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Dr David McAlpine - Publications

These include over seventy research and scientific review articles on Diptera, as well as a number of articles on popular natural history, reviews, textbook chapters, and encyclopedia entries. The following is a selection:

McAlpine, D.K. 1966. Description and biology of an Australian species of Cypselosomatidae (Diptera), with a discussion of family relationships. Australian Journal of Zoology 14:673-685.

McAlpine, D.K. 1979. Agonistic behaviour in Achias australis (Diptera, Platystomatidae) and the significance of eye-stalks. Pp.221-230 in Blum, M.S. and Blum, N.A. (eds). Sexual Selection and Reproductive Competition in Insects. Academic Press, New York.

McAlpine, D.K. 1982. A new genus of littoral flies (Diptera: Canacidae). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Washington 10:108-117.

McAlpine, D.K. 1983. A new subfamily of Aulacigastridae (Diptera: Schizophora), with a discussion of aulacigastrid classification. Australian Journal of Zoology 31:55-78.

McAlpine, D.K. 1985. The Australian genera of Heleomyzidae (Diptera: Schizophora) and a reclassification of the family into tribes. Records of the Australian Museum 36:203-251.

McAlpine, D.K. 1988a. Studies in upside-down flies (Diptera: Neurochaetidae). Part I. Systematics and Phylogeny. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 110:31-58.

McAlpine, D.K. 1988b. Studies in upside-down flies (Diptera: Neurochaetidae). Part II. Biology, adaptations, and specific mating mechanisms. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 110:59-82.

Colless, D.H. and D.K. McAlpine. 1991. Chapter 39. Diptera (Flies). Pp. 717-789 in CSIRO (ed.). The Insects of Australia 2nd ed., Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

McAlpine, D.K. 1991. Review of the Australian kelp flies (Diptera: Coelopidae). Systematic Entomology 16:29-84.

McAlpine, D.K. and R.G. de Keyzer. 1994. Generic classification of the fern flies (Diptera: Teratomyzidae) with a larval description. Systematic Entomology 19:305-326.

McAlpine, D.K. 1997. Gobryidae, a new family of acalyptrate flies (Diptera: Diopsoidea), and a discussion of relationships of the diopsoid families. Records of the Australian Museum 49:167-194.

McAlpine, D.K. 1998. Review of the Australian stilt flies (Diptera: Micropezidae) with a phylogenetic analysis of the family. Invertebrate Taxonomy 12:55-134.

McAlpine, D.K. 2001. Review of the Australasian genera of signal flies (Diptera: Platystomatidae). Records of the Australian Museum 53:113-199.

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