Occurrence data of Microphontes (Diptera: Asiloidea: Asilidae)

Torsten Dikow1

1 National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 10th Street and Constitution Avenue NW, 20004, Washington, United States

Corresponding author(s): Torsten Dikow (DikowT@si.edu)

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Resource Citation

Markee, A. and Dikow, T. Taxonomic revision of the assassin-fly genus Microphontes Londt, 1994 (Diptera: Asilidae: Brachyrhopalinae). African Invertebrates.

Abstract

Occurrence data of the Afrotropical Asilidae genus Microphontes from Namibia and South Africa based on a new taxonomic review in 2018.

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen, Asilidae, Brachyrhopalinae, Afrotropical

Project details

Project title: Deciphering the diversity and evolutionary history of Apioceridae, Asilidae, and Mydidae
Personnel: Torsten Dikow
Funding: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Field Museum of Natural History (Field Dreams award)
Study area descriptions/descriptor: world-wide
Design description: Taxonomic and phylogenetic research on Apioceridae, Asilidae, and Mydidae flies.

Data published through GBIF: https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/ipt/resource?r=microphontes

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Insecta: Diptera: Asilidae: Brachyrhopalinae: Microphontes
Taxonomic ranks
Species: Microphontes megoura, Microphontes gaiophanes, Microphontes safra, Microphontes whittingtoni, Microphontes ericfisheri, Microphontes jasonlondti, Microphontes kryphios

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Namibia, South Africa
Coordinates: 35°19'1.2''S and 16°17'56.4''S Latitude; 10°32'49.2''E and 27°35'52.8''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: November 1, 1936 - September 26, 2017

Natural collections description

Collection name: several
Specimen preservation method: Pinned
Curatorial unit: 43 with an uncertainty of 0 (pins)

Methods

Method step description: 

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Occurrence data of Microphontes (Diptera: Asiloidea: Asilidae)
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/ipt/archive.do?r=microphontes
Publication date of data: 2019-03-29
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2018-07-27
Hierarchy level: Dataset