[Syrphidae] Re: papers from Hana Abu

[Martin Hauser]

Thanks a lot Francis! And to make it clear, Francis did all the work, I
just provided him with the latest volumes of the journal!
cheers
Martin

On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 1:03 PM Francis Gilbert <
Francis.Gilbert at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> hi everyone
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> With Martin Hauser's help, I have extracted all the syrphid papers from
> the volumes of Hana Abu, the journal of the Japanese Dipterists Club. You
> can download the zipfile from:
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> www.nottingham.ac.uk/~plzfg/misc/Hana_Abu_syrphid_papers.zip
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> It is about 560 MB !
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> Nearly all of them are OCR'd and so should cut & paste directly into
> Google Translate. Mostly they use the Japanese common names for the
> species, which are hilarious in translation, so beware: Google Translate is
> nowhere near as good as for French, German or Russian, for instance. They
> use a lot of pictures, and there are some really beautiful species,
> including several unknown ones.
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> Most the information is taxonomic or faunistic, and so should be
> reasonably easy to make out. There are some really great papers there. The
> only one I have not extracted is the multipart Japanese translation of
> Mutin & Barkalov's key to Far Eastern species, which we already have in
> Russian - much easier to translate using Google!
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> Very best wishes
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> Francis
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