The products of the Biosystematic Database of World Diptera are disseminated in three formats and distributed via three media. The formats represent the traditional catalog, nomenclator and species database. The media are the traditional printed book for the catalog in the serial MYIA, and the online databases via the WWW for the nomenclator and species database, which are also periodically archived to the Diptera Data Dissemination Disk (a CD-ROM serial). The nomenclator and species database are FileMakerPro® applications.

The following is a sequential list of the products of the Biosystematic Database of World Diptera. This project was first publically announced at the XVII International Congress of Entomology, Hamburg, Germany (1984). Unfortunately due to the failure to obtain the necessary funding, the initial incarnation of the project died. Later special USDA funding for work on fruit flies (1989) became available and using the Tephritidae as a test taxon the first real products were produced. Funding from the Schlinger Foundation (2000, 2002-2005) and GBIF (2003) aided in producing the online nomenclator.

1994

Systematic Database of Musca Names (Diptera). Thompson, F. C. & Pont, A. C. in Theses Zoologicae, Volume 20, 221 pp. 11 March 1994.

1999

Fruit Fly Systematic Information Database. Thompson, F. C. (editor). In MYIA, Volume 9, 524 pp. 22 February 1999.

Family-Group Names in Diptera. Sabrosky, C. W. & Bibliography. Thompson, F. C., Evenhuis, N. L. & Sabrosky, C. W. In MYIA, Volume 10, 576 pp. 15 March 1999.

Biosystematic Database of World Diptera. Diptera Names Working Data Files. Thompson, F. C. & Evenhuis, N. L. (editors). On Diptera Data Dissemination Disk, Volume 1. 22 February 1999.

2000

Nomenclator. Version 1. Thompson, F. C. (compiler). Online at www.diptera.org. (2 August 2000); 141,520 names.

2001

A World Catalog of the Stratiomyidae (Diptera). Woodley, N. E. In MYIA, Volume 11, 475 pp. 13 April 2001.

Nomenclator. Version 2. Thompson, F. C. (compiler). Online at www.diptera.org. (27 April 2001); 196,838 names.

2002

Nomenclator. Version 4. Thompson, F. C. (compiler). Online at www.diptera.org. (14 February 2002); 215,494 names.

2004

Nomenclator. Version 6.1. Thompson, F. C. (compiler). Online at www.diptera.org. (4 February 2004); 246,933 names.

Diptera Data Dissemination Disk, Volume 2. Norrbom, A. L. & Thompson, F. C. (editors). 2 April 2004.

2005

Nomenclator. Version 7.0. Brake, I. & Thompson, F. C. (compilers). Online at www.diptera.org. (4 January 2005); 255,565 names.

Nomenclator. Version 7.5. Brake, I. & Thompson, F. C. (compilers). Online at www.diptera.org. (24 October 2005); 149,199 extant species; 258,215 names.