Lang’s Short-tailed Blue (Leptotes pirithous) Credit Alex Perry
Lang’s Short-tailed Blue (Leptotes pirithous) Credit Alex Perry
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Diptera: Bibionid and Scatopsid flies

Cover of An introduction to the immature stages of British flies RES Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Volume 10, Part 14 Figures Index

An introduction to the immature stages of British Flies. Diptera Larvae, with notes on eggs, puparia and pupae. Figures index.

Cover of An introduction to the immature stages of British flies RES Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Volume 10, Part 14

An introduction to the immature stages of British Flies. Diptera Larvae, with notes on eggs, puparia and pupae. Main text.

Cover of Keds, Flat-Flies and Bat-Flies Diptera Hippoboscidae Nycteribiidae RES Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Volume 10, Part 7

Diptera – Hippoboscidae and Nycteribiidae (Keds, Flat-Flies and Bat-Flies).

Cover of Diptera Agromyzidae RES Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Volume 10, Part 5g

Diptera – Agromyzidae.

Cover of Tephritid Flies Diptera Tephritidae RES Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Volume 10, Part 5a

Diptera – Tephritidae.

Cover of Diptera Cyclorrhapha Calyptrata b Muscidae RES Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Volume 10, Part 4b

Diptera – Cyclorrhapha Calyptrata, Section (b) Muscidae.

Cover of Diptera Cyclorrhapha Calyptrata a Calliphoridae RES Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Volume 10, Part 4a Calliphoridae

Diptera – Cyclorrhapha. Calyptrata (1) Section (a) Tachinidae and Calliphoridae (Calliphoridae).

Cover of Diptera Cyclorrhapha Calyptrata a Tachinidae RES Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Volume 10, Part 4a

Diptera – Cyclorrhapha. Calyptrata (1) Section (a) Tachinidae and Calliphoridae (Tachinidae).

Cover of Diptera Conopidae RES Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects, Volume 10, Part 3a

Diptera – Conopidae.