Call for contributions of talks and posters!

As established at previous Hoverfly Symposia, we will have a single programme of talks as well as posters. Key note talks by leading researchers are being arranged and contributions across all subjects are encouraged!

To reserve a place in the programme, please send Graham Rotheray (g.rotheray@nms.ac.uk) by 1st April 2011, provisional titles of talks and/or posters or, preferably, confirmed titles and abstracts of up to 300 words. Talks can be up to 15 minutes long.

For those sending provisional titles, we will need, by the end of May 2011, confirmed titles and abstracts.

For further information, see the UK Hoverfly Recording Scheme website http://www.hoverfly.org.uk and the www.dipteristsforum.org.uk.

All best wishes and looking forward to seeing you there!

Graham E Rotheray
Curator of Insects
National Museums Collection Centre
242 West Granton Road,
Edinburgh EH5 1JA
Tel 0131 247 4243

Hello everyone,

We are happy to announce that the official registration for the 18th
International Symposium on Chironomidae now has opened. Please see the
symposium website for more information:
http://www.ntnu.no/vitenskapsmuseet/chironomidae-symposium.

Best regards
The Symposium Committee

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Visit the 18th International Symposium on Chironomidae
www.ntnu.no/vitenskapsmuseet/chironomidae-symposium

Dr. Elisabeth Stur
Section of Natural History
Museum of Natural History and Archaeology
NTNU
NO-7491 Trondheim
Norway
Tel.: +47 73 59 22 97
Email: Elisabeth.Stur@vm.ntnu.no

The second, and final, volume of this ground-breaking publication is now available. Volume 2 covers the remaining 64 families of flies that make up the Higher Diptera (or Cyclorrhapha).These include families of house flies, fruit flies, bot flies, flower flies and many other lesser-known groups.

Available at: http://pubs.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/books/books/9780660199580.html.

The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (LACM) is re-invigorating its scientific publication, Contributions in Science, and invites new submissions. Beginning in 1957, a total of 519 contributions have been published in this series and 41 longer monographs in the LACM Science Series. Contributions in Science is fully reviewed, with each manuscript examined by the internal scholarly publications committee and 2 external peer reviewers. Copies of each published paper are sent to some 500 museums and universities around the world. Formerly, publication in this series was restricted to LACM staff and associates but we are now accepting manuscripts from outside authors as well.

Subject emphasis is on systematics and taxonomy of both extant and extinct organisms. Accepted manuscripts are published free of page charges. Contributions in Science is an open-access scientific journal and full online versions of papers are posted immediately on the LACM Web site after publication by Allen Press. Every December, printed versions, of all papers accepted throughout the calendar year, will be published together in a large annual bound issue. Authors receive a free
PDF file and 25 free printed copies. Longer papers may be considered and accepted for the LACM Science Series, but authors will be asked to support at least some of the publication costs.

For submission guidelines and instructions for authors, visit the Scholarly Publication's Web site at http://www.nhm.org/site/research-collections/research-tools/publications, or contact the Managing Editor, Vicky Brown, at vbrown@nhm.org.

Published by Corpo Forestale dello Stato Centro Nazionale Biodiversità Forestale "Bosco Fontana"of Verona is now available:

Pierfilippo Cerretti.
I Tachinidi della fauna italiana (Diptera, Tachinidae). With an Interactive Key of the West Palaeartcic Genera. 2 Volumes + CD-ROM, Cierre Edizioni 2010, 912 pp
2010, Cierre Edizioni
ISBN 9788883145698 (hardback)
Available by Cierre Publisher, price 120 €