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Editor, Dr Bruno Rossaro (bruno.rossaro@unimi.it) Chironomidae
Department of Food Nutritional and Environmental Science, Universitŕ degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 26 Milano, Italy

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.auPhoroidea & Tephritoidea
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 Neal Evenhuis (neale@bishopmuseum.org) Lower Brachycera
J. Linsley Gressitt Center for Entomological Research, Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, 1525 Bernice Street, Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96817-2704, 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 Biocięncias, Universidade de Săo Paulo, Rua do Matăo, Trav. 14, n.101, 05508-900, Săo Paulo/SP, Brasil.
Editor, Dr  Christian Kehlmaier (Kehlmaier@web.deSyrphoidea & Conopoidea
CSenckenberg Natural History Collections Dresden, Museum of Zoology, DNA-Laboratory, Koenigsbruecker Landstrasse 159, D-01109 Dresden, Germany
Editor, Dr Luis M. Hernandez-Triana (lhernand@uoguelph.ca) Culicomorpha, especially Simuliidae and Ceratopogonidae, [minus Culicoidea (families Culicidae, Chaoboridae & Corethellidae) and Chironomidae]
Biodiversity Institute of Ontario (BIO), University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, ON, Canada N1G 2W1
Editor, Dr Stephen D. Gaimari (stephen.gaimari@cdfa.ca.gov) Acalyptratae (except Tephritoidea) 
Program Supervisor (Entomology) Plant Pest Diagnostics Center California Department of Food and Agriculture 3294 Meadowview Road Sacramento, CA 95832, USA

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2013

Article
Zootaxa 3652 (1): 117–155 (15 May 2013)
Phylogenetic relationships of Culex (Culex) species (Diptera, Culicidae) from Argentina based on morphological characters 
MAGDALENA LAURITO & WALTER R. ALMIRÓN
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3650 (1): 1–147 (14 May 2013)
Muscidae (Insecta: Diptera) of Latin America and the Caribbean: geographic distribution and check-list by country 
PETER LÖWENBERG-NETO & CLAUDIO J. B. DE CARVALHO
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Article
Zootaxa 3647 (2): 382–389 (09 May 2013)
New species and redescriptions of the New Zealand genus Exsul Hutton (Diptera: Muscidae: Coenosiinae) 
LEANDRO SILVA BARBOSA & MÁRCIA SOUTO COURI
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Article
Zootaxa 3647 (2): 251–278 (09 May 2013)
Species of Bicellaria Macquart (Diptera: Hybotidae) of Europe, with descriptions of four new species 
MIROSLAV BARTÁK & ŠTĚPÁN KUBÍK
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Article
Zootaxa 3647 (1): 194–200 (08 May 2013)
Description of a new species and record of Bactrocera Macquart (Diptera,Tephritidae) from China 
LI-BING ZHOU, XIAO-LIN CHEN, YU-LIANG DENG & SHAO-JUN WANG
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3646 (2): 180–188 (02 May 2013)
Revision of Cerozodus Bigot, 1857 (Diptera, Asilidae, Asilinae) with description of a new species from Brazil 
RODRIGO VIEIRA, JOSÉ ALBERTINO RAFAEL & FRANCISCO LIMEIRA-DE-OLIVEIRA
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Article
Zootaxa 3646 (2): 101–126 (02 May 2013)
Review of Xenochironomus Kieffer, 1921 (Diptera: Chironomidae)
with description of six new species
LÍVIA MARIA FUSARI, FABIO DE OLIVEIRA ROQUE, NEUSA HAMADA

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Article
Zootaxa 3641 (4): 448–462 (26 Apr. 2013)
Subfossils of extinct and extant species of Simuliidae (Diptera) from Austral and Cook Islands (Polynesia): anthropogenic extirpation of an aquatic insect?

DOUGLAS A. CRAIG & NICK PORCH

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Article
Zootaxa 3641 (3): 260–270 (24 Apr. 2013)
Bregmosina, a new Neotropical genus of Limosininae (Diptera: Sphaeroceridae)

STEPHEN A. MARSHALL

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Article
Zootaxa 3641 (2): 129–148 (23 Apr. 2013)
A detailed description of Simulium (Meilloniellum) adersi (Pomeroy) from Mayotte, Comoro islands, with comments on bionomics and biogeography (Diptera: Simuliidae)

DOUGLAS A. CRAIG & NATHALIE MARY-SASAL

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Article
Zootaxa 3641 (1): 083–091 (22 Apr. 2013)
A new species of Dicranophora Macquart (Diptera, Stratiomyidae) from Bahia State, Brazil and a key to species of the genus
FABIO SIQUEIRA PITALUGA DE GODOI & JOSÉ ALBERTINO RAFAEL

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Article
Zootaxa 3640 (3): 442–464 (18 Apr. 2013)
Three new species of the Merodon nigritarsis group (Diptera: Syrphidae) from the Middle East

ANTE VUJI
Ć, SNEŽANA RADENKOVIĆ, LAURA LIKOV, SONJA TRIFUNOV & TIJANA NIKOLIĆ
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Article
Zootaxa 3640 (3): 301–342 (18 Apr. 2013)
Review of the genus Prosciara Frey (Diptera, Sciaridae) from China 

KAI SHI, JUNHAO HUANG, LYUDMILA KOMAROVA, SUJIONG ZHANG & HONG WU

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Monograph
Zootaxa 3638 (1): 1–75 (16 Apr. 2013)
Nomenclatural studies toward a world catalog of Diptera genus-group names. III. Christian Rudolph Wilhelm Wiedemann
NEAL L. EVENHUIS & ADRIAN C. PONT

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Erratum
Zootaxa 3637 (5): 600 (15 Apr. 2013)
Erratum: XUANKUN LI, ZHU LI & DING YANG (2013) Two new species of Amblypsilopus Bigot with a key to species from Vietnam (Diptera: Dolichopodidae). Zootaxa, 3630(3): 549–560.
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Article
Zootaxa 3637 (3): 361–373 (11 Apr. 2013)
The genus Leucophenga (Diptera, Drosophilidae), part I: the abbreviata species group from the Oriental region with morphological and molecular evidence

YIRUI SU, JINMING LU& HONGWEI CHEN

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Article
Zootaxa 3637 (1): 074–078 (9 Apr. 2013)
Two new species of the Empis subgenus Lissempis (Diptera: Empididae)
from the Caucasus
IGOR SHAMSHEV & SEMEN KUSTOV

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Article
Zootaxa 3636 (4): 590–596 (8 Apr. 2013)
A new apterous species of Platypalpus Macquart
(Diptera: Hybotidae, Tachydromiinae) from Ecuador
RAFAEL AUGUSTO PINHEIRO DE FREITAS-SILVA & ROSALY ALE-ROCHA

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Article 
Zootaxa 3636 (3): 476–488 (5 Apr. 2013)
Review of the genus Camptochaeta Hippa & Vilkamaa (Diptera, Sciaridae), with the description of nine new species
PEKKA VILKAMAA, HEIKKI HIPPA & KAI HELLER

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Article 
Zootaxa 3636 (2): 245–256 (4 Apr. 2013)
Revision of the Neotropical genus Eoneria Aczél (Diptera: Neriidae)
with description of a new species from Colombia
TATIANA A. SEPÚLVEDA, MARTA I. WOLFF & CLAUDIO J. B. DE CARVALHO

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Article 
Zootaxa 3635 (4): 491–497 (28 Mar. 2013)
A review of the genera Acathrito Lyneborg, Phycus Walker and Salentia Costa (Diptera: Therevidae: Phycinae) from Egypt
HAITHAM B. M. BADRAWY

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Article 
Zootaxa 3635 (4): 439–458 (28 Mar. 2013)
New species and records of Euphranta Loew and other Adramini (Diptera: Tephritidae: Trypetinae) from south and southeast Asia
K.J. DAVID, D.L. HANCOCK, A. FREIDBERG & K.F.M. GOODGER

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Article 
Zootaxa 3630 (3): 549–560 (21 Mar. 2013)
Two new species of Amblypsilopus Bigot with a key to species from Vietnam (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)
XUANKUN LI, ZHU LI & DING YANG

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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 3630 (2): 400–400 (20 Mar. 2013)
Replacement for a preoccupied Docosia Winnertz
(Diptera: Mycetophilidae) name
OLAVI KURINA & JAN ŠEV
ČÍK
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3622 (1): 1–87 (11 Mar. 2013)
Revision of the New World genus Peckia Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Sarcophagidae)
ELIANA BUENAVENTURA & THOMAS PAPE

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Monograph
Zootaxa 3621 (1): 1–82 (11 Mar. 2013)
Revision of the genus Erythromelana Townsend (Diptera: Tachinidae) and analysis of its phylogeny and diversification
DIEGO J. INCLAN & JOHN O. STIREMAN III

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Article 
Zootaxa 3620 (3): 473–480 (7 Mar. 2013)
Orchidophaga gastrodiacola Kato, 2006, is Chyliza vittata Meigen, 1826
(Diptera: Psilidae): discussion on its taxonomy and biology
MASAHIRO SUEYOSHI
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Article 
Zootaxa 3620 (1): 67–88 (5 Mar. 2013)
Revision of species of the genus Tephritis Latreille 1804 (Diptera: Tephritidae) with entire apical spot

SEVERYN V. KORNEYEV

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Article 
Zootaxa 3619 (5): 541–553 (4 Mar. 2013)
Review of Otites Latreille (Diptera: Ulidiidae) from Israel with two new species and notes on biology and behavior
ELIZABETH MORGULIS

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Article 
Zootaxa 3619 (5): 526–540 (4 Mar. 2013)
The Oriental genus Nasimyia (Diptera: Stratiomyidae): Geographical distribution, key to species and descriptions of three new species
ZAI-HUA YANG, MARTIN HAUSER, MAO-FA YANG & TING-TING ZHANG

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Article 
Zootaxa 3619 (4): 453–459 (1 Mar. 2013)
A contribution to the systematics of Neotropical Tanytarsus van der Wulp: first descriptions from Ecuador (Diptera: Chironomidae: Tanytarsini)
WOJCIECH GIŁKA & MARTA ZAKRZEWSKA

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Article 
Zootaxa 3619 (4): 401–427 (1 Mar. 2013)
Development sites and early stages of eleven species of Clusiidae (Diptera) occurring in Europe
GRAHAM E ROTHERAY & DAVID HORSFIELD

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Article 
Zootaxa 3619 (3): 246–274 (28 Feb. 2013)
Anopheles coluzzii and Anopheles amharicus, new members of the Anopheles gambiae complex
MAUREEN COETZEE, RICHARD H. HUNT, RICHARD WILKERSON, ALESSANDRA DELLA TORRE, MAMADOU B. COULIBALY & NORA J. BESANSKY

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Article 
Zootaxa 3619 (2): 183–194 (27 Feb. 2013)
New species of the genus Colobostema Enderlein (Diptera: Scatopsidae) from Mexico
HERON HUERTA

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Article 
Zootaxa 3616 (3): 268–276 (20 Feb. 2013)
On the enigmatic Heterostomus curvipalpis Bigot, 1857, with a description of the pupa (Diptera, Brachycera)
SIXTO COSCARÓN, MARÍA DEL CARMEN COSCARÓN & LEONARDO H. GIL-AZEVEDO

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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 3613 (6): 597–600 (14 Feb. 2013)
A new species of Neorhaphiomidas Norris (Diptera: Mydidae) from Queensland, Australia
GREG DANIELS

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Article 
Zootaxa 3613 (3): 274–280 (11 Feb. 2013)
Lamprempis Wheeler & Melander (Diptera, Empididae, Empidinae) from Maranhăo, Brazil
J.T. CÂMARA & J.A. RAFAEL

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Article 
Zootaxa 3613 (2): 181–189 (8 Feb. 2013)
A revision of the Egyptian species of the genus Actorthia Kröber (Diptera: Therevidae: Phycinae)
HAITHAM B. M. BADRAWY & SALWA K. MOHAMMAD

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Article 
Zootaxa 3609 (4): 437–442 (31 Jan. 2013)
New Sycoracinae (Diptera, Psychodidae) from southern Brazil
CLAUDINEY BIRAL DOS SANTOS, FREDDY BRAVO & ALOÍSIO FALQUETO

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Article 
Zootaxa 3609 (4): 361–391 (31 Jan. 2013)
Systematic study of the genera Phryno Robineau-Desvoidy and Botria Rondani in the Palearctic Region, with discussions of their phylogenetic positions (Diptera, Tachinidae)
TAKUJI TACHI

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Article 
Zootaxa 3609 (1): 85–90 (25 Jan. 2013)
Description of a new phlebotomine species (Diptera: Psychodidae, Phlebotominae) and new records of sand flies from the State of Acre, northern Brazil
CAROLINA BIONI GARCIA TELES, RUI ALVES FREITAS, ARLEY FARIA JOSÉ DE OLIVEIRA, GUILHERME MAERSCHNER OGAWA, EDICARLOS ANDRÉ CAVALCANTE DE ARAÚJO, JANSEN FERNANDES MEDEIROS, FELIPE ARLEY COSTA PESSOA & LUÍS MARCELO ARANHA CAMARGO

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Monograph
Zootaxa 3604 (1): 1–72 (14 Jan. 2013)
A worldwide review of the genus Arganthomyza Roháček, with revision of the Nearctic species (Diptera: Anthomyzidae)
JINDŘICH ROHÁČEK & KEVIN N. BARBER

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Monograph
Zootaxa 3603 (1): 1–61 (14 Jan. 2013)
The flies of the family Hybotidae (Diptera, Empidoidea) collected during the Boyekoli Ebale Congo 2010 Expedition in Democratic Republic of Congo
PATRICK GROOTAERT & IGOR SHAMSHEV

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Monograph
Zootaxa 3600 (1): 1–105 (11 Jan. 2013)
An annotated catalogue of the New World Therevidae (Insecta: Diptera: Asiloidea)
DONALD W. WEBB, STEPHEN D. GAIMARI, MARTIN HAUSER, KEVIN C. HOLSTON, MARK A. METZ, MICHAEL E. IRWIN, GAIL E. KAMPMEIER & KRISTIN ALGMIN

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Article 
Zootaxa 3599 (6): 564–576 (10 Jan. 2013)
Chironomus polonicus sp. n. (Diptera: Chironomidae) from southern Poland
PARASKEVA MICHAILOVA, ANDRZEJ KOWNACKI & PETER H. LANGTON

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3599 (5): 499–500 (9 Jan. 2013)
On the distribution of Dolichopus humilis Van Duzee in the Palaearctic Region and a new synonym (Diptera: Dolichopodidae: Dolichopus latipennis species group)
OLEG P. NEGROBOV & IGOR YA. GRICHANOV

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Article
Zootaxa 3599 (4): 361–370 (8 Jan. 2013)
Preimaginal morphology of the genera Salpingogaster Schiner, 1868 and Eosalpingogaster Hull, 1949 (Diptera: Syrphidae), with its systematic implications
CELESTE PÉREZ-BAŃÓN, EVELIN ARCAYA, XIMO MENGUAL & SANTOS ROJO

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Zootaxa 3599 (1): 59–66 (3 Jan. 2013)
New taxa of Tanyderidae (Diptera) from Eocene Baltic amber
WIESŁAW KRZEMINSKI, EWA KRZEMINSKA, IWONA KANIA & ANDREW J. ROSS

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2012

Erratum
Zootaxa 3597: 68 (24 Dec. 2012)
Erratum: JESSICA D. PETERSEN, MATTHEW J. PETERSEN & GREGORY W. COURTNEY (2012). Description of a new subgenus Neophylidorea (Diptera: Tipulidae) and a new species. Zootaxa, 3555, 40–54.
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Article
Zootaxa 3591: 67–74 (19 Dec. 2012)  4 plates; 29 references            Accepted: 8 Nov. 2012
The genus Scatopsciara Edwards (Diptera, Sciaridae) in New Caledonia, with the description of four new species 
PEKKA VILKAMAA (Finland), HEIKKI HIPPA (Sweden) & WERNER MOHRIG (Germany)

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Zootaxa 3591: 1–46 (19 Dec. 2012)  12 plates; 56 references            Accepted: 5 Nov. 2012
Neotropical Fanniidae (Insecta, Diptera): new species of Fannia from Colombia 
DIANA GRISALES (Brazil), MARTA WOLFF (Colombia) & CLAUDIO J. B. DE CARVALHO (Brazil)

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3590: 86–88 (18 Dec. 2012)  1 plate; 14 references            Accepted: 16 Nov. 2012
Notes on the collection of fungus gnats left by the late Prof. Galina Petrovna Ostroverkhova with a new specific synonymy in the genus Mycetophila Meigen (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) 
ELENA SUBBOTINA (Russia) & OLAVI KURINA (Estonia)
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Zootaxa 3590: 79–85 (18 Dec. 2012)  3 plates; 12 references          Accepted: 2 Nov. 2012
Tephritis azari, a New Fruit Fly (Diptera: Tephritidae) from Iran and Azerbaijan, with a Key to the Tephritis maccus Species Group 
SAEED MOHAMADZADE NAMIN (Iran) & SEVERYN V. KORNEYEV (Ukraine)

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Zootaxa 3590: 23–36 (18 Dec. 2012)  7 plates; 21 references          Accepted: 23 Nov. 2012
Stylogaster Macquart, 1835 (Diptera: Conopidae) from Northeastern Brazil: new records and two new species 
LEONARDO SILVESTRE GOMES ROCHA & CÁTIA ANTUNES DE MELLO-PATIU (Brazil)

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Article
Zootaxa 3582: 33–36 (12 Dec. 2012)  2 plates; 9 references        Accepted: 19 Sept. 2012
Two new biting midges of the subfamily Forcipomyiinae Lenz (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from China 
HAIYING CHEN, YANGQING LIU&YIXIN YU (China)

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Article
Zootaxa 3580: 43–55 (11 Dec. 2012)  6 plates; 18 references           Accepted: 2 Nov. 2012
Description of a new species of the genus Onconeura Andersen et Sćther (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Argentina with a cladistic analysis of the genus 
MARIANO DONATO3, AUGUSTO SIRI & MELINA MAUAD (Argentina)

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Article
Zootaxa 3577: 80–88 (10 Dec. 2012)  3 plates; 20 references              Accepted: 2 Nov. 2012
First record of Didicrum Enderlein (Diptera: Psychodidae, Psychodinae) from the Northern Andes bioregion, with the description of a new species 
ROSA HELENA MOYA-ARÉVALO, SERGIO IBÁŃEZ-BERNAL & MARÍA TERESA SUÁREZ-LANDA (Mexico)

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Zootaxa 3577: 1–42 (10 Dec. 2012)  15 plates; 127 references            Accepted: 31 Oct. 2012
Morphotaxonomic revision of Simulium (Gomphostilbia) (Diptera: Simuliidae) in the Oriental Region 
HIROYUKI TAKAOKA (Malaysia)

