Occurrence data of Namadytes (Diptera: Asiloidea: Mydidae)

Torsten Dikow1, Torsten Dikow2

1 National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 10th Street and Constitution Avenue NW, 20004, Washington, United States; 2 National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 10th Street and Constitution Avenue NW, 20008, Washington, United States

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

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Resource Citation

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

Abstract

Occurrence data of the Mydidae genus Namadytes from Namibia and South Africa based on a new taxonomic review in 2013.

Keywords: Mydidae, Syllegomydinae, Afrotropical, Occurrence, Specimen, Occurrence

General description

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.

Project details

Project title: Phylogeny, revisionary taxonomy & the fossil record of asiloid flies (Diptera: Apioceridae, Asilidae, Mydidae)
Personnel: Torsten Dikow
Funding: U.S. National Science Foundation (DEB 0919333)
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=mydidae_namadytes

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Insecta: Diptera: Mydidae: Syllegomydinae: Namadytes
Taxonomic ranks
Species: Namadytes cimbebasiensis, Namadytes maculiventris, Namadytes vansoni

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Namibia and South Africa
Coordinates: 37°19'48''S and 15°45'36''S Latitude; 6°10'12''E and 34°15'36''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: April 30, 1933 - April 14, 2012

Natural collections description

Parent collection identifier: Not applicable
Collection name: several
Collection identifier: several
Specimen preservation method: Pinned

Methods

Method step description: 

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Occurrence data of Namadytes (Diptera: Asiloidea: Mydidae)
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/ipt/archive.do?r=mydidae_namadytes
Publication date of data: 2022-03-26
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2013-10-23
Hierarchy level: Dataset

References
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