Activities, Groups and Opportunities
Links to information about events, societies, journals, newsletters, and working groups devoted to Dipterology and their up and coming activities, as well as to opportunities for those interested in flies are as follows:
Events
2006, 25.-28. July - 16th International Chironomid Sympodium, Madeira, Portugal.
2006, 17.-22. September - 8th European Congress of Entomology, Izmir, Turkey
2006, 23.-28. September - 6th International Congress of Dipterology, Fukuoka, Japan.
2007, August - Field Meeting of the North American Dipterists Society, Silver City, New Mexico.
2008, 6-12. July - International Congress of Entomology
Durban, South Africa
Societies
Arbeitskreis Diptera, Germany Dipterists' Forum
Malloch Society
North American Black Fly Association
North American Dipterists' Society
- 5.-9. August 2005 - Field Meeting at Malheur Field Station in southeastern Oregon, USA. Report
The Dipterist's Club of Japan
Journals
Newsletters
Fly Times
Bulletin of the Dipterists' Forum
Tachinid Times
Ceratopogonidae Information Exchange
Chironomus Newsletter
Phorid Newsletter
The British Simuliid Group Bulletin
Volucella
Digital Libraries
Biodiversity Heritage Library
Sherborn's Index Animalium
Biologia Centrali-Americana
Neave's Nomenclator Zoologicus
American Museum of Natural History Scientific Publications
Opportunities
Graduate Fellowship at the Smithsonian
Partnerships for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy (PEET)
Samual W. Williston Diptera Research Fund
Dipterology Fund
Other Places
This list of sources is not comprehensive, only the major sites are listed. The site at Colorado State University maintains a comprehensive list of entomological sites, the Biology Browser maintains one for all of biology. For a list of museum with Diptera collections click here.
Entomology WWW Sites (Colorado State University, Fort Collin)
Zoological Record
Thomson Index to organism names
Biology Browser
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility)
Species2000
ITIS (Integrated Taxanomic Information System)
INBio (National Institute of Biodiversity)
Fauna Europaea
Tree of Life (University of Arizona, Tucson)
AToL - Assembling the Tree of Life BIN21 (Biodiversity Information Network, Campinas)
ERIN (Environment Resource Information Network, Canberra)
Catalog of
the Diptera of the Australasian and Oceanian Regions. N.L. Evenhuis
Catalog of the Fossil
Flies of the World. N.L. Evenhuis
Iowa State Resources
Cornell Resources
Biological Collection Access Services (BioCASE)
Mosquito Genomics WWW Server
FlyView
Home (Drosophila Image Database)
BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
National Insect Week
iSpecies.org - a species search engine
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