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Monograph
Zootaxa 3574: 1–61 (6 Dec. 2012) 35 plates; 15 references             Accepted: 12 Oct. 2012   
A review of the genus Corynoneura Winnertz (Diptera: Chironomidae) from the Neotropical region
SOFIA WIEDENBRUG, CARLOS E. LAMAS & SUSANA TRIVINHO-STRIXINO

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Zootaxa 3573: 40–46 (6 Dec. 2012)  1 plate; 49 references            Accepted: 29 Oct. 2012
A new species of Trichomyia Haliday (Diptera: Psychodidae: Trichomyiinae) from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, with a checklist of Western Hemisphere species 
CLAUDINEY BIRAL DOS SANTOS & GUSTAVO ROCHA LEITE (Brazil)

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Article
Zootaxa 3570: 25–40 (3 Dec. 2012)  8 plates; 36 references             Accepted: 1 Nov.. 2012
Notes on Docosia Winnertz (Diptera: Mycetophilidae), with description of six new species from Central Asia and the first generic record from the Afrotropical region 
OLAVI KURINA (Estonia) & JAN ŠEVČÍK (Czech Republic)

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Article
Zootaxa 3566: 51–60 (29 Nov. 2012)  3 plates; 18 references            Accepted: 19 Sept.. 2012
Redescription of the adults of Culicoides bancrofti Lee and Reye and C. hornsbyensis Lee and Reye (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) 
GLENN BELLIS & ALAN DYCE (Australia)

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Zootaxa 3566: 39–50 (29 Nov. 2012)  10 plates; 10 references          Accepted: 26 Oct. 2012
Two new species of Atrichopogon Kieffer from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) 
MARIA LUIZA FELIPPE-BAUER, TIAGO DO NASCIMENTO DA SILVA & JOĂO RICARDO CARREIRA ALVES (Brazil)

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Article
Zootaxa 3566: 1–13 (29 Nov. 2012)  8 plates; 1 5 references               Accepted: 17 Oct. 2012
Species of Ammothereva Lyneborg, 1984 (Diptera: Therevidae: Therevinae: Cyclotelini) from China 
SI-PEI LIU (China), STEPHEN D. GAIMARI (USA) & DING YANG (China)

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Monograph
Zootaxa 3561: 1–61 (23 Nov. 2012) 15 plates; 45 references             Accepted: 12 Oct. 2012   
World revision of Iteaphila macquarti group (Diptera: Empididae)
BRADLEY J. SINCLAIR & IGOR V. SHAMSHEV

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Article
Zootaxa 3557: 31–39 (21 Nov. 2012)  6 plates; 11 references            Accepted: 17 Oct. 2012
Species of Bittacomorphella Alexander from China with descriptions of two new species (Diptera: Ptychopteridae) 
ZEHUI KANG, JUNCHAO WANG & DING YANG (China)
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Zootaxa 3557: 20–30 (21 Nov. 2012)  8 plates; 8 references              Accepted: 25 Oct. 2012
Two New Species of the Genus Atrichopogon Kieffer (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from Mexico 
HERÓN HUERTA & FELIPE DZUL (Mexico)
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Article
Zootaxa 3555: 40–54 (20 Nov. 2012)  5 plates; 62 references              Accepted: 11 Oct. 2012
Description of a new subgenus Neophylidorea (Diptera: Tipulidae) and a new species 
JESSICA D. PETERSEN, MATTHEW J. PETERSEN & GREGORY W. COURTNEY (USA)
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Erratum
Zootaxa 3554: 58 (19 Nov. 2012)
Erratum: HARBACH, RALPH E. & GREENWALT, DALE (2012) Two Eocene species of Culiseta (Diptera: Culicidae) from the Kishenehn Formation in Montana. Zootaxa, 3530, 25–34.
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Article
Zootaxa 3554: 45–57 (19 Nov. 2012)  7 plates; 12 references           Accepted: 24 Oct. 2012
A new species of Brachygasterina Macquart from Colombia, and description of the males of B. stuebeli Röder and B. muisca Soares & Carvalho (Diptera: Muscidae) 
SANDRA PÉREZ (Colombia), MARTA WOLFF (Colombai) & CLAUDIO J. B. DE CARVALHO (Brazil)
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3553: 1–65 (19 Nov. 2012) 33 plates; 63 references             Accepted: 10 Oct. 2012   
Revision of the Afrotropical species of the Bengalia peuhi species-group, including a species reassigned to the B. spinifemorata species-group (Diptera, Calliphoridae), with notes on the identity of Ochromyia petersiana Loew, 1852 (Diptera, Rhiniidae)
KNUT ROGNES

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Article
Zootaxa 3552: 43–65 (16 Nov. 2012)  11 plates; 72 references        Accepted: 5 Oct. 2012
New species of Psychodidae (Diptera) from Australasia, with a checklist of the world species of Bruchomyiinae and Sycoracinae 
GREGORY R. CURLER & AMANDA J. JACOBSON (USA)

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Monograph
Zootaxa 3549: 1–117 (15 Nov. 2012) 37 plates; 116 references             Accepted: 6 Sept. 2012   
Systematics and Phylogeny of Leptomorphus Curtis (Diptera: Mycetophilidae)
CHRISTOPHER J. BORKENT & TERRY A. WHEELER

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Article
Zootaxa 3548: 75–87 (14 Nov. 2012)  8 plates; 13 references          Accepted: 21 Sept.. 2012
Rhaphium Meigen (Diptera, Dolichopodidae) from the Taimyr Peninsula (Russia), with description of a new species 
OLEG P. NEGROBOV, АNATOLII V. BARKALOV & ОLGA В. SELIVANOVA (Russia)

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Zootaxa 3548: 69–74 (14 Nov. 2012)  3 plates; 6 references             Accepted: 16 Oct. 2012
A new species of Herina Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 (Diptera: Ulidiidae) from Turkey, with the key to species of oscillans group 
ELENA P. KAMENEVA & VALERY A. KORNEYEV (Ukraine)

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Article
Zootaxa 3548: 39–54 (14 Nov. 2012)  8 plates; 15 references           Accepted: 18 Oct. 2012
Two new species of Podonomus (Diptera: Chironomidae: Podonominae) of the Brundin’s decarthrus group from Ventania system, Argentina 
AUGUSTO SIRI & MARIANO DONATO (Argentina)

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Zootaxa 3547: 24–34 (13 Nov. 2012)  5 plates; 21 references             Accepted: 12 Oct. 2012
Taxonomy of Neotropical Trichomyia (Septemtrichomyia) Bravo (Diptera, Psychodidae, Trichomyiinae) with descriptions of five new species 
MAÍRA XAVIER ARAÚJO & FREDDY BRAVO (Brazil)

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Article
Zootaxa 3545: 83–88 (9 Nov. 2012)  3 plates; 9 references             Accepted: 8 Oct. 2012
Neotype designation for Cladotanytarsus (Lenziella) bicornutus (Kieffer), and first description of the distinctive female (Diptera: Chironomidae: Tanytarsini) 
WOJCIECH GIŁKA (Poland) & MARTIN SPIES (Germany)

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Zootaxa 3537: 76–88 (2 Nov. 2012)  6 plates; 41 references            Accepted: 24 Sept. 2012
A review of the subgenera Euorthocladius and Orthocladius s. str. from China (Diptera: Chironomidae) 
FANQING KONG (China), OLE A.SĆTHER (Norway) & XINHUA WANG (China)

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Zootaxa 3537: 1–28 (2 Nov. 2012)  15 plates; 15 references             Accepted: 8 Oct. 2012
Eleven new species of the Homoneura (Homoneura) beckeri group from Yunnan, China (Diptera, Lauxaniidae) 
WENLIANG LI & DING YANG (China)

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Monograph
Zootaxa 3536: 1–61 (2 Nov. 2012) 28 plates; 44 references              Accepted: 9 Oct. 2012   
Corynoneura Winnertz and Thienemanniella Kieffer from the Nearctic Region (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae)
YUE FU & OLE A. SĆTHER

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Zootaxa 3530: 25–34 (30 Oct. 2012)  4 plates; 26 references             Accepted: 5 Oct. 2012
Two Eocene species of Culiseta (Diptera: Culicidae) from the Kishenehn Formation in Montana 
RALPH E. HARBACH (UK) & DALE GREENWALT (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 3525: 51–64 (24 Oct. 2012)  11 plates; 9 references             Accepted: 24 Sept. 2012
Review of the genus Griphophanes Grootaert & Meuffels (Diptera, Dolichopodidae), with the description of ten new species from Sri Lanka 
STEFAN NAGLIS (Switzerland) & PATRICK GROOTAERT (Belgium)

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Zootaxa 3525: 35–50 (24 Oct. 2012)  9 plates; 26 references             Accepted: 28 Sept. 2012
Proposed change in status of the Nearctic genus Charadrodromia Melander (Diptera: Hybotidae, Tachydromiinae), with description of four new species 
IGOR SHAMSHEV (Russia) & PATRICK GROOTAERT (Belgium)
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Article
Zootaxa 3521: 80–88 (18 Oct. 2012)  6 plates; 21 references              Accepted: 16 Aug. 2012
Probittacomorpha brisaci n. sp. (Ptychopteridae, Bittacomorphinae) from the Late Miocene of Montagne d’Andance, Saint Bauzile, Ardčche (France) 
WIESŁAW KRZEMINSKI (Poland), IWONA KANIA (Poland) & ANDRÉ NEL (France)

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Zootaxa 3521: 59–66 (18 Oct. 2012)  18 plates; 12 references            Accepted: 21 Sept. 2012
Condylostylus Bigot from Vietnam with description of a new species and a key to Vietnamese species (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) 
XUANKUN LI, ZHU LI & DING YANG (China)

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Zootaxa 3514: 43–69 (11 Oct. 2012)  4 plates; 128 references              Accepted: 24 Sept. 2012

DNA barcodes reveal cryptic genetic diversity within the blackfly subgenus Trichodagmia Enderlein (Diptera: Simuliidae: Simulium) and related taxa in the New World 

LUIS MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ-TRIANA (Canada), JAMES LEE CRAINEY (Brazil) , ANDY HALL (UK), FARRAH FATIH (UK), JACQUELINE MACKENZIE-DODDS (UK), ANTHONY JOHN SHELLEY (UK), XIN ZHOU (Canada), RORY J. POST (UK), T. RYAN GREGORY (Canada) & PAUL DAVID NEIL HEBERT (Canada)

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Zootaxa 3509: 77–80 (8 Oct. 2012)  1 plate; 18 references                   Accepted: 6 Sept. 2012

Scanning electron microscopy of eggs of Ochlerotatus taeniorhynchus (Diptera: Culicidae, Aedini) 

CARLOS BRISOLA MARCONDES, GERSON AZULIM MÜLLER, JACENIR SANTOS-MALLET, JERONIMO ALENCAR, JULIANA SOARES SARMENTO, CLAUDINEY BIRAL DOS SANTOS & HELDER RICAS REZENDE (Brazil)

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Article
Zootaxa 3504: 1–55 (2 Oct. 2012)  24 plates; 49 references                Accepted: 12 Sept. 2012
Taxonomy of Neomuscina Townsend (Diptera, Muscidae) from Brazil 
ALESSANDRE PEREIRA-COLAVITE & CLAUDIO J. B. DE CARVALHO (Brazil)

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Article
Zootaxa 3501: 74–82 (1 Oct. 2012)  3 plates; 59 references                Accepted: 30 Aug. 2012
Sir Richard Owen’s fly, Gyrostigma rhinocerontis (Diptera: Oestridae): correction of the authorship and date, with a list of animal names newly proposed by Owen in his little-known 1830 catalogue 
NEAL L. EVENHUIS (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 3501: 55–62 (1 Oct. 2012)  3 plates; 28 references                 Accepted: 10 Sept. 2012
Two new species of Ptychopteridae and Trichoceridae from the Middle Jurassic of northeastern China (Insecta: Diptera: Nematocera) 
LUXI LIU, CHUNGKUN SHIH & DONG REN (China)

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Zootaxa 3497: 1–16 (25 Sept. 2012)  7 plates; 30 references                 Accepted: 5 Sept. 2012
Review of the Campsicnemus fumipennis group (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) in the Hawaiian Islands, with descriptions of new species and corrections of misidentifications 
NEAL L. EVENHUIS (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 3495: 42–56 (24 Sept. 2012)  3 plates; 72 references                 Accepted: 20 Aug. 2012
A new species of Palaeopoecilostola Meunier, 1899 (Diptera: Limoniidae) from the Eocene Baltic amber 
IWONA KANIA & WIESŁAW KRZEMIŃSKI (Poland)

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Zootaxa 3495: 1–41 (24 Sept. 2012)  16 plates; 12 references                 Accepted: 23 Aug. 2012
A systematic review of Neotropical Caladomyia Säwedal (Diptera: Chironomidae) 
SUSANA TRIVINHO-STRIXINO (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 3489: 81–88 (19 Sept. 2012)  2 plates; 26 references                 Accepted: 10 Aug. 2012
Systematic position of the monotypic Azorean genus Falbouria Dyte with notes on the definition of Chrysotus Meigen (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) 
RENATO SOARES CAPELLARI & DALTON DE SOUZA AMORIM (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 3489: 45–57 (19 Sept. 2012)  8 plates; 19 references                   Accepted: 30 Aug. 2012  

Microphorella similis sp. nov. from Switzerland, a close relative of the type species, M. praecox (Loew) (Diptera: Dolichopodidae: Parathalassiinae) 

SCOTT E. BROOKS (Canada) & HANS ULRICH (Germany)

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Article
Zootaxa 3489: 25–44 (19 Sept. 2012)  13 plates; 40 references                 Accepted: 29 Jun. 2012
The genus Bradysia Winnertz (Diptera, Sciaridae) in New Caledonia, with the description of thirteen new species 
PEKKA VILKAMAA (Finland), HEIKKI HIPPA (Sweden) & WERNER MOHRIG (Germany)

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Zootaxa 3488: 63–79 (18 Sept. 2012)  9 plates; 14 references                     Accepted: 20 Aug. 2012

Revision of Neotropical species of Empididae (Diptera) described by Mario Bezzi. XI. The species described in Empis Linnaeus 

J.A. RAFAEL & J.T. CÂMARA (Brazil)

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3487: 85–88 (18 Sept. 2012)  2 plates; 15 references                 Accepted: 7 Aug. 2012  

On the identity of Bithoracochaeta sociabilis Blanchard (Diptera: Muscidae): a new synonym of Atherigona orientalis Schiner 

LUCIANO DAMIÁN PATITUCCI, PABLO RICARDO MULIERI & JUAN CARLOS MARILUIS (Argentina)

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Article
Zootaxa 3478: 434–452 (11 Sept. 2012) 10 plates; 28 references     Accepted: 17 Jul. 2012
Pupae of Mesozoic Jurochlus Kalugina, 1985 (Diptera: Chironomidae), with description of four new species
ELENA D. LUKASHEVICH & ANDREY A. PRZHIBORO

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Zootaxa 3478: 453–482 (11 Sept. 2012) 16 plates; 51 references     Accepted: 11 Jul. 2012
A review of Paratrichocladius Santos Abreu from the Sino-Indian Region (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae)
YUE FU, OLE A. SĆTHER & XINHUA WANG

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Zootaxa 3478: 483–492 (11 Sept. 2012) 4 plates; 26 references       Accepted: 7 Aug. 2012
Two new species and new records of Muscidae (Diptera) from Wrangel Island, Russia
VERA S. SOROKINA
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Zootaxa 3478: 493–509 (11 Sept. 2012) 10 plates; 18 references      Accepted: 10 Aug. 2012
Ten new species of the genus Phortica from the Afrotropical and Oriental regions (Diptera: Drosophilidae)
HONGWEI CHEN & JAN MÁCA
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Article
Zootaxa 3478: 510–552 (11 Sept. 2012) 21 plates; 17 references      Accepted: 14 Aug. 2012
New species of Anastrepha (Diptera: Tephritidae), with a key for the species of the megacantha clade
ALLEN L. NORRBOM & CHESLAVO A. KORYTKOWSKI
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Zootaxa 3478: 553–569 (11 Sept. 2012) 4 plates; 30 references        Accepted: 10 Aug. 2012
The new genus Acrocephalomyia, and a new species of Ropalomera from Costa Rica, with additional records for other Mesoamerican species (Diptera: Ropalomeridae)
SERGIO IBÁŃEZ–BERNAL & VICENTE HERNÁNDEZ–ORTIZ

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Zootaxa 3478: 570–580 (11 Sept. 2012) 6 plates; 5 references          Accepted: 20 Aug. 2012
New Griphophanes Grootaert & Meuffels (Diptera, Dolichopodidae, Peloropeodinae) from Southeast Asia
PATRICK GROOTAERT & HENK MEUFFELS
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Zootaxa 3478: 581–585 (11 Sept. 2012) 2 plates; 15 references        Accepted: 10 Aug. 2012
A new species of Wiedemannia (Diptera: Empididae: Clinocerinae) from Balkan Peninsula
MARIJA IVKOVIĆ, ADRIAN PLANT & BOGDAN HORVAT

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Article
Zootaxa 3455: 1–48 (6 Sept. 2012)  28 plates; 13 references                     Accepted: 6 Jul. 2012
New species and new records of Afrotropical Manota Williston (Diptera, Mycetophilidae), with a key to the species
HEIKKI HIPPA (Sweden) & OLAVI KURINA (Estonia)

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3444: 65–68 (29 Aug. 2012)  1 plate; 33 references                      Accepted: 2 Jul. 2012
An overlooked earlier name for the bird blow fly genus Protocalliphora Hough (Diptera: Calliphoridae)
NEAL L. EVENHUIS (USA)

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Zootaxa 3434: 31–48 (22 Aug. 2012)  9 plates; 46 references                    Accepted: 18 Jun. 2012
Revision of the European Delia pruinosa species group (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) feeding as larvae in seed capsules of Silene L. (Caryophyllaceae)
VERNER MICHELSEN (Sweden)

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Zootaxa 3419: 1–52 (13 Aug. 2012)  24 plates; 19 references                      Accepted: 5 Jun. 2012
A revision of Biting Midges of the Subgenera Forcipomyia (Metaforcipomyia) and F. (Saliohelea) from Costa Rica (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)
GUSTAVO R. SPINELLI (Argentina), PABLO I. MARINO (Argentina) & ART BORKENT (Canada)

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Zootaxa 3413: 19–28 (8 Aug. 2012)  5 plates; 21 references                    Accepted: 15 Jun. 2012
Revision of the Apocephalus mucronatus group of ant decapitating flies (Diptera: Phoridae)
BRIAN V. BROWN (USA)

