Nemotelus Longirostris
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Nemotelus Longirostris
''Nemotelus'' is a genus of soldier flies in the family Stratiomyidae. There are at least 190 described species in ''Nemotelus''. ''Nemotelus'' is known from the Nearctic, Afrotropical and the Palaearctic regions. File:Nemotelus pantherinus, Newborough Warren, North Wales, July 2012 2 (17298638368).jpg, ''Nemotelus pantherinus'' lateral view ''Nemotelus'' are among the smallest (4.0 to 8.0 mm) Stratiomyidae. The species are black or (most) black with more or less, often greatly extended white spots; the colouring is different in the two sexes. The head is round but the face has a pointed snout bearing the antennae on the dorsal side. The facial lobe, below the antennae, is conical and prominent and the whole facial area is pushed anteriorly by the expansion of the parafacials, and of the frons immediately above the antennae. The eyes of the male almost meet, and the eyes have smaller facets in the ventral part. The proboscis is geniculate. Body-shape and wing-venation ...
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Nemotelus Kansensis
''Nemotelus kansensis'' is a species of soldier fly in the family Stratiomyidae The soldier flies (Stratiomyidae, sometimes misspelled as Stratiomyiidae, from Greek - soldier; - fly) are a family of flies (historically placed in the now-obsolete group Orthorrhapha). The family contains over 2,700 species in over 380 extan .... References Further reading * External links * Stratiomyidae Articles created by Qbugbot Insects described in 1903 {{stratiomyidae-stub ...
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Samuel Wendell Williston
Samuel Wendell Williston (July 10, 1852 – August 30, 1918) was an American educator, entomologist, and paleontologist who was the first to propose that birds developed flight cursorially (by running), rather than arboreally (by leaping from tree to tree). He was a specialist on the flies, Diptera. He is remembered for Williston's law, which states that parts in an organism, such as arthropod limbs, become reduced in number and specialized in function through evolutionary history. Early life Williston was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Samuel Williston and Jane A. Williston née Turner. As a young child, Williston's family travelled to Kansas Territory in 1857 under the auspices of the New England Emigrant Aid Company to help fight the extension of slavery. He was raised in Manhattan, Kansas, attended public high school there, and graduated from Kansas State Agricultural College (now Kansas State University) in 1872, afterwards receiving a Master of Arts from that instituti ...
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Nemotelus Nigribasis
''Nemotelus'' is a genus of soldier flies in the family Stratiomyidae. There are at least 190 described species in ''Nemotelus''. ''Nemotelus'' is known from the Nearctic, Afrotropical and the Palaearctic regions. File:Nemotelus pantherinus, Newborough Warren, North Wales, July 2012 2 (17298638368).jpg, ''Nemotelus pantherinus'' lateral view ''Nemotelus'' are among the smallest (4.0 to 8.0 mm) Stratiomyidae. The species are black or (most) black with more or less, often greatly extended white spots; the colouring is different in the two sexes. The head is round but the face has a pointed snout bearing the antennae on the dorsal side. The facial lobe, below the antennae, is conical and prominent and the whole facial area is pushed anteriorly by the expansion of the parafacials, and of the frons immediately above the antennae. The eyes of the male almost meet, and the eyes have smaller facets in the ventral part. The proboscis is geniculate. Body-shape and wing-venation ...
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