Occurrence data of Plyomydas (Diptera: Asiloidea: Mydidae)

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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Citation: Combination of authors, year of data paper publication (in parentheses), Title, Journal Name, Volume, Issue number (in parentheses), and doi of the data paper.

Resource Citation

Castillo, S. and Dikow, T. Taxonomic revision of Plyomydas Wilcox and Papavero, 1971 with the description of two new species and its transfer to Mydinae (Insecta: Diptera: Mydidae)

Abstract

Occurrence data of the Mydidae genus Plyomydas from Argentina, Peru, and Paraguay based on a new taxonomic review in 2017.

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen, Mydidae, Mydinae, Neotropical

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, U.S. National Science Foundation (DEB 0919333), 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=plyomydas

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Insecta: Diptera: Mydidae: Mydinae: Messiasiini: Plyomydas
Taxonomic ranks
Species: Plyomydas peruviensis, Plyomydas adelphe, Plyomydas phalarope

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Argentina, Peru, Paraguay
Coordinates: 39°55'48''S and 3°47'60''S Latitude; 82°4'12''W and 52°25'12''W Longitude 

Temporal coverage: January 1, 1907 - December 4, 2015

Natural collections description

Parent collection identifier: not applicable
Collection name: several
Collection identifier: several
Specimen preservation method: Pinned
Curatorial unit: 29 with an uncertainty of 0 (pins)

Methods

Method step description: 

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Occurrence data of Plyomydas (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=plyomydas
Publication date of data: 2020-03-26
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2016-12-21
Hierarchy level: Dataset

References
Castillo, S. and Dikow, T. 2017. Taxonomic revision of Plyomydas Wilcox and Papavero, 1971 with the description of two new species and its transfer to Mydinae (Insecta: Diptera: Mydidae). Revista Brasileira de Entomologia 61(2): 192-202. doi:10.1016/j.rbe.2017.03.002 10.1016/j.rbe.2017.03.002