Dear Colleagues,

This message is being sent to several mailing lists, if you receive more than one copy, please forgive me. Also please give a copy to any interested member who has not received this letter.

As you may know I have been asked by Aleksandra Cupinas and Rory Post to organise a ballot of simuliidologists to decide where we should hold the 2014 Symposium.

There are three candidates.

1. Torino, Italy;

2. Pavlodar, Kazakhstan;

3. Zaragoza, Spain.

Their full proposals can be examined at these URLs: see Read more

10-15 August, 2014, Potsdam, Germany

http://www.icd8.org

Dear fellow Dipterists,

Preparations for the ICD8 proceed as planned and the scientific program is taking shape. In the first circular you were informed about the ICD8 organizing committee, venue, accommodation, fees, etc. Please visit our webpage at www.icd8.org for this and other information.

More than 150 dipterists have already registered their interest. At this point we would like to provide some preliminary information on the scientific program and the post congress tours, which will help you plan your attendance.

We make efforts to reach as many potential delegates as possible so please excuse if you receive this information more than once.

To assist us in planning ahead for the congress and shape the congress to everybody’s needs, please complete and return the attached form to Mrs. Sara Werner at sara.werner@pcma.de or via fax +49 (0) 30 - 76 76 84 -29.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

On behalf of the ICD8 Organizing committee,

Sincerely yours,

Marion Kotrba (ICD8 chair)

Registration of interest     Do not forget to read more!

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 A partial list of types with detailed -- and largerly previously unpublished -- information about the type localities etc.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