÍK (Czech Republic)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2219: 61-68 (3 Sep. 2009) 4 plates; 10 references                         Accepted: 29 Jul. 2009
A new species of Helgreelia Gaimari (Diptera: Odiniidae) from Brazil, with a
key to the Neotropical species of Odiniidae
FERNANDO DA SILVA CARVALHO FILHO, MARIA CRISTINA ESPOSITO & RITA DE CÁSSIA
OLIVEIRA DOS SANTOS (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2219: 49-60 (3 Sep. 2009) 5 plates; 33 references                         Accepted: 17 Jul. 2009
Description of a new species, Anopheles pseudosundaicus (Diptera: Culicidae)
from Kerala, India
B.K. TYAGI, J. HIRIYAN, S.C. TEWARI, K. AYANAR, P. PHILIP SAMUEL, N. ARUNACHALAM,
R. PARAMASIVAN, R. KRISHNAMOORTHY, K.J. DHANANJEYAN, S. VICTORJERALD LEO & R. RAJENDRAN (India)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2219: 18-30 (3 Sep. 2009) 10 plates; 16 references                         Accepted: 18 Aug. 2009
Review of the Neotropical species of Nervijuncta Marshall, 1896
(Diptera, Ditomyiidae)
RAFAELA LOPES FALASCHI & DALTON DE SOUZA AMORIM (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2216: 37-48 (1 Sep. 2009) 6 plates; 12 references                          Accepted: 20 Jul. 2009
Stegana ornatipes species group from the Oriental Region
(Diptera: Drosophilidae)
YU CHENG, JIAN-JUN GAO & HONG-WEI CHEN (China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2214: 1-28 (31 Aug. 2009) 9 plates; 139 references                          Accepted: 13 Jul. 2009
A conspectus of the flower fly genus Allograpta (Diptera: Syrphidae) with
description of a new subgenus and species
XIMO MENGUAL (Spain), CARLOS RUIZ (Colombia), SANTOS ROJO (Spain), GUNILLA STÅHLS
(Finland) & F. CHRISTIAN THOMPSON (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2210: 1-25 (27 Aug. 2009) 7 plates; 159 references                          Accepted: 21 Jul. 2009
Review of the genus Chagasia (Diptera: Culicidae: Anophelinae)
RALPH E. HARBACH & THERESA M. HOWARD (UK)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2208: 1-24 (25 Aug. 2009) 9 plates; 38 references                           Accepted: 11 Jun. 2009
Cryptochironomus Kieffer from Lake Winnipeg, Canada, with a review of
Nearctic species (Diptera: Chironomidae)
OLE A. SÆTHER (Norway)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2204: 37-47 (20 Aug. 2009) 3 plates; 27 references                           Accepted: 25 Jul. 2009
A review of the carbonaria-subgroup of Fannia Robineau-Desvoidy
(Diptera: Fanniidae), with descriptions of two new species from China
MING-FU WANG, DONG ZHANG, SHUANG ZHENG & CHUN-TIAN ZHANG (China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2197: 31-42 (13 Aug. 2009) 5 plates; 18 references                           Accepted: 9 Jul. 2009
Evaluation of diagnostic characters of the Tanytarsus chinyensis group
(Diptera: Chironomidae), with description of a new species from Lapland
WOJCIECH GIŁKA (Poland) & LAURI PAASIVIRTA (Finland)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2194: 37-53 (11 Aug. 2009) 2 plates; 68 references                           Accepted: 21 Jul. 2009
Long-legged flies (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) in the collection of the Natal
Museum: A review of C.H. Curran’s types, new synonyms, and new combinations
IGOR YA. GRICHANOV (Russia) & MIKE B. MOSTOVSKI (South Africa)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2193: 53-61 (10 Aug. 2009) 6 plates; 18 references                           Accepted: 14 Jul. 2009
Taxonomy and molecular phylogeny of the Amiota nagatai species group
(Diptera: Drosophilidae)
XIAOFANG HE, JIAN-JUN JIANG, HUA-ZHI CAO & HONG-WEI CHEN (China)

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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 2190: 1-236 (6 Aug. 2009) 3 plates; 670 references                           Accepted: 22 May 2009
ANNOTATED CATALOGUE OF THE TACHINIDAE (INSECTA: DIPTERA)
OF CHINA
JAMES E. O’HARA (Canada), HIROSHI SHIMA (Japan) & CHUNTIAN ZHANG
(P.R. China)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 2188: 1-166 (6 Aug. 2009) 35 plates; 144 references                           Accepted: 20 Jul. 2009
Revision of Milichiella Giglio-Tos (Diptera, Milichiidae)
 