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Zootaxa 3409: 30–46 (6 Aug. 2012)  4 plates; 11 references                 Accepted: 14 Jun. 2012
Distribution records of Helina Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 (Diptera: Muscidae) from the Caucasus Mountains, with the descriptions of three new species
ADRIAN C. PONT (UK)

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Zootaxa 3408: 47–53 (3 Aug. 2012)  2 plates; 14 references                 Accepted: 13 Jun. 2012
Two new species of Empis (Diptera: Empididae) from Turkey
MUSTAFA CEMAL ÇİFTÇİ, ABDULLAH HASBENLİ & DERYA CANPOLAT (Turkey)

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3401: 66–68 (27 Jul. 2012)  1 plates; 4 references                 Accepted: 3 Jun. 2012
Description of the male of Culicoides (Hoffmania) baniwa Felippe-Bauer of the hylas species group (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)
ELOY GUILLERMO CASTELLÓN (Brazil), FELIPE ARLEY COSTA PESSOA (Brazil),
GUSTAVO SPINELLI (Argentina) & MARIA LUIZA FELIPPE-BAUER (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 3399: 53–60 (25 Jul. 2012)  4 plates; 9 references                   Accepted: 30 May 2012
Biting midges of the genus Leehelea Debenham (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in India
MOU NANDI, ABHIJIT MAZUMDAR & PRASANTA K. CHAUDHURI (India)

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Zootaxa 3397: 1–68 (24 Jul. 2012)  2 plates; 16 references                  Accepted: 1 Jun. 2012
A new species and records of Alepia Enderlein (Diptera, Psychodidae, Psychodinae) from Argentina
GUILLERMO OMAD & GUSTAVO C. ROSSI (Argentina)

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Monograph
Zootaxa 3396: 1–98 (23 Jul. 2012) 30 plates; 151 references                      Accepted: 22 Mar. 2012   
The Pupae of Culicomorpha—Morphology and a New Phylogenetic Tree
Art Borkent

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3394: 64–68 (20 Jul. 2012)  3 plates; 8 references                Accepted: 18 May 2012
A new species and new records of Downeshelea Wirth & Grogan in Neotropical Mexico (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)
HERÓN HUERTA (Mexico), MARIA LUIZA FELIPPE-BAUER (Brazil) & GUSTAVO R. SPINELLI (Argentina)

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Zootaxa 3389: 25–33 (16 Jul. 2012)  3 plates; 17 references                Accepted: 3 Apr. 2012
Newly discovered males and new records of the uncommon Neotropical genera Eutabanus Kröber and Myiotabanus Lutz (Diptera: Tabanidae)
TIAGO KÜTTER KROLOW (Brazil), KEITH M. BAYLESS (USA) & AUGUSTO LOUREIRO HENRIQUES (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 3385: 33–38 (11 Jul. 2012) 1 plates; 28 references            Accepted: 18 May 2012
Parasitoid phorid flies (Diptera: Phoridae) from the threatened leafcutter ant Atta robusta Borgmeier (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
BRIAN V. BROWN, MARCOS A. L. BRAGANCA, DIEGO S. GOMES, JARBAS M. QUEIROS & MARCOS C. TEIXEIRA (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 3382: 53–58 (9 Jul. 2012) 3 plates; 12 references                 Accepted: 17 May 2012
Chrysosoma from Vietnam, with description of a new species and a key to Vietnamese species (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)
JINJING WANG, LILI ZHANG & DING YANG (China)

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Monograph
Zootaxa 3370: 1–307 (4 Jul. 2012) 90 plates; 52 references                      Accepted: 21 Mar. 2012   
Sobarocephala (Diptera: Clusiidae: Sobarocesphalinae)—Subgeneric
classification and Revision of the New World species

OWEN LONSDALE & STEPHEN A. MARSHALL

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Zootaxa 3361: 45–55 (29 Jun. 2012) 7 plates; 17 references            Accepted: 18 May 2012
Revision of the genus Macrostomus Wiedemann (Diptera, Empididae,
Empidinae). III. The limbipennis species-group
JOSÉ ALBERTINO RAFAEL (Brazil) & JEFFREY M. CUMMING (Canada)

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Zootaxa 3361: 18–32 (29 Jun. 2012) 14 plates; 10 references            Accepted: 2 May 2012
The genus Centorisoma Becker in China, with a key to world species (Diptera, Chloropidae)
XIAOYAN LIU & DING YANG (China)

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3360: 68 (29 Jun. 2012) 0 plates; 3 references                 Accepted: 18 May 2012
Costarica Mengual & Thompson, 2009 (Insecta: Diptera: Syrphidae) junior homonym of Costarica Kocak & Kemal, 2008 (Insecta: Orthoptera): proposed replacement by Tiquicia nom. nov.
F. CHRISTIAN THOMPSON (USA)

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Zootaxa 3355: 51–61 (22 Jun. 2012) 6 plates; 7 references                 Accepted: 18 May 2012
A brachypterous Bryophaenocladius (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae) with hypopygium inversum from Heggie’s Rock, Georgia, U.S.A.
J.H. EPLER (USA)

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Zootaxa 3353: 55–68 (21 Jun. 2012) 6 plates; 13 references                 Accepted: 20 Apr. 2012
Revision of the type series of Empis (Planempis) mandarina Frey, the type species
of Planempis (Diptera: Empididae)
TOYOHEI SAIGUSA (Japan)

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Zootaxa 3346: 64–68 (14 Jun. 2012) 0 plate; 55 references                 Accepted: 2 May  2012
Nomenclatural notes on some Diptera genus-group names of P.A. Latreille
NEAL L. EVENHUIS (USA)

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Zootaxa 3346: 29–42 (14 Jun. 2012) 7 plates; 20 references                 Accepted: 1 May  2012
Four new species of Penottus Distant (Hemiptera: Tingidae) from China
KAI DANG, CHUANREN LI & WENJUN BU (China)

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Zootaxa 3346: 1–28 (14 Jun. 2012) 20 plates; 34 references                 Accepted: 1 May  2012
Morphology of preimaginal stages of Lauxania and Calliopum (Diptera: Lauxaniidae)
MAREK SEMELBAUER & MILAN KOZÁNEK (Slovakia)

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Article
Zootaxa 3343: 31–44 (12 Jun. 2012) 12 plates; 9 references                 Accepted: 18 Apr. 2012
A new species of Araucnephia (Diptera: Simuliidae) from the Northeast Region of Brazil
FELIPE ARLEY COSTA PESSOA, CLAUDIA MARÍA RÍOS-VELÁSQUEZ 
& VICTOR PY-DANIEL (Brazil)

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Article
Zootaxa 3342: 39–50 (12 Jun. 2012)  5 plates; 25 references                Accepted: 7 May 2012
A new genus and species of Chamaemyiidae (Diptera: Lauxanioidea) from South America feeding on Ceroplastes wax scales (Hemiptera: Coccidae), and status of the genus Ortalidina as a chamaemyiid
STEPHEN D. GAIMARI (USA)

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Article
Zootaxa 3341: 46–53 (11 Jun. 2012) 4 plates; 38 references                 Accepted: 26 Mar. 2012
A review of the subgenus Eudactylocladius (Diptera: Chironomidae) from China
FANQING KONG (China), OLE A.SĆTHER (Norway) & XINHUA WANG (China)

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Article
Zootaxa 3333: 24–37 (4 Jun. 2012) 10 plates; 18 references                 Accepted: 1 May 2012
Ten new species of the Stegana (Steganina) shirozui species group (Diptera, Drosophilidae) from China
XI-PENG CHEN & HONG-WEI CHEN (China)

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Article
Zootaxa 3333: 1–23 (4 Jun. 2012) 8 plates; 19 references                 Accepted: 12 Apr. 2012
A revision of the genus Rosapha Walker (Diptera: Stratiomyidae)
DAMIR KOVAC (Germany) & RUDOLF ROZKOŠNÝ (Czech Republic)

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Article
Zootaxa 3329: 64–68 (31 May 2012) 4 plates; 9 references                 Accepted: 5 Apr. 2012
Discovery of Shamshevia Grichanov in the Oriental Region (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)
IGOR YA. GRICHANOV (Russia)

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Article
Zootaxa 3329: 51–63 (31 May 2012) 7 plates; 38 references                 Accepted: 20 Apr. 2012
Fossil Bibionidae (Diptera: Bibionomorpha) from the late Oligocene of Bes-Konak, Anatolia, Turkey
JOHN SKARTVEIT (Norway) & ANDRÉ NEL (France)

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Article
Zootaxa 3326: 37–48 (28 May 2012) 8 plates; 6 references                 Accepted: 2 Apr. 2012
Revision and cladistic analysis of Neotropical genus Psilochlorops Duda (Diptera: Chloropidae)
PAULA RAILE RICCARDI & DALTON DE SOUZA AMORIM (Brazil)

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Monograph
Zootaxa 3324: 1–65 (24 May 2012) 52 plates; 55 references                      Accepted: 27 Feb. 2012   
Chironomidae (Diptera) larvae of Precambrian Shield headwater streams, Canada
ARMIN NAMAYANDEH, BOHDAN BILYJ, DAVID V. BERESFORD, KEITH M. SOMERS
 
& PETER J. DILLON

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Article
Zootaxa 3323: 57–63 (24 May 2012) 3 plates; 6 references                 Accepted: 16 Apr. 2012
Description of the female, pupa, and larva of Culex (Melanoconion) bahiensis Duret, and redescription of the male (Diptera: Culicidae)
EDUARDO A. LESTANI & GUSTAVO C. ROSSI (Argentina)

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Zootaxa 3318: 51–56 (21 May 2012) 3 plates; 6 references                 Accepted: 12 Apr. 2012
New records of Tonnoira Enderlein (Diptera, Psychodidae, Psychodinae) from the Brazilian Amazon with descriptions of two new species
CÍNTHIA CHAGAS-VIEIRA (Brazil)

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Article
Zootaxa 3316: 1–14 (17 May 2012) 12 plates; 18 references                 Accepted: 13 Apr. 2012
Chionea Dalman newly recorded from China with descriptions of two new species (Diptera, Limoniidae)
XIAO ZHANG, JUNCHAO WANG & DING YANG (China)

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Zootaxa 3311: 61–67 (14 May 2012) 4 plates; 16 references                 Accepted: 27 Mar. 2012
Species of Philorus Kellogg from China with description of a new species (Diptera: Blephariceridae)
ZEHUI KANG & DING YANG (China)

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Zootaxa 3300: 62–68 (4 May 2012)  2 plates; 5 references                Accepted: 20 Mar. 2012
Two new species of Saetherolabis Andersen et Mendes, 2007 from Brazil (Diptera: Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae)
TROND ANDERSEN (Norway), HUMBERTO F. MENDES (Brazil) & LUIZ C. PINHO (Brazil)

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Article
Zootaxa 3300: 55–61 (4 May 2012) 10 plates; 17 references                 Accepted: 5 Mar. 2012
Two new species of Syneches belonging to S. signatus species-group from Vietnam (Diptera: Empidoidea, Hybotinae)
XIAOYAN LIU, LILI ZHANG & DING YANG (China)

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Zootaxa 3298: 53–61 (3 May 2012) 4 plates; 18 references                 Accepted: 21 Mar. 2012
Mannheimsia Beyer (Diptera: Phoridae): description of a new species, redescription of Mannheimsia stricta and studies on hypopygial morphology
DANILO CÉSAR AMENT (Brazil)

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Article
Zootaxa 3298: 30–42 (3 May 2012) 19 plates; 7 references                 Accepted: 21 Mar. 2012
Scuttle flies (Diptera: Phoridae) caught at dead mice in S. W. Finland
R. HENRY L. DISNEY (UK)

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Zootaxa 3298: 17–29 (3 May 2012) 14 plates; 19 references                 Accepted: 6 Mar. 2012
Togeciphus Nishijima and Neoloxotaenia Sabrosky (Diptera: Chloropidae) from China
XIAOYAN LIU & DING YANG (China)

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Zootaxa 3279: 1–45 (25 Apr. 2012)  19 plates; 34 references                Accepted: 15 Feb. 2012
The Frog-Biting Midges of Borneo—From Two to Eleven Species (Corethrellidae: Diptera)
ART BORKENT (Canada) & T. ULMAR GRAFE (Brunei Darussalam)

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Article
Zootaxa 3275: 29–42 (23 Apr. 2012) 4 plates; 62 references                 Accepted: 1 Mar. 2012
Two new species of Philosepedon Eaton (Diptera, Psychodidae, Psychodinae) from Europe, with comments on subgeneric classification 
MARKÉTA OMELKOVÁ & JAN JEŽEK (Czech Republic)

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Article
Zootaxa 3275: 20–28 (23 Apr. 2012) 4 plates; 6 references                   Accepted: 2 Mar. 2012
Three new species of Dinera Robineau-Desvoidy from China (Diptera: Tachinidae) 
CHUN-TIAN ZHANG & CHAO FU (China)

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Article
Zootaxa 3275: 1–19 (23 Apr. 2012) 9 plates; 58 references                    Accepted: 16 Mar. 2012
The Chironomus group (Diptera: Chironomidae) in Lake Winnipeg, Canada 
OLE A. SĆTHER (Norway)

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Article
Zootaxa 3270: 58–62 (17 Apr. 2012) 2 plates; 16 references                 Accepted: 1 Mar. 2012
Revision of Neotropical species of Empidoidea (Diptera) described by Mario Bezzi. X. The species described in Apalocnemis Philippi (Brachystomatidae, Trichopezinae) 
J.A. RAFAEL (Brazil) & BRADLEY J. SINCLAIR (Canada)

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Article
Zootaxa 3267: 44–54 (12 Apr. 2012) 5 plates; 61 references                 Accepted: 1 Mar.. 2012
New generic synomyms in the Chloropidae (Diptera, Acalyptratae), with additional taxonomic notes 
EMILIA P. NARTSHUK (Russia) & MICHAEL VON TSCHIRNHAUS (Germany)

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Article
Zootaxa 3267: 1–43 (12 Apr. 2012) 1 plate; 273 references                 Accepted: 12 Sep. 2011
A check list of the world genera of the family Chloropidae (Diptera, Cyclorrhapha, Muscomorpha) 
EMILIA P. NARTSHUK (Russia)

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Article
Zootaxa 3262: 35–45 (9 Apr. 2012) 6 plates; 12 references                 Accepted: 27 Feb. 2012
Three new species of the Homoneura (Homoneura) henanensis species group (Diptera, Lauxaniidae), with a key to Chinese species 
JUNCHAO WANG, CAIXIA GAO & DING YANG (China)
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Article
Zootaxa 3256: 1–26 (4 Apr. 2012) 14 plates; 39 references                 Accepted: 15 Feb. 2012
Revision of Argoravinia Townsend (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) of Brazil with the description of two new species 
FERNANDO DA SILVA CARVALHO FILHO & MARIA CRISTINA ESPOSITO (Brazil)

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3255: 62–64 (3 Apr. 2012) 1 plate; 8 references                 Accepted: 21 Dec. 2011
Redescription of Heizmannia (Heizmannia) chandi Edwards (Diptera: Culicidae) 
S.C. TEWARI, R. KRISHNAMOORTHY, K. AYANAR, A. MUNIRATHINAM, A. VENKATESH & B.K. TYAGI (India)

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Article
Zootaxa 3255: 37–51 (3 Apr. 2012) 9 plates; 29 references                 Accepted: 14 Feb. 2012
The genus Ctenosciara Tuomikoski (Diptera, Sciaridae) in New Caledonia, with the description of eight new species 
PEKKA VILKAMAA (Finland), HEIKKI HIPPA (Sweden) & WERNER MOHRIG (Germany)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3247: 32–42 (26 Mar. 2012) 8 plates; 12 references                 Accepted: 17 Feb. 2012
Species of the genus Rhipidia Meigen from Taiwan (Diptera, Limoniidae) 
XIAO ZHANG, YAN LI & DING YANG (China)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3242: 47–52 (21 Mar. 2012) 2 plates; 12 references                 Accepted: 7 Feb. 2012
A new species of fig-feeding Lonchaeidae (Diptera: Schizophora) from India and a checklist for the family in the Indian sub-continent 
IAIN MACGOWAN, NAKEER RAZAK, GRAHAM E. ROTHERAY & IRFAN AHMAD (India)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3242: 39–46 (21 Mar. 2012) 4 plates; 14 references                 Accepted: 1 Feb. 2012
Description of the pupa and male of Paryphoconus grandis Macfie (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)
MARÍA M. RONDEROS, PABLO I. MARINO & FLORENTINA DÍAZ (Argentina)
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Zootaxa 3239: 51–57 (20 Mar. 2012) 3 plates; 13 references                 Accepted: 2 Feb. 2012
Two new species of Empis (Planempis) from Oriental China, with an updated key to species of China (Diptera: Empidoidea) 
XIAOYAN LIU (China), TOYOHEI SAIGUSA (Japan) & DING YANG (China)

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Article
Zootaxa 3239: 43–50 (20 Mar. 2012) 3 plates; 21 references                 Accepted: 2 Feb. 2012
New species of Ablabesmyia Johannsen from the Neotropical region: first report of a sponge-dwelling Tanypodinae 
LÍVIA MARIA FUSARI, CAROLINE S. NEUBERN OLIVEIRA, NEUSA HAMADA & FABIO O. ROQUE (Brazil)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3238: 57–63 (19 Mar. 2012) 5 plates; 10 references                 Accepted: 25 Jan. 2012
A new species of the genus Kuwanimyia Townsend (Diptera: Tachinidae) from Zhanjiang, China
ZHE ZHAO, CHUN-TIAN ZHANG & XIAO-LIN CHEN (China)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3238: 49–56 (19 Mar. 2012) 4 plates; 28 references                 Accepted: 27 Jan. 2012
Redescription of the genus Coniceps Loew, 1873 (Diptera, Richardiidae) 
LISIANE DILLI WENDT & ROSALY ALE-ROCHA (Brazil)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3238: 1–22 (19 Mar. 2012) 11 plates; 36 references                 Accepted: 1 Feb. 2012
Notes on the Homoneura subgenera Euhomoneura, Homoneura and Minettioides from China (Diptera: Lauxaniidae) 
LI SHI (China), STEPHEN D. GAIMARI (USA) & DING YANG (China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3232: 62–68 (13 Mar. 2012) 3 plates; 9 references                 Accepted: 31 Jan. 2012
A new species of Bezzia Kieffer from Argentina (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) 
GUSTAVO R. SPINELLI, MARÍA M. RONDEROS & CARLA G. CAZORLA (Argentina)

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Erratum 
Zootaxa 3231: 68 (13 Mar. 2012)
Erratum: K.J. DAVID & S. RAMANI (2011) An illustrated key to fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) from Peninsular India and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Zootaxa, 3021, 1–31.

