Diptera

Bezděk, Jan & Hájek, Jiří, 2017, Insect biodiversity of the Socotra Archipelago - underlined and counted, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae (Acta. Ent. Mus. Natl. Pragae) 57, pp. 1-39 : 9-10

Diptera

Literature sources. TASCHENBERG (1883), MCLACHLAN et al. (1898), THEOBALD (1901), RICARDO & THEOBALD (1903), HENDEL (1907), AUSTEN (1909), BECKER (1910), ALEXANDER (1920), BEZZI (1924), ENDERLEIN (1928), HE- RING (1939), EDWARDS (1941), MEILLON (1947), LEESON & THEODOR (1948), HULL (1949, 1962), MATTINGLY (1953), STUCKENBERG (1954), MATTINGLY & KNIGHT (1956), OLDROYD (1964), BEYER (1965), GREATHEAD (1969, 2003, 2004), LEHRER (1970, 2003, 2005, 2006), PONT (1972), LYNEBORG (1976, 1989), CROSSKEY (1977, 1980), HUANG (1977), BAEZ (1980), TOWNSEND (1990), GUICHARD (1992), MATHIS (1993), TSACAS & ARTIGAS (1994), WRANIK (1998, 1999, 2000, 2003), GREATHEAD & EVENHUIS (2001), CROSSKEY et al. (2002), GELLER- GRIMM (2002), HAUSER (2002), MERZ (2002), SCARBROUGH (2002, 2010), NASHER & AL JUMAILY (2003), VERVES (2003), LONDT (2005, 2006, 2008), CHEUNG & DEVANTIER (2006), COURI et al. (2006), GRICHANOV (2006), BRAKE (2009, 2011), HANCOCK (2010), AL- KUBATI et al. (2011), MARSHALL et al. (2011), JEŽEK & TKOČ (2012), TOMASOVIC (2012), VIKHREV (2012), TKOČ & ROZKOŠNÝ (2014), SMIT et al. (2017).

Comments. Actually, 165 species are recorded from the Socotra Archipelago, 38 of them (= 23%) are treated as endemic. However, only some families have been well studied: Asilidae (e.g. GELLER- GRIMM 2002, LONDT 2008), Bombyliidae ( GREATHEAD 1969, 2004; GREATHEAD & EVENHUIS 2001), Culicidae (e.g. LEESON & THEODOR 1948, MATTINGLY & KNIGHT 1956), Limoniidae ( HANCOCK 2010) , Psychodidae ( JEŽEK & TKOČ 2012) , or Stratiomyidae ( HAUSER 2002, TKOČ & ROZKOŠNÝ 2014). Most other families are still awaiting a comprehensive revision.