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

Editor, Dr D.J. Bickel (dan.bickel@austmus.gov.auAcalyptratae and Aschiza
Australian Museum, 6-8 College Street Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia
Editor, Dr J. O'Hara
(oharaj@agr.gc.ca) Calyptratae
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) Diptera: Empidoidea
Entomology, Ontario Plant Laboratories, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0C6

Editor, Dr S. L. Winterton (wintertonshaun@gmail.com orthorrhaphous Brachycera
Queensland Department of Primary Industries & Fisheries 80 Meiers Rd. Indooroopilly, Queensland 4068, AUSTRALIA
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@utk.edu) families: 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

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2010 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Monograph 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Monograph 
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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 Monograph 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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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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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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Correspondence 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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 Article 
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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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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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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