[Syrphidae] RE: Syrphidae Digest, Vol 16, Issue 1

Tue May 2 12:24:07 BST 2006

Sorry, Josh, but very BAD Advice.

Shorter and Drew is obsolete.

The basic reference for all North American (USA, Canada) Diptera is Manual of Nearctic Diptera in 3 volumes. The Syrphidae are in volume 2 (1987) and there are lots of illustrations. This will get you the generic level.

We can work with you on species keys. Jeff Skevington is developing an online key at
http://www.canacoll.org/Diptera/Staff/Skevington/Syrphidae/Syrphidae.htm 
with many excellent color images from Steve Marshall.

My Nearctic flower flies should be out this summer.

Tell us more about your project. Boston is an interesting location, but one needs to get out of the city to find flies!

Cheers

F. Christian Thompson
Systematic Entomology Lab., USDA
c/o Smithsonian Institution
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>>> Bastiaan Wakkie <bwakkie at syrphidae.com> 04/30/06 11:37AM >>>
Hello Josh,

There is a good online key for flowerflies at the following address:
http://digital.library.okstate.edu/oas/oas_htm_files/v56/p75_94nf.html 

Hope this give you enough directions otherwise let us know.

regards,
Bastiaan Wakkie
Bastiaan Wakkie
http://www.syrphidae.com 

On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 16:51 -0400, Josh Rubenstein wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I was hoping that someone would be able to direct me to a source on the 
> literature for syrphids, maybe even a Bibliographic database or a relevant 
> book.  I am interested in learning how to ID them here in Boston, USA.  Any 
> help would be appreciated.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Josh
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