IRINA BRAKE (UK)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 2182: 1-91 (6 Aug. 2009) 25 plates; 57 references                           Accepted: 2 Jun. 2009
A revision of the Anastrepha robusta species group
(Diptera: Tephritidae)
ALLEN L. NORRBOM (USA) & CHESLAVO A. KORYTKOWSKI
  (Panama)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 2179: 1-72 (6 Aug. 2009) 30 plates; 79 references                           Accepted: 16 Jun. 2009
Revision of Toxomerus Macquart, 1855 (Diptera: Syrphidae) from Brazil with synonymic notes, identification key to
the species and description of three new species
ZULEICA M. BORGES & MARCIA S. COURI
(Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2175: 42-50 (4 Aug. 2009) 3 plates; 12 references                           Accepted: 10 Jul. 2009
A review of Ulidia Meigen (Diptera: Ulidiidae) from China
XIAO-LIN CHEN (China) & ELENA P. KAMENEVA (Ukraine)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2175: 29-41 (4 Aug. 2009) 20 plates; 27 references                           Accepted: 17 Jun. 2009
Acroceridae (Diptera): a pictorial key and diagnosis of the Brazilian genera
 
JÉSSICA PAULA GILLUNG & CLAUDIO JOSÉ BARROS DE CARVALHO (Brasil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2174: 63-68 (3 Aug. 2009) 2 plates; 10 references                           Accepted: 9 Jul. 2009
Taxonomy of the genus Parasycorax Duckhouse (Diptera, Psychodidae,
Sycoracinae), with description of a new species from Brazil
CLAUDINEY BIRAL DOS SANTOS, ADELSON LUIZ FERREIRA & FREDDY BRAVO (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2174: 18-26 (3 Aug. 2009) 4 plates; 7 references                           Accepted: 12 Jun. 2009
Review of the genus Nepaletricha Chandler (Diptera, Rangomaramidae),
with description of new species from Thailand and Vietnam
HEIKKI HIPPA (Sweden), PETER CHANDLER (UK) & LÁSZLÓ PAPP (Hungary)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2172: 59-68 (30 Jul. 2009) 7 plates; 11 references                           Accepted: 8 Jul. 2009
Phalacrotophora species (Diptera: Phoridae) with four subequal scutellar setae
and notes on the other European species
GÁBOR DÁNIEL LENGYEL (Hungary)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2170: 46-52 (29 Jul. 2009) 6 plates; 23 references                           Accepted: 24 Jun. 2009
Mediterranean species of the Medetera plumbella species group with description
of a new peculiar species from Morocco (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)
IGOR YA. GRICHANOV & NIKITA E. VIKHREV (Russia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2169: 21-34 (28 Jul. 2009) 3 plates; 15 references                           Accepted: 30 Jun. 2009
A revision of the genus Gondwanoscurus Jezek (Diptera: Psychodidae)
GREGORY R. CURLER (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2166: 45-56 (23 Jul. 2009) 7 plates; 8 references                           Accepted: 17 Jun. 2009
Species of the genus Heteralonia Bezzi, 1921 from China (Diptera: Bombyliidae)
GANG YAO (P.R. China), DING YANG (P.R. China) & NEAL L. EVENHUIS (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2166: 57-68 (23 Jul. 2009) 2 plates; 26 references                           Accepted: 22 Jun. 2009
Bilyjomyia, a new genus of the tribe Macropelopiini from the Holarctic
(Diptera: Chironomidae)
HIROMI NIITSUMA (Japan) & CHARLES N. WATSON JR. (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2162: 37-49 (20 Jul. 2009) 6 plates; 16 references                           Accepted: 17 Jun. 2009
New species of Nepalomyia from China (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)
MENGQING WANG (China), DING YANG (China) & PATRICK GROOTAERT (Belgium)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2162: 50-56 (20 Jul. 2009) 5 plates; 2 references                           Accepted: 18 Jun. 2009
A new microbombyliid Mythenteles rameli sp.n. (Diptera, Mythicomyiidae)
from Northern Greece
DAVID GIBBS (UK)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2160: 29-50 (16 Jul. 2009) 11 plates; 30 references                          Accepted: 12 Jun. 2009
On the genus Urytalpa Edwards (Diptera: Keroplatidae) in the Nordic and Nearctic regions, with fixation of a new type species and a key to world males
JOSTEIN KJÆRANDSEN (Sweden), SVANTE MARTINSSON (Sweden), KJELL HEDMARK (Sweden)
& NEAL L. EVENHUIS (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2157: 1-33 (14 Jul. 2009) 30 plates; 18 references                           Accepted: 14 Apr. 2009
Revision of the stiletto fly genus Neodialineura Mann (Diptera: Therevidae):
an empirical example of cybertaxonomy