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Article 
Zootaxa 3231: 29–52 (13 Mar. 2012) 0 plate; 121 references                 Accepted: 12 Jan. 2012
Catalogue and bibliography of Afrotropical Psychodidae: Bruchomyiinae, Psychodinae, Sycoracinae and Trichomyiinae 
GUNNAR MIKALSEN KVIFTE (Norway)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3230: 52–58 (12 Mar. 2012) 3 plates; 18 references                 Accepted: 28 Jan. 2012
A new distinctive species of the genus Orthocladius with hairy eyes from Japan (Diptera: Chironomidae) 
TADASHI KOBAYASHI (Japan)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3227: 1–33 (8 Mar. 2012) 15 plates; 22 references                 Accepted: 20 Jan. 2012
Revision of Aciuroides Hendel and Neoacanthoneura Hendel (Diptera: Ulidiidae: Pterocallini) ELENA P. KAMENEVA (Ukraine)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3223: 24–39 (6 Mar. 2012) 6 plates; 36 references                 Accepted: 18 Jan. 2012
Taxonomic revision of the fruit fly genus Neoceratitis Hendel (Diptera: Tephritidae) 
MARC DE MEYER (Belgium) & AMNON FREIDBERG (Israel)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3218: 1–17 (1 Mar. 2012) 4 plates; 59 references                 Accepted: 20 Dec. 2011
Anopheles (Kerteszia) lepidotus (Diptera: Culicidae), not the malaria vector we thought it was: Revised male and female morphology; larva, pupa, and male genitalia characters; and molecular verification 
BRUCE A. HARRISON (USA), FREDDY RUIZ-LOPEZ (USA), GUILLERMO CALDERON FALERO (Peru), HARRY M. SAVAGE (USA), JAMES E. PECOR (USA) & RICHARD C. WILKERSON (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3209: 1–27 (28 Feb. 2012) 11 plates; 25 references                    Accepted: 29 Dec. 2011
Identification of Neotropical blow flies of the genus Calliphora Robineau- Desvoidy (Diptera: Calliphoridae) with the description of a new species 
TERRY WHITWORTH (USA) WITH AN APPENDIX BY KNUT ROGNES (Norway) & TERRY WHITWORTH (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3207: 54–62 (27 Feb. 2012) 6 plates; 10 references                       Accepted: 5 Dec. 2011
Species of the genus Ensiferella Andersson from China, with a key to world species (Diptera, Chloropidae) 
XIAOYAN LIU & DING YANG (China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3207: 1–21 (27 Feb. 2012) 13 plates; 31 references                         Accepted: 20 Dec. 2011
The genus Pseudolycoriella Menzel & Mohrig (Diptera, Sciaridae) in New Caledonia, with the description of thirteen new species 
PEKKA VILKAMAA (Finland), HEIKKI HIPPA (Sweden) & WERNER MOHRIG (Germany)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3198: 63–67 (20 Feb. 2012) 3 plates; 11 references                     Accepted: 12 Jan. 2012
New species of Heteropsilopus and Amblypsilopus from China (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) XIAOYAN LIU, YAJUN ZHU & DING YANG (China)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3191: 33–40 (13 Feb. 2012) 3 plate; 22 references                            Accepted: 13 Dec. 2011
The subgenus Pentapedilum Kieffer (Diptera: Chironomidae) in the Yaeyama Islands, the Ryukyus, Japan
NAO YAMAMOTO, TOSHIYA HIROWATARI & MASARU YAMAMOTO (Japan)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3191: 21–32 (13 Feb. 2012) 6 plate; 29 references                            Accepted: 29 Dec. 2011
Confirmation of Aedes koreicus (Diptera: Culicidae) in Belgium and description of morphological differences between Korean and Belgian specimens validated by molecular identification
VEERLE VERSTEIRT (Belgium), JAMES E. PECOR (USA), DINA M. FONSECA (USA),
 
MARC COOSEMANS (Belgium) & WIM VAN BORTEL (Belgium)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3189: 56–68 (10 Feb. 2012) 7 plate; 12 references                            Accepted: 15 Dec. 2011
Revision of Neotropical species of Empididae (Diptera) described by Mario Bezzi. VIII. The species described in Hilarempis Bezzi
J.A. RAFAEL (Brazil)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3189: 1–28 (10 Feb. 2012) 12 plate; 55 references                            Accepted: 29 Dec. 2011
Discovery of the second European Amalopis species: an integrative survey of
the widespread Pedicia (Amalopis) occulta (Meigen, 1830) (Insecta, Diptera, Pediciidae)
LUJZA UJVÁROSI (Romania) & MIKLÓS BÁLINT (Germany)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3188: 55–63 (9 Feb. 2012) 6 plate; 14 references                            Accepted: 9 Dec. 2011
Medetera (Diptera, Dolichopodidae) of Sri Lanka
STEFAN NAGLIS (Switzerland) & DANIEL J. BICKEL (Australia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3188: 1–30 (9 Feb. 2012) 10 plate; 40 references                            Accepted: 21 Dec. 2011
New species of Hawaiian picture wing Drosophila (Diptera: Drosophilidae), with a key to species
KARL N. MAGNACCA & DONALD K. PRICE (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3186: 1–24 (8 Feb. 2012) 23 plates; 39 references                           Accepted: 21 Dec. 2011
Six new species of Paraleia Tonnoir (Diptera, Mycetophilidae): amphinotic elements at the northern range of the Andes
SARAH SIQUEIRA OLIVEIRA & DALTON DE SOUZA AMORIM (Brazil)

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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. AŃÓN 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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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. SĆTHER (Norway) & ATILANO CONTRERAS-RAMOS (Mexico)

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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. SĆTHER (Norway)

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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. SĆTHER (Norway)

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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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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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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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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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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. SĆTHER (Norway) & XINHUA WANG (China)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 IBÁŃEZ-BERNAL, TERESA SUÁREZ-LANDA & FREDY MENDOZA (Mexico)

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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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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 Sćther and Litocladius Mendes, Andersen et Sćther 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. SĆTHER & 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 KJĆRANDSEN (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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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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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. SĆTHER (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
BOUTAĎNA 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. SĆTHER (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 SĆTHER (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 & TORBJŘRN 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 STĹHLS (Finland), CELESTE PÉREZ-BAŃÓN (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. SĆTHER (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 (Brčthes) (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 (Sćther, 1969), a synonym of Tvetenia tshernovskii (Pankratova, 1968), comb. n. (Diptera: Chironomidae)
ANDREY A. PRZHIBORO (Russia) & OLE A. SĆTHER (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 SŘLI (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. SĆTHER(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. SĆTHER & 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 IBÁŃEZ-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 SĆTHER (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. SĆTHER (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 SĆTHER (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 IBÁŃEZ-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. SĆTHER (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 Sćther (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 STĹHLS
(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. SĆTHER (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 KJĆRANDSEN (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 Săo 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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 Monograph 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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 KJĆRANDSEN (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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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 PEŃALVER & 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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Monograph 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Correspondence 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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. SĆTHER (Norway) , ZHAOHUI JIN (China) & XINHUA WANG (China)

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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Monograph 
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. SĆTHER (Norway)
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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Correspondence 
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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Zootaxa 1937: 1-22 (19 Nov. 2008) 9 plates; 28 references                           Accepted: 3 Oct. 2008
The Chenopodiaceae-feeding gall midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) of the Na'aman salt marsh, Israel
NETTA DORCHIN (Germany) & AMNON FREIDBERG (Israel)
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Zootaxa 1937: 23-38 (19 Nov. 2008) 10 plates; 13 references                      Accepted: 10 Oct. 2008
Review of Oriental Metopina Macquart (Diptera: Phoridae)
R. HENRY L. DISNEY (UK)
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Zootaxa 1934: 1-29 (17 Nov. 2008) 12 plates; 71 references                          Accepted: 16 Oct. 2008
Paracladopelma Harnisch from the Sino-Indian Region (Diptera: Chironomidae)
CHUNCAI YAN, ZHAOHUI JIN & XINHUA WANG (China)

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Zootaxa 1933: 1-11 (14 Nov. 2008) 6 plates; 11 references                             Accepted: 24 Oct. 2008
Two new genera of Phoridae (Diptera) from New Zealand
BRIAN V. BROWN & HUGH OLIVER (USA)
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Zootaxa 1933: 63-65 (14 Nov. 2008) 1 plate; 17 references                          Accepted: 1 Oct. 2008
Morphology and DNA sequences confirm the first Neotropical record for the Holarctic sepsid species Themira leachi (Meigen) (Diptera: Sepsidae)
YUCHEN ANG, GWYNNE SHIMIN LIM & RUDOLF MEIER (Singapore)

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Zootaxa 1926: 41-52 (7 Nov. 2008) 7 plates; 5 references                           Accepted: 1 Oct. 2008
Systematics of Agrophaspidium, a new genus of Neotropical Chloropidae (Diptera)
TERRY A. WHEELER & JULIA J. MLYNAREK (Canada)

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Zootaxa 1926: 53-60 (7 Nov. 2008) 0 plates; 11 references                         Accepted: 24 Oct. 2008
New combinations in Hawaiian Drosophila and Scaptomyza (Diptera: Drosophilidae)
KARL N. MAGNACCA (Ireland) & PATRICK M. O'GRADY (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1922: 1-20 (3 Nov. 2008) 1 plate; 16 references                               Accepted: 23 Sept. 2008
New records of West Palaearctic Limoniidae, Pediciidae and Cylindrotomidae (Diptera) from the collections of the Zoological Museum, Amsterdam
JAROSLAV STARu (Czech Republic) & PJOTR OOSTERBROEK (Netherlands)

 Article 
Zootaxa 1920: 1-28 (31 Oct. 2008) 10 plates; 27 references                           Accepted: 23 Sept. 2008
Eleven new species of the genus Cluzobra Edwards (Diptera, Mycetophilidae, Sciophilinae) from the Atlantic Forest of Brazil
DALTON DE SOUZA AMORIM & SARAH SIQUEIRA OLIVEIRA(Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1920: 29-40 (31 Oct. 2008) 1 plate; 17 references                           Accepted: 9 Sept. 2008
Microphorites (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from the Lower Cretaceous amber of San Just (Spain), and the co-occurrence of two ceratopogonid species in Spanish amber deposits
ANTONIO ARILLO , ENRIQUE PEŃALVER & XAVIER DELCLŇS (Spain)
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Zootaxa 1920: 41-50 (31 Oct. 2008) 4 plates; 5 references                           Accepted: 25 Sept. 2008
Two new species of Culex subgenus Melanoconion (Diptera: Culicidae) from the Amazon forest
ROSA SÁ GOMES HUTCHINGS & MARIA ANICE MUREB SALLUM (Brasil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1917: 1-28 (29 Oct. 2008) 15 plates; 29 references                           Accepted: 16 Sept. 2008
Cytogenetics and morphotaxonomy of the Simulium (Gomphostilbia) ceylonicum species group (Diptera: Simuliidae) in Thailand
SANAE JITKLANG (Thailand), CHALIOW KUVANGKADILOK (Thailand), VISUT BAIMAI (Thailand), HIROYUKI TAKAOKA (Japan) & PETER H. ADLER (USA)
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Zootaxa 1917: 19-37 (29 Oct. 2008) 5 plates; 6 references                           Accepted: 18 Sept. 2008
Species of Chrysotimus Loew from Nepal (Diptera: Empidoidea, Dolichopodidae)
DING YANG (China), TOYOHEI SAIGUSA (Japan) & KAZUHIRO MASUNAGA (Japan)
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Zootaxa 1916: 44-56 (27 Oct. 2008) 4 plates; 6 references                            Accepted: 25 Sept. 2008
Cladopelma Kieffer from the Sino-Indian Region (Diptera: Chironomidae)
CHUNCAI YAN, ZHAOHUI JIN & XINHUA WANG (China)

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Zootaxa 1916: 63-68 (27 Oct. 2008) 2 plates; 12 references                            Accepted: 23 Sept. 2008
Description of two new species of Tonnoira Enderlein from caves in the Brazilian Amazon and comments about the taxonomic status of Tonnoira plumaria Quate (Diptera, Psychodidae, Psychodinae)
FREDDY BRAVO, CINTHIA CHAGAS & VERACILDA RIBEIRO ALVES (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1912: 1-44 (22 Oct. 2008) 0 plates; 196 references                              Accepted: 9 Sept. 2008
The problems of subsequent typification in genus-group names and use of the Zoological Record: a study of selected post-1930 Diptera genus-group names without type species designations
Neal L. Evenhuis (USA), THOMAS PAPE (Denmark) & ADRIAN C. PONT (UK)
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Zootaxa 1910: 21-26 (20 Oct. 2008) 2 plates; 6 references                           Accepted: 23 Sept. 2008
Lasiopteridi (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) with aciculate ovipositor and larval puparium
KEITH M. HARRIS (UK)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1910: 27-44 (20 Oct. 2008) 5 plates; 8 references                          Accepted: 26 Sept. 2008
The Campsicnemus lobatus and zigzag groups in the Society Islands, French Polynesia (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)
NEAL L. EVENHUIS (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1899: 57-68 (15 Oct. 2008)  6 plates; 7 references                            Accepted: 22 Sept. 2008
Six new species of Megaselia Rondani (Diptera: Phoridae)
from mainland Australia
R. H. L. DISNEY (UK)
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Zootaxa 1896: 51-57 (10 Oct. 2008) 2 plates; 9 references                              Accepted: 26 Aug. 2008
Description of the fourth-stage larva and pupa of Stegomyia edwardsi Barraud (Diptera: Culicidae)
S.C. TEWARI, A. MUNIRATHINAM, A. VENKATESH, J. HIRIYAN & R. REUBEN (India)
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 Correspondence
Zootaxa 1895: 66-68 (8 Oct. 2008) 1 plate; 6 references                              Accepted: 3 Sept. 2008
An unusual new species of Scenopinus Latreille (Diptera: Scenopinidae)  from Australia
SHAUN L. WINTERTON (Australia)

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Zootaxa 1891: 55-65 (3 Oct. 2008) 6 plates; 12 references                              Accepted: 26 Aug. 2008
The Stegana coleoptrata species group (Diptera: Drosophilidae) from mainland China
XI-PENG CHEN & HONG-WEI CHEN (China)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1887: 1-75 (29 Sept. 2008) 21 plates; 48 references                              Accepted: 2 Jul. 2008
A review of Antillocladius Sćther and Litocladius Mendes, Andersen et
Sćther, with the description of two new Neotropical genera (Diptera, Chironomidae, Orthocladiinae)
HUMBERTO FONSECA MENDES & TROND ANDERSEN
(Norway)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1886: 1-80 (26 Sept. 2008) 15 plates; 75 references                              Accepted: 17 Jul. 2008
Revision of the horse fly genera Lissimas and Cydistomyia
(Diptera: Tabanidae: Diachlorini) of Australia
I.M. MACKERRAS, D.M. SPRATT & D.K. YEATES (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1879: 1-17 (17 Sept. 2008) 9 plates; 26 references                              Accepted: 20 Aug. 2008
Phytotelmatomyia, a new Neotropical subgenus of Culex (Diptera: Culicidae)
GUSTAVO C. ROSSI (Argentina) & RALPH E. HARBACH (UK)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1879: 21-48 (17 Sept. 2008) 8 plates; 97 references                              Accepted: 3 Jun. 2008
A generic conspectus of the Microdontinae (Diptera: Syrphidae) with the description of two new genera from Africa and China
XIN-YUE CHENG (China) & F. CHRISTIAN THOMPSON (USA)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1879: 57-60 (17 Sept. 2008) 1 plate; 4 references                             Accepted: 13 Aug. 2008
A new genus and species of Coenosiini from Bolivia (Diptera: Muscidae: Coenosiinae)
MÁRCIA SOUTO COURI (Brasil)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1879: 61-64 (17 Sept. 2008) 2 plates; 14 references                         Accepted: 13 Aug. 2008
The first Middle Jurassic Protobrachyceron Handlirsch fly (Diptera: Brachycera: Protobrachyceridae) from Inner Mongolia (China)
KUIYAN ZHANG, DING YANG & DONG REN (China)
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Zootaxa 1876: 1-18 (15 Sept. 2008) 6 plates; 41 references                              Accepted: 4 Aug. 2008
Robber flies (Diptera: Asilidae) of South Korea. Parts VI-VIII. South Korean species of the Subfamilies Dasypogoninae, Dioctriinae and Trigonomiminae
CHARLES L. YOUNG (Korea) & MILAN M. HRADSKÝ(Czech Rep.)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1874: 1-15 (10 Sept. 2008) 4 plates; 19 references                          Accepted: 13 Aug. 2008
Two new neotropical genera of the shore-fly tribe Ephydrini Zetterstedt (Diptera: Ephydridae)
WAYNE N. MATHIS (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1874: 50-56 (10 Sept. 2008) 4 plates; 6 references                              Accepted: 18 Aug. 2008
Two new genera of Conopidae from the Afrotropical and Neotropical Region (Diptera)
JENS-HERMANN STUKE (Germany)
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Zootaxa 1874: 63-68 (10 Sept. 2008) 3 plates; 9 references                           Accepted: 13 Aug. 2008
Cluzobra matilei sp. n. from French Guyana, with notes on congeners (Diptera: Mycetophilidae)
OLAVI KURINA (Estonia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1871: 1-55 (8 Sept. 2008) 10 plates; 151 references                              Accepted: 2 Jul. 2008
Insects found in birds' nests from Argentina: Anumbius annumbi (Vieillot, 1817) (Aves: Furnariidae)
PAOLA TURIENZO & OSVALDO DI IORIO (Argentina)
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Zootaxa 1870: 43-60 (5 Sep. 2008) 9 plates; 11 references                              Accepted: 13 Aug. 2008
New species of the genus Paravibrissina Shima (Diptera: Tachinidae) from Southeast Asia and South Pacific
HIROSHI SHIMA & TAKUJI TACHI (Japan)

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Zootaxa 1870: 1-23 (5 Sep. 2008) 11 plates; 22 references                              Accepted: 13 Aug. 2008
Species of Hemipenthes Loew, 1869 from Palaearctic China (Diptera: Bombyliidae)
GANG YAO (China), DING YANG (China) & NEAL L. EVENHUIS (USA)

