Occurrence data of Ectyphus and Parectyphus (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

Lyons, K.M.  and Dikow, T. 2010. Taxonomic revision of Ectyphus Gerstaecker, 1868 and Parectyphus Hesse, 1972 with a key to world Ectyphinae (Insecta: Diptera: Mydidae). ZooKeys 73: 25-59. doi:10.3897/zookeys.73.840

Abstract

Occurrence data of two Mydidae genera from Namibia, Kenya, and South Africa - Ectyphus Gerstaecker, 1868 and Parectyphus Hesse, 1972 - based on a new taxonomic revision published in ZooKeys in 2010.

Keywords: Mydidae, Ectyphinae, Afrotropical, Occurrence, Specimen

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/resource?r=ectyphus_parectyphus_lyons_dikow2010

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Insecta: Diptera: Mydidae: Ectyphinae: Ectyphus, Parectyphus
Taxonomic ranks
Species: Ectyphus abdominalis, Ectyphus armipes, Ectyphus capillatus, Ectyphus pinguis, Ectyphus pretoriensis, Ectyphus amboseli, Parectyphus namibiensis

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: primarily South Africa, but also in Namibia and Kenya
Coordinates: 38°42'36''S and 11°2'24''N Latitude; 6°52'48''E and 46°54'36''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: November 30, 1834 - December 14, 1988

Natural collections description

Parent collection identifier: several
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 Ectyphus and Parectyphus (Diptera: Asiloidea: Mydidae)
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://ipt.pensoft.net/archive.do?r=ectyphus_parectyphus_lyons_dikow2010
Publication date of data: 2021-01-13
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2012-02-15
Hierarchy level: Dataset

References
Lyons, K.M.  and Dikow, T. 2010. Taxonomic revision of Ectyphus Gerstaecker, 1868 and Parectyphus Hesse, 1972 with a key to world Ectyphinae (Insecta: Diptera: Mydidae). ZooKeys 73: 25-59. doi:10.3897/zookeys.73.840 10.3897/zookeys.73.840