Abstract Culicoides Latreille biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) cause a significant
biting nuisance to humans, livestock and equines, and are the biological vectors of a range …

Abstract For the kingdom Animalia, 1,552,319 species have been described in 40 phyla in a
new evolutionary classification. Among these, the phylum Arthropoda alone represents …

1. BY Thomas Pape, Vladimir Blagoderov & Mikhail B. Mostovski (for full contact details, see
Author names & addresses after Cited references). The title of this contribution should be …

Although exceptional examples of adaptation are frequently celebrated, some outcomes of
natural selection seem far from perfect. For example, many hoverflies (Diptera: Syrphidae) …

Background Anchored hybrid enrichment is a form of next-generation sequencing that uses
oligonucleotide probes to target conserved regions of the genome flanked by less …

Members of the megadiverse insect order Diptera (flies) have successfully colonized all
continents and nearly all habitats. There are more than 154 000 described fly species …

Background The most species-rich radiation of animal life in the 66 million years following
the Cretaceous extinction event is that of schizophoran flies: a third of fly diversity including …

Abstract Flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) are one of the most species‐rich dipteran families
and provide important ecosystem services such as pollination, biological control of pests …

DNA sequence data from a variety of mitochondrial and nuclear gene regions are significant
components of phylogenetic research in entomology. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) …

The first comprehensive molecular phylogeny of Pipunculidae (Diptera) is inferred from
analyses of 6963 bp of DNA sequence data from the following five loci: cytochrome c …