Provides a key to Australian fly families, including illustrations, taxon information for each family, and information on diversity, biology, ecology and pest status.
There are 104 families of flies known from Australia. This key divides the families into four broad groupings (Lower Diptera, Lower Brachycera (including Lower Cyclorrhapha), Calyptrata and Acalyptrata).
The family keys are accessed via a key to the four groupings, and a section to assist in distinguishing true flies from similar insects belonging to other orders.
On The Fly is richly illustrated with images of character states and live images of representative species. There is a taxon information page on each family, including information on diversity, biology, ecology and pest status.
The key is a complete educational tool with general information about:
The software package is greatly enhanced for education with the inclusion of an interactive glossary of fly anatomy for use in conjunction with the key.
Development of the key is a collaborative project involving staff from CSIRO, The Australian Museum, The University of Queensland, University of California (Davis) USA and the University of Guelph, Canada.
With On The Fly you will be able to:
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accurately identify to which family an Australian fly belongs
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access further information on each Australian fly family, including photographs, a brief morphological description, biology and distribution and links to literature and web sites
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learn about the characteristics, classification, research, collection and curation of flies in general
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view an interactive atlas of fly anatomy.
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Hamilton JR, Yeates DK, Hastings A, Colless DH, McAlpine DK, Bickel D, Cranston PS, Schneider MA, Daniels G, Marshall S. 2006. On The Fly - The Interactive Atlas and Key to Australia Fly Families. Centre for Biological Information Technology.
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