<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">On a different heading ...<div>Please could anyone point me to recent work on, or students of afrotropical: Syrphidae, Tabanidae and Asilidae?</div><div><br></div><div>I see a few species, some quite frequently, in my field work in northern Tanzania, and increasingly at Tonkolili in north central Sierra Leone.</div><div>I am hardly an amateur - dipterist - but would very much like to correspond with others who are more knowledgeable.</div><div><br></div><div>Many thanks,</div><div>James Wolstencroft</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 17 May 2012, at 22:21, ximo mengual sanchis wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">I would say it is Arctophila bombiformis based on the facial profile, and facial and thorax coloration.<br><br>Best!<br><br>Ximo<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/5/17 Francis Gilbert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Francis.Gilbert@nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">Francis.Gilbert@nottingham.ac.uk</a>></span><br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-GB"> <div><p class="MsoNormal">Hi everyone<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Is this Arctophila bombiformis?<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Or is it an unusual morph of Volucella bombylans?<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks!<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Francis<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Dr Francis Gilbert<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Associate Professor of Ecology, School of Biology<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">University Park, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Tel: <a href="tel:%2B44%20%280%29%20115%20951%203215" value="+441159513215" target="_blank">+44 (0) 115 951 3215</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">website: <a href="http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/%7Eplzfg" target="_blank">www.nottingham.ac.uk/~plzfg</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <u><span style="color:#0070c0"><a href="http://ecology.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">ecology.nottingham.ac.uk</a><u></u><u></u></span></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. 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