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Diptera type material MZH
The Diptera type material stored in the The Finnish Museum of Natural History (MZH) are being catalogued. A partial list of types with detailed -- and largerly previously unpublished -- information about the type localities etc. can be found at

http://www.luomus.fi/elaintiede/hyonteiset/tyypit/dipteratypes.html

The data it not dynamically updated but extracted from the museum databases every few months. So any corrections to reported errors (I'm sure there will be some!) will not be immediately visible on the Web pages. Happy type-bug hunting, everyone :)

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Publications on Turkish Diptera
Newsletters, etc.Dear Colleagues!

Priamus Supplement 28 and Cesa News 86 have been placed in the Internet Archive.

Please use the following address, in order to obtain pdf copies of these issues of this Cesa Serial:
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Contents:

Koçak, A.Ö., & M. Kemal, 2013. Diptera of Turkey. - Priamus, Supplement 28: 1-411, 186 figures, 166 maps.

Koçak, A.Ö., & M. Kemal, 2013. Tephritidae in Turkey. An evaluation of its status from various standpoints (Diptera). - Cesa News 86: 1-49, 42 figures, 25 maps, 2 tables.

In order to access other published numbers of the Priamus Supplement, please use the following address: http://www.cesa-tr.org/Pri.htm.
In order to access other published numbers of the Cesa News, please use the following address: http://www.cesa-tr.org/Cesanews.htm.

Yours sincerely,

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30th meeting of the German Dipterists, Blankenheim, 28-30 June
Dear Dipterists,

The 30th field meeting of German Dipterists Association will be held at Blankenheim, roughly 50km southwest of Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany on 28-30 June 2013. Everyone with interest in Dipterology is invited to attend the conference. Beside fly talks and excursions also the visit of the research collections in the Museum Koenig is offered. More information can be obtained from the AK Diptera website.

We would be glad to meet you all there…

Bjoern Rulik, on behalf of the organizers
Syrph the Net 2012
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Ole A. Sæther (9 December 1936 - 8 January 2013)
Today I learened that the eminent chironomid specialist Ole A. Sæther passed away last week. If I receive more information telling you about the life and works of this excellent researcher, I will post it here. In the mean time you have a look a the WikiPedia page on Ole at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ole_A._Sæther (also the source of the photo).
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profile Walther Gritsch on 08 June 2013 10:19:02
This isn't Scellus notatus, which is a species with conspicuous spurs and hair brushes apically on the tibiae and in the male creme coloured genitalia. It is rather something like Hydrophorus cf. nebulosus with spotted wings and sort of abbreviated abdomen.
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 shrumpy on 01 June 2013 09:17:58
Scellus notatus is the only British member of the genus so your fly must belong to another genus - but, I confess, I have no idea what it could be.
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 von Tschirnhaus on 30 May 2013 19:30:35
The three species O. germanicum (Duda, 1932), O. gilvipes (Loew, 1858), and O. cognatum are extremely difficult to distinguish. The image shows a shining humeral callus (= shoulder), a largely dark gena, a slightly flattened thorax, a wing only slightly longer than the abdomen, a completely yellow hind tibia, a frons darkened aside of the ocellar triangle, an ocellar triangle very long and with pollen (= pubescence) only aside and in front of the ocelli, a triangle not touching the eye margin, about Âľ width of the frons between the eyes, tergites glabrous, wing membrane partly yellowish, R4+5 apically slightly divergent with M1+2. All these characters here observable are not sufficient but typical for a distinction after the unpublished study (of much material including the types of gilvipes and germanicum) by M. von Tschirnhaus.
This is a typical species of the genus Oscinisoma Lioy, 1864 (Chloropidae, Oscinellinae), partly wrongly spelled Oscinosoma. The mesonotum (= scutum) is slightly depressed and not smooth but it has a rough surface. The adults prefer the stratum close to the soil between Carex tussocks, running ant-like and living together with the raptorious Stilpon spp. (Hybotidae).
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 von Tschirnhaus on 30 May 2013 18:18:52
Chlorops strigulus (Fabricius, 1794), (Chloropidae). This robust species was long time included in the genus Anthracophaga Loew, 1866, now a synonym of Chlorops. It is extremely similar to C. frontosus Meigen, 1830, most old records need re-examination. Characteristics (frontosus in brackets), unpublished results of M. von Tschirnhaus: base of arista black (yellowish-brown), behind outer vertical bristle (vte) the whole lateral occiput downwards yellow (below a yellow area eye margin black), acr dense, in the line of the dc inserting on black points (scarce, on yellow ground), palpi short, excavated dorsally (long, normal above), 3rd antennal segment bicoloured (black), tergites dark until their ventral edge (lateral yellow, ventral black again, thus, two lateral stripes), scutellum slightly triangular (widely rounded), all femora more or less black, knees yellow (femora yellow with dark spots/striations), narrow dark line from the lowest point of the eye to the edge of the gena (such line absent), epandrium and surstyli bigger than the compared species (smaller). Larvae produce galls in certain Poaceae (frontosus: reared from Carex).
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profile jeremyr on 28 May 2013 11:38:22
I just noticed this on the list of gallery submissions and thought ah.. However, is there one similar to this, perhaps from another genus, but which has extra brushes on the inside of mid and hind tibia as well? Very conspicuous, and I can't see it here

Jeremy
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 von Tschirnhaus on 23 May 2013 22:52:51
Lipara sp., Chloropidae. Image unsufficient to identify the two following species: L. pullitarsis Doskočil & Chvála, 1971 and L. rufitarsis Loew, 1858 are very similar, after the literature only separable after the male (and also female) genitalia. Unpublished observation by M. von Tschirnhaus: L. rufitarsis: the 3rd tarsal segment of the fore- and mid-leg is longer than wide and longer than the 4th segment; the tips of the femora are wider yellow, especially dorsally, the veins of the wing base are yellowish (not brownish), the keel between the antennae is not wider than the diameter of a palpus, the pubescence of the eyes is whitish-grey (not dark). The larvae of both species produce galls in reed stems (Phragmites australis) which are not lignified and, thus, suffer heavy attack during the winter by the blue tit, which is feeding on the larvae.
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 von Tschirnhaus on 23 May 2013 22:39:35
Lipara lucens Meigen, 1830, Chloropidae. Compare the notes on many other Lipara Images.
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 von Tschirnhaus on 06 May 2013 20:02:43
Since long time itvreturned in the genus Phytomyza Fallén
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profile Nosferatumyia on 26 April 2013 09:10:32
Why to compress it on a permanent slide?
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profile Paul Beuk on 06 April 2013 21:06:48
Nah...
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