To properly manage information and specimens, a stable and scientific classification is needed. Periodically, we will review this classification and incorporate changes as we know a better classification is needed. Unfortunately, insufficient evidence has been published to resolve all problem areas.
Comments are always welcome on our consensus classification.
Feel free to contact any curator, their names and addresses are to be found under the workers section of this site. For complete nomenclatural details, see the Databases of World Diptera . See the Tree of Life for the best suprafamilial classification of Diptera.