SHAUN L. WINTERTON (Australia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2155: 55-68 (13 Jul. 2009) 2 plates; 33 references                           Accepted: 13 Jun. 2009
The identity of Dicranomyia (Dicranomyia) luteipennis Goetghebuer
(Diptera, Limoniidae)
JAROSLAV STARÝ (Czech Republic)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2155: 28-36 (13 Jul. 2009) 2 plates; 23 references                           Accepted: 17Jun. 2009
A new species of Acantothereva Séguy, 1935, from Tunisia (Diptera: Therevidae:
Therevinae): taxonomic consequences and phylogenetic implications
KEVIN C. HOLSTON (Sweden)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2152: 63-68 (8 Jul. 2009) 1 plates; 25 references                           Accepted: 30 May 2009
The first psychodid (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) species from the Lower Eocene amber of Vastan, Gujarat, India
MÓNICA M. SOLÓRZANO KRAEMER & RÜDIGER WAGNER (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2152: 55-62 (8 Jul. 2009) 2 plates; 21 references                           Accepted: 17 Jun. 2009
Species of the genus Hyadina from China (Diptera: Ephydridae)
JUNHUA ZHANG & DING YANG (China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2152: 1-35 (8 Jul. 2009) 11 plates; 36 references                           Accepted: 12 Jun. 2009
Revision of the goldenrod-galling Rhopalomyia species (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) in North America
NETTA DORCHIN, MILES V. MCEVOY, TODD A. DOWLING, WARREN G. ABRAHAMSON &
JOSEPH G. MOORE (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2146: 61-68 (1 Jul. 2009) 3 plates; 20 references                           Accepted: 4 Jun. 2009
Oukuriella pesae, a new species of sponge-dwelling chironomid (Insecta:
Diptera) from Amazonia, Brazil
LÍVIA MARIA FUSARI, FABIO O. ROQUE & NEUSA HAMADA (Brasil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2146: 35-52 (1 Jul. 2009) 0 plates; 21 references                           Accepted: 15 May 2009
A catalogue of the types of Asiloidea (Diptera) in the collection of the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil (Part 1: Bombyliidae and Mydidae)
CAROLINA YAMAGUCHI & CARLOS JOSÉ EINICKER LAMAS (Brasil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2127: 1-49 (8 Jun. 2009) 18 plates; 17 references                           Accepted: 11 May 2009
African Dacus (Diptera: Tephritidae); New Species and Data, with Particular Reference to the Tel Aviv University Collection
IAN M. WHITE & KIM F.M. GOODGER (UK)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2125: 67-68 (4 Jun. 2009) 0 plates; 9 references                           Accepted: 25 Apr. 2009
New placement for Spaniotoma (Eukiefferiella) claviculata Edwards, 1931 (Diptera: Chironomidae) 
JULIETA MASSAFERRO (Argentina), MARIANO DONATO (Argentina) & STEPHEN J. BROOKS (UK)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2121: 44-56 (29 May 2009) 5 plates; 12 references                           Accepted: 8 May 2009
New species of the genus Epiphragma Osten Sacken from Yunnan, Southwest
China (Diptera, Limoniidae)
MENG MAO & DING YANG (China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2117: 43-48 (25 May 2009) 2 plates; 9 references                           Accepted: 28 Apr. 2009
Cowanomyia hillaryi gen. et sp. n., a remarkable new gnoristine
(Diptera: Mycetophilidae: Sciophilinae) from New Zealand
MATHIAS JASCHHOF & CATRIN JASCHHOF (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2112: 53-64 (20 May 2009) 9 plates; 14 references                          Accepted: 3 Apr. 2009
A new species of Alipumilio Shannon (Diptera, Syrphidae) found in association with the exudate resin of Schinus terebinthifolius Raddi (Anacardiaceae)

MÍRIAN NUNES MORALES (BRAZIL), DARLI MASSARDO (BRAZIL), GILSON R. P. MOREIRA
(BRAZIL) & F. CHRISTIAN THOMPSON (USA)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2112: 65-67 (20 May 2009) 2 plates; 11 references                          Accepted: 30 Apr. 2009
First record of a Japanese marine shore dolichopodid fly, Thambemyia (= Conchopus) borealis (Takagi), from the Neotropical Region
(Diptera: Dolichopodidae)
SCOTT E. BROOKS & JEFFREY M. CUMMING (Canada)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2108: 45-61 (15 May 2009) 8 plates; 11 references                           Accepted: 18 Apr. 2009
Revision of the Botanophila helviana species group
(Diptera: Anthomyiidae) in Europe
VERNER MICHELSEN (Sweden)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2108: 62-64 (15 May 2009) 1 plates; 3 references                           Accepted: 25 Apr. 2009
A new species of Trichocera Meigen (Diptera: Trichoceridae) from Sardinia