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Zootaxa 1868: 1-98 (3 Sep. 2008) 35 plates; 124 references                            Accepted: 18 Jul. 2008
Pupal cases of Nearctic robber flies (Diptera: Asilidae)
D. STEVE DENNIS (USA), JEFFREY K. BARNES (USA) & LLOYD KNUTSON (Italy)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1859: 1-39 (29 Aug. 2008) 21 plates; 12 references                              Accepted: 6 Aug. 2008
Revision of the Brazilian Amazon Basin species of Porphyrochroa Melander (Diptera: Empididae)
MIRIAN NASCIMENTO MENDONCA, JOSE ALBERTINO RAFAEL & ROSALY ALE-ROCHA (Brazil)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1856: 67 (25 Aug. 2008) 0 plates; 2 references                              Accepted: 4 Aug. 2008
Eulobomyia, a new replacement name for Lobomyia Woodley & Arnaud (Diptera: Tachinidae)
NORMAN E. WOODLEY & PAUL H. ARNAUD, JR (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1848: 27-36 (13 Aug. 2008) 6 plates; 7 references                              Accepted: 3 Jul. 2008
Revision of the Stegana nigrolimbata species group (Diptera: Drosophilidae) from the Oriental Region
HUA-ZHI CAO & HONG-WEI CHEN (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 1848: 37-46 (13 Aug. 2008)  5 plates; 9 references                              Accepted: 22 Jul. 2008
Beach and Surge Flies (Diptera: Canacidae) from the Arabian Peninsula, with descriptions of three new species
LORENZO MUNARI (Italy)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1846: 61-68 (11 Aug. 2008) 0 plates; 58 references                            Accepted: 21 Jul. 2008
A critical review of the world catalogs of Empidoidea (Insecta: Diptera) by Yang et al. (2006, 2007)
BRADLEY J. SINCLAIR, SCOTT E. BROOKS & JEFFREY M. CUMMING (Canada)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1845: 60-68 (8 Aug. 2008) 2 plates; 18 references                              Accepted: 23 Jun. 2008
Russian Zavrelia Kieffer (Diptera: Chironomidae), with the description of two new species
OKSANA V. ZORINA (Russia)

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Zootaxa 1845: 33-46 (8 Aug. 2008) 10 plates; 24 references                           Accepted: 30 Jun. 2008
A review of the luteitarsis group of the genus Pipiza Fallen (Diptera: Syrphidae) with description of a new species from the Balkan Peninsula

ANTE VUJIC, SNEZANA RADENKOVIC & DUBRAVKA POLIC (Serbia)
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Zootaxa 1834: 1-100 (30 Jul. 2008) 22 plates; 98 references                          Accepted: 23 Apr. 2008
Review of the Neotropical blackfly subgenus Chirostilbia Enderlein (Diptera:
Simuliidae) based on adults and pupal morphology
LUIS MIGUEL HERNANDEZ (UK), ANTHONY JOHN SHELLEY (UK), ANTONIO PAULINO ANDRADE DE
LUNA DIAS (Brasil) & MARILZA MAIA-HERZOG (Brasil)
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Zootaxa 1831: 1-530 (30 Jul. 2008) 2 plates; 4557 references                        Accepted: 12 Feb. 2008
Arthropods of Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti): A checklist and bibliography
DANIEL E. PEREZ-GELABERT
(USA)
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Zootaxa 1830: 21-36 (28 Jul. 2008) 8 plates; 8 references                              Accepted: 23 Jun. 2008
New and little-known species of the genus Tachydromia Meigen (Diptera, Hybotidae) from Thailand
IGOR SHAMSHEV (Russia) & PATRICK GROOTAERT (Belgium)

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Zootaxa 1830: 37-46 (28 Jul. 2008) 8 plates; 11 references                              Accepted: 23 Jun. 2008
Immature stages and redescription of Lejops barbiellinii (Ceresa) (Diptera, Syrphidae) found in bromeliads in Brazil
MIRIAN NUNES MORALES & LUCIANE MARINONI (Brazil)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1827: 65-68 (23 Jul. 2008) 0 plates; 11 references                              Accepted: 16 Jun. 2008
The status of Mesnil's 1949 Die Fliegen genus-group names (Diptera: Tachinidae)

Neal L. Evenhuis (USA) & James E. O'hara (Canada)
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Zootaxa 1825: 40-50 (18 Jul. 2008) 9 plates; 27 references                              Accepted: 17 Jun. 2008
The Cheilosia canicularis group (Diptera: Syrphidae): species delimitation and evolutionary relationships based on wing geometric morphometrics
JASMINA LUDOSKI, LJUBINKA FRANCUSKI, ANTE VUJIC & VESNA MILANKOV (Serbia)

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Zootaxa 1817: 59-64 (7 Jul. 2008) 3 plates; 10 references                              Accepted: 28 May 2008
Review of the monotypic genus Idiopyrgota Aczel (Diptera, Pyrgotidae)

RAMON LUCIANO MELLO & CARLOS JOSE EINICKER LAMAS (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1817: 1-17 (7 Jul. 2008) 7 plates; 18 references                              Accepted: 3 Jun. 2008
A review of Boreoheptagyia Brundin, 1966 (Chironomidae: Diamesinae) from East Asia and bordering territories, with the description of five new species
EUGENYI A. MAKARCHENKO (Russia), KAZUO ENDO (Japan), JINGYANG WU (P.R. China) & XINHUA WANG (P.R. China)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1816: 57-60 (4 Jul. 2008) 2 plates; 25 references                              Accepted: 28 May 2008
The first keroplatid (Diptera: Keroplatidae) species from the Lower Eocene amber of Vastan, Gujarat, India
MONICA M. SOLOZANO KRAEMER (Germany) & NEAL L. EVENHUIS (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1811: 57-68 (27 Jun. 2008) 3 plates; 25 references                              Accepted: 28 May 2008
Gynandromorphs of New Zealand Austrosimulium spp. (Diptera: Simuliidae)
DOUGLAS A. CRAIG (Canada) & TREVOR K. CROSBY (New Zealand)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1808: 61-68 (23 Jun. 2008) 3 plates; 14 references                             Accepted: 19 May 2008
The immature stages of Ablabesmyia (Sartaia) metica Roback, 1983 (Diptera: Chironomidae) with keys to subgenera
CAROLINE S. N. OLIVEIRA, ALAIDE A. FONSECA-GESSNER & MARIO ANTONIO NAVARRO SILVA (Brasil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1808: 44-52 (23 Jun. 2008) 4 plates; 15 references                          Accepted: 22 May 2008
The family Lygistorrhinidae (Diptera: Sciaroidea) in Mexico and the description of two new species
HERON HUERTA & SERGIO IBANEZ-BERNAL (Mexico)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1806: 1-34 (20 Jun. 2008) 12 plates; 75 references                           Accepted: 26 May 2008
Keys, phylogenies and biogeography of Polypedilum subgenus Uresipedilum Oyewo et Saeher (Diptera, Chironomidae)
OLE A. SAEHER & EMMANUEL ADEOYE OYEWO (Norway)

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Zootaxa 1806: 35-46 (20 Jun. 2008) 3 plates; 10 references                           Accepted: 29 Apr. 2008
A taxonomic review of Neogriphoneura Malloch, 1924 (Diptera: Lauxaniidae), with description of three new species
RAMON LUCIANO DE MELLO & VERA CRISTINA SILVA (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1806: 59-65 (20 Jun. 2008) 2 plates; 10 references                             Accepted: 7 May 2008
Lonchopteridae (Diptera) from Guangxi, Southwest China
QIBIAO DONG, BAOPING PANG & DING YANG (P.R. China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1805: 52-60 (18 Jun. 2008) 4 plates; 20 references                             Accepted: 7 May 2008
Three new species of Alepia Enderlein (Diptera, Psychodidae, Psychodinae) from the Brazilian semi-arid region
FREDDY BRAVO (Brazil)

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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1804: 1-456 (16 Jun. 2008) 147 plates; 217 references                      Accepted: 3 Mar. 2008
The Frog-Biting Midges of the World (Corethrellidae: Diptera)
ART BORKENT (Canada)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1794: 49-64 (13 Jun. 2008) 6 plates; 12 references                           Accepted: 16 Apr. 2008
A review of the Oriental Campeprosopa species (Diptera: Stratiomyidae)
FRANCO MASON (Italy) & RUDOLF ROZKOSNY (Czech Republic) 

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Zootaxa 1793: 1-27 (13 Jun. 2008) 8 plates; 26 references                              Accepted: 15 Apr. 2008
The identity of the oriental leafhopper genera Cyrta Melichar and Placidus Distant (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Stegelytrinae), with description of a new genus
CONG WEI (P.R. China), M.D. WEBB (UK) & YALIN ZHANG (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 1789: 57-65 (11 Jun. 2008) 6 plates; 11 references                            Accepted: 5 Apr. 2008
Azana atlantica, n.sp., with reduced mouthparts and two ocelli: first record of Azana for the Neotropical region (Diptera: Mycetophilidae: Sciophilinae)
DALTON DE SOUZA AMORIM, SARAH SIQUEIRA OLIVEIRA & MARIA ISABEL P.A. BALBI (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1783: 31-39 (6 Jun. 2008) 7 plates; 6 references                              Accepted: 6 May 2008
Lobomyia neotropica, a new genus and species of Tachinidae (Diptera) from the Neotropical Region
NORMAN E. WOODLEY & PAUL H. ARNAUD, JR. (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1781: 31-46 (3 Jun. 2008) 9 plates; 12 references                              Accepted: 17 Apr. 2008
The Palaearctic species of the Pegomya terminalis species group (Diptera: Anthomyiidae), with descriptions of two new species
VERNER MICHELSEN (Sweden)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1779: 65-68 (30 May 2008) 1 plates; 20 references                              Accepted: 7 May 2008
New records of Haemagogus (Haemagogus) from Northern and Northeastern Brazil (Diptera: Culicidae, Aedini)

JERONIMO ALENCAR (Brazil), FRANCISCO C. CASTRO (Brazil), HAMILTON A. O. MONTEIRO (Brazil), ORLANDO V. SILVA (Brazil), NICOLAS DEGALLIER (France), CARLOS BRISOLA MARCONDES (Brazil) & ANTHONY E. GUIMARAES (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1779: 38-44 (30 May 2008) 2 plates; 19 references                              Accepted: 8 May 2008
Kaurimyia gen. nov.: discovery of Apsilocephalidae (Diptera: Therevoid clade) in New Zealand
SHAUN L. WINTERTON (Australia) & MICHAEL E. IRWIN (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1773: 18-30 (21 May 2008) 8 plates; 12 references                              Accepted: 18 Mar. 2008
A survey of the genus Phortica Schiner from Kenya, Africa (Diptera: Drosophilidae)
STEPHANE PRIGENT & HONG-WEI CHEN (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 1773: 31-43 (21 May 2008) 6 plates; 6 references                            Accepted: 5 Apr. 2008
New Cryptodacus (Diptera: Tephritidae) from Panama, with a key to the known species
ALLEN L. NORRBOM (USA) & CHESLAVO A. KORYTKOWSKI (Panama)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1772: 1-54 (19 May 2008) 47 plates; 24 references                              Accepted: 4 Apr. 2008
Review of Neotropical Chonocephalus Wandolleck (Diptera: Phoridae)
R.H.L. DISNEY (UK)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1767: 64-66 (12 May 2008) 0 plates; 10 references                          Accepted: 16 Apr. 2008
Redescription of the holotype of Finlaya lepchana Barraud, 1923 (Diptera: Culicidae: Aedini)
JOHN F. REINERT (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1766: 1-45 (9 May 2008) 13 plates; 53 references                          Accepted: 14 Apr. 2008
Review of the genus Ceraturgus Wiedemann (Diptera: Asilidae) in North America north of Mexico
JEFFREY K. BARNES (USA)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1763: 38-40 (5 May 2008) 1 plates; 13 references                              Accepted: 8 Apr. 2008
Orthocladius paratatricus Chernovskii, 1949 a synonym of Heterotrissocladius subpilosus (Kieffer, 1911)
ANDREY A. PRZHIBORO (Russia) & OLE A. SĆTHER (Norway)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1759: 43-50 (30 Apr. 2008) 3 plates; 8 references                              Accepted: 5 Mar. 2008
A new species of Philophylla Rondani (Diptera: Tephritidae: Trypetini) from New Caledonia, recognized based on female postabdominal structure and molecular sequence data
HO-YEON HAN (Korea) & ALLEN L. NORRBOM (USA)

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Zootaxa 1754: 41-51 (21 Apr. 2008) 7 plates; 15 references                              Accepted: 4 Apr. 2008
Revision of the Costa Rican species of Elachiptera (Diptera: Chloropidae)
JULIA J. MLYNAREK & TERRY A. WHEELER (Canada)

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Zootaxa 1754: 52-62 (21 Apr. 2008) 4 plates; 16 references                              Accepted: 4 Apr. 2008
Review of three little-known monotypic empidoid genera (Diptera: Empidoidea: Brachystomatidae), assigned to Trichopezinae
BRADLEY J. SINCLAIR (Canada)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1746: 65-67 (11 Apr. 2008) 1 plates; 11 references                           Accepted: 29 Feb. 2008
First record of the ectoparasitic biting midge, Atrichopogon (Meloehelea) oedemerarum Stora from the Neotropical region (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae)
ANDREA TOTHOVA (Czech Republic)

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Zootaxa 1746: 39-45 (11 Apr. 2008) 2 plates; 4 references                              Accepted: 3 Mar. 2008
Kerteszmyia, a new genus of Pachygastrinae from the Neotropical Region (Diptera: Stratiomyidae)
NORMAN E. WOODLEY (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1741: 1-23 (4 Apr. 2008) 12 plates; 12 references                              Accepted: 10 Mar. 2008
Notes on Afrotropical Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae), with the description of seven new species
HEIKKI HIPPA (Sweden)

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Zootaxa 1741: 24-30 (4 Apr. 2008) 2 plates; 5 references                              Accepted: 18 Feb. 2008
Four new species of Saigusaia Vockeroth, 1980 (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) from China
XIAOLING NIU, HONG WU & XIAOXIA YU (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 1741: 31-36 (4 Apr. 2008) 2 plates; 20 references                              Accepted: 6 Mar. 2008
A taxonomic review of the Palpada ruficeps species group, with the description of a new flower fly from Colombia (Diptera: Syrphidae)
XIMO MENGUAL (Spain) & F. CHRISTIAN THOMPSON (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1740: 53-58 (2 Apr. 2008) 3 plates; 18 references                              Accepted: 21 Feb. 2008
Asphondylia gochnatiae, a new species of gall midge (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae) associated with Gochnatia polymorpha (Less.) Cabrera (Asteraceae)
VALERIA CID MAIA, FERNANDO A. O. SILVEIRA, LAZARO A. OLIVEIRA & MARCIA F. XAVIER (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1740: 28-36 (2 Apr. 2008) 2 plates; 15 references                              Accepted: 29 Feb. 2008
A review of the Nearctic species of the genus Eurygarka Quate (Diptera: Psychodidae)
GREGORY R. CURLER & JOHN K. MOULTON (USA)

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Zootaxa 1740: 1-14 (2 Apr. 2008) 8 plates; 43 references                              Accepted: 21 Feb. 2008
Immature stages of two species of Evandromyia (Aldamyia) and the systematic importance of larval mouthparts within Psychodidae (Diptera, Phlebotominae, Psychodinae)
FELIPE ARLEY COSTA PESSOA (Brazil), MARLISSON AUGUSTO COSTA FEITOSA (Brazil), ELOY GUILLERMO CASTELLON-BERMUDEZ (Brazil), CLAUDIA MARIA RIOS-VELASQUEZ (Brazil) & RICHARD DOUGLAS WARD (UK)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1732: 65-68 (25 Mar. 2008) 2 plates; 7 references                              Accepted: 25 Feb. 2008
Description of the larva of Simulium lobatoi Luna Dias, Hernandez, Maia-Herzog & Shelley (Diptera: Simuliidae) from Brazil
LUIS MIGUEL HERNANDEZ (UK), NEUSA HAMADA (Brazil), MATEUS PEPINELLI (Brazil) & REGINA MAYUMI KIKUCHI (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1730: 59-64 (20 Mar. 2008) 3 plates; 17 references                              Accepted: 7 Feb. 2008
The puparium and mature larva of the flat-footed fly Lindneromyia hungarica Chandler, 2001 (Diptera: Platypezidae)
MICHAL TKOC
& JAROMIR VANHARA (Czech Republic)

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Zootaxa 1728: 1-58 (17 Mar. 2008) 6 plates; 74 references                              Accepted: 28 Dec. 2007
A review of the endemic Hawaiian Drosophilidae and their host plants

KARL N. MAGNACCA, DAVID FOOTE & PATRICK M. O'GRADY (USA)
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Zootaxa 1725: 61-66 (12 Mar. 2008) 1 plates; 18 references                          Accepted: 13 Dec. 2007
Review of mining flies of the genus Phytobia Lioy (Diptera: Agromyzidae): Western Palearctic species
VLADIMIR V. ZLOBIN (Russia)

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Zootaxa 1725: 37-47 (12 Mar. 2008) 3 plates; 30 references                          Accepted: 31 Jan. 2008
Species delimitation in the Drosophila aldrichi subcluster
(Diptera: Drosophilidae) using DNA sequences 
DEODORO C. S. G. OLIVEIRA, MELISSA LEONIDAS, WILLIAM J. ETGES, PATRICK M. O'GRADY & ROB DeSALLE (USA)
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Zootaxa 1725: 27-36 (12 Mar. 2008) 3 plates; 23 references                         Accepted: 30 Jan. 2008
Drosophila sonorae (Diptera, Drosophilidae), a new species in the repleta species group from Mexico
WILLIAM B. HEED & SERGIO CASTREZANA (USA)
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Zootaxa 1725: 1-16 (12 Mar. 2008) 8 plates; 32 references                            Accepted: 20 Jan. 2008
Robber flies of South Korea-V. South Korean species of the Subfamily Apocleinae Papavero, 1973 (Diptera, Asilidae)
CHARLES L. YOUNG (South Korea) & MILAN M. HRADSKY (Czech Republik)
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Zootaxa 1723: 1-41 (10 Mar. 2008) 21 plates; 6 references                             Accepted: 4 Feb. 2008
New species and new records of Manota Williston (Diptera, Mycetophilidae) from the Oriental region
HEIKKI HIPPA (Sweden)

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Zootaxa 1720: 57-65 (5 Mar. 2008) 4 plates; 13 references                     Accepted: 31 Jan. 2008
New records of Scatopsidae (Diptera) from southeastern Mexico, and descriptions of new species of Swammerdamella Enderlein and Colobostema Enderlein
HERON HUERTA & SERGIO IBANEZ-BERNAL (Mexico)
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Zootaxa 1720: 1-45 (5 Mar. 2008) 10 plates; 28 references                            Accepted: 29 Jan. 2008
A revision of the New World genus Penniverpa Irwin and Lyneborg (Diptera: Therevidae: Therevinae)
DONALD W. WEBB & MARK A. METZ (USA)

