[Syrphidae] sad news

Francis Gilbert Francis.Gilbert at nottingham.ac.uk
Wed Sep 9 10:07:59 BST 2020


Dear friends & colleagues

Some sad news from Russia via Gunilla:



Sergei Yu. Kuznetzov 1956-2020
Sergei Yu. Kuznetzov died in hospital in St Petersburg on August, 14, 2020 after being ill for some time. He was born 24 August 1956 in Smogon, Belarus. He went to school in Latvia, and graduated from University of Latvia. He published important studies on the pre-imaginal stages of hoverflies, and taxonomic papers on Syrphidae and Pipunculidae. Since 1990 he worked at the Zoological Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia. In 1990 he established and was the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Dipterological Research.


Francis

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