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

[eckvana]

Upsss, so I learn every day!
Now I understand what my father meant when he said I should have
finished my studies ;-)

André



On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 09:30:14 +0200, muscapaul <muscapaul at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Andre, in those days 'mihi' was added to denote 'mine', or 'by me'.
> Inconvenient if you do not know who the specimen was identified by, so
> it is now hoped someone will recognise the writing or know of a
> manuscript or even publication containing the name. Your 'You will
> have to find his description.'was the exact intention of the initial
> post, I think. ;)
> 
> Paul
> 
> On 21 October 2010 00:40, eckvana  wrote:
>  Dear Frances and Andrius,
> 
>  First, I do not understand the connection with the first picture,
> which
>  shows a Chrysotoxum?
>  Second, the second pic is very vague... but Mihi probably must be
> Miki.
> 
>  You will have to find his description.
> 
>  Greetings, André
> 
>  On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:22:54 +0100, Francis Gilbert
>   wrote:
>  > Can anyone help Andrius ?
>  >
>  > Francis
>  >
>  > Dr Francis Gilbert
>  > www.nottingham.ac.uk/~plzfg [3]
>  > (+44)(0)115 951 3215
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > -----Original Message-----
>  > From: Andrius.Petrasiunas at gf.vu.lt [4]
> [mailto:Andrius.Petrasiunas at gf.vu.lt [5]]
>  > Sent: 20 October 2010 16:08
>  > To: francis.gilbert at nottingham.ac.uk [6]
>  > 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 [7], 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
>  >
>  > -------
>  > Dr. Andrius Petrasiunas
>  > Department of Zoology
>  > Faculty of Natural Sciences
>  > Vilnius university
>  > M.K.Ciurlionio 21/27
>  > Vilnius, Lithuania
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