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Zootaxa 1716: 59-68 (29 Feb. 2008) 6 plates; 20 references                          Accepted: 11 Dec. 2007
Chetoneura shennonggongensis, a new species of cave-dwelling Keroplatini from China (Diptera: Keroplatidae), with a discussion of the position of Chetoneura
Dalton de Souza Amorim (Brazil), Changying Niu (P.R. China), Xuezhen Li (P.R. China), Chaoliang Lei (P.R. China) & ARTHUR K. CLARKE (Australia)

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Zootaxa 1716: 1-20 (29 Feb. 2008) 6 plates; 77 references                            Accepted: 23 Jan. 2008
A conspectus of New Zealand flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) with the description of a new genus and species
F. CHRISTIAN THOMPSON (USA)

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Zootaxa 1716: 21-34 (29 Feb. 2008) 8 plates; 40 references                            Accepted: 9 Jan. 2008
Track analysis of the Neotropical genus Sepedonea Steyskal (Diptera: Sciomyzidae): a proposal based on the phylogenetic analysis of its species
AMANDA CIPRANDI PIRES, LUCIANE MARINONI & CLAUDIO JOSE BARROS DE CARVALHO (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1714: 67-68 (27 Feb. 2008) 0 plates; 8 references                            Accepted: 4 Feb. 2008
On the senior authorship of Musca oleae (Diptera: Tephritidae)
ALFIO RASPI & GENNARO VIGGIANI (Italy)

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Zootaxa 1714: 31-36 (27 Feb. 2008) 4 plates; 7 references                              Accepted: 15 Jan. 2008
Apiformyia, a new genus of Australian bee flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae, Bombyliinae) with affinities to the New World Heterostylum Macquart
DAVID K. YEATES (Australia)

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Zootaxa 1713: 1-26 (27 Feb. 2008) 9 plates; 64 references                            Accepted: 26 Nov. 2007
Revision of the Myopa testacea Species-Group in the Palaearctic Region (Diptera: Conopidae)
JENS-HERMANN STUKE (Germany) & DAVID K. CLEMENTS (UK)

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Zootaxa 1712: 49-64 (25 Feb. 2008) 4 plates; 67 references                           Accepted: 13 Jan. 2008
Synonymic notes on some species of Chironomidae (Diptera) described by Dr. M. Sasa
TADASHI KOBAYASHI & KAZUO ENDO (Japan)

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Zootaxa 1702: 61-68 (13 Feb. 2008) 3 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 7 Dec. 2007
Three new species of Polypedilum s. str. Kieffer from China, with L-shaped superior volsella (Diptera: Chironomidae)
RUILEI ZHANG & XINHUA WANG (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 1702: 41-51 (13 Feb. 2008) 1 plates; 42 references                         Accepted: 28 Dec. 2007
Nominal species of Australasian/Oceanian Sarcophagidae proposed by P.J.M. Macquart (Insecta: Diptera)
THOMAS PAPE (Danmark)

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Zootaxa 1701: 29-39 (11 Feb. 2008) 5 plates; 5 references                             Accepted: 17 Jan. 2008
Two new Stratiomyinae, including Panamamyia gen. nov., from the Neotropical Region (Diptera: Stratiomyidae)
NORMAN E. WOODLEY (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1692: 1-25 (29 Jan. 2008) 10 plates; 30 references                           Accepted: 7 Dec. 2007
Revision of the Neotropical genus Lactistomyia Melander (Diptera, Hybotidae, Hybotinae)
ROSALY ALE-ROCHA (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1692: 26-42 (29 Jan. 2008) 6 plates; 24 references                         Accepted: 18 Dec. 2007
Studies on the Canacidae (Diptera), subfamily Apetaeninae. II. A review of the world subgenera of Apetaenus Eaton, with a special reference to the Australian and New Zealand species
LORENZO MUNARI (Italy)

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Zootaxa 1689: 29-50 (25 Jan. 2008) 6 plates; 22 references                         Accepted: 10 Dec. 2007
Revision of the new world fauna of Mesembrina Meigen (Diptera: Muscidae) with the description of a new neotropical species
James S. Kuchta & JADE SAVAGE (Canada)
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Zootaxa 1689: 51-62 (25 Jan. 2008) 1 plate; 34 references                           Accepted: 7 Dec. 2007
Nematode-induced demasculinisation of Dolichopus males (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)
JERE KAHANPAA (Finland)
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Zootaxa 1689: 63-68 (25 Jan. 2008) 4 plates; 9 references                          Accepted: 27 Nov. 2007
Two new species of Hemipenthes Loew from Oriental China (Diptera: Bombyliidae)
GANG YAO & DING YANG (China)

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Zootaxa 1683: 51-62 (18 Jan. 2008) 3 plates; 29 references                         Accepted: 10 Dec. 2007
Redescription of Culex (Culex) dolosus (Lynch Arribálzaga) (Diptera: Culicidae), based on specimens from Pico do Itapeva, Serra da Mantiqueira, Săo Paulo, Brazil
LUANA VALENTE SENISE & MARIA ANICE MUREB SALLUM (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1676: 57-62 (9 Jan. 2008) 3 plates; 18 references                           Accepted: 17 Nov. 2007
Polytene chromosomes of Simulium (Psaroniocompsa) daltanhani
(Diptera: Simuliidae) from Central Amazonia, Brazil
NEUSA HAMADA (Brazil), Eleny da Silva Pereira (Brazil) & PETER H. ADLER (USA)
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Zootaxa 1676: 1-27 (9 Jan. 2008) 14 plates; 18 references                           Accepted: 31 Oct. 2007
The Tachytrechus alatus species group (= Syntomoneurum Becker) revisited:
new species and revised species group limits (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)
SCOTT E. BROOKS & JEFFREY M. CUMMING (Canada)
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Zootaxa 1676: 29-36 (9 Jan. 2008) 6 plates; 12 references                              Accepted: 19 Nov. 2007
Urytalpa chandleri sp. n. (Diptera: Keroplatidae) from Turkey, with a key to the Western Palaearctic species of the genus
DIMITAR BECHEV (Bulgaria) & HASAN KOC(Turkey)
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Zootaxa 1676: 37-43 (9 Jan. 2008) 5 plates; 7 references                              Accepted: 31 Oct. 2007
A new species of Cnodalomyia Hull, 1962 (Diptera, Asilidae, Asilinae) from Brazil
Carlos Jose Einicker Lamas & Gabriela Bastos Mellinger (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1672: 1-42 (4 Jan. 2008) 16 plates; 55 references                              Accepted: 8 Nov. 2007
Finnish Pipunculidae (Diptera) studies Part I: Taxonomic notes on Cephalops Fallen, 1810, Pipunculus Latreille, 1802 and Tomosvaryella Aczel, 1939
CHRISTIAN KEHLMAIER (Germany)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1668: 565-590 (21 Dec. 2007) 1 plate;  222 references                     Accepted: 27 Nov. 2007
Phylogeny and systematics of Diptera: Two decades of progress and prospects
David K. Yeates (Australia), Brian M. Wiegmann (USA), Greg W. Courtney (USA), Rudolf Meier (Singapore) & Thomas Pape (Denmark)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1668: 591-638 (21 Dec. 2007) 29 plates; 242 references                   Accepted: 23 Nov. 2007
The Culicidae (Diptera): a review of taxonomy, classification and phylogeny
RALPH E. HARBACH (UK)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1664: 61-68 (17 Dec. 2007)  3 plates; 13 references                        Accepted: 21 Nov. 2007
Two new species of Rhaphiomidas (Diptera: Mydidae)
Rick Rogers & Matthew H. Van Dam (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1661: 55-61 (14 Dec. 2007)  3 plates; 9 references                         Accepted: 15 Nov. 2007
Non-marine Chersodromia Walker from Southeast Asia and Papua New Guinea (Diptera, Empidoidea, Hybotidae)
PATRICK GROOTAERT (Belgium), JEFFREY CUMMING (Canada) & IGOR SHAMSHEV (Russia)

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Zootaxa 1661: 1-16 (14 Dec. 2007)  7 plates; 38 references                            Accepted: 11 Nov. 2007
New Zealand species of the shore-fly genus Nostima Coquillett (Diptera: Ephydridae)
JAMES F. EDMISTON (Russia) & WAYNE N. MATHIS (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1654: 61-67 (5 Dec. 2007)  3 plates; 12 references                            Accepted: 5 Nov. 2007
A new Neotropical species of Tanytarsus van der Wulp, 1874 (Diptera: Chironomidae), with an unusual anal process
SUSANA TRIVINHO-STRIXINO & GIOVANNI STRIXINO (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1654: 41-54 (5 Dec. 2007)  6 plates; 55 references                            Accepted: 13 Nov. 2007
Formal taxonomy of species C of the Anopheles minimus sibling species complex (Diptera: Culicidae)
RALPH E. HARBACH (UK), CLAIRE GARROS (France), NGUYEN DUC MANH (Vietnam) & SYLVIE MANGUIN (France)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1655: 63-68 (5 Dec. 2007)  2 plates; 9 references                            Accepted: 13 Nov. 2007
On the genus Diadocidia (Diptera, Sciaroidea, Diadocidiidae) in Australia
Mathias Jaschhof & Catrin Jaschhof (Germany)

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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1649: 1-96 (28 Nov. 2007)  21 plates; 63 references                            Accepted: 19 Sep. 2007
Review of the Neotropical blackfly subgenus Inaequalium Coscarón & Wygodzinsky (Diptera: Simuliidae) based on adults and pupal morphology
LUIS MIGUEL HERNANDEZ (UK), ANTHONY JOHN SHELLEY (UK), ANTONIO PAULINO ANDRADE DE
LUNA DIAS (Brasil) & MARILZA MAIA-HERZOG (Brasil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1645: 1-17 (23 Nov. 2007)  14 plates; 2 references                            Accepted: 12 Oct. 2007
The oldest Calosargus Mostovski, 1997 from the Middle Jurassic of China (Diptera: Brachycera: Archisargidae)
KUIYAN ZHANG, DING YANG, DONG REN & CHUNGKUN SHIH (China)

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Zootaxa 1643: 39-68 (21 Nov. 2007)  8 plates; 48 references                            Accepted: 15 Oct. 2007
Preliminary considerations on phylogeny of Simuliidae Genera from Southern Hemisphere (Insecta, Diptera)
LEONARDO H. GIL-AZEVEDO & MARILZA MAIA-HERZOG (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1640: 41-53 (19 Nov. 2007)  3 plates; 26 references                            Accepted: 21 Oct. 2007
Two new genera of Swammerdamellini (Diptera, Scatopsidae), with a discussion of the position of the species of Rhexoza
DALTON DE SOUZA AMORIM (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1637: 47-54 (14 Nov. 2007)  3 plates; 9 references                            Accepted: 27 Aug. 2007
Brumptomyia carvalheiroi sp. nov. (Diptera: Psychodidae: Phlebotominae) from Atlantic forest domain, Sao Paulo State, Brazil
PALOMA HELENA FERNANDES SHIMABUKURO, ANA MARIA MARASSA & EUNICE APARECIDA BIANCHI GALATI (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1636: 1-32 (12 Nov. 2007)  10 plates; 25 references                            Accepted: 28 Sep. 2007
A review of Ascodipterinae (Diptera: Streblidae) of the Oriental and Australasian regions with a description of three new species of Ascodipteron Adensamer and a key to the subfamily
MICHAEL W. HASTRITER (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1633: 1-38 (9 Nov. 2007)  16 plates; 75 references                            Accepted: 8 Oct. 2007
A review of the genus Botanophila Lioy (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) from China, with descriptions of three new species
WAN-QI XUE & WEN-HUI SONG (P.R. China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1631: 1-32 (5 Nov. 2007)  11 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 10 Sep. 2007
New species of Lonchaeidae (Diptera: Schizophora) from Asia
IAIN MacGOWAN (UK)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1630: 47-54 (5 Nov. 2007)  3 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 26 Sep. 2007
Review of the tribe Aphoebantini Becker (Bombyliidae, Diptera) from Egypt, with description of a new species
MAGDI S. A. El-HAWAGRY (Egypt)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1629: 27-37 (2 Nov. 2007)  5 plates; 6 references                            Accepted: 29 Sep. 2007
Leptopezella, a new Southern Hemisphere genus of Ocydromiinae (Diptera: Empidoidea: Hybotidae)
BRADLEY J. SINCLAIR & JEFFREY M. CUMMING (Canada)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1624: 31-41 (29 Oct. 2007)  3 plates; 34 references                            Accepted: 5 Sep. 2007
Two new species of European Stevenia Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Rhinophoridae) and a key to the Palaearctic species
PIERFILIPPO CERRETTI (Italy) & THOMAS PAPE (Denmark)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1622: 57-68 (26 Oct. 2007)  6 plates; 12 references                            Accepted: 20 Sep. 2007
New species and records of Keilbachia Mohrig (Diptera, Sciaridae) from the Oriental region
HEIKKI HIPPA (Sweden) & PEKKA VILKAMAA (Finland)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1620: 37-51 (23 Oct. 2007)  7 plates; 27 references                            Accepted: 8 Oct. 2007
A morphological and molecular description of a new Teleopsis species (Diptera: Diopsidae) from Thailand
MIHALY FOLDVARI (Hungary), ANDREW POMIANKOWSKI (UK), SAMUEL COTTON (Switzerland) & MARTIN CARR (UK)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1592: 1-44 (24 Sep. 2007)  20 plates; 33 references                            Accepted: 24 Jul. 2007
Taxonomic review of Eurasian Paradelia Ringdahl (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) with descriptions of two new species
VERNER MICHELSEN (Sweden)

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Zootaxa 1592: 45-56 (24 Sep. 2007)  1 plates; 25 references                            Accepted: 1 Aug. 2007
A review of Palaearctic Teuchophorus, with a new species from Bulgaria (Diptera: Dolichopodidae)
MARC A.A. POLLET (Belgium) & MIHAIL KECHEV (Bulgaria)

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Zootaxa 1590: 61-68 (21 Sep. 2007)  2 plates; 9 references                            Accepted: 25 Aug. 2007
Descriptions of a new subgenus and two new species of Atrichobrunettia Satchell (Diptera, Psychodidae) from the Neotropical region
FREDDY BRAVO (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1588: 31-51 (19 Sep. 2007)  3 plates; 81 references                            Accepted: 16 Aug. 2007
Redescription of Anopheles oswaldoi (Peryassu 1922) (Diptera: Culicidae), with formal lectotype designation
MAYSA TIEMI MOTOKI (Brazil), YVONNE-MARIE LINTON (UK), FREDDY RUIZ (UK), CARMEN FLORES-MENDOZA (Brazil) & MARIA ANICE MUREB SALLUM (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1586: 33-38 (17 Sep. 2007)  2 plates; 7 references                            Accepted: 8 Aug. 2007
On the genus Diadocidia (Diptera, Sciaroidea, Diadocidiidae) in Costa Rica
Mathias Jaschhof & Catrin Jaschhof (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1576: 1-13 (5 Sep. 2007) 5 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 30 May 2007
Zealantha thorpei gen. et sp. nov. (Diptera: Anthomyzidae), first family representative from New Zealand
JINDRICH ROHACEK (Czech Republic)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1575: 1-34 (5 Sep. 2007) 19 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 28 Jun. 2007
The Meniscus midges of Costa Rica (Diptera: Dixidae)
LUIS GUILLERMO CHAVERRI (Costa Rica) & ART BORKENT (Canada)

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Zootaxa 1556: 31-50 (22 Aug. 2007) 10 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 27 Jun. 2007
The flagria group of Keilbachia Mohrig (Diptera, Sciaridae) in a biodiversity hot spot: nine new sympatric species from Kambaiti, Myanmar
HEIKKI HIPPA (Sweden) & PEKKA VILKAMAA (Finland)

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Zootaxa 1554: 27-40 (20 Aug. 2007) 11 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 4 Jul. 2007
Revision of the Holarctic genus Novakia Strobl (Diptera: Mycetophilidae)
PETER H. KERR (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1554: 41-48 (20 Aug. 2007) 6 plates; 10 references                            Accepted: 9 Jul. 2007
Myrciariamyia admirabilis, a new species of gall midge (Diptera, Cecidomyiidae) associated with Erythroxylum suberosum (Erythroxylaceae)
VALERIA CID MAIA & G. WILSON FERNANDES (Brazil)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1554: 63-65 (20 Aug. 2007) 1 plates; 11 references                            Accepted: 12 Jul. 2007
A new species of the genus Hesperempis Melander (Diptera: Empididae) from Siberia
IGOR V. SHAMSHEV (Russia)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1554: 67-68 (20 Aug. 2007) 1 plates; 6 references                            Accepted: 11 Jul. 2007
The status of Clinocera rufipes Bezzi, a new junior synonym of Clinocera nigra Meigen (Diptera: Empididae: Clinocerinae)
BRADLEY J. SINCLAIR (Canada)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1552: 53-68 (17 Aug. 2007) 7 plates; 8 references                            Accepted: 27 Jun. 2007
Review of the Nearctic Claustropyga Hippa, Vilkamaa & Mohrig (Diptera, Sciaridae) with the description of three new species
PEKKA VILKAMAA (Finland) & HEIKKI HIPPA (Sweden)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1547: 1-19 (13 Aug. 2007) 2 plates; 81 references                            Accepted: 24 May 2007
Biogeographic area relationships in Venezuela: A Parsimony analysis of Culicidae-Phytotelmata distribution in National Parks
JUAN-CARLOS NAVARRO, JONATHAN LIRIA, HERMES PINANGO & ROBERTO BARRERA (Venezuela)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1542: 21-34 (6 Aug. 2007) 5 plates; 32 references                            Accepted: 12 Jun. 2007
Studies on the Canacidae (Diptera), subfamily Apetaeninae. I. Apetaenus enderleini, nomen novum for Listriomastax litorea Enderlein, 1909, with remarks on the chaetotaxy, morphology, and habitats of the Apetaeninae from the Kerguelen Biogeographical Province
LORENZO MUNARI (Italy)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1542: 35-48 (6 Aug. 2007) 0 plates; 84 references                            Accepted: 4 Jul. 2007
Corrections in the status and rank of names used to denote varietal forms of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae)
RALPH E. HARBACH & THERESA M. HOWARD (UK)

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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1537: 1-88 (30 Jul. 2007) 20 plates; 49 references                            Accepted: 16 Apr. 2007
The Hemerodromiinae (Diptera: Empididae) of New Zealand II. Chelipoda Macquart
ADRIAN R. PLANT 
(UK)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1535: 1-92 (30 Jul. 2007) 45 plates; 73 references                            Accepted: 16 Mar. 2007
Phylogeny of the Mycetophiliformia, with proposal of the subfamilies Heterotrichinae, Ohakuneinae, and Chiletrichinae for the Rangomaramidae (Diptera, Bibionomorpha)
DALTON DE SOUZA AMORIM (Brazil) & EIRIK RINDAL 
(Norway)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1533: 63-68 (26 Jul. 2007) 4 plates; 1 references                            Accepted: 17 May 2007
Mythenteles andalusica sp.n. (Diptera, Mythicomyiidae) from Southern Spain and the first description of the male of M. infrequens Evenhuis & Blasco-Zumeta, 2003
DAVID GIBBS (UK)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1530: 19-26 (23 Jul. 2007) 1 plates; 16 references                            Accepted: 19 Jun. 2007
Phylogeny of Philornis Meinert species (Diptera: Muscidae)
MARCIA SOUTO COURI, CLAUDIO JOSE BARROS DE CARVALHO & PETER LOWENBERG-NETO (Brasil)

