From mirian_nm at yahoo.com.br Sun May 8 04:41:39 2011 From: mirian_nm at yahoo.com.br (Mirian Nunes Morales) Date: Sat, 7 May 2011 20:41:39 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Syrphidae] CNPq-TWAS FELLOWSHIPS PROGRAMME Message-ID: <632266.69541.qm@web161906.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> CNPq-TWAS FELLOWSHIPS PROGRAMME Young scientists from developing countries (other than Brazil) are invited to apply to the 2011 CNPq-TWAS Fellowships programme. The fellowships offered by the CNPq-TWAS Fellowships programme allow scientists from developing countries (other than Brazil) to study or to do research in natural sciences in Brazil and then to return home to continue their careers. The National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Brasilia, Brazil ?www.cnpq.br ? is a foundation linked to the Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology. CNPq is one of the major public institutions supporting science, technology and innovation in Brazil and contributes directly to the training of researchers in the various fields of knowledge. INFORMATION ABOUT THE 2011 CNPq-TWAS FELLOWSHIPS PROGRAMME: http://www.cnpq.br/editais/ct/2011/twas.htm TYPES OF FELLOWSHIPS AND DURATION: The 2011 CNPq-TWAS Fellowships programme offers the following types of fellowships: A. Full-time postgraduate/doctorate fellowships: CNPq-TWAS Postgraduate Fellowships are tenable at research institutions in Brazil for a period of up to 48 months and are awarded to students from developing countries (other than Brazil) to enable them to pursue studies leading towards a PhD degree in natural sciences. B. Sandwich postgraduate/doctorate fellowships: CNPq-TWAS Sandwich Postgraduate Fellowships are tenable at research institutions in Brazil for a minimum period of 6 months to a maximum period of 12 months, and are awarded to students from developing countries (other than Brazil) to enable them to develop part of their PhD course in the natural sciences in Brazil. Under thesandwich programme, applicants must be registered for a PhD degree in their home country. C. Postdoctoral fellowships: CNPq-TWAS Postdoctoral Fellowships are tenable at research institutions in Brazil for a minimum period of 6 months to a maximum period of 12 months. They are awarded to scientists from developing countries (other than Brazil) to enable them to pursue postdoctoral research in the natural sciences. Submission period: Applications must be submitted by Thursday, June 30, 2011, at 6 PM in Brasilia time zone (GMT -04:00). ________________________________ M.Sc. Mirian Nunes Morales Universidade Federal do Paran? - UFPR Programa de P?s-gradua??o em Entomologia - Dept. de Zoologia Cx. Postal 19020 81531-980 - Curitiba, Paran?, Brasil (Phone): +55 (41) 3361 1650 Curriculum Lattes PGento UFPR ________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From xmengual at gmail.com Thu May 12 02:37:15 2011 From: xmengual at gmail.com (ximo mengual sanchis) Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 21:37:15 -0400 Subject: [Syrphidae] syrphid developmental defect? or visual efect? Message-ID: Dear friends, I'm not a big fan of these things but this forum has an interesting gif image (animated picture). My friend Keith sent me the link of a flower fly (Epistrophe eligans) with a weird "visual efect". There appears to be a mobile hole in the fly's face that opens when it moves its proboscis, the gif is mesmerizing and a little grotesque. What do you think caused this? http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/1005789 Best regards, Ximo -- ******************************************************** Dr. Ximo Mengual Department of Entomology Smithsonian Institution PO Box 37012, MRC-0169 Rm CE-607 Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Phone: +1 (202) 633-1004 e-mail: mengualj at si.edu http://entomology.si.edu/StaffPages/MengualJ.html For FEDEX: Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History (NHB) Department of Entomology 10th & Constitution NW Phone: +1 (202) 633-1004 Washington, DC 20560-0169 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sarthou at ensat.fr Thu May 12 05:02:10 2011 From: sarthou at ensat.fr (Jean-Pierre SARTHOU) Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 06:02:10 +0200 Subject: [Syrphidae] Re: syrphid developmental defect? or visual efect? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4DCB5BC2.4070109@ensat.fr> Dear Ximo, According to me, there is nothing so odd: this "hole" is simply caused by the wet and dark proboscis, when pulled up into to buccal cavity, it (or more precisely the membrane which links it to the head tegument) touches the face tegument (which is more or less transluscent) inside and leads to this dark patch on the knob. I hope that it is nothing more complicated than that! Best regards, Jean-Pierre Le 12/05/2011 03:37, ximo mengual sanchis a ?crit : > Dear friends, > > I'm not a big fan of these things but this forum has an interesting > gif image (animated picture). My friend Keith sent me the link of a > flower fly (Epistrophe eligans) with a weird "visual efect". There > appears to be a mobile hole in the fly's face that opens when it moves > its proboscis, the gif is mesmerizing and a little grotesque. What do > you think caused this? > > http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/1005789 > > > Best regards, > > Ximo > > > > -- > ******************************************************** > Dr. Ximo Mengual > Department of Entomology > Smithsonian Institution > PO Box 37012, MRC-0169 > Rm CE-607 > Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 > Phone: +1 (202) 633-1004 > e-mail: mengualj at si.edu > http://entomology.si.edu/StaffPages/MengualJ.html > > For FEDEX: > Smithsonian Institution > National Museum of Natural History (NHB) > Department of Entomology > 10th & Constitution NW > Phone: +1 (202) 633-1004 > Washington, DC 20560-0169 > > This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee > and may contain confidential information. If you have received this > message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete > it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in > this message or in any attachment. 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Name: code_barre_signature.