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News - March 2015

A new publication with a cybertaxonomic review of the assassin-fly genus Anasillomos has been just been published. All data are openly...

New publication on Mydidae from Saudi Arabia

I just came across a new publication on insects of south-western Saudi Arabia including the listing of a Mydidae species. The article by...

News - May 2014

Torsten Dikow has been featured on the NMNH Entomology blog today. Read more about how he became an entomologist and about his research...

News - April 2014

Two new fossil species of Asilidae from the Cretaceous have been described by Torsten Dikow and David Grimaldi, i.e., Burmapogon bruckschi...

News - March 2014

A new article with a review of the Namibian and South African Mydidae genus Namadytes was published on March 10. See more information...

News - January 2014

Internship opportunity (unpaid) is available in the Diptera collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. See details...

News - January 2014

Happy New Year 2014!

Let's make it public, two species of Mydidae recorded from Sri Lanka for the first time!...

News - August 2013

The new and updated project web-site asiloidflies.si.edu under the umbrella of the Smithsonian Institution's...

News - August 2013

It's exciting to report new species of Apiocera described by David Yeates and Stefanie Oberprieler from Australia. The article, which...

News - June 2013

Summer Intern Project: Chris Cohen, undergraduate student from Oregon State University in Corvallis, OR, is working on a summer internship with...

News - May 2013

Summer Intern Project: Kevin Moran, undergraduate student from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, is working on a summer internship with Torsten...

News - June-August 2012

Summer Intern Project: Stephanie Leon, entomology undergraduate student from the University of California in Riverside, CA, is working on a summer...

News - June 2012

A new article on Mydidae by Torsten Dikow, reviewing the Afrotropical genera Namibimydas and Nothomydas and describing four new...

News - February 2012

Field work in Namibia - Torsten Dikow traveled to Namibia (28 January to 11 February 2012) for field work in the Namib Desert. Read more...

News - December 2011

Ph.D. student Julia Almeida from Brazil spent the last four months studying Mydinae taxonomy and phylogeny while visiting Torsten Dikow at the...

News - November 2011

ESA meeting attendance - Torsten Dikow attended the 59th annual meeting of the Entomological Society of America in Reno, Nevada, USA where he...

News - October 2011

Illinois Natural History Survey visit - Torsten Dikow visited the Illinois Natural...

News - July 2011

Brazilian collections: Torsten Dikow travelled to Brazil (26 July - August 7) in order to visit three collections and study Mydidae and Asilidae...

News - May 2011

Summer Intern Project: Sara Parilo, biology undergraduate student from Roosevelt University in Chicago, started her summer internship. Her project...

News - January 2011

Sara Parilo, biology undergraduate student from Roosevelt University in Chicago, is assisting Torsten Dikow in databasing Mydidae specimens. Read...

News - December 2010

A new paper on Mydidae by Kathleen Lyons and Torsten Dikow, reviewing the Afrotropical genera Ectyphus and Parectyphus and...

News - November 2010

The European Mydidae fauna is small with currently 6 species recorded from France (Corsica), Italy (Sardinia and Sicily), Portugal, and Spain (see...

News - October 2010

As part of the NSF REVSYS grant, Torsten Dikow travelled to Germany (October 18–20) to visit the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde in Stuttgart (...

News - October 2010

A new paper on Mydidae by Torsten Dikow, describing new species of Leptomydas (from India, Nepal, and Thailand), Mydaselpis (...

News - September 2010

A new paper on Mydidae by Matthew van Dam, describing a new species of Rhaphiomidas from northern Mexico, has just been published in...

News - August 2010

The 7th International Congress of Dipterology took place in San José, Costa Rica from August 8–13, 2010. Several presentations related to the NSF...

News - July 2010

A major update to the Mydidae specimen database has been made. The map shows now 2628 specimens representing 298 species in 61 genera. In...

News - New summer intern working on taxonomic revisions

Summer intern Katie Lyons working on taxonomic revisions

Text by Katie Lyons

My project this summer (June to August...

News - May 2010

As part of the NSF REVSYS grant, the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris, France was visited by Torsten Dikow in order to study the many...

News - 1 May 2010

Torsten Dikow spent a week in Florida for field work in order to collect several Mydidae species of interest to the NSF REVSYS grant. Two species...

News - 9 April 2010

The first publication resulting from the NSF REVSYS grant has been published. Torsten Dikow wrote a short paper on the Mydidae fauna of the United...

News - March 2010

Torsten Dikow visited the Snow Entomological Collections at the...

News - February 2010

As part of the NSF REVSYS grant, the Natural History Museum in London, UK was visited by Torsten Dikow in order to study the many holotypes of...

News - 5 February 2010

A new version of the web-site has been released. This is version 3, which is now using the open source content management system...

News - December 2009

Torsten Dikow presented the first results from the NSF REVSYS grant in a poster at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America...

News - November 2009

Torsten Dikow visited the American Museum of Natural History Diptera collection in New York City to re-organise their Mydidae collection and...

News - September - October 2009

As part of the NSF REVSYS grant, the first field trip to north-western South Africa took place and the Iziko South African Museum in Cape Town was...

News - August 2009

Torsten Dikow and David Yeates received an NSF REVSYS grant for a three-year research project on the phylogenetic relationships, taxonomy, and...