Hercostomus
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Hercostomus is a genus of flies in the family Dolichopodidae. It is a large genus, containing more than 483 species worldwide. Multiple studies have shown that Hercostomus is a polyphyletic assemblage
Hercostomus nigripennis male, Harlech, North Wales, July 2013
Hermann Loew
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Friedrich Hermann Loew was a German entomologist who specialised in the study of Diptera, an order of insects including flies, mosquitoes, gnats and midges. He described many world species and was the
Hercostomus
…classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Diptera Family: Dolichopodidae Subfamily: Dolichopodinae Genus: Hercostomus Loew, 1857 Type species Sybistroma longiventris Loew, 1857 Synonyms Phalacrosoma Becker, 1922 Microhercostomus Stackelberg, 1949 Steleopyga Grootaert…
Hermann Loew.
Letter from Hermann Loew to A.H.Haliday
Specimen of Otites bucephala in the Loew collection, Museum für Naturkunde