Update 0: Robber Flies of the World now officially in ALPHA!
The site launches with a functioning species catalog, taxon database, and taxon pages for every accepted subfamily, genus, and species.
However, subgenera and subspecies are not currently included in the taxon pages, although they are found in the catalog and taxon database. Subtribes are not included in the site at launch, but will be dealt with in a future update.
Check out the roadmap throughout development to see planned features.
Update 1: Spelling, Distribution, and Other Fixes
Database Fixes
Many thanks to Steve Kerr, Darren Pollock, Reinoud van den Broek, and Charlotte Alberts for bringing these to me attention.
Reassigned ommatiine genera erroneously assigned to Asilinae
Reassigned asiline genera erroneously assigned to Asilini, Ommatiini, or Apocleini
Fixed typo with the author of Rhadinosoma Artigas
Fixed misspelling of Laphria aktis McAtee
Fixed misspelling of Ablautus coquilletti Wilcox
Fixed error with the author of Trichoura Londt
Fixed misspelling of author of Asilidae Latreille
Fixed misspelling of specific epithet of Emphysomera pallidapex Bigot
Removed Harpagobroma fumosum and Maira aena records erroneously assigned to New Zealand
Added Choerades ignea to the Netherlands list
Removed Fisher & Wilcox manuscript names from species catalog and distribution
Changed Maira hispidella var. nigropilosa de Meijere to junior synonym of Maira hispidella
Removed 32 duplicate names from the species distribution databases
Fixed typo in author of Cerdistus creticus Huettinger & Hradsky
Fixed typo in author of Ctenodontina martini Fisher
Code Updates
The Taxon Pages dropdown menu can now be toggled by clicking
Added counts of genera and species when a tribe is selected in the Catalog
Added counts of tribes, genera and species when a subfamily is selected in the Catalog
Fixed Catalog bug where subgenera were printing in regions where they do not occur
Update 2: Some Minor Fixes
Database Fixes
Added Plesiomma lineatum to list for US Virgin Islands
Moved Oxynoton to Unplaced Subfamily and Unplaced Tribe
Reinstated Pycnopogon species and updated their distribution
Code Updates
Fixed an issue with the Taxon Database not printing records
Added Robber Flies of South Korea website to Links
Fixed bug where Taxon Pages dropdown menu would not appear when on a Taxon Page
Added subgenus to the 'senior synonym of' statement in the Taxon Database
Catalog: Fixed bug where multiple authors for tribes and genera were printed with quotation marks
Catalog: Countries encompassing multiple zooregions now default to 'any' zooregion when selected. Previously it was not possible to view all the species for these countries.
Content Updates
Added Robber Flies of South Korea website to Links
Added distribution query to Genus Taxon Page template
Update 3: Duplicates removed and Other Fixes
Database Fixes
Removed 8 duplicate species from the species catalog and distribution database
Moved Prolepsis to Enigmomorphini
Moved Spanurus indicus and Spanurus dravidicus to Rhabdogaster and updated distribution
Fixed spelling of Polyphonius theodori
Added Lobus (Nanilobus) guineae to species catalog and distribution
Moved Lampria (Brychomyia) species to Lampria following Papavero 2009
Moved Polacantha (Echinitropis) pegma to Polacantha pegma following Papavero 2009
Code Updates
Fixed a bug where genera for some countries had inflated species counts
Update 4: Spelling Fixes
Database Fixes
Fixed spelling of Ctenodontina baleta
Fixed spelling of Pseudorus dimidiatus
Fixed spelling of Pagidolaphria chrysotelus
Fixed spelling of Cyrtopogonini
Fixed misassignment of tribe for Anasillomos
Changed Epitriptus arthriticus to Machimus arthriticus
Moved remaining Epitriptus species to Tolmerus
Updated Epitriptus species in distribution
Fixed spelling of Dissmeryngodes amapa
Fixed spelling of Ommatius tucamanensis
Fixed spelling of Alyssomyia limariensis
Update 5: Missing Species Added
Database Fixes
The following species were added to the species database and distribution: Wadipogon szpilai, Wadipogon pulchrum, Apoclea beckeri, Neolophonotus londti, Neolophonotus papei, Leptogaster arabica, Leptogaster deserticola, Amphisbetetus hermanni, Habropogon bussinowi, Sisyrnodytes editae, Dichropogon tenebrosus, Rhadinus vanharteni, Turkmenomyia paramonovi, Tuberconspicus aethiopicus, Machimus oromiae, Promachus amaharicus, Lobus venustus
The genus Wadipogon was added to the genus database
Reinstated Turkenomyia following Bosak & Hradsky 2011 and moved nigritum, gracilis, malkovskii, and flaviventris to this genus
Fixed errors in authorship of Acronyches, Neolaparus, Pamponerus germanicus, Promachus cothurnatus, Laphria spectabilis, Atonia mikii, Ammodaimon acares, and Cyrtopogon platycerus