ANDRIUS PETRAŠI
ŪNAS (Italy)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2094: 36-41 (8 May 2009) 4 plates; 5 references                           Accepted: 1 Apr. 2009
A new species of Pseudatrichia Osten Sacken (Diptera: Scenopinidae)
from North America
SHAUN L. WINTERTON (Australia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2094: 42-51 (8 May 2009) 9 plates; 19 references                           Accepted: 8 Apr. 2009
New species of Metatrichia Coquillett (Diptera: Scenopinidae) from Australia and Venezuela
SHAUN L. WINTERTON (Australia) & NORMAN E. WOODLEY (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2093: 37-42 (6 May 2009) 2 plates; 20 references                          Accepted: 11 Apr. 2009
A new species of Sycorax Curtis (Diptera, Psychodidae, Sycoracinae) collected
on harlequin frogs (Anura: Bufonidae, Atelopus) in the Ecuadorian Andes
FREDDY BRAVO (Brazil) & DAVID SALAZAR-VALENZUELA (Ecuador)

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Zootaxa 2091: 1-67 (4 May 2009) 12 plates; 39 references                           Accepted: 4 Mar. 2009
A revision of the genera Acrosathe Irwin and Lyneborg, Arenigena Irwin and
Lyneborg, and Litolinga Irwin and Lyneborg (Diptera: Therevidae: Therevinae) from the Nearctic Region
DONALD W. WEBB (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2090: 57-68 (4 May 2009) 6 plates; 10 references                           Accepted: 9 Apr. 2009
Two new species of the genus Phobeticomyia from China (Diptera, Lauxaniidae)
LI SHI, WENLIANG LI & DING YANG (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 2090: 1-39 (4 May 2009) 17 plates; 21 references                           Accepted: 27 Mar. 2009
The Cycloneura Marshall group of genera in New Zealand
(Diptera: Mycetophilidae: Leiini)
MATHIAS JASCHHOF & UWE KALLWEIT (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2087: 59-64 (1 May 2009) 3 plates; 12 references                           Accepted: 27 Mar. 2009
Two new species of Xanthempis Bezzi (Diptera, Empididae, Empidinae)
endemic to the Pyrenees
CHRISTOPHE DAUGERON (France)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2087: 37-45 (1 May 2009) 6 plates; 23 references                           Accepted: 17 Mar. 2009
The Dolichopus latipennis species group (=Hygroceleuthus Loew) in the
Palearctic Region (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)
OLEG P. NEGROBOV, IGOR YA. GRICHANOV & ANATOLII V. BARKALOV (Russia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2078: 1-33 (20 Apr. 2009) 6 plates; 90 references                           Accepted: 11 Mar. 2009
Keys to the adult females and fourth-instar larvae of the mosquitoes of Iran
(Diptera: Culicidae)
SHAHYAD AZARI-HAMIDIAN (Iran) & RALF E. HARBACH (UK)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2078: 34-54 (20 Apr. 2009) 13 plates; 15 references                         Accepted: 13 Mar. 2009
Chimeromyiidae, a new family of Eremoneuran Diptera from the Cretaceous
DAVID A. GRIMALDI (USA), JEFFREY M. CUMMING (Canada) & ANTONIO ARILLO (Spain)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2074: 1-49 (16 Apr. 2009) 29 plates; 44 references                           Accepted: 24 Feb. 2009
A review of the North American species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869
(Diptera: Bombyliidae)
OMAR ÁVALOS-HERNÁNDEZ (Mexico)

