ID Guide for Higher-level Diptera Groups

I'm excited to share this guide to major groups of Diptera! Questions, suggestions, and other reactions are appreciated. Please let me know if you find any oversights.

Publicado el mayo 21, 2020 11:40 TARDE por edanko edanko

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Let's get to work on all the unidentified Diptera! There are links to 'Identify' pages on the first slide above.

Publicado por edanko hace casi 4 años

👍👍👍

Publicado por treegrow hace casi 4 años

Great work @edanko, this is very useful!

Publicado por elaphrornis hace casi 4 años

Nice! I've got Nematocera down, but I definitely need to work on my other groups.

Would it be possible to add thumbnails of example images of each taxa on slide 4? I'm trying to order the hierarchy in my head and it helps to see the images arranged visually.

Also, tagging @raycama and @elytrid if either of you are curious about more Diptera fun, check out this and other journal posts by Even.

Publicado por malisaspring hace casi 4 años

Will there be a quiz???
Seriously this is neat. Thanks for putting it together.

Publicado por raycama hace casi 4 años

PS: is it useful at all to you if we separate Nematocera from Brachycera?
Most of the time, it is all I can do.

Publicado por raycama hace casi 4 años

Awesome, thanks! I'm a visual learner so this helps a lot!

Publicado por elytrid hace casi 4 años

@raycama if you find that enjoyable, go for it! (you might learn something by keeping track of subsequent IDs?)

Mostly though, this guide isn't meant to function on its own: if it lets you narrow it down to 1 or 2 main groups, I have some follow-up guides for family ID in prep.

Publicado por edanko hace casi 4 años

@malisaspring I've added antennae to slide 4 -- is that helpful? :)

Publicado por edanko hace casi 4 años

Yes, thanks!

Publicado por malisaspring hace casi 4 años

I do -I do learn a lot by doing broad IDs and watching them unfold subsequently. Although gnats and midges are... challenging.

Publicado por raycama hace casi 4 años

Nice work... maybe I'll finally begin to learn some things. Always better at finding things than ID'ing them!

Publicado por natureguy hace casi 4 años

Great work @edanko, congratulation...!

Publicado por thilinahettiarachchi hace casi 4 años

It seems really useful to my works

Publicado por thilinahettiarachchi hace casi 4 años

In case any of you missed it, world-wide family guides to the rest of Diptera are now posted at https://sites.google.com/view/flyguide

Publicado por edanko hace más de 3 años

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