Occurrence

Occurrence data of Afrotropical Mydidae (Insecta: Diptera: Asiloidea)

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Description

Occurrence data of 2,060 Afrotropical Mydidae (Insecta: Diptera) specimens representing 208 species based on specimens studied in numerous natural history collections. Data gathered for chapter on Mydidae in the Manual of Afrotropical Diptera (download it here: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/our-work/biodiversity/manual-afrotropical-diptera.html).

Data Records

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Dikow T (2020): Occurrence data of Afrotropical Mydidae (Insecta: Diptera: Asiloidea). v1.5. National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. Dataset/Occurrence. https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/ipt/resource?r=afrotropical_mydidae&v=1.5

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Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; Mydidae; Syllegomydinae; Megascelinae; Leptomydinae; Ectyphinae; Rhopaliinae; Afrotropical

Contacts

Torsten Dikow
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Geographic Coverage

Afrotropical zoogeographical Region

Bounding Coordinates South West [-37.88, -20.55], North East [28.8, 61.33]

Taxonomic Coverage

Insecta: Diptera: Mydidae

Species Afroleptomydas (Crossoprosopus) angolensis Hesse, 1972, Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) anomalus Hesse, 1969, Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) anthophilus Hesse, 1969, Afroleptomydas (Crossoprosopus) anuliventris Hesse, 1969, Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) apiformis Hesse, 1969, Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) apricus Hesse, 1969, Afroleptomydas (Crossoprosopus) aquilus Hesse, 1972, Afroleptomydas (Crossoprosopus) aridicolus Hesse, 1972, Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) bezzianus Bequaert, 1963, Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) boothi Hesse, 1969, Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) braunsi (Bezzi, 1924), Afroleptomydas (Crossoprosopus) browni Hesse, 1972, Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) campestris Hesse, 1969, Afroleptomydas (Crossoprosopus) campsomeroides Hesse, 1969, Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) capensis Hesse, 1969, Afroleptomydas (Crossoprosopus) capicolus Hesse, 1969, Afroleptomydas (Crossoprosopus) cognatus Hesse, 1972, Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) consanguineus Hesse, 1969, Afroleptomydas (Crossoprosopus) damarensis Hesse, 1972, Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) fasciatus (Wiedemann, 1828), Afroleptomydas (Crossoprosopus) femoralis Hesse, 1972, Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) flavidorsalis Hesse, 1969, Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) flavirostris (Bezzi, 1924), Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) flavitibialis Hesse, 1969, Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) gessi Hesse, 1969, Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) gigantulus Hesse, 1969, Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) griquaensis Hesse, 1969, Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) hirtipes Hesse, 1969, Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) humeralis (Gerstaecker, 1868), Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) humeralis (Gerstaecker, 1868), Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) inhacae Hesse, 1969, Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) inopinus Hesse, 1969, Afroleptomydas (Crossoprosopus) junodi Bequaert, 1963, Afroleptomydas (Crossoprosopus) kaokoensis Hesse, 1969, Afroleptomydas (Crossoprosopus) karooanus Hesse, 1969, Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) koupicolus Hesse, 1969, Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) lampronotus Hesse, 1969, Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) lanipes (Bezzi, 1924), Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) latipennis Hesse, 1969, Afroleptomydas (Crossoprosopus) lindneri Hesse, 1972, Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) luteocinctus Hesse, 1969, Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) marginipunctatus Hesse, 1969, Afroleptomydas (Crossoprosopus) matetsiensis Bequaert, 1963, Afroleptomydas (Crossoprosopus) mauricei Bequaert, 1963, Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) microareolatus Hesse, 1969, Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) microreticulatus