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Zootaxa 2074: 50-60 (16 Apr. 2009) 6 plates; 21 references                           Accepted: 14 Mar. 2009
Thienemannimyia Fittkau (Diptera: Chironomidae) from China
MING CHENG & XINHUA WANG (China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2069: 59-68 (10 Apr. 2009) 4 plates; 21 references                           Accepted: 19 Mar. 2009
Differentiation of larvae and pupae of aquatic genera of Nearctic
Hemerodromiinae (Diptera: Empididae)
COLIN A. BRAMMER, J. ROBERT HARKRIDER & JOHN F. MACDONALD (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2064: 39-56 (6 Apr. 2009) 9 plates; 19 references                           Accepted: 2 Mar. 2009
Revision of the genus Macrostomus Wiedemann (Diptera: Empididae: Empidinae). I. The ferrugineus species-group
JOSÉ ALBERTINO RAFAEL (Brasil) & JEFFREY M. CUMMING (Canada)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2063: 1-45 (6 Apr. 2009) 23 plates; 45 references                           Accepted: 26 Feb. 2009
Neotropical Nilothauma Kieffer, 1921, with the description of thirteen new species (Diptera: Chironomidae)
HUMBERTO FONSECA MENDES & TROND ANDERSEN (Norway)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2056: 1-45 (30 Mar. 2009) 16 plates; 51 references                           Accepted: 20 Feb. 2009
The genus Pseudexechia Tuomikoski re-characterized, with a review of
European species (Diptera: Mycetophilidae)
JOSTEIN KJÆRANDSEN (Sweden)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2055: 49-60 (27 Mar. 2009) 6 plates; 9 references                             Accepted: 3 Mar. 2009
Four new species and a new record of Villa Lioy, 1864 from China (Diptera: Bombyliidae)
GANG YAO (China), DING YANG (China) & NEAL L. EVENHUIS (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2054: 38-48 (27 Mar. 2009) 4 plates; 19 references                           Accepted: 23 Feb. 2009
A review of Erebomyia (Diptera: Dolichopodidae),
with descriptions of three new species
RICHARD L. HURLEY & JUSTIN B. RUNYON (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2054: 49-58 (27 Mar. 2009) 2 plates; 31 references                           Accepted: 23 Feb. 2009
Phylogeny and affiliation of European Anthomyzidae (Diptera) based on
mitochondrial 12S and 16S rRNA
JIND
ŘICH ROHÁČEK, ANDREA TÓTHOVÁ & JAROMÍR VAŇHARA (Czech Republic)
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Zootaxa 2052: 62-68 (25 Mar. 2009) 6 plates; 7 references                         Accepted: 19 Feb. 2009
First record of the genus Euchariomyia Bigot, 1888 from China
(Diptera: Bombyliidae)
GANG YAO (China), DING YANG (China) & NEAL L. EVENHUIS (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2048: 31-46 (23 Mar. 2009) 10 plates; 15 references                          Accepted: 28 Jan. 2009
Morphotaxonomy of the Simulium (Simulium) tuberosum species group
(Diptera: Simuliidae) in Thailand
UBON TANGKAWANIT (Thailand), CHALIOW KUVANGKADILOK (Thailand), VISUT BAIMAI
(Thailand) & PETER H. ADLER (USA)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 2043: 1-76 (16 Mar. 2009) 38 plates; 116 references                      Accepted: 14 Jan. 2009
Revision of the willow catkin flies, genus Egle Robineau-Desvoidy
(Diptera: Anthomyiidae), in Europe and neighbouring areas
VERNER MICHELSEN
(Sweden)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 2039: 1-139 (16 Mar. 2009) 58 plates; 75 references                           Accepted: 6 Jan. 2009
Revision of New World Leptocera Olivier (Diptera, Sphaeroceridae)

MATTHIAS BUCK & STEPHEN A. MARSHALL
(Canada)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2034: 1-30 (13 Mar. 2009) 12 plates; 51 references                            Accepted: 30 Jan. 2009
Species groups of Oriental Ptecticus Loew including descriptions of ten new
species with a revised identification key to the Oriental species (Diptera: Stratiomyidae)
RUDOLF ROZKOŠNÝ (CZECH) & MARTIN HAUSER (USA)

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Zootaxa 2033: 26-40 (11 Mar. 2009) 5 plates; 16 references                            Accepted: 10 Feb. 2009
Revision of the Neotropical genus Goniaspis Duda (Diptera: Chloropidae)
JULIA J. MLYNAREK & TERRY A. WHEELER (Canada)

