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).

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