Description
Occurrence data of the Mydidae genus Namadytes from Namibia and South Africa based on a new taxonomic review in 2013.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 69 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Dikow, T. and Leon, S. 2014. Review of the genus Namadytes Hesse, 1969 (Insecta: Diptera: Mydidae: Syllegomydinae). Biodiversity Data Journal 2: e1071. doi:10.3897/BDJ.2.e1071
Rights
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 5e6acf4c-e913-45fd-8466-5c0b92c322dd. National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by U.S. Geological Survey.
Keywords
Mydidae; Syllegomydinae; Afrotropical; Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence
Contacts
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http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4816-2909
Geographic Coverage
Namibia and South Africa
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-37.33, 6.17], North East [-15.76, 34.26] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Insecta: Diptera: Mydidae: Syllegomydinae: Namadytes
| Species | Namadytes cimbebasiensis, Namadytes maculiventris, Namadytes vansoni |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1933-04-30 / 2012-04-14 |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | Phylogeny, revisionary taxonomy & the fossil record of asiloid flies (Diptera: Apioceridae, Asilidae, Mydidae) |
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| Funding | U.S. National Science Foundation (DEB 0919333) |
| Study Area Description | world-wide |
| Design Description | Taxonomic and phylogenetic research on Apioceridae, Asilidae, and Mydidae flies. |
The personnel involved in the project:
Collection Data
| Collection Name | several |
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| Collection Identifier | several |
| Parent Collection Identifier | Not applicable |
| Specimen preservation methods | Pinned |
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Bibliographic Citations
- Dikow, T. and Leon, S. 2014. Review of the genus Namadytes Hesse, 1969 (Insecta: Diptera: Mydidae: Syllegomydinae). Biodiversity Data Journal 2: e1071. doi:10.3897/BDJ.2.e1071 10.3897/BDJ.2.e1071
Additional Metadata
| Purpose | The occurrence data are made available as a unique data-set in order to facilitate the test of the species and distributional hypotheses postulated in this taxonomic revision/review. |
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| Alternative Identifiers | 5e6acf4c-e913-45fd-8466-5c0b92c322dd |
| https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/ipt/resource?r=mydidae_namadytes |