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Dear All,

What key should I use for the genus level in Empididae family?

Thanks,

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Old (some outdated names) but comprehensive for all Empididae s.l.:
Collin, J.E., 1961. Empididae. - British Flies 6: v-viii, 1-782.

More up to date for Hybotidae:
Chv?la, M., 1975. The Empidoidea (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark. - Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 3: 1-336.
Chv?la, M., 1983. The Empidoidea (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark II. General part. The families Hybotidae, Atelestidae and Microphoridae. - Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 12: 1-279.

General subdivision within Empididae s.str.:
Chv?la, M., 1994. The Empidoidea (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark. III. Genus Empis. - Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 29: 1-192.

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Thank you Paul


Pierre-Nicolas

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Chvala, M., 1975. The Empidoidea (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark. - Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 3: 1-336. (Tachydromiinae)
:)
http://in.solit.us/archives/download/23764

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thank you for doing it Proctoss but I 've got some problems to download it...

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And what about copyright?B)

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not downloaded file? Hmm?This is strange..
I can send file to e-mail
I think that this book was published a long time ago (1975), and so problem of copyright is not valid

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I believe fifty years would be the official limit for the copyright, but as the series has been transferred from Scandinavian Science Press to E.J. Brill it may well be that the original publisher will have no objection to distribution for personal use. I expect Milan Chvala will not mind either.

BTW: Make sure you use the download button at the bottom of the page. ;)

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Here is the message I got...

http://scherie.solit.us/archives/activatedownload/23764

Some idea?

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Worked for me. Had to click on a couple of different download buttons to get to it :D

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Just in case: I converted the 80+MB document into a 5.5MB pdf, which can be handled more easily. Anyone interested, just let me know.

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Thank you Paul, may I receive it on this mail rynchobanchus - at - yahoo.fr.
By the way won't you have a pdf file of this document?

Oosterbroek, P., Bygebjerg, R. & Munk, T. 2006. The West Palearctic species of Ctenophorinae (Diptera: Tipulidae):, key, distribution and references. Entomologische Berichten 66: 138- 149.

Thank again

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I will see if I can create one this weekend. It will be images and not text as I won't OCR the text.

PS: I edited your email address so that spambots are less likely to pick it up.

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As I see, we both have a multi window explorer...

Thanks again,


Pierre-nicolas

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What programme do I need to open this file? rar extension is new to me.

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Win rar...:)

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I already sent the pdf. ;)

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if possible please send that PDF also to me (cosminovidiuatyahoodotcom)

thanks in advance,
cosmln

EDIT
maybe is posible also title to be available in electronic format:
Chv?la, M., 1983. The Empidoidea (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark II. General part. The families Hybotidae, Atelestidae and Microphoridae. - Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 12: 1-279.

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Dunno about the availability of the 1983 paper, maybe proctoss has it. I sent you the ealier one by email.

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Hi,

Is it possible for someone to send me a copy of:
Chvala, M., 1975. The Empidoidea (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark. - Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 3: 1-336. (Tachydromiinae)

The download is not working:(

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I am very interested on these files also.
The download links does not work.

Thanks.
José Luis Camaño Portela
jolucapo@gmail.com

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Hello, I bought the Empidoidea and the Tachydromiinae book, but for Platypalpus, for instance, it had just about 16 species from 85 spanish ones,
In Lindner´s book I have foundt many more, also for Empis (54 species recorded here, the "old" Lindner´s one has about 42). That nordic books' series are very good and nice to read, but the ones not for european but for nordic species are not really useful here, so I decided not to buy the Empis nor the Hilara book (at least by now). Regards

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Hi,
Concerning Platypalpus and Hilara from Spain I could note:
GROOTAERT P. & CHVÁLA M. 1992: Monograph of the genus
Platypalpus (Diptera: Empidoidea, Hybotidae) of the Mediterranean region and the Canary Islands. Acta Univ. Carol. (Biol.) 36: 3–226.
CHVÁLA M. 2008: Monograph of the genus Hilara Meigen (Diptera: Empididae) of the Mediterranean region. Stud.
Dipterol. Suppl. 15, 138 pp.
Best regards,
Igor Shamshev

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Thank you very much!! :D
Best regards

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I know this thread hasn't been posted on for a while, but I was wondering if there was any way I could get a copy of the pdf for Chvala, M., 1975. The Empidoidea (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark. - Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 3: 1-336. (Tachydromiinae). My e-mail is paulbfrandsen "at" gmail.com. I am working my way through some Mongolian Empididae and I have been using the nearctic key to get to genus which doesn't address all of the palearctic genera. If there are any other suggestions, I would happily accept those as well :).

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It turned out I have a copy, so check your email ;)

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Chvála's key is only useful for a select few of tachydromiine genera. The best option to get genera identified is Collin's key in British Flies (1961) with some updates for replaced generic names, or even the old key in Lindner (same issue with generic and subgeneric names) but a few of the more 'exotic' genera are only included in that key. For certain subfamilies there are other keys to genera, for example Sinclair's key to the clinocerine genera. I am willing to help out in identifying genera off the forum if you need assistence.