Occurrence data of Namibimydas and Nothomydas (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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Abstract

Occurrence data of two Mydidae genera from Namibia and South Africa - Namibimydas Hesse, 1972 and Nothomydas Hesse, 1969 - based on a new taxonomic revision published in African Invertebrates in 2012.

Keywords: Mydidae, Syllegomydinae, Afrotropical

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: http://ipt.pensoft.net/ipt/resource.do?r=dikow2012_namibimydas_nothomydas

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Insecta: Diptera: Mydidae: Syllegomydinae: Namibimydas, Nothomydas
Taxonomic ranks
Species: Namibimydas gaerdesi, Namibimydas prinsi, Namibimydas psamminos, Namibimydas stuckenbergi, Nothomydas aquilonius, Nothomydas gariepinus, Nothomydas namaquensis, Nothomydas picketti

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: western Namibia and western South Africa
Coordinates: 37°19'48''S and 12°20'60''S Latitude; 7°13'48''E and 38°7'48''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: January 19, 1939 - February 10, 2012

Natural collections description

Parent collection identifier: several
Collection name: several
Collection identifier: several
Specimen preservation method: Pinned

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Occurrence data of Namibimydas and Nothomydas (Diptera: Asiloidea: Mydidae)
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://ipt.pensoft.net/ipt/archive.do?r=dikow2012_namibimydas_nothomydas
Publication date of data: 2012-01-23
Language: English

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2012-01-23
Hierarchy level: Dataset