Please note that the public Syrph the Net files in the Downloads section were updated to version 2012.

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).

I would like to inform you all that the Volume 28 of Dipteron-Wroclaw (online pdf version) is available! Please, see http://pte.au.poznan.pl/dipteron/biuletyn.html.

A Happy New Year 2013!

Best wishes,

Andrzej J. Woznica

(Dipteron-Wroclaw - Editor in Chief)

We gladly inform you that the 3rd issue of the third volume of "Ukrainska Entomofaunistyka" was published on December 30, 2012.

https://sites.google.com/site/ukrentfau/contents-1

Contents Volume 3 No. 3

1. Putshkov, P.V., Gubin, A.I., Popov, G.V., Kalesnik, V.I. & Syzhko, V.V. The North American intruder Leptoglossus occidentalis Heidemann (Heteroptera: Coreidae) settled down in Ukraine. [3(3): 1-3]

2. Krivosheyev R.Ye. Annotated list of the short-winged mold beetles (Coleoptera: Pselaphidae) of the State Museum of Natural History, NAS of Ukraine (Lviv). [3(3): 5-13]

3. Kononova S.V. & Lazarenko S.N. Rare find of a cyclopic male of the genus Telenomus (Scelionidae: Telenominae) in Bulgaria. [3(3): 15-16]

4. Budashkin Yu.I., Zhakov A.V., Pljushtch I.G. Case-bearers moths (Lepidoptera: Coleophoridae): contribution to the Ukrainian Wood-and-Steppe and Forest Zones Fauna. [3(3): 17-24]

5. Hajighorbani, S., Goldasteh, Sh., Mohamadzade Namin, S. Fruit Flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) of Markazi Province (Iran), with a new record for Iranian Fauna. [3(3): 25-29]

6. Verves Yu.G. The flies (Diptera) of the park "Theophania", Kyiv. 1. Calliphoridae and Rhinophoridae. [3(3): 31-36]

We wish you all a Happy New Year!

Valery A. Korneyev aka Nosferatumyia

News that was posted on Facebook by Norm Woodley today:
Jim O'Hara in Ottawa told me the sad news this afternoon that Dick Vockeroth passed away in Ottawa this morning. Dick was a remarkable Dipterist with a very wide knowledge of flies and their habits, and full of great enthusiasm. He will be missed by the Diptera community.

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