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Zootaxa 2032: 39-47 (11 Mar. 2009) 4 plates; 6 references                             Accepted: 27 Jan. 2009
A review of the genus Ditylometopa Kertész (Diptera: Stratiomyidae)
NORMAN E. WOODLEY (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2032: 48-54 (11 Mar. 2009) 2 plates; 10 references                            Accepted: 14 Jan. 2009
On the systematics of Sylvenomyia Mamaev & Zaitzev (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae,
“Porricondylinae”), with the description of a new species from Finland
JOUNI PENTTINEN (Finland) & MATHIAS JASCHHOF (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2026: 63-68 (4 Mar. 2009) 2 plates; 13 references                             Accepted: 14 Jan. 2009
The enigmatic genus Ctenostylum Macquart with the description of a new
species from the Brazilian Amazon Basin and a checklist of world Ctenostylidae species (Diptera)
JOSÉ ALBERTINO RAFAEL, THEREZINHA DE JESUS PIMENTEL, FABIO SIQUEIRA P. GODOI &
RENATO JOSE PIRES MACHADO (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2026: 47-52 (4 Mar. 2009) 2 plates; 19 references                             Accepted: 1 Dec. 2008
The pupal exuviae of Chironomus crassimanus Strenzke (Diptera:
Chironomidae), an acid-resistant species from Germany
GILBERTO GONÇALVES RODRIGUES (Germany), PETER H. LANGTON (UK) & BURKHARD W.
SCHARF (Germany)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2026: 33-39 (4 Mar. 2009) 1 plates; 28 references                             Accepted: 10 Dec. 2008
First fossil Litoleptis (Diptera: Spaniidae) from the Lower Cretaceous amber of
San Just (Teruel Province, Spain)
ANTONIO ARILLO, ENRIQUE PEÑALVER & VICTORIA GARCÍA-GIMENO (Spain)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2023: 28-46 (27 Feb. 2009) 8 plates; 33 references                             Accepted: 22 Jan. 2009
Chironomus blaylocki sp. n. and C. bifurcatus sp. n., North American species
near the base of the decorus-group (Diptera: Chironomidae)
WOLFGANG WUELKER (Germany), JON MARTIN (Australia), IYA I. KIKNADZE (Russia), JAMES E.
SUBLETTE (USA) & SUSANNE MICHIELS (Germany)
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Zootaxa 2023: 47-54 (27 Feb. 2009) 3 plates; 18 references                             Accepted: 28 Jan. 2009
A new Nearctic species of Atrichopogon (Meleohelea) and a redescription of
Atrichopogon (M.) chilensis Ingram & Macfie (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)
ANDREA TÓTHOVÁ (Czech) GUSTAVO R. SPINELLI (Argentina) & PABLO I. MARINO (Czech)

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Zootaxa 2020: 37-50 (25 Feb. 2009) 3 plates; 20 references                             Accepted: 14 Jan. 2009
Revision of the east Asian genus Achelipoda Yang, Zhang & Zhang, 2007
(Diptera: Empididae: Hemerodromiinae) including designation of a neotype for Achelipoda pictipennis (Bezzi, 1912) and descriptions of six new species
ADRIAN R. PLANT (UK)

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Zootaxa 2020: 51-62 (25 Feb. 2009) 5 plates; 28 references                             Accepted: 28 Jan. 2009
The genus Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) in Mexico
HEIKKI HIPPA (Sweden) & HERON HUERTA (Mexico)

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Zootaxa 2017: 1-33 (20 Feb. 2009) 14 plates; 10 references                             Accepted: 27 Jan. 2009
New species and new records of Manota Williston (Diptera, Mycetophilidae)
from Thailand
HEIKKI HIPPA (Sweden)

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Zootaxa 2017: 34-40 (20 Feb. 2009) 2 plates; 12 references                             Accepted: 14 Jan. 2009
Two new species of the genus Noonamyia from Hainan in China
(Diptera, Lauxaniidae)
LI SHI & DING YANG (China)

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Zootaxa 2017: 41-46 (20 Feb. 2009) 3 plates; 7 references                             Accepted: 14 Jan. 2009
Species of Epichlorops Becker from China (Diptera, Chloropidae)
YUSI CUI & DING YANG (China)

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Zootaxa 2014: 59-64 (18 Feb. 2009) 4 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 14 Jan. 2009
A review of the flower fly genus Ornidia Lepeletier & Serville (Diptera:
Syrphidae) with the description of a new species from Brazil
FERNANDO DA SILVA CARVALHO FILHO1 & MARIA CRISTINA ESPOSITO (Braizil)

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Zootaxa 2014: 34-40 (18 Feb. 2009) 2 plates; 12 references                            Accepted: 14 Jan. 2009
Two new species of the genus Noonamyia from Hainan in China
(Diptera, Lauxaniidae)
LI SHI & DING YANG (China)

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Zootaxa 2010: 57-68 (13 Feb. 2009) 8 plates; 11 references                           Accepted: 19 Jan. 2009
A review of Cyrtodiopsis Frey (Diptera, Diopsidae) from China
LIQUN LIU, HONG WU & DING YANG (China)

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Zootaxa 2009: 41-68 (11 Feb. 2009) 13 plates; 27 references                           Accepted: 24 Dec. 2008
Species of the genus Cestrotus Loew from China (Diptera: Lauxaniidae)
SHI LI (China), DING YANG (China) & STEPHEN D. GAIMARI (USA)