Hesse, 1969, Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) milnertonensis Bequaert, 1963, Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) namaquensis Hesse, 1969, Afroleptomydas (Crossoprosopus) nigrescens Hesse, 1972, Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) nitens Bequaert, 1963, Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) nitidus (Bezzi, 1924), Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) nitidusculus Hesse, 1969, Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) occidentalis Hesse, 1969, Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) omeri (Stuckenberg, 1955), Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) opacicinctus Hesse, 1969, Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) opacus (Bezzi, 1924), Afroleptomydas (Crossoprosopus) orangiae Hesse, 1969, Afroleptomydas (Crossoprosopus) ovamboensis Hesse, 1972, Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) paganus (Gerstaecker, 1868), Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) pallidipes Hesse, 1969, Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) patruelis Hesse, 1969, Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) psammophilus Hesse, 1969, Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) pseudolanipes Bequaert, 1963, Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) pseudoopacus Bequaert, 1963, Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) pulverulentus Hesse, 1969, Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) rubellus Hesse, 1969, Afroleptomydas (Crossoprosopus) rudebecki (Bequaert, 1959), Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) rufihirtus Hesse, 1969, Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) rufithorax (Wiedemann, 1821), Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) rusticanus Hesse, 1969, Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) rutilus Hesse, 1969, Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) saeculus Hesse, 1969, Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) similimus Hesse, 1969, Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) sobrinus Hesse, 1969, Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) sodalicus Hesse, 1969, Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) sorbens Hesse, 1969, Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) sorbens Hesse, 1969, Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) sp., Afroleptomydas (Crossoprosopus) sp., Afroleptomydas (Crossoprosopus) stevensoni (Bequaert, 1938), Afroleptomydas (Crossoprosopus) subclausus (Hesse, 1969), Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) suffusipennis (Brunetti, 1929), Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) thorni Hesse, 1969, Afroleptomydas (Crossoprosopus) tuliensis Hesse, 1969, Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) turneri Bequaert, 1963, Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) vallicolus Hesse, 1969, Afroleptomydas (Crossoprosopus) vansoni Hesse, 1969, Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) villosus Hesse, 1969, Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) westermanni (Wiedemann, 1819), Afroleptomydas (Afroleptomydas) zinni Hesse, 1969, Afromydas guichardi Bequaert, 1963, Agaperemius hirtus Hesse, 1969, Arenomydas bunochilus Hesse, 1969, Arenomydas caerulescens Hesse, 1969, Arenomydas callosus (Wiedemann, 1828), Arenomydas lightfooti Hesse, 1969, Arenomydas namaquensis Hesse, 1969, Arenomydas niger (Macquart, 1838), Arenomydas partitus (Gerstaecker, 1868), Arenomydas pleurostictus Hesse, 1969, Arenomydas sentipes Hesse, 1969, Arenomydas sp., Cephalocera albida Bequaert, 1963, Cephalocera brachycera Bezzi, 1924, Cephalocera brachyptera Hesse, 1969, Cephalocera brunnipes Hesse, 1969, Cephalocera caffrariensis Hesse, 1969, Cephalocera decepta Hesse, 1969, Cephalocera devia Hesse, 1969, Cephalocera disparilis Hesse, 1969, Cephalocera dysmachoides Hesse, 1969, Cephalocera euryptera Hesse, 1969, Cephalocera fascipennis Macquart, 1838, Cephalocera flavilineata Hesse, 1969, Cephalocera imitata Hesse, 1969, Cephalocera longirostris (Wiedemann, 1830), Cephalocera macrocera Hesse, 1969, Cephalocera meridionalis Hesse, 1969, Cephalocera micheneri Hesse, 1969, Cephalocera mimica Hesse, 1969, Cephalocera namaquensis Hesse, 1969, Cephalocera nigerrima Hesse, 1969, Cephalocera nigrojubata Hesse, 1969, Cephalocera propinqua Hesse, 1969, Cephalocera riparia Hesse, 1969, Cephalocera simulata Hesse, 1969, Cephalocera