<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Dear Anjum :<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> Wonderful news ! Are you Dr K. Mahmood's student ? We have been writing to each other about collaborating on Pakistan Syrphidae, which are poorly known.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> The photograph is not good. But it is a <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Betasyrphus</I>, most probably <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">B. isaaci</I> (Bhatia). I would be pleased to help your IDs but undamaged specimens are best, not poor images.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; RIGHT: auto" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> Please correspond with me directly (<A href="mailto:kumarsinh.g@gmail.com">kumarsinh.g@gmail.com</A>) <VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR>if you agree to collaborate and work with me. Wish you good luck with your studies. What is most required are fresh collections, mainly from the Himalayas in Pakistan and higher locations in Baluchistan. I have just completed a ms titled "Hover-flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) of the North-West Frontier, Indian subcontinent: a tribute to Enrico Brunetti (1862-1927)," which lists 40 known species from Pakistan belonging to 23 genera. Regards, <o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
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<DIV>I have started work on syrphids of Pakistan.I am attaching a photograph of a specimen which i was not able to identify. Can anybody help <BR clear=all>
<DIV><BR></DIV>-- <BR>Anjum Shehzad<BR>Senior Scientific Officer<BR>National Insect Museum<BR>National Agricultural Research Centre<BR>Islamabad, Pakistan<BR>Ph: 051 844 3330<BR><BR><BR></DIV><BR>
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