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Zootaxa 1530: 27-32 (23 Jul. 2007) 3 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 12 Jun. 2007
Notes on the extinct family Protapioceridae, with description of a new species from China (Insecta: Diptera: Asiloidea)
KUIYAN ZHANG, DING YANG & DONG REN (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 1530: 41-67 (23 Jul. 2007) 8 plates; 27 references                            Accepted: 22 May 2007
A revision of the new world stiletto fly genus Ataenogera Krober (Diptera: Therevidae: Phycinae) with the description of two new species
MARTIN HAUSER & DONALD W. WEBB (USA)

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Zootaxa 1528: 1-40 (19 Jul. 2007) 24 plates; 20 references                            Accepted: 15 May 2007
The Conopidae of Costa Rica (Diptera) (Part 1: Conopinae - Conopini &Tropidomyiini)
Jens-HermANN STUKE (Germany) & JEFFREY H. SKEVINGTON (CANADA)
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Zootaxa 1528: 41-60 (19 Jul. 2007) 10 plates; 11 references                            Accepted: 31 May 2007
The genus Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) in Thailand, with the description of seven new species
HEIKKI HIPPA (Sweden) & LASZLO PAPP (Hungary)
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Zootaxa 1527: 1-15 (16 Jul. 2007) 7 plates; 38 references                            Accepted: 16 Jun. 2007
Kloosia Kruseman, Chernovskiia Saeher, Robackia Saeher, and Saetheria Jackson (Chironomidae: Chironominae) in Japan
TADASHI KOBAYASHI (Japan)

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Zootaxa 1527: 45-52 (16 Jul. 2007) 2 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 24 May 2007
Mansonia (Mansonia) iguassuensis sp. nov. (Diptera: Culicidae) from Brasil
ANDREIA APARECIDA BARBOSA, MARIO ANTONIO NAVARRO DA SILVA & MARIA ANICE MUREB SALLUM (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1527: 53-58 (16 Jul. 2007) 3 plates; 18 references                            Accepted: 30 May 2007
Redescription of Tipula octomaculata Savchenko, with notes on related Holarctic species (Diptera, Tipulidae)
JUKKA SALMELA & OLLI AUTIO (Finland)

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 Erratum
Zo
otaxa
1527: 67-68 (16 Jul. 2007)

Erratum ( Correia, L.C.D.S. & Trivinho-strixino, S. (2007) New species of Chironomus Meigen (Diptera: Chironomidae: Chironominae) from Brazil. Zootaxa, 1504, 53–68)
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Zootaxa 1521: 9-18 (5 Jul. 2007) 6 plates; 20 references                            Accepted: 15 May 2007
A review of Afrotropical Perasis Hermann, 1905 (Diptera: Asilidae: Laphriinae)
JASON G. H. LONDT (South Africa)

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Zootaxa 1521: 31-41 (5 Jul. 2007) 3 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 21 May 2007
A new species of Myiopharus Brauer and Bergenstamm (Diptera: Tachinidae) parasitic on adults of the sunflower beetle, Zygogramma exclamationis (Fabricius)
JAMES E. O'HARA (Canada)

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Zootaxa 1521: 43-58 (5 Jul. 2007) 8 plates; 27 references                            Accepted: 21 May 2007
Robber flies of South Korea IV. Species of the subfamily Stichopogoninae Hardy, 1930 (Diptera: Asilidae)
CHARLES L. YOUNG (South Korea)

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Zootaxa 1510: 1-33 (18 Jun. 2007) 22 plates; 35 references                            Accepted: 9 May 2007
Chrysopilus
(Diptera: Rhagionidae) from Brazil: redescription of Chrysopilus fascipennis Bromley and description of eleven new species
Charles Morphy D. Santos & DALTON DE SOUZA AMORIM (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1510: 35-50 (18 Jun. 2007) 10 plates; 30 references                            Accepted: 9 May 2007
Phylogeny and biogeography of the genus Pelinoides Cresson (Diptera-Ephydridae)
MERCEDES LIZARRALDE DE GROSSO & CLAUDIA SZUMIK (Argentina)

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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1506: 1-80 (14 Jun. 2007) 15 plates; 128 references                            Accepted: 19 Apr. 2007
New specific synonymies and taxonomic notes on Neotropical black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) belonging to the subgenera Chirostilbia Enderlein, Hemicnetha Enderlein, Inaequalium Coscaron & Wygodzinsky, Psaroniocompsa Enderlein and Psilopelmia Enderlein
LUIS MIGUEL HERNANDEZ(UK), ANTHONY JOHN SHELLEY (UK), ANTONIO PAULINO ANDRADE DE LUNA DIAS (BRAZIL) & MARILZA MAIA-HERZOG (BRAZIL)

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Zootaxa 1504: 53-68 (11 Jun. 2007) 4 plates; 27 references                            Accepted: 30 Apr. 2007
New species of Chironomus Meigen (Diptera: Chironomidae: Chironominae) from Brazil
LENY CELIA DA SILVA CORREIA & SUSANA TRIVINHO-STRIXINO (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1503: 33-54 (11 Jun. 2007) 12 plates; 6 references                            Accepted: 3 May 2007
New species of Neohybos Ale-Rocha & Carvalho (Diptera, Hybotidae, Hybotinae) from Colombia, Ecuador and Peru
R. ALE-ROCHA (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1502: 1-44 (11 Jun. 2007) 22 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 11 Apr. 2007
The genus Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) in Melanesia and Oceania
HEIKKI HIPPA (Sweden)

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Zootaxa 1497: 1-22 (4 Jun. 2007) 0 plates; 24 references                            Accepted: 18 Apr. 2007
A catalogue of the types of Limoniidae and Tipulidae (Diptera: Tipulomorpha) in the collection of the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil
GUILHERME CUNHA RIBEIRO, CARLOS JOSE EINICKER LAMAS & LEISA NATHALIE SILVA DE AZEVEDO (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1497: 35-40 (4 Jun. 2007) 7 plates; 5 references                            Accepted: 12 Apr. 2007
First record of the tribe Keroplatini from China, with descriptions of two new species (Diptera: Keroplatidae)
HUACHAO XU, JIAN CAO, ZUJI ZHOU, HONG WU & ZHIWEI HUANG (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 1497: 41-46 (4 Jun. 2007) 1 plates; 11 references                            Accepted: 19 Apr. 2007
A new genus and new species of Nearctic Therevidae (Insecta: Diptera) from Southern New Mexico
DONALD W. WEBB (USA)

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Zootaxa 1497: 47-55 (4 Jun. 2007) 4 plates; 6 references                            Accepted: 19 Apr. 2007
A new species, new synonymy, and taxonomic notes in the Anastrepha schausi group (Diptera: Tephritidae)
ALLEN L. NORRBOM & CHESLAVO A. KORYTKOWSKI (USA)

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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1488: 1-164 (31 May 2007) 67 plates; 67 references                         Accepted: 24 Feb. 2007
Revision of the genus Elaphropeza Macquart (Diptera: Hybotidae) from the Oriental Region, with a special attention to the fauna of Singapore
IGOR V. SHAMSHEV & PATRICK GROOTAERT (Belgium)

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Zootaxa 1474: 55-62 (14 May 2007) 5 plates; 6 references                            Accepted: 16 Apr. 2007
A remarkable new species of Empidideicus (Diptera: Mythicomyiidae) from Madagascar
NEAL L. EVENHUIS (USA)

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Zootaxa 1469: 51-57 (10 May 2007) 3 plates; 14 references                             Accepted: 4 Apr. 2007
Two new European species of Delia Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) with a bipartite male sternite III
VERNER MICHELSEN (Sweden)

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Zootaxa 1465: 31-38 (3 May 2007) 10 plates; 4 references                             Accepted: 17 Mar. 2007
First record of the genus Xenoplatyura Malloch, 1928 from China, with descriptions of three new species (Diptera: Keroplatidae)
JIAN CAO, ZUJI ZHOU, HUACHAO XU & HONG WU (P.R. China)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1465: 65-68 (3 May 2007) 2 plates; 6 references                             Accepted: 3 Apr. 2007
The identity of the fossil Psilocephala tarsalis (Statz, 1940) (Diptera: Asiloidea)
MARTIN HAUSER & ERIC M. FISHER (USA)

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Zootaxa 1444: 35-51 (9 Apr. 2007) 8 plates; 27 references                             Accepted: 16 Mar. 2007
Five new species of Drymeia Meigen from the Tibet Plateau, China (Diptera: Muscidae)
WAN-QI XUE, DAN-DAN WANG, XUE-ZHONG ZHANG & CHAO-QUN XIANG (P. R. China)
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Zootaxa 1443: 1-16 (9 Apr. 2007) 6 plates; 11 references                             Accepted: 21 Feb. 2007
Three new Neotropical genera of Odiniidae (Diptera: Acalyptratae)
STEPHEN D. GAIMARI  (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1443: 29-35 (9 Apr. 2007) 2 plates; 5 references                             Accepted: 14 Feb. 2007
Notes on South American Dasyomma, with the description of a remarkable new species from Chile (Diptera: Athericidae)
NORMAN E. WOODLEY (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1438: 1-25 (2 Apr. 2007) 9 plates; 16 references                             Accepted: 14 Feb. 2007
New species of Acraspisoides Hill & Winterton and Bonjeania Irwin & Lyneborg
(Diptera: Therevidae: Agapophytinae), with the description of a new genus
SHAUN L. WINTERTON (Australia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1423: 1-26 (12 Mar. 2007) 5 plates; 47 references                                Accepted: 31 Jan. 2007
DNA Barcoding: Mixed results for big-headed flies (Diptera: Pipunculidae)
JEFFREY H. SKEVINGTON (Canada), CHRISTIAN KEHLMAIER (Germany) and GUNILLA STAHLS (Findand)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1423: 51-57 (12 Mar. 2007) 2 plates; 4 references                             Accepted: 31 Jan. 2007
Four new species of Isoneuromyia from China (Diptera: Keroplatidae)
HUACHAO XU (P.R. China), JIAN CAO (P.R. China), HONG WU (P.R. China), NEAL L. EVENHUIS (USA) & ZUJI ZHOU (P.R. China)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1413: 47-53 (1 Mar. 2007) 2 plates; 3 references                             Accepted: 31 Dec. 2006
Two new genera of oscinelline Chloropidae (Diptera) from Costa Rica
TERRY A. WHEELER (Canada)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1413: 55-64 (1 Mar. 2007) 2 plates; 18 references                             Accepted: 15 Jan. 2007
New species of Nanexila Winterton & Irwin and Taenogera Krober from Australia (Diptera: Therevidae)
SHAUN L. WINTERTON (Australia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1412: 61-67 (26 Feb. 2007) 4 plates; 9 references                                Accepted: 10 Jan. 2007
A new European species of Delia Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) near the wheat bulb fly, D. coarctata (Fallen)
VERNER MICHELSEN (Sweden)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1411: 47-67 (22 Feb. 2007)  4 plates; 21 references                            Accepted: 31 Jan. 2007
The Mesoamerican Mesorhaga (Diptera: Dolichopodidae), with a taxonomic conspectus of the New World fauna
D.J. BICKEL (Australia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1407: 57-64 (15 Feb. 2007)  3 plates; 12 references                         Accepted: 13 Dec. 2006
New species of Laxotela Winterton & Irwin from Australia (Diptera: Therevidae: Agapophytinae)
S.L. WINTERTON (Australia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1407: 43-55 (15 Feb. 2007)  1 plate; 25 references                           Accepted: 19 Dec. 2006
Updated distribution records of the Anopheles (Anopheles) hyrcanus species-group (Diptera: Culicidae) in China
L.M. RUEDA (USA), T.Y. ZHAO (P.R. China), Y.J. MA (P.R. China), Q. GAO (P.R. China), Z.G. DING (P.R. China), B. KHUNTIRAT (Thailand), J. SATTABONGKOT (Thailand) & R.C. WILKERSON (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1405: 51-62 (8 Feb. 2007)  4 plates; 15 references                              Accepted: 13 Dec. 2006
Revision of the Australian stiletto fly genus Acatopygia Krober (Diptera: Therevidae: Agapophytinae)
S.L. WINTERTON (Australia)

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 Monograph  
Zootaxa 1404: 1-66 (5 Feb. 2007)  26 plates; 100 references                          Accepted: 13 Dec. 2006
Chironomid midges from early Eocene amber of France(Diptera: Chironomidae)
G. DOITTEAU & A. NEL
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1398: 68 (25 Jan. 2007)  2 references                                                    Accepted: 19 Dec. 2006
Replacement name for Alishania Bickel, 2004 (Diptera Dolichopodidae)
D.J. BICKEL (Australia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1398: 15-28 (25 Jan. 2007)  8 plates; 34 references                             Accepted: 20 Dec. 2006
A review of Physiphora Fallen (Diptera: Ulidiidae) from China
X.-L. CHEN (P.R. China) & E.P. KAMENEVA (Ukraine)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1388: 25-43 (8 Jan. 2007)  10 plates; 18 references                           Accepted: 17 Nov. 2006
Notes on the Neurigona Rondani (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from Chinese Mainland
M.Q. WANG (P.R. China), D. YANG (P.R. China) & P. GROOTAERT (Belgium)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1388: 1-23 (8 Jan. 2007)  11 plates; 32 references                           Accepted: 15 Nov. 2006
Robber flies of South Korea III. South Korean species of the Subfamily Laphriinae Macquart, 1838 (Diptera: Asilidae)
C.L. YOUNG (South Korea) & M.M. HRADSKÝ (Czech Republic)
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2006 (106 papers; 2536 pages)

Zootaxa 1384: 59-68 (18 Dec. 2006) 4 plates; 10 references                          Accepted: 24 Nov. 2006
Parapentaneura bentogomensis gen. n., sp. n., a new Tanypodinae (Diptera, Chironomidae) from Brazil
E. STUR (Norway), E.J. FITTKAU (Germany) & M.A.D.S. SERRANO (Brazil)

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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1381: 1-91 (14 Dec. 2006)  30 plates; 60 references                       Accepted: 24 Oct. 2006
A review of the asilid (Diptera) fauna from Hispaniola with six genera new to the island, fifteen new species, and checklist
A.G. SCARBROUGH & D.E. PEREZ-GELABERT (USA)

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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1380: 1-90 (14 Dec. 2006)  25 plates; 44 references                       Accepted: 12 Oct. 2006
A taxonomic revision of the southwestern Pacific subgenus Hebridosimulium (Diptera: Simuliidae: Simulium)
D.A. CRAIG, D.C. CURRIE, F.F. HUNTER & M. SPIRONELLO (Canada)

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Zootaxa 1378: 61-68 (11 Dec. 2006) 7 plates; 8 references                            Accepted: 10 Oct. 2006
A new species of Anthrax Scopoli, 1763 from Brazil, with description of its puparium (Diptera, Bombyliidae, Anthracinae, Anthracini)
C.J.E. LAMAS (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1377: 1-26 (11 Dec. 2006) 3 plates; 69 references                            Accepted: 16 Oct. 2006
Integrative taxonomy of Iberian Merodon species (Diptera, Syrphidae)

X. MENGUAL (Spain), G. STAHLS (Findand), A. VUJIC (Serbia and Montenegro) & M. MARCOS-GARCIA (Spain)

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Zootaxa 1374: 61-68 (7 Dec. 2006) 2 plates; 18 references                            Accepted: 24 Oct. 2006
A key to known species of Mastumyia Shiraki (Diptera, Syrphidae) from China, with descriptions of two new species
K.K. HUO & G.D. REN (P.R.China)
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Zootaxa 1372: 17-25 (4 Dec. 2006) 2 plates; 19 references                             Accepted: 14 Oct. 2006
New species of Eupsilocephala Krober from Australia (Diptera: Therevidae)
S.L. WINTERTON (USA)

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Zootaxa 1371: 23-35 (4 Dec. 2006) 9 plates; 11 references                             Accepted: 11 Oct. 2006
Simulium nunesdemelloi (Diptera: Simuliidae), a new species of black fly from the northwestern region of Amazonas State, Brazil
N. HAMADA (Brazil), M. PEPINELLI (Brazil) & L.M. HERNANDEZ (UK)

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Zootaxa 1371: 1-21 (4 Dec. 2006) 12 plates; 11 references                             Accepted: 25 Oct. 2006
Eight new species of Megaselia Rondani (Diptera: Phoridae) from the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Yemen
R.H.L. DISNEY (UK)
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Zootaxa 1364: 59-64 (23 Nov. 2006) 2 plates; 9 references                            Accepted: 24 Oct. 2006
Agelanius burgeri, a new species of horse fly from south Chile (Diptera: Tabanidae)
C.R. GONZÁLEZ (Chile)

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Zootaxa 1361: 61-68 (20 Nov. 2006) 3 plates; 3 references                              Accepted: 20 Oct. 2006
Description of the unknown stages of Simulium (Aspathia) sandyi Coscaron, Ibanez-Bernal & Coscaron-Arias (Diptera: Simuliidae)
C.A. SANDOVAL-RUIZ & S. IBANEZ-BERNAL

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Zootaxa 1361: 53-59 (20 Nov. 2006) 2 plates; 15 references                         Accepted: 18 Oct. 2006
Robackia Saeher from China (Diptera: Chironomidae)
C.C. YAN & X.H. WANG (P.R.China)

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Zootaxa 1358: 59-66 (16 Nov. 2006) 3 plates; 11 references                          Accepted: 21 Aug. 2006
A new species in the genus Agadasys Whittington (Diptera: Platystomatidae, Plastotephritinae) from China
X.L. CHEN (P.R.China) & A.E. WHITTINGTON (UK)
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Zootaxa 1351: 61-68 (6 Nov. 2006)  4 plates; 13 references                         Accepted: 9 Oct. 2006
Ptychopteridae -a family of flies (Diptera) new to the Neotropical Region and description of a new species
E.G. HANCOCK (UK), M-A. MARCOS-GARCIA (Spain) & G.E. ROTHERAY (UK)

