Dipteran pollination is less well understood than bee pollination, often underestimated, and largely ignored. We know very little of the pollination biology of flies because existing data are ill databased and thus inaccessible, reference collections do not cover most of the biodiversity, and there is a lack of trained Diptera taxonomists and pollination ecologists. Moreover, there is a lack of interaction between the taxonomy and ecology scientific communities. The aim of this project is therefore to organize a network to collect, manage, and share information on dipteran pollinators from the Afrotropics. Indeed, because plant-pollinator networks are composed of a variety of flowering plants and an interacting, high variety of insect pollinators, the different roles of the pollinators need to be understood. So far, we know very little of the pollinating Diptera although in the Afrotropics they probably are as diverse as the other main insect pollinator taxa.

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