Common blue butterfly, Polyommatus icarus, on lavender Credit Hayley Wiswell
Common blue butterfly, Polyommatus icarus, on lavender Credit Hayley Wiswell
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Scuttle Flies – Diptera, Phoridae (except Megaselia)

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British Lonchaeidae – Diptera. Cyclorrhapha, Acalyptratae

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Checklists of Insects of The British Isles (New series) Part 1: Diptera

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The Staphylinidae (rove beetles) of Britain and Ireland Scaphidiinae, Piestinae, Oxytelinae

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Checklist of the Lepidoptera of the British Isles

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The Staphylinidae (rove beetles) of Britain and Ireland. Parts 7 & 8: Oxyporinae, Steninae, Euaesthetinae, Pseudopsinae, Paederinae, Staphylininae