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Michael Ackland obituary
Nikita Vikhrev
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Posted on 04-11-2021 16:34
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This year we lost Michael Ackland. I knew Michael as a kind and sympathetic person, always ready to help.
Recently Adrian Pont published (in Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine 157: 243–247) Ackland's obituary.
It also contains a full list of Ackland's publications (Anthomyiidae). Whoever wants pdf of this paper let me know.
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In memory of Michael I gave his name for New Guinean Anthomyiia:
see: Genus Anthomyia Meigen (Diptera, Anthomyiidae) in New Guinea here:
https://azjournal.ru/index.php/azjournal/article/view/753/615
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Nice way to remember him Nikita!!
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