Dipterists Digest 2026 33, 1-4

Your title here with Species binomial and Author (Diptera, Phoridae) new to the British Isles

AUTHOR NAME1, AUTHOR NAME2

1First author address, first author email

2Second author address, second author email

Summary

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Introduction

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Methods

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Results or keys or descriptions etc.

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Material examined

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Discussion

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Conclusions

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Acknowledgement(s)

Thank those who have enabled or assisted with your studies.

References

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Chandler, P.J. (Ed.) 2025. An Update of the 1998 Checklist of Diptera of the British Isles [updated 28 November 2025]. Available via the Dipterists Forum website at https://dipterists.org.uk/sites/default/files/pdf/BRITISH%20ISLES%20CHECKLIST%202025_05.pdf

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Pont, A.C. and Evenhuis, N.L. 2026. Catalogue of the Muscidae of the World (Insecta: Diptera). Bishop Museum Bulletin in Entomology 18. Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu.

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Portschinsky, J.[A.] 1882. Diptera europaea et asiatica nova aut minus cognita. (Cum notis biologicis.) Pars III. Horae Societatis Entomologicae Rossicae. 17 (1 & 2), [3]-12.

Skidmore, P. 1985. The biology of the Muscidae of the world. Series Entomologica 29. Dr W. Junk Publishers, Dordrecht/Boston/Lancaster.

Soós, Á. and Papp, L. (Eds.) 1986. Sarcophagidae – Hypodermatidae. Catalogue of Palaearctic Diptera 11. Akademiaí Kíado, Budapest.

Stein, P. 1903. Die europäischen Arten der Gattung Hydrotaea Rob.-Desv. Verhandlungen der kaiserlich-königlichen zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien. 53, 285-337.

Vikhrev, N.E. 2013. Taxonomic notes on the Hydrotaea irritans species-group (Diptera, Muscidae). Amurskij zoologicheskij zhurnal – Amurian Zoological Journal 5 (3), 283-287.

Vikhrev, N.E., Esin, M.N., Yanbulat, M.O. and Ruchin, A.B. 2020. A list of the Sciomyzidae, Fanniidae and Muscidae (Diptera) of Mordovia. Amurskij zoologicheskij zhurnal – Amurian Zoological Journal 12 (4), 444-459.

Wingate, W.J. 1906. A Preliminary List of Durham Diptera, with Analytical Tables. Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham and Newcastle-upon-Tyne (New Series) 2. Williams and Norgate, London and Edinburgh; and Dodsworth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Zielke, E. and Bobeva, A. 2022. On abdomen pattern and some other differentiating features of female Hydrotaea borussica Stein from Bulgaria, verified by DNA analysis, and in females of similar species (Diptera: Muscidae). The Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine 158 (2), 89-114.