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<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; RIGHT: auto" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 9pt">Francis :<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Chris is spot <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>on.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But I recognize it as <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Dolichomerus chrysopyga</I> Wiedemann, 1819.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is treated by <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Chris as a subgenus of <I style="RIGHT: auto; mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Phytomia <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto; mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></I>which may be true ?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Lombok would be a new distribution record for this species known from Burma , Malaya, Laos and Java. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Probably NE. India <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>also?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </SPAN>We in India have <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">D. crassa</I> (Fabricius, 1787) which is a widespread black species with red hind femora.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><?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'; FONT-SIZE: 9pt">Chris:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Yes, I would love all your reprints from 1985 onwards please, <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>if possible. Old ‘fashion’ is my preference.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Fashion comes and goes, don’t give it a damn. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 9pt">Malcolm:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Java is the type-locality for this species.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Do you have more syrphids from the Orient ?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 9pt"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>All:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In future all images MUST have locality specified for ID.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This poor syrphid seems dead and ‘staged.’ <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But it is beautiful.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
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<div class=yiv6715899458MsoNormal>best wishes</div>
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