deciphering their diversity and evolutionary history

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Asiloid Flies
deciphering their diversity and evolutionary history

Sample of Asiloid Flies

Habitat Port Nolloth (South Africa)

Habitat Port Nolloth (South Africa)

White, vegetated sand dunes 8 km E Port Nolloth (Northern Cape, South Africa) where a Cephalocera species (Mydidae: Syllegomydinae) was collected (Oct. 2009). Note the wall of fog over the cold Benguela current of the Atlantic Ocean in the distance.