Nothing wrong with an honest plugEric F wrote:Vol. 1 of the great "Manual of North American Diptera" may be out of print but the first volume of the newly published "Manual of Central American Diptera" is now available. Costing about $100, this very nice 714+ pp. book has the same essential information and coverage as the earlier volume -- just for flies of northern tropical America, rather than temperate America. MCAD will be THE resource for Central American flies, as MNAD has been for flies of North America. Both series are from the National Research Council of Canada/ Canadian Govt. Publishing Centre. (Shameless advert: I contributed the Asilidae chapter for MCAD.)
Andrew