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Well Brian,
As you see there are certainly people around who are interested in certain groups of Diptera. Getting back to the syrphids, I don't have to tell you there are some people who have worked - or are working on the Neotropical syrphid fauna, for example Christian Thompson and Martin Hauser.
Especially Christian is doing a lot and he has a lot of literature ready or preparing.
I don't know whether you've talked to him already about this?
As for me, I would be interested in working in a Neotropical Syrphid group, but I don't know how many people you could get for that...
Greetings,
Gerard