Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Beautiful marked Tabanidae with no data

Posted by Isidro on 13-08-2021 20:06
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:D:D do you think seriously that one can write to the staff of a very big natural history museum for ask about the tag of one of the thousands of insects exposed that probably nobody in the staff would know even how to locate the box that contain it in the exhibit?

If they were a dino skeleton or a hooved mammal mount, even a bird would be possible, but don't expect that for a horsefly :)

P.S. no readable means that the only apparent writen tag in the photo (the small upper one) is totally hidden under the insect body and one would not be able to read it without opening the cage and extracting the specimen from it :) And even doing this there is zero guarantee that this tag contain a location.

Edited by Isidro on 13-08-2021 20:09