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 A partial list of types with detailed -- and largerly previously unpublished -- information about the type localities etc.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 :)

Cheers,

Jere Kahanpää (Kahis), project maintainer

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:
http://archive.org/details/CentreForEntomologicalStudiesAnkaraPriamusSupplement28
http://archive.org/details/CentreForEntomologicalStudiesAnkaraCesaNewsNr.86

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,

Prof. Dr. Ahmet Omer Kocak & Asst. Prof. Dr. Muhabbet Kemal

Cesa - http://www.cesa-tr.org/

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

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).