Brachycera

Estheria obliqua, one of the Conchostraca. A: Shell of female from the side; B, male from the side, after removal of one valve of the snell. a' Antennule; a', antenna; ad, muscle which draws together the valves of the shell; f, tail fork; md, mandible

Sepedon and Tetaoncera : Sepedon fuscipennis Loew.: 1. Larva, dorsal view; 2. Larva, lateral view; 3. Puparium, dorsal view; 4. Puparium, lateral view; 5. Open puparium; 6. Seed floating which the puparium simulates; 7. Imago, dorsal view; 8. Imago, later.

[Polychaeta of the Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand].

Sepedon and Tetaoncera : Sepedon fuscipennis Loew.: 1. Larva, dorsal view; 2. Larva, lateral view; 3. Puparium, dorsal view; 4. Puparium, lateral view; 5. Open puparium; 6. Seed floating which the puparium simulates; 7. Imago, dorsal view; 8. Imago, lateral view.. Tetanoccera pictipes Loew: 9. Larva, dorsal view; 10. Larva, lateral view; 11. Puparium, lateral view; 12. Puparium, dorsal view; 13. Imago. dorsal view; 14. Imago, lateral view

Blood-sucking Snipe Fly, Symphoromyia atripes, female fly (length 5.5 mm)From Snodgrass, R. E. 1944. The feeding apparatus of biting and sucking insects affecting man and animals. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 104(7):1-113, page 65.

This illustration shows the taxonomic details in the head region of the common housefly, Musca domestica.Created: 1975

This illustration shows the taxonomic details in the head region of the fly Stomoxys calcitrans.Created: 1975

Drosophila suzukii, male, California, United StatesFrom Wikimedia Commons