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Zootaxa 2004: 25-48 (5 Feb. 2009) 9 plates; 16 references                             Accepted: 6 Jan. 2009
Review of Campsicnemus (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) of the Marquesas, French
Polynesia, with description of four new species groups
NEAL L. EVENHUIS (USA)

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Zootaxa 2003: 53-68 (5 Feb. 2009) 3 plates; 36 references                             Accepted: 8 Dec. 2008
Review of the spoon tarsus subgroup of Hawaiian Drosophila
(Drosophilidae: Diptera), with a description of one new species
RICHARD T. LAPOINT (USA), KARL N. MAGNACCA (Ireland) & PATRICK M. O’GRADY (USA)

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Zootaxa 1996: 1-80 (4 Feb. 2009) 28 plates; 25 references                             Accepted: 18 Nov. 2008
A revision of the family Syringogastridae (Diptera: Diopsoidea)

S.A. MARSHALL (Canada), M. BUCK (Canada), J.H. SKEVINGTON (Canada) & D. GRIMALDI
(USA)
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Zootaxa 1994: 1-66 (4 Feb. 2009) 27 plates; 36 references                             Accepted: 17 Dec. 2008
Review of the West Indian species of Efferia Coquillett (Diptera: Asilidae) with 13 new species and checklist: Part II. Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, and Lesser Antilles including Tobago and Trinidad
AUBREY G. SCARBROUGH & DANIEL E. PEREZ-GELABERT (USA)
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Zootaxa 1993: 27-40 (2 Feb. 2009) 5 plates; 33 references                             Accepted: 17 Dec. 2008
Redescription of Sarcophaga (Discachaeta) bezziana Böttcher and Sarcophaga (Heteronychia) infixa Böttcher, and description of a new Heteronychia Brauer & Bergenstamm from southern France (Diptera: Sarcophagidae)
DANIEL WHITMORE (Italy), RENÉ RICHET (France), THOMAS PAPE (Denmark) & RUTH M. BLACKITH (Ireland)

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Zootaxa 1993: 41-52 (2 Feb. 2009) 4 plates; 19 references                             Accepted: 15 Dec. 2008
Ubatubaneura, a new genus of the Corynoneura group (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae) from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
SOFIA WIEDENBRUG & SUSANA TRIVINHO-STRIXINO (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1991: 51-56 (30 Jan. 2009) 3 plates; 10 references                             Accepted: 8 Dec. 2008
Two new species of the genus Brithura Edwards from China, with a key to world species (Diptera, Tipulidae)
QIFEI LIU & DING YANG (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 1989: 66-68 (27 Jan. 2009) 0 plates; 15 references                             Accepted: 14 Nov. 2008
Resurrection of the name Pachycheta Portschinsky for a genus of Tachinidae (Diptera)
JAMES E. O’HARA (Canada)

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Zootaxa 1985: 43-51 (21 Jan. 2009) 4 plates; 29 references                            Accepted: 15 Dec. 2008
Four new species of Nanocladius Kieffer from Oriental China
(Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae)
YUE FU & XINHUA WANG (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 1984: 61-65 (21 Jan. 2009) 2 plates; 18 references                             Accepted: 3 Dec. 2008
A new species of Archirhagio Rohdendorf, 1938 from the Middle Jurassic of Inner Mongolia of China (Diptera: Archisargidae)
KUIYAN ZHANG, JINHUA LI, DING YANG & DONG REN (China)

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Zootaxa 1984: 31-56 (21 Jan. 2009) 11 plates; 25 references                             Accepted: 31 Oct. 2008
Systematic study of the genus Rossimyiops Mesnil (Diptera: Tachinidae)
PIERFILIPPO CERRETTI (Italy), ALESSIO DE BIASE (Italy) & AMNON FREIDBERG (Israel)

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Zootaxa 1976: 1-24 (12 Jan. 2009) 18 plates; 8 7 references                              Accepted: 15 Oct. 2008
The Muscini flies of the world (Diptera, Muscidae): identification key and generic diagnoses
Silvio Shigueo Nihei & CLAUDIO JOSÉ BARROS DE CARVALHO (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1976: 25-38 (12 Jan. 2009) 0 plates; 65 references                             Accepted: 24 Nov. 2008
Descriptions of Danielsia Theobald, a genus recently resurrected from synonymy (Diptera: Culicidae: Aedini), and its type species Dn. albotaeniata Leicester
JOHN F. REINERT (USA)

