Wikipedia:WikiProject Diptera

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Welcome to WikiProject Diptera. Several Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Diptera (flies) and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please add yourself as a participant in the project.

Parentage

This WikiProject is an offshoot of WikiProject Tree of Life

WikiProject Science

WikiProject Biology

WikiProject Tree of Life

WikiProject Animals

WikiProject Arthropods

WikiProject Insects

WikiProject Diptera

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Goals

The goal of the project is to improve content on dipterans in Wikipedia.

Participants

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest. You may also add the WikiProject Diptera userbox to your profile:

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List of participants

Agandhi7 (talk · contribs) I am interested in working on this project to learn more about species within Order Diptera, and gain experience in editing and improving Wikipedia articles. 23:38, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
andrewoh29 (talk · contribs) I am interested in contributing to the Diptera project, reviewing articles on flies, and learning various skills on Wikipedia. The fly that I will be contributing to is Drosophila subobscura. 17:53, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
AnuBalasubramanian (talk · contribs) I would like to contribute to the Diptera project on Wikipedia by learning about different varieties of flies and commenting on these pages. The page I will specifically be working on is Dryomyza anilis. AnuBalasubramanian (talk) 19:40, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
ArndtH (talk · contribs) I am interested in working on evaluations of Diptera articles. I will be writing the article for Anopheles freeborni. 21:09, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
asivamohan (talk · contribs) I am interested in reviewing and contributing to Diptera 19:40, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
AxonsArachnida Entomologist with taxonomic diptera knowledge. Interested in New Zealand species.
Christina.lindberg (talk · contribs) I am interested in reviewing and improving Diptera pages, specifically the page on Physocephala tibialis 21:22, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
Eengermann (talk · contribs) I will be reviewing and contributing to articles about Diptera, specifically Drosophila nigrospiracula. 02:40, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
Friesen5000 (talk · contribs) Cecidomyiidae
Hannahwhite97 (talk · contribs) I am interested in working on reviewing and evaluating diptera articles, and I will be working on the Sepsis cynipsea page and the Spilomyia longicornis page.
Hvmoolani (talk · contribs) I am interested in working on reviewing and evaluating diptera articles 18:39, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
IsrEvolution (talk · contribs) I am interested in working on adding article guidelines for dipterans 14:49, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
Jillian Shah (talk · contribs) I am interested in adding to the Diptera project and reviewing articles on flies. Jillian Shah (talk) 22:47, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
Joshkim_wustl (talk · contribs) I am interested in Ormia ochracea and contributing to the diptera project.
JustinLevin (talk · contribs) I am interested in reviewing articles about Diptera and contributing to the Cuterebra fontinella page.
KendalTLee (talk · contribs) I am interested in working on reviewing and evaluating diptera articles Poecilobothrus nobilitatus
Lelandra (talk · contribs) I will be contributing to the Diptera project by studying culex pipiens.
listephanie (talk · contribs) I am interested in adding, reviewing and evaluating Diptera articles Listephanie (talk) 04:17, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
Mmhua (talk · contribs) I am interested in working on this project so I can learn how to review and improve Wiki articles on dipterans. 17:02, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
montana.sievert (talk · contribs) I am interested in reviewing articles about DipteraMontana.sievert (talk) 20:09, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
Mvardy417 (talk · contribs) I am interested in working on the Diptera project, specially on articles bombylius major and Pseudacteon tricuspis. 19:37, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
Nikhilaggarwal123 (talk · contribs) I am interested in working on reviewing and evaluating Diptera articles 21:07, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
OstapKukhar (talk · contribs) I am interested in working on adding article guidelines for dipterans 20:03, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
RachelXinruHua (talk · contribs) I am interested in furthering efforts of the Diptera project.
RappaiT (talk · contribs) I am interested in reviewing and expanding upon the Wikipedia article on Bactrocera dorsalis, a Dipteran. 22:37, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
rebeccaspell (talk · contribs) I am interested in adding to and editing articles.
Shreenidhipm (talk · contribs) I am interested in working on adding article guidelines for dipterans 03:33, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
Steelwull (talk · contribs) I am interested in helping to edit articles Diptera project, including Leptoconops torrens 22:02, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
Styrphid Fox (talk · contribs) I am working on editing and creating pages for American species of Syrphids. I welcome others to help in this project and can provide extensive information to anyone interested. 13:26, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
sydney.stein7 (talk · contribs) I am interested in contributing to articles about Diptera
Wikijmedina (talk · contribs) I am interested in working on adding article guidelines for dipterans 18:17, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
XuLily (talk · contribs) I am interested in contributing to content for the Diptera project, specifically focusing on species Aedes taeniorhynchus. 14:49, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
Y.shiuan (talk · contribs) I am interested in working on the Diptera project, specifically Culicoides imicola, and expand understanding on these creatures through articles 21:10, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
alicelixuan (talk · contribs) I am interested in working on reviewing and fact-checking diptera articles. Currently I am working on the article page for species syrrita pipiens.
EllyGrant (talk · contribs) I am interested in expanding and editing Project Diptera articles, particularly the article for Lucilia sericata. 20:10, 17 September 2019 (UTC)
Chickfilkay (talk · contribs) I am interested in creating content for the Diptera project
Srivera2019 (talk · contribs) I am interested in working on contributing to the Diptera project by adding to the article on telostylinus angusticollis 19:43, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
Olivia.Urso (talk · contribs) I am planning to contribute to the Diptera project by expanding upon the Bactrocera tyroni article 14:56, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
Feralcateater000 (talk · contribs) I intend to expand stub-class articles
Crawdaunt (talk · contribs) I am interested in working with the Diptera project, and have specialization in immunity of insects, and work on molecular evolution of Drosophilidae but also other Diptera. 09:53, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
Afonso Dimas Martins (talk · contribs) I am working mostly on turning red links to blue that are related to mosquito species. 15:25, 24 March 2025 (UTC)
Sevenstxrsquid (talk · contribs) Mostly mosquitoes found in Australia, but also others (mainly those in the genus Aedes). 11:55, 19 August 2025 (UTC)
ChiroZOOmid (talk · contribs) I have interest in creating and expanding Chironomidae information on Wikipedia. 21:28, 6 December 2025 (UTC)