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 40027 bytes Desc: not available URL: From xmengual at gmail.com Thu May 12 14:45:53 2011 From: xmengual at gmail.com (ximo mengual sanchis) Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 09:45:53 -0400 Subject: [Syrphidae] Re: syrphid developmental defect? or visual efect? In-Reply-To: <4DCB5BC2.4070109@ensat.fr> References: <4DCB5BC2.4070109@ensat.fr> Message-ID: Thanks Jean-Pierre, I also answered something similar to him: "my guess is that is an artifact. When the fly opens the mouth, some muscle behind the integument moves and creates a dark spot in the inner side of the face... and that movement creates the vision of a hole". I just wante to know if I was right thinking it is an artifact of the pictures, or somebody has seen something similar. Best regards, Ximo 2011/5/12 Jean-Pierre SARTHOU > Dear Ximo, > > According to me, there is nothing so odd: this "hole" is simply caused by > the wet and dark proboscis, when pulled up into to buccal cavity, it (or > more precisely the membrane which links it to the head tegument) touches the > face tegument (which is more or less transluscent) inside and leads to this > dark patch on the knob. > I hope that it is nothing more complicated than that! > > Best regards, > Jean-Pierre > > > Le 12/05/2011 03:37, ximo mengual sanchis a ?crit : > > Dear friends, > > I'm not a big fan of these things but this forum has an interesting gif > image (animated picture). My friend Keith sent me the link of a flower fly > (Epistrophe eligans) with a weird "visual efect". There appears to be a > mobile hole in the fly's face that opens when it moves its proboscis, the > gif is mesmerizing and a little grotesque. What do you think caused this? > > http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/1005789 > > > Best regards, > > Ximo > > > > -- > ******************************************************** > Dr. Ximo Mengual > Department of Entomology > Smithsonian Institution > PO Box 37012, MRC-0169 > Rm CE-607 > Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 > Phone: +1 (202) 633-1004 > e-mail: mengualj at si.edu > http://entomology.si.edu/StaffPages/MengualJ.html > > For FEDEX: > Smithsonian Institution > National Museum of Natural History (NHB) > Department of Entomology > 10th & Constitution NW > Phone: +1 (202) 633-1004 > Washington, DC 20560-0169 > > This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and > may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in > error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not > use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any > attachment. 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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 Thu, 12/5/11, ximo mengual sanchis wrote: From: ximo mengual sanchis Subject: [Syrphidae] Re: syrphid developmental defect? or visual efect? To: "Hoverfly discussion list" Date: Thursday, 12 May, 2011, 7:15 PM Thanks Jean-Pierre, ? I also answered something similar to him: "my guess is that is an artifact. When the fly opens the mouth, some muscle behind the integument moves and creates a dark spot in the inner side of the face... and that movement creates the vision of a hole". ? I just wante to know if I was right thinking it is an artifact of the pictures, or somebody has seen something similar. ? Best regards, ? Ximo ? 2011/5/12 Jean-Pierre SARTHOU Dear Ximo, According to me, there is nothing so odd: this "hole" is simply caused by the wet and dark proboscis, when pulled up into to buccal cavity, it (or more precisely the membrane which links it to the head tegument) touches the face tegument (which is more or less transluscent) inside and leads to this dark patch on the knob. I hope that it is nothing more complicated than that! Best regards, Jean-Pierre Le 12/05/2011 03:37, ximo mengual sanchis a ?crit?: Dear friends, I'm not a big fan of these things but this forum has an interesting gif image (animated picture). My friend Keith sent me the link of a flower fly (Epistrophe eligans) with a weird "visual efect". There appears to be a mobile hole in the fly's face that opens when it moves its proboscis, the gif is mesmerizing and a little grotesque. What do you think caused this? ? http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/1005789 Best regards, Ximo -- ******************************************************** Dr. Ximo Mengual Department of Entomology Smithsonian Institution PO Box 37012, MRC-0169 Rm CE-607 Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Phone: +1 (202) 633-1004 e-mail: mengualj at si.edu http://entomology.si.edu/StaffPages/MengualJ.html ?? For FEDEX: Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History (NHB) Department of Entomology 10th & Constitution NW Phone: +1 (202) 633-1004 Washington, DC 20560-0169? ?? This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. 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BUT if this is real, then this person should be able to produce a voucher. Eristalis transversa is a distinctive species, so even an image would be good enough; As for the general aspects, I have been surprised to see that some RAT-TAILED maggots have great expanded their range and have become established far outside of their normal range. One such species is Palpada vinetorum which is now widespread around the Pacific islands. And then Eristalinus taeniops has become established in California and Florida. So, I do not discount an American (Nearctic) species, such as Eristalis transversus, which is one of the most abundant species around here, becoming a new immigrant in Europe, BUT we need documentation via vouchers, etc. Sincerely, Chris from home From: Andrius Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 3:28 PM To: Hoverfly discussion list Subject: [Syrphidae] Regarding the occurrence of Eristalis transversa inEurope Hello everyone, I would like to ask whether anyone knows about the occurrence facts of Eristalis transversa in Europe. The thing is that one of our students did a research on local fauna of Syrphidae here in Lithuania and caught one specimen that she rather confidently claims to be Eristalis transversa, which is actually a N.American species. I haven't yet seen the specimen myself and I don't know what publication or key to use in order to confirm/reject the identification, so I am asking for some help with this too. 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