sp., Cephalocera trichogyna Hesse, 1969, Cephalocera umbrina Gerstaecker, 1868, Cephalocera xerophila Hesse, 1969, Cephalocerodes bequaerti Hesse, 1969, Cephalocerodes eremobius Hesse, 1969, Cephalocerodes oldroydi (Bequaert, 1963), Cephalocerodes sp., Ectyphus abdominalis Bezzi, 1924, Ectyphus amboseli Lyons and Dikow, 2010, Ectyphus armipes Bezzi, 1924, Ectyphus capillatus Hesse, 1969, Ectyphus pinguis Gerstaecker, 1868, Ectyphus pretoriensis (Bezzi, 1924), Eremohaplomydas desertorum Bequaert, 1959, Eremohaplomydas sp., Eremomidas arabicus Bequaert, 1961, Eremomidas sp., Halterorchis inermis Bezzi, 1924, Halterorchis karooensis Hesse, 1969, Halterorchis sp., Haplomydas crassipes Bezzi, 1924, Hessemydas daugeroni Kondratieff, 2009, Hessemydas parkeri Kondratieff, Carr and Irwin, Hessemydas seyrigi (Séguy, 1960), Heteroleptomydas conopsoides Bequaert, 1963, Lachnocorynus chobeensis Hesse, 1969, Lachnocorynus kochi Hesse, 1969, Lachnocorynus sp., Leptomydas fulviventris Bigot, 1885, Mahafalymydas tuckeri Kondratieff, Carr and Irwin, 2005, Mahafalymydas wiegmanni Kondratieff, Carr and Irwin, 2005, Mimadelphus vellosus Hesse, 1972, Mydaselpis ignicornis (Brunetti, 1929), Mydaselpis karooensis Hesse, 1969, Mydaselpis mimeticus Hesse, 1969, Mydaselpis ngurumani Dikow, 2010, Mydaselpis peringueyi Bezzi, 1924, Mydaselpis sp., Mydaselpis variolosus Bezzi, 1924, Namadytes cimbebasiensis Hesse, 1972, Namadytes maculiventris (Hesse, 1969), Namadytes sp., Namadytes vansoni Hesse, 1969, Namibimydas gaerdesi Hesse, 1972, Namibimydas prinsi Hesse, 1974, Namibimydas psamminos Dikow, 2012, Namibimydas stuckenbergi Dikow, 2012, Neolaparopsis puncturatus Hesse, 1969, Nomoneura barbertonensis Hesse, 1969, Nomoneura bezzii Hesse, 1975, Nomoneura caffra Hesse, 1969, Nomoneura paradoxa Bezzi, 1924, Nomoneura sp., Nomoneura violacea Hesse, 1969, Nomoneuroides brunneus Hesse, 1969, Nomoneuroides melas Hesse, 1969, Nomoneuroides natalensis Hesse, 1969, Nothomydas aquilonius Dikow, 2012, Nothomydas gariepinus Hesse, 1969, Nothomydas namaquensis Hesse, 1972, Nothomydas picketti Dikow, 2012, Notosyllegomydas brincki (Bequaert, 1959), Oreomydas luctuosus (Bezzi, 1924), Parectyphus namibiensis Hesse, 1972, Perissocerus abyssinicus Gerstaecker, 1868, Perissocerus arabicus Bequaert, 1961, Perissocerus dumonti Séguy, 1928, Rhopalia gyps Bowden, 1987, Rhopalia olivieri Macquart, 1838, Rhopalia sp., Rhopalia tutankhameni Brunetti, 1929, Syllegomydas (Notobates) arnoldi Bequaert, 1938, Syllegomydas (Syllegomydas) astrictus Dikow, 2010, Syllegomydas (Syllegomydas) dallonii Séguy, 1936, Syllegomydas (Notobates) dispar (Loew, 1852), Syllegomydas (Syllegomydas) elachys Dikow, 2010, Syllegomydas (Notobates) heothinos Dikow, 2010, Syllegomydas (Notobates) lamborni Bequaert, 1951, Syllegomydas (Syllegomydas) proximus Séguy, 1928, Syllegomydas (Notobates) rhodesiensis Bequaert, 1938, Syllegomydas (Syllegomydas) sp., Syllegomydas (Notobates) sp., Syllegomydas (Syllegomydas) vittatus (Wiedemann, 1828), Tongamya miranda Stuckenberg, 1966, Tongamya stuckenbergi Irwin and Wiegmann, 2001, Vespiodes cerioidiformis Hesse, 1969, Vespiodes conopeus (Sack, 1935), Vespiodes goldingi (Bequaert, 1951), Vespiodes katangensis (Bequaert, 1940), Vespiodes leopoldtitertii (Bequaert, 1940), Vespiodes nyasae Hesse, 1969, Vespiodes pattersoni (Bequaert, 1951), Vespiodes phaios Dikow, 2010, Vespiodes rhodesiensis (Bequaert, 1951), Vespiodes ruficeps Hesse, 1969, Vespiodes sp.

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1820-01-01 / 2015-12-09

Project Data

No Description available

Title Deciphering the diversity and evolutionary history of Apioceridae, Asilidae, and Mydidae
Funding Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, U.S. National Science Foundation (DEB 0919333), Field Museum of Natural History (Field Dreams award)
Study Area Description world-wide
Design Description Taxonomic and phylogenetic research on Apioceridae, Asilidae, and Mydidae flies.

The personnel involved in the project:

Torsten Dikow

Collection Data

Collection Name several
Collection Identifier several
Parent Collection Identifier not applicable
Specimen preservation methods Pinned
Curatorial Units Count 2,165 +/- 0 pins

Additional Metadata

Purpose The occurrence data are made available as a unique data-set in order to facilitate study of Afrotropical Mydidae (mydas flies).
Alternative Identifiers 6cc9b613-5f76-4654-9270-6eed8f57a34e
https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/ipt/resource?r=afrotropical_mydidae