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The Fly: The Interactive Atlas and Key to Australian Fly Families
Winner of 2007 Whitley Commendation 
True flies, the Diptera, are ubiquitous and often abundant in Australian terrestrial ecosystems. Yet from a fauna estimated at around 30,000 species, only about 20% are described so far, and most of these only occur in Australia.
Flies perform important ecological functions such as nutrient recycling, predation and pollination. Many fly larvae are parasitoids of other insects. Some are economically important pests or vectors of disease, while others are beneficial, and play important biological or ecological roles such as regulating pest populations. And, of course, we all know flies as pesky co-inhabitants of this continent.
The Lucid™ Player provides an easy-to-use interface, with comprehensive fact-sheets, diagnostic features for all fly families and numerous photographs of macroscopic and microscopic features.
Authors
Hamilton, J.R., Yeates, D.K., Hastings, A., Colless, D.H., McAlpine, D.K., Bickel, D., Cranston, P.S., Schneider, M.A., Daniels, G. & Marshall, S.
Published by
Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS), and
Centre for Biological Information Technology,
The University of Queensland,
Brisbane,
Queensland 4072,
Australia