Expected Products

Reference collection of Diptera of Costa Rica: Diptera specimens collected during the inventory are deposited in the entomology collection at INBio. Each specimen has a label with the geographic coordinates of the site and the other pertinent collecting information. Besides, a bar code is assigned to each specimen. The collection will be well organized, labeled, and identified to make this collection a national and regional taxonomic center.

Manual of the Diptera of Costa Rica:
This Manual will treat ALL the families of Diptera known to occur in Costa Rica, at different levels of complexity depending on present knowledge. It will include a chapter for each family, comprising what is now known and what will be discovered during the course of the inventory. In addition to an illustrated key to the genera of adult flies, each chapter will include, whenever possible, the following: diagnostic characters; estimated number of species in Costa Rica and the Central American region; natural history; and a discussion of the larval stages when this information is available. Other chapters will treat morfology, Biology economic and medical importance, and a pictorial key to the families of Diptera

The book will originally be written in English but the TWIG strongly encourages INBio to seek funding for translation into Spanish, and publication in both Spanish and English.

World Wide Web pages for species and other taxa will be developed as appropriate. Priority will be given to those species of flies, such as the torsalo, screw-worm, med fly, etc. that are of high economic importance. As other species become better known, TWIG members will provide information to allow INBio to treat additional species on the Web. These UBI (species web pages) and other products will also be disseminated on CD-ROM disks. The TWIG members made many suggestions for popular publications (in Spanish), directed towards the general public, that would flow naturally from the Manual of the Diptera of Costa Rica, and the accompanying research. These include pictorial brochures and trail guides for conservation areas and national parks.

Other publications such as revisions, new species descriptions, monographs, etc.

Work in the Manual of Diptera

 

Diptera TWIG / Sampling site selection /
Taxa selection / Products / Protocols