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Zootaxa 1351: 53-59 (6 Nov. 2006)  3 plates; 13 references                         Accepted: 9 Oct. 2006
First record of the frog parasite genus Batrachomyia Krefft from New Guinea (Diptera: Chloropidae)
N. EVENHUIS (USA)
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Zootaxa 1350: 1-19 (2 Nov. 2006)  3 plates; 26 references                         Accepted: 6 Oct. 2006
Study of two species groups of Phaonia Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Muscidae) from China, with the description of three new species
W.-Q. XUE, M.-F. WANG & J. DU (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 1333: 1-23 (12 Oct. 2006)  3 plates; 60 references                       Accepted:  16 Aug. 2006
Drosophila bunnanda-a new species from northern Australia with notes on other Australian members of the montium subgroup (Diptera: Drosophilidae)

M. SCHIFFER & S.F. MCEVEY (Australia)

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Zootaxa 1328: 1-26 (5 Oct. 2006)  11 plates; 25 references                       Accepted:  17 Aug. 2006
Simuliidae (Diptera) of the Solomon Islands: new records and species, ecology, and biogeography
D.A. CRAIG (Canada), R.A. ENGLUND (USA) & H. TAKAOKA (Japan)
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Zootaxa 1326: 1-16 (2 Oct. 2006)  3 plates; 17  references                      Accepted:  14 Sept. 2006
Three new species of Coenosia Meigen (Diptera: Muscidae) from P.R. China, with a key to the Chinese species of the genus
W.-Q. XUE & Y. ZHU (P.R. China)

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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1322: 1-131 (28 Sept. 2006) 23 plates; 133  references                      Accepted:  17 Jul. 2006
The Calliphoridae of Namibia (Diptera: Oestroidea)
H. KURAHASHI (Japan) & A.H. KIRK-SPRIGGS (South Africa)
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Zootaxa 1312: 25-35 (11 Sept. 2006) 4 plates; 15  references                        Accepted:  21 Aug. 2006
Redescription of Culex (Culex) brethesi Dyar, 1919 (Diptera: Culicidae)

R. GUSTAVO C. (Argentina)

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Zootaxa 1302: 43-59 (24 Aug. 2006)  4 plates; 19  references                          Accepted:  1 Aug. 2006
Phylogeny of the subfamily Mycetophilinae (Diptera: Mycetophilidae)
E. RINDAL & G.E.E. SŘLI (Norway)
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Zootaxa 1300: 1-29 (21 Aug. 2006)  28 plates; 21 references                               Accepted:  2 Aug. 2006
A review of Anapausis Enderlein (Diptera: Scatopsidae) in the Neotropical Region, with four new species and comments on the phylogeny of the genus
D.D.S. AMORIM & M.I.P.A. BALBI (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1298: 1-15 (17 Aug. 2006) 4 plates; 36 references                              Accepted:  28 Jul. 2006
Two new species and new records of Psychoda Latreille
(Diptera: Psychodidae: Psychodinae) from Brazil, with comments on supraspecific classification of the genus
F. BRAVO, D. CORDEIRO & C. CHAGAS
(Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1295: 1-27 (14 Aug. 2006) 4 plates; 20 references                              Accepted:  24 Jul. 2006
The neotropical genera Microthereva Malloch and Peralia Malloch (Diptera: Therevidae: Therevinae)
D.W. WEBB (USA)

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Zootaxa 1295: 61-68 (14 Aug. 2006) 1 plate; 19 references                             Accepted:  20 Jul. 2006
A review of the hirticeps-group of Fannia Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Fanniidae), with the description of one new species from China
M.-F. WANG & R.-R. WANG (P.R. China)

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 Monograph 
Zootaxa
1291: 1-101 (14 Aug. 2006) 47 plates; 25 references                          Accepted:  30 Jun. 2006
Revision of the New World species of Craspedochaeta (Diptera: Clusiidae)
O. LONSDALE & S.A. MARSHALL (Canada)

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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1288: 1-241 (14 Aug. 2006) 36 plates; 49 references                        Accepted:  18 Apr. 2006
A Revision of the New World Genera Brachylinga Irwin and Lyneborg and Lysilinga Irwin and Lyneborg (Diptera: Therevidae: Therevinae) with the Description of a New Genus, Elcaribe Webb
DONALD W. WEBB & MARK A. METZ (USA)

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Zootaxa 1282: 39-48 (7 Aug. 2006) 3 plates; 13 references                               Accepted:  7 Jul. 2006
Two unusual species of Polypedilum Kieffer (Diptera: Chironomidae) from Oriental China
R.L. ZHANG (P.R. China), X.H. WANG (P.R. China) & O.A. SĆTHER (Norway)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1280: 1-68 (3 Aug. 2006) 10 plates; 30 references                           Accepted:  22 Jun. 2006
Revision of the untreated taxa of Melaloncha s. s. bee-killing flies (Diptera: Phoridae)
B.V. BROWN (USA)
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Zootaxa 1277: 39-63 (31 Jul. 2006) 6 plates; 56 references                              Accepted:  3 Jul. 2006
An overview of the South African tangle-veined flies (Diptera: Nemestrinidae), with an annotated key to the genera and a checklist of species
D.A. BARRACLOUGH (S. Africa)
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Zootaxa 1275: 1-20 (31 Jul. 2006) 7 plates; 20 references                               Accepted: 6 Jun. 2006
Taxonomy of Simulium (Inaequalium) petropoliense Coscarón (Diptera: Simuliidae) from Brazil, with the first description of the male and larva
L.M. HERNANDEZ (UK), A.P.A. DE LUNA DIAS, M. MAIA-HERZOG & A. J. SHELLEY (UK)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1274: 1-68 (27 Jul. 2006) 23 plates; 44 references                            Accepted: 13 Jun. 2006
An interpretation of the morphological variation in the Simulium amazonicum species group (Diptera: Simuliidae) of Latin America
A.J. SHELLEY (UK), L.M. HERNÁNDEZ (UK), M.A.MAIA-HERZOG (Brazil), A.P.A. LUNA DIAS (BRazil) & S.B. LUZ (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1273: 1-7 (27 Jul. 2006) 1 plate; 10 references                               Accepted: 22 Jun. 2006
Remarkable sexual dimorphism in the Afrotropical species Nycterimyia capensis Bezzi, 1924 (Diptera: Nemestrinidae), and its taxonomic implications
D.A. BARRACLOUGH (S. Africa)
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Zootaxa 1270: 19-33 (24 Jul. 2006) 4 plates; 31 references                            Accepted: 27 Jun. 2006
Collections of Bruchomyiinae and Phlebotominae (Diptera: Psychodidae) from the north-central portion of the State of Veracruz, Mexico, with the description of a new species
S. IBÁŃEZ-BERNAL, R.A. HERNÁNDEZ-XOLIOT & F. MENDOZA (Mexico) 
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Zootaxa 1267: 49-57 (20 Jul. 2006) 4 plates; 16 references                              Accepted: 29 May 2006
A new species of Leptogaster Meigen (Diptera, Asilidae) from Turkey with egg and spermatheca structure
A. HASBENLI, S. CANDAN & N. ALPAY (Turkey) 
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Zootaxa 1260: 37-46 (14 Jul. 2006)  4 plates; 15 references                               Accepted: 13 Jun. 2006
A new European species of Pegomya Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) near P. testacea (De Geer)
V. MICHELSEN (Sweden) 
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Zootaxa 1259: 25-31 (14 Jul. 2006) 2 plates; 20 references                               Accepted: 19 Jun. 2006
A new genus and species of Richardiidae (Diptera) from Hispaniola
D.E. PEREZ-GELABERT & F.C. THOMPSON (USA) 
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Zootaxa 1257: 49-55 (10 Jul. 2006)  3 plates; 9 references                               Accepted: 14 Jun. 2006
A new European species of Pegomya Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) near P. flavoscutellata (Zetterstedt)
V. MICHELSEN (Sweden) 
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Zootaxa 1256: 21-47 (10 Jul. 2006)  11 plates; 38 references                           Accepted: 7 Jun. 2006
Revision of Engelimyia Lopes, 1975 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae)
T. PAPE (Denmark) & C.A. DE MELLO-PATIU (Brazil) 
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Zootaxa 1253: 61-68 (6 Jul. 2006)  3 plates; 9 references                               Accepted: 15 Jun. 2006
Two new species of Sciophila Meigen (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) from Turkey, with a key to the Western Palaearctic species of the S. lutea Macquart group
D. BECHEV (Bulgaria) & H. KOÇ (Turkey) 
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Zootaxa 1249: 61-68 (3 Jul. 2006) 3 plates; 8 references                              Accepted: 1 Jun. 2006
Systematic review of Neotropical genera of Lauxaniidae: 3. The genus Paracestrotus Hendel, 1925 (Diptera: Schizophora)
V.C. SILVA (Brazil) 
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1243: 1-60 (26 Jun. 2006) 34 plates; 51 references                           Accepted: 19 May 2006
A systematic study of the genus Dinera Robineau-Desvoidy from the Palaearctic and Oriental regions (Diptera: Tachinidae)
C.-T. ZHANG (P.R. China) & H. SHIMA (Japan) 
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Zootaxa 1242: 37-52 (23 Jun. 2006) 9 plates; 18 references                           Accepted: 15 May 2006
A new species of Coenosopsia Malloch (Diptera, Anthomyiidae) from southern Brazil and a reappraisal of the cladistic relationships of the genus
M. BORTOLANZA, C.J.B. DE CARVALHO & A.P.C. LARA (Brazil) 
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Zootaxa 1236: 37-52 (19 Jun. 2006) 8 plates; 21 references                             Accepted: 20 Apr. 2006
A cladistic analysis of the Neotropical genus Sepedonea Steyskal (Diptera: Sciomyzidae)
L. MARINONI (Brazil) & W.N. MATHIS (USA) 
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Zootaxa 1235: 1-48 (19 Jun. 2006) 8 plates; 31 references                            Accepted: 13 Apr. 2006
Systematic revision of the fruit fly genus Carpophthoromyia Austen (Diptera, Tephritidae)
M. DE MEYER (Belgium) 
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Zootaxa 1223: 1-18 (5 Jun. 2006) 7 plates; 30 references                              Accepted: 26 Apr. 2006
Immature stages of three Japanese species of the genus PleciaWiedemann (Diptera: Bibionidae)
M. SUTOU (Japan) 
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Zootaxa 1220: 55-61 (30 May 2006) 1 plate;  5 references                              Accepted: 24 Apr. 2006
A new species of crane fly, Pedicia (Pedicia) goldsworthyi (Diptera: Pediciidae), from eastern North America
M.J. PETERSEN (USA) 
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Zootaxa 1220: 35-46 (30 May 2006) 1 plate; 28 references                              Accepted: 26 Apr. 2006
A faunal survey of nycteribiid flies (Diptera: Nycteribiidae) associated with bats in Paraguay
G. GRACIOLLI (Brazil), C.W. DICK (USA) & D. GETTINGER (USA) 
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Zootaxa 1211: 1-19 (24 May 2006) 7 plates; 25 references                             Accepted: 8 Mar. 2006
A description of a new species of Diasemopsis (Diptera, Diopsidae) from the Comoro Islands with morphological, molecular and allometric data
MARTIN CARR (UK) , SAMUEL COTTON (UK) , MIHÁLY FÖLDVÁRI (Hungary) & MARION KOTRBA (Germany) 
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Zootaxa 1210: 1-25 (24 May 2006) 12 plates; 18 references                             Accepted: 22 Mar. 2006
Nine new species of Megaselia Rondani (Diptera: Phoridae) from the Seychelles
R.H.L. DISNEY (UK
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Zootaxa 1206: 63-68 (18 May 2006)  2 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 24 Apr. 2006
Two new species of Philosepedon Eaton (Diptera: Psychodidae: Psychodinae) from the Atlantic Coastal Rain Forest of northeastern Brazil
F. BRAVO, C. CHAGAS & D. CORDEIRO (Brazil) 
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Zootaxa 1206: 1-22 (18 May 2006)  14 plates; 8 references                              Accepted: 13 Jan. 2006
Review of the species of the genus Ochthera from China (Diptera: Ephydridae)
J.H. ZHANG & D. YANG (P.R. China) 
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Zootaxa 1204: 37-40 (18 May 2006) 4 references                                                Accepted: 19 Apr. 2006
Location and deposition of the type specimens of Culex scheuberi Carpintero & Leguizamón, Ochlerotatus jorgi (Carpintero & Leguizamón), and Orthopodomyia peytoni Leguizamón & Carpintero (Diptera: Culicidae)
M.N. (LEGUIZAMÓN) HRIBAR & L.J. HRIBAR (USA) 
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Zootaxa 1198: 21-51 (11 May 2006)  5 plates; 65 references                              Accepted: 3 Apr. 2006
Japanese Pseudosmittia Edwards (Diptera: Chironomidae)
O.A. SĆTHER (Norway) 
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Zootaxa 1196: 33-61 (8 May 2006)  241 references                                              Accepted: 7 Mar. 2006
Descriptions of genus Downsiomyia Vargas (Diptera: Culicidae: Aedini) and its type species Do. nivea (Ludlow)
J.F. REINERT (USA) & R.E. HARBACH (UK) 
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Zootaxa 1193: 49-57 (4 May 2006) 3 plates; 19 references                              Accepted: 4 Apr. 2006
Nilotanypus Kieffer from China (Diptera: Chironomidae: Tanypodinae)
M. CHENG & X.H. WANG (P.R. China) 
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Zootaxa 1185: 1-19 (24 Apr. 2006) 7 plates; 40 references                            Accepted: 10 Feb. 2006
Taxonomic notes on the Volucella pellucens species group (Diptera: Syrphidae) with a description of one new species from the Eastern Palaearctic
D.-S. CHOI (R. Korea), K. ÔHARA (Japan) & H.-Y. HAN (R. Korea)
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Zootaxa 1183: 43-56 (24 Apr. 2006) 3 plates; 22 references                            Accepted: 3 Mar. 2006
Tokunagaia Sćther from China (Diptera: Chironomidae: Orthocladiinae)
Y.D. LIU & X.H. WANG (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 1183: 57-68 (24 Apr. 2006) 3 plates; 18 references                           Accepted: 16 Mar. 2006
A new species of Hoplacephala Macquart (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) from Namibia, with a discussion of generic monophyly
T. PAPE (Denamrk)
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Zootaxa 1180: 1-172 (21 Apr. 2006) 69 plates; 250 references                       Accepted: 25 Feb. 2006
The morphology, higher-level phylogeny and classification of the Empidoidea (Diptera)
B.J. SINCLAIR (Germany) & J.M. CUMMING (Canada)
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Zootaxa 1174: 49-62 (19 Apr. 2006) 7 plates; 21 references                           Accepted: 23 Feb. 2006
Description of two new species of Neorhagio (Diptera, Tabanomorpha, Rhagionidae), and remarks on a controversial female character
C.M.D. SANTOS (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1171: 17-29 (10 Apr. 2006) 1 plate; 19 references                             Accepted: 17 Feb. 2006
Placement of Cacoceria and phylogenetic relationships of the xylotine genera of the tribe Milesiini (Diptera, Syrphidae: Eristalinae) based on molecular characters
G. STĹHLS (Finland)
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Zootaxa 1167: 17-30 (6 Apr. 2006) 5 plates; 7 references                              Accepted: 17 Feb. 2006
First description of species of Chvalaea Papp & Földvári from the Neotropical Region (Diptera, Hybotidae, Ocydromiinae)
R. ALE-ROCHA (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1167: 47-60 (6 Apr. 2006) 8 plates; 12 references                              Accepted: 27 Feb. 2006
Simulium (Inaequalium) margaritatum, a new species of black fly (Diptera: Simuliidae) from the central region of Bahia State, Brazil
M. PEPINELLI, N. HAMADA & S.L.B. LUZ (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1167: 61-68 (6 Apr. 2006) 4 plates; 4 references                                 Accepted: 10 Jan. 2006
Recharacterization of Rhynchoheterotricha Freeman (Diptera, Sciaroidea), with description of R. chandleri sp. n. from South Africa
H. HIPPA (Sweden) & P. VILKAMAA (Finland)
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Zootaxa 1166: 1-20 (3 Apr. 2006) 6 plates; 23 references                              Accepted: 22 Feb. 2006
Four new species of the genus Diaphorus (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from China
M.Q. WANG (P.R. China), D. YANG (P.R. China) & P. GROOTAERT (Belgium)
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Zootaxa 1165: 47-55 (3 Apr. 2006) 2 plates; 6 references                                Accepted: 12 Feb. 2006
Morphological descriptions of the female, pupa, and larva of Culex (Culex) cuyanus Duret (Diptera: Culicidae)
G.C. ROSSI, E. SCHEIBLER & M.C. DOMINGUEZ (Argentina)
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Zootaxa 1162: 1-18 (30 Mar. 2006) 5 plates; 25 references                           Accepted: 13 Jan. 2006
Four new species of Tanytarsus van der Wulp, 1874 (Diptera: Chironomidae) from South America
A.M. SANSEVERINO & E.J. FITTKAU (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1162: 19-31 (30 Mar. 2006) 4 plates; 27 references                           Accepted: 15 Feb. 2006
The enigmatic Dacochile microsoma Poinar & Brown: Tanyderidae or Bruchomyiinae?
G. POINAR, JR.& A.E. BROWN (USA)
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Zootaxa 1162: 33-43 (30 Mar. 2006) 2 plates; 23 references                           Accepted: 21 Feb. 2006
A review of the F. serena-subgroup of Fannia Robineau-Desvoidy (Diptera: Fanniidae), with the description of two new species from China
M.-F. WANG, D. ZHANG  & W.-Q. XUE (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 1161: 1-49 (30 Mar. 2006) 17 plates; 16 references                           Accepted: 16 Feb. 2006
Diversity of Manota Williston (Diptera: Mycetophilidae) in a Malaysian rainforest: description of twenty-seven new sympatric species
H. HIPPA (Sweden)
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Zootaxa 1158: 68 (23 Mar. 2006
Corrigenda: Carvalho, C.J.B. de & Pont, A.C. (2006)
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Zootaxa 1156: 65-68 (23 Mar. 2006) 2 plates; 9 references                              Accepted: 10 Feb. 2006
A new species of Villa Lioy, 1864 (Diptera: Bombyliidae) parasitic on Sesiidae (Lepidoptera)
D.J. GREATHEAD (UK) & Y. KARIMPOUR (Iran)
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Zootaxa 1155: 25-33 (20 Mar. 2006) 2 plates; 19 references                           Accepted: 17 Feb. 2006
A new species of Myoleja Rondani (Diptera: Tephritidae) from Turkey with a key to the known species of the genus
H.-Y. HAN (R. Korea) & M. KüTüT (Turkey)
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Zootaxa 1155: 41-50 (20 Mar. 2006) 5 plates; 20 references                          Accepted: 10 Feb. 2006
A new species of Alloxytropus Bezzi (Diptera: Scenopinidae: Proratinae) from Israel
S.L. WINTERTON & P.H. KERR (USA)
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