Use the atlas as a teaching aid or in conjuction with any fly key to find out the name of fly parts.
The atlas can be used as a standalone resource to accompany any fly key or as an aid for teaching fly anatomy.
The atlas works both ways - users can either:
Common synonyms for anatomical terms are available from the information button that appears when terms and structures are highlighted.
The atlas relies on high resolution digital images of flies, and allows the user to change magnifications to see fine detail.
The user can learn fly anatomy by examining all the different parts of a single fly or highlight a particular structure and navigate between flies. In this way the user can recognize how the structure changes shape and form across this vast taxonomic spectrum. This is a graphical representation of transformational homology.
The Anatomical Atlas of Flies was created by CSIRO Entomology to accompany an ABRS-funded identification key to fly families of Australia and US NSF-funded research into the evolutionary history of flies.
View the Anatomical Atlas of Flies.
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