FMNH FMNHINS 0000 374 690

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    Scanner: Field Museum of Natural History - Department of Zoology - Division of Insects
    Creator: Field Museum of Natural History - Department of Zoology - Division of Insects
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History
    Description: Jobling, Boris (1952) Description of two new species of Ascodipteron from Africa and one species of Nycteribosca from Madagascar. Parasitology 42: 130
  • 374690 Ascodipteron rhinopomatos, female, habitus, dorsal view
    Photographer: Field Museum of Natural History - Department of Zoology - Division of Insects
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: 374690 Ascodipteron rhinopomatos (HHJan54), female, habitus, dorsal view. Collected 12/8/53 by H. Hoogstraal in Egypt (Giza Pyramid, Giza Governorate) from Rhinopoma hardwickei cystous. Photo taken using the purple station Microptics system and stacked with CombineZ.
FM Catalog: Insects
Catalog Subset: Bat Flies
Scientific Name: Ascodipteron rhinopomatos Jobling, 1952
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Diptera
Family: Streblidae
Genus: Ascodipteron
Species: rhinopomatos
Collector: H. Hoogstraal
Geography: Africa, Egypt, Giza Governorate, 4500ft: Giza Pyramid
DWc Country: Egypt
Date Collected: 8 Dec 1953
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Co-ordinates Available?: No
Count: 2
Sex: adult female
EMu IRN: 374690
OccurenceID: 2cd77e0f-786e-4996-8feb-a2061aa6aeb1
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