Dear Fellow Dipterists and Friends,

It is a great pleasure to invite you to attend the 9th International Symposium on Syrphidae (ISS9). Taking place for the first time in the Neotropical Region, the ISS9 will be held in Curitiba (Brazil) from 28th August to 1st September 2017.

We are sure it will be an excellent opportunity to establish new research collaborations and share experiences on Syrphidae.

To receive further information about the ISS9, please send a message to syrphidae9@gmail.com

We look forward to meeting you all in Curitiba.

Best regards,

Mirian Morales & Luciane Marinoni

The Organizing committee

Dear colleagues,

The web page of the International Simuliidae Symposium in Zaragoza is now available:

http://blackflyzaragoza.com/

If you have some doubts or if you need any further information, do not hesitate to send me an email to info@blackflyzaragoza.com. If you have difficulties in submitting your registration form, please contact to Isabel Nuez (investigacion@feuz.es) with copy to info@blackflyzaragoza.com.

We are looking forward to seeing you in Zaragoza in September 2016.

Best regards,

Ignacio Ruiz

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Organizing committee VII International Simuliidae Symposium

Some of you may have noticed, some of you probably not. I have done some code tinkering and can now add image attachments from the forum to the Gallery without too much hassle, but only when they are not on remotes servers. I may grab images for the Gallery myself but if you want to have images THAT ARE NOT YOUR OWN added to the Gallery, please send me an email. Do NOT use Private Messages as that may flood my inbox in no time. I will not mind adding your own pictures to the Gallery on request, but, please, realise my time is limited and I cannot continuously scan the forum for possible Gallery additions. And, sorry, the feature is available to administrator only.

Paul

Przemysław Trojan passed away, November, 18, 2015

Sad news from Warsaw: Prof. Przemysław Trojan, our member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Dipteron-Wrocław, the famous Polish Dipterist and an expert in Tabanidae, died on November, 18, 2015 in Nowe Grochale (Leoncin distr.).
He was born on August 22, 1929, in Pruszków near Warsaw.
R.I.P.

Andrzej Woźnica

Dear colleagues,

it seems to me that in recent time I have been the carrier of bad news. Excuse me for that please.

Only recently, with one year delay, we have been informed that Prof. Jan Knoz, Brno (Czech Republic) passed away after losing his battle against a hard illness on October 28, 2014, in the age of 83.

Sincerely,

L. Jedlička