Format for articles

A suggested format for articles on Diptera is given in the Article formats page.

See Housefly (housefly) as an example of a typical species accounts.

Open tasks

Articles

Recognized content

This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot (talk · contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged (e.g. {{Diptera}}) or categorized (e.g. Category:Flies) correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options.

No results were found.

Hot articles

These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last seven days. Last updated 20 December 2025.

Update the table now

This table is generated by querying the database replica and is periodically updated by a bot.
Edits made within the table area will be removed on the next update!

Edits	Article	Rating
7	Calypter	Start
7	Michotamia	Stub
5	Michotamia aurata	Stub
4	Symphoromyia	Stub
3	Fungus gnat	Start
3	Nyia gazophylax	Stub
2	Asphondylia monacha	Stub
2	Bombyliidae	Start
2	Botfly	C
2	Ceratopogonidae	Start
2	Drosophila	C
2	Eumerus funeralis	Stub
2	Eupeodes confrater	Stub
2	Glossina morsitans	Start
2	Glossina palpalis	Start
2	Glossina tachinoides	Stub
2	Prosoeca peringueyi	C
2	Tc1/mariner	C

∑ 18 items | Query runtime: 2.20 s | Last updated: 15:25, 14 November 2026 (UTC)

End of auto-generated report.

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Featured content

Good articles

Candidates

New articles

Please feel free to list your new Diptera-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,500 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page.

Review and assessment

Assessment

Assessment

Diptera articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	1	1		1			3
FM					7		7
GA	4	1	4	1			10
B	3	8	13	35		1	60
C	9	4	36	116		2	167
Start	5	17	59	658		10	749
Stub		13	53	13,949		2,110	16,125
List			3	167			170
Category					595		595
Disambig					2		2
File					3		3
Project					8		8
Redirect				223	207		430
Template					4,267		4,267
Other					1		1
Assessed	22	44	168	15,150	5,090	2,123	22,597
Total	22	44	168	15,150	5,090	2,123	22,597
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 101,363			Ω = 5.92

(to refresh quality table, visit here and update "Diptera")

Peer review

Peer review

Statistics

Templates

Talk page template

Please place {{WikiProject Diptera|class=article_quality|importance=article_importance|needs-photo=}} at the top of each article's talk page. This will help to direct editors to WikiProject Diptera for guidance. The arguments to be filled for importance and quality can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Diptera/Article Classification. The value "article_quality" is a measure of the quality of the concerned article and will be one of the following: FA, GA, A, B, B, C, Start, Stub, List or Category. Similarly, "article_importance" is one of: top, high, mid or low. The "needs-photo" item if given a value of "yes" will indicate that a photograph is needed. An example of a WikiProject template with values of "B" for quality and "high" for importance and "yes" for needing a photograph will look like this:

Diptera High‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Diptera, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of flies on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.DipteraWikipedia:WikiProject DipteraTemplate:WikiProject DipteraDiptera
High	This article has been rated as High-importance on the importance scale.
	An editor has requested that an image or photograph be added to this article.

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