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Zootaxa 1972: 53-58 (7 Jan. 2009) 2 plates; 9 references                              Accepted: 13 Nov. 2008
A new species of Pseudogaurax Malloch (Diptera: Chloropidae) reared from dobsonfly egg-masses (Megaloptera: Corydalidae) in Brazil
ADRIANO S. MELO (Brazil) & TERRY A. WHEELER (Canada)

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Zootaxa 1972: 59-64 (7 Jan. 2009) 3 plates; 23 references                              Accepted: 26 Nov. 2008
A new species of Basilia Miranda-Ribeiro (Diptera: Nycteribiidae) from Honduras, parasite of Bauerus dubiaquercus (Van Gelder) (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae: Antrozoinae)
GUSTAVO GRACIOLLI (Brazil)& CARL W. DICK (USA)

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Zootaxa 1968: 58-64 (22 Dec. 2008) 12 plates; 8 references                          Accepted: 18 Nov. 2008
Acomopterella martinovskyi sp. n., the first Palaearctic record of the genus
Acomopterella Zaitzev (Diptera: Mycetophilidae)
JAN ŠEVČÍK (Czech Republic) & PETER J. CHANDLER (Great Britain)

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Zootaxa 1968: 1-22 (22 Dec. 2008) 12 plates; 37 references                          Accepted: 23 Oct. 2008
Three new species of the Harnischia complex from the Sino-Indian Region, with a review of Demicryptochironomus Lenz (Diptera: Chironomidae)
CHUNCAI YAN (China), OLE A. SÆTHER (Norway) , ZHAOHUI JIN (China) & XINHUA WANG (China)

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Zootaxa 1966: 53-61 (17 Dec. 2008) 4 plates; 9 references                          Accepted: 30 Oct. 2008
Catotrichinae (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) in Tasmania, with the description of
Trichotoca edentula gen. et sp. n.
Mathias Jaschhof & Catrin Jaschhof (Germany)

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Zootaxa 1958: 31-40 (8 Dec. 2008) 5 plates; 22 references                       Accepted: 7 Oct. 2008
Description of immature stages and adult diagnosis of Stilobezzia coquilletti Kieffer 1917 (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)
MARÍA M. RONDEROS, CARLA G. CAZORLA, GUSTAVO R. SPINELLI & DAIANE SILVEIRA CARRASCO (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1953: 1-145 (5 Dec. 2008) 47 plates; 106 references                          Accepted: 6 Oct. 2008
Revision of Polypedilum (Pentapedilum) Kieffer and Ainuyusurika Sasa et Shirasaki (Diptera: Chironomidae)
EMMANUEL ADEOYE OYEWO & OLE A. SÆTHER (Norway)
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Zootaxa 1944: 1-33 (28 Nov. 2008) 12 plates; 24 references                     Accepted: 10 Sept. 2008
Revision of the temperate South American genus Apiochaeta Czerny, 1903, with synonymy of Alloclusia Hendel, 1917 (Diptera: Clusiidae)
OWEN LONSDALE (USA) & STEPHEN A. MARSHALL (Canada)

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Zootaxa 1944: 53-65 (28 Nov. 2008) 5 plates; 24 references                    Accepted: 16 Oct. 2008
New species of Clinotanypus Kieffer, 1913
(Chironomidae: Tanypodinae) from China
MING CHENG & XINHUA WANG (China)

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Zootaxa 1941: 31-42 (24 Nov. 2008) 6 plates; 25 references                        Accepted: 16 Oct. 2008
Morphological description of the pupa and redescription of the adults and larva of Culex (Culex) apicinus Philippi (Diptera: Culicidae)
GUSTAVO CARLOS ROSSI, MAGDALENA LAURITO & WALTER RICARDO ALMIR[N (Argentina)
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Zootaxa 1937: 67-68 (19 Nov. 2008) 0 plates; 2 references                     Accepted: 23 Oct. 2008
First Neotropical species of genus Azana (Diptera: Mycetophilidae: Sciophilinae)
Dalton de Souza Amorim, SARAH SIQUEIRA OLIVEIRA & MARIA ISABEL P.A. BALBI (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1936: 1-39 (19 Nov. 2008) 9 plates; 57 references                            Accepted: 1 Oct. 2008
The European species of Chalarus Walker, 1834 revisited (Diptera: Pipunculidae)
CHRISTIAN KEHLMAIER & THORSTEN ASSMANN (Germany)
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Zootaxa 1936: 40-58 (19 Nov. 2008) 7 plates; 27 references                         Accepted: 16 Oct. 2008
Taxonomic review of Neorhinotora Lopes 1934 (Diptera, Heleomyzidae)
JÚLIA C. ALMEIDA & ROSALY ALE-ROCHA (Brazil)
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