02470nas a2200229   4500008004100000245009800041210006900139260001000208300001200218490000700230520155700237653007101794653007201865653006201937653007201999653001702071653001202088653005902100100002102159700002602180856003402206       2003                        eng d00aContributions to a history of Mexican dipterology. Part II. - the Biologia Centrali-Americana0 aContributions to a history of Mexican dipterology Part II the Bi  cabril  a143-2320 v883 aIn this second contribution to the history of Mexican Dipterology, general remarks of the Biologia Centrali Americana, the authors, the collectors and their trips are presented. Dealing specifically with Diptera, some aspects of the life and works of the contributors to this work are included. Here are listed all the Mexican Diptera species-names proposed by Karl Robert Romanovitch Baron von den Osten Sacken (78 species), Samuel Wendell Williston (200 species), John Merton Aldrich (47 species), William Morton Wheeler and Axel Leonard Melander (18 species), and Frederik Maurits Van Der Wulp (610 species). Included are a total of 953 specific names of the following 41 current families (in phylogenetic order): Tipulidae: 16, Bibionidae: 2, Ditomyiidae: 1, Keroplatidae: 2, Mycetophilidae: 1 , Culicidae: 1, Ceratopogonidae: 2, Tabanidae: 12, Pantophtalmidae: 1, Rhagionidae: 7, Stratiomyidae: 26, Therevidae: 1, Mydidae: 3, Apioceridae: 1 , Asilidae: 59, Acroceridae: 3, Nemestrinidae: 1, Bombyliidae: 72, Empididae: 20, Dolichopodidae: 48, Platypezidae: 1, Syrphidae: 54, Pipunculidae: 5, Conopidae: 6, Micropezidae: 12, Tanypezidae: 1, Psilidae: 2, Otitidae: 12, Platystomatidae: 8, Tephritidae: 39, Richardiidae: 5, Sciomyzidae: 10, Lauxaniidae: 1, Heleomyzidae: 3, Scatophagidae: 4, Anthomyiidae: 11, Muscidae: 40, Calliphoridae: 1, Sarcophagidae: 44, Tachinidae: 412, Hippoboscidae: 3. The original reference, type-locality, depository museum or collection, current taxonomic status of each speciesnames and additional references are given.10abiographies] [Publications / / ] [Checklists / / Species described10aby contributing authors to Biologia Centrali-Americana] [Mexico / /10achecklists of species described by contributing authors &10aDiptera [History of zoology / Biologia Centrali-Americana / General10aPipunculidae10aremarks10aremarks on species checklists & contributing authors].1 aPapavero, Nelson1 aIbanez-Bernal, Sergio  u<Go to ISI>://ZOOR13900053083