deciphering their diversity and evolutionary history

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

Asiloid Flies
deciphering their diversity and evolutionary history

Sample of Asiloid Flies

Natural language species descriptions in SDD format submitted to and available on DRYAD

List of natural language species descriptions from published articles in SDD format (Structure of Descriptive Data) available on DRYAD. The natural language descriptions were exported in SDD format from Lucid Builder 3.5. Now that the natural language species descriptions are available as open access on DRYAD in SDD XML-format they can be re-used by other researchers, imported in Lucid Builder or Delta INTkey, and new species added much more easily based on the same characters observed to date.

  • Natural language species descriptions of Namadytes (Diptera: Asiloidea: Mydidae) originally published in Dikow and Leon 2014. – DOI of data-set on DRYAD: 10.5061/dryad.kh4ph. – PDF of published article with occurrence data available as open-access from the Biodiversity Data Journal web-site.
  • Natural language species descriptions of Namibimydas and Nothomydas (Diptera: Asiloidea: Mydidae) originally published in Dikow 2012. – DOI of data-set on DRYAD: 10.5061/dryad.tt0tq. – PDF of published article with occurrence data available as open-access from the African Invertebrates web-site.
  • Natural language species descriptions of new Afrotropical and Oriental Mydidae (Diptera: Asiloidea) originally published in Dikow 2010. – DOI of data-set on DRYAD: 10.5061/dryad.c74nv. – PDF of published article with occurrence data available as open-access from the ZooKeys web-site.
  • Natural language species descriptions of Ectyphus and Parectyphus (Diptera: Asiloidea: Mydidae) originally published in Lyons & Dikow 2010. – DOI of data-set on DRYAD: 10.5061/dryad.99n02. – PDF of published article with occurrence data available as open-access from the ZooKeys web-site.