(flies are known as Diptera) mouths that can suck, lap and pierce, legs that have claws at their ends, enabling them to grip the surface they land on. Two stubby extensions behind their wings – which ...

https://doi.org/10.2307/3495920 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/3495920 Larvae of phorid flies in the genus Pseudacteon have the unusual habit of decapitating fire ...

I am the Senior Curator for Diptera and Siphonaptera. I manage the lower Brachycera, Mycetophilidae and Culicidae collections in Diptera, and the Siphonaptera collection. My specific interests lie ...