[Syrphidae] FW: Question regarding old syrphidae specimens - Scaeva lithuanica

[Kumar Ghorpade]

Scaeva lithuanica author (??).  You will need to check Sack's or Rotheray & Thompson's Palaearctic work or Thomspon's World database to see if this species is listed (indexed ?) there at least as a synonym. 
"Mihi" meanbs 'mine' in Latin and refers to the author who has written the label.  The specimens ar not properly visible to give a genus name at least.  

Dr Kumar Ghorpade, B.Sc.(Agri.), M.Sc., Ph.D. (Entomol.). 
Smithsonian Institution (U.S.A.) Postdoctoral Fellow (1982-1983) researching Oriental Syrphidae, Sciomyzidae and Ephydridae (Diptera). 
Currently: Post-Graduate Teacher & Research Associate in Systematic Entomology, Department of Agricultural Entomology, University of Agricultural Sciences, Krishi Nagar, Dharwar 580 005, Karnataka (INDIA). 
Postal address: P.O. Box 221, K.C. Park Post Office, Dharwar 580 008, INDIA. 

--- On Wed, 20/10/10, Francis Gilbert <Francis.Gilbert at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:


From: Francis Gilbert <Francis.Gilbert at nottingham.ac.uk>
Subject: [Syrphidae] FW: Question regarding old syrphidae specimens - Scaeva lithuanica
To: "Hoverfly discussion list" <syrphidae at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
Date: Wednesday, 20 October, 2010, 8:52 PM


Can anyone help Andrius ?

Francis

Dr Francis Gilbert
www.nottingham.ac.uk/~plzfg
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From: Andrius.Petrasiunas at gf.vu.lt [mailto:Andrius.Petrasiunas at gf.vu.lt] 
Sent: 20 October 2010 16:08
To: francis.gilbert at nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: Question regarding old syrphidae specimens - Scaeva lithuanica

Dear dr. Gilbert,

I would like to ask for some help or guidelines finding the old publication, mentioning "Scaeva lithuanica". The thing is, we found some old (1840-1844) syrphid specimens in our department collection, but it is not clear who collected them. One specimen has a label "Scaeva lithuanica Mihi" and I thought that might help. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find any information on this species.
I tried to post my inquiry on syrphidae.com, but unsuccessfully, with some unclear errors showing up... As you are the moderator of Hoverfly discussion list, I thought I will try asking you.
I have attached a picture of that specimen as well as one other with rather similar writing pattern, supposedly collected by the same person at the same period of time.

I would be very grateful if you could find some time answering my e-mail, maybe pointing to some older bibliographic works on hoverflies or something else.

Best wishes from Lithuania,

Andrius

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Dr. Andrius Petrasiunas
Department of Zoology
Faculty of Natural Sciences
Vilnius university
M.K.Ciurlionio 21/27
Vilnius, Lithuania

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