<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:8px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412323819401_3062"><br></div><div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412323819401_3063"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412323819401_3065"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412323819401_3064"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 9pt;" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412323819401_4048">May Pavel Laska
R.I.P.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 9pt;" class=""> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 9pt;" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412323819401_4099">And my heartfelt thanks for all
his cooperation on our Syrphidae researches during the past decades.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 9pt;" class=""> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 9pt;" class="">His illuminating papers (with Jindra Dusek)
on </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 9pt;" class="">Metasyrphus</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 9pt;" class=""> and </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 9pt;" class="">Scaeva</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 9pt;" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412323819401_4100"> were very helpful and hope Libor Mazanek
will continue with what he terms </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 9pt;" class="">Eupeodes</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 9pt;" class="">
as they fly in Europe and northern Asia, as a respectful homage to his memory
and work.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 9pt;" class=""> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 9pt;" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412323819401_4101">All of us syrphidologists
should honour his memory by continuing to unravel the very diverse and difficult
Palaearctic </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 9pt;" class="">Metasyrphus</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 9pt;" class=""> species.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 9pt;" class=""> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 9pt;" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412323819401_4102">I have tried with south Asian species and am
now trying to place northern Pakistani species with colleagues who are working
on Syrphidae there.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 9pt;" class=""> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 9pt;" class="">Thank you Pavel
Laska and I salute your life effort on Syrphinae.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 9pt;" class=""> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 9pt;" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412323819401_4087">Their 1967 classic on Central European
Syrphinae was a great help to me as a beginner student during my Masters course,
and that and Vockeroth’s Magnum Opus (1969) and the little cited one of Heikki
Hippa (1968) on Syrphinae, after Frey (1946) were a ‘hop, step and jump’ in
Syrphinae taxonomy for me !</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 9pt;" class=""> </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 9pt;" class="">Alwidaaa Laska-sahebji</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 9pt;" class="">…. as they say in
Urdu.</span><div class="" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"" class=""><o:p class="" style=""></o:p></span></div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412323819401_3064" class="" style=""> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412323819401_3064" class="" style="" dir="ltr">Dr Kumar Ghorpade, Scientist Emeritus, Post-Graduate Teacher & Research Associate in Systematic Entomology, University of Agricultural Sciences, Krishi Nagar, Dharwar 580 005, Karnataka, INDIA. <br class="" style="">Postal Mailbox: P.O. Box 221, K.C. Park Post Office, Dharwar 580 008, INDIA. Registered mail to: "Bell Bungalow," Kumareswar Colony 1st Cross, off Haliyal Road, Dharwar 580 001, Karnataka, INDIA<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1412323819401_3064" class="" style=""><br class="" style=""></div></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 8px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 12px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Thursday, 2 October 2014 3:17 PM, Francis Gilbert <Francis.Gilbert@nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv5548277299"><style><!--
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--></style><div><div class="yiv5548277299WordSection1"><div class="yiv5548277299MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></font></div><div class="yiv5548277299MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></font></div><div class="yiv5548277299MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma", "sans-serif";font-weight:bold;">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma", "sans-serif";"> Mª Ángeles Marcos García [mailto:marilines50@gmail.com] <br><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</span></b> 02 October 2014 07:32<br><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">To:</span></b> Hoverfly discussion list<br><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Syrphidae] FW: Our Pavel Laska died in Saturday morning.</span></font></div><div class="yiv5548277299MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"> </span></font></div><div><div class="yiv5548277299MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">It is very sad to know that Pavel is no longer with us but fortunately he always will be us thanks to their papers.</span></font></div><div><div class="yiv5548277299MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">Thanks Pavel for the knowledge that you leave all scientific community, mainly your hoverfly friends.</span></font></div></div><div><div class="yiv5548277299MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">M. Angeles Marcos</span></font></div></div></div><div><div class="yiv5548277299MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"> </span></font></div><div><div class="yiv5548277299MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">2014-10-01 14:52 GMT+02:00 Francis Gilbert <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:Francis.Gilbert@nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank" href="mailto:Francis.Gilbert@nottingham.ac.uk">Francis.Gilbert@nottingham.ac.uk</a>>:</span></font></div><div><div><div class="yiv5548277299MsoNormal" style=""><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></font></div><div class="yiv5548277299MsoNormal" style=""><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></font></div><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;"><div class="yiv5548277299MsoNormal" style=""><b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma", "sans-serif";font-weight:bold;">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma", "sans-serif";"> <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:dsommaggio@tiscali.it" target="_blank" href="mailto:dsommaggio@tiscali.it">dsommaggio@tiscali.it</a> [mailto:<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:dsommaggio@tiscali.it" target="_blank" href="mailto:dsommaggio@tiscali.it">dsommaggio@tiscali.it</a>] <br><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</span></b> 01 October 2014 13:46<br><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">To:</span></b> Hoverfly discussion list<br><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Syrphidae] Our Pavel Laska died in Saturday morning.</span></font></div></div></div><div class="yiv5548277299MsoNormal" style=""><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"> </span></font></div><div><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">In this rainy and dull day, a real sad new.</span></font></div><div><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">I would like to thank Pavel for his enthusiasm and his inspiring and wonderful contributions.</span></font></div><div><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">I agree with Francis: I knew very few things about his private life and I hope that his friends can cover this empty space.</span></font></div><div><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">Daniele</span></font></div><div><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">Il 30.09.2014 23:40 Libor Mazánek ha scritto:</span></font></div><div><div><blockquote style="border:none;border-left:solid #1010FF 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt;margin-left:3.75pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt;"><div><div class="yiv5548277299MsoNormal" style=""><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial", "sans-serif";">Dear all,</span></font></div></div><div><div class="yiv5548277299MsoNormal" style=""><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial", "sans-serif";">I decided to write to all Syrphidologist the bat news about Pavel Láska´s death.</span></font></div></div><div><div class="yiv5548277299MsoNormal" style=""><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial", "sans-serif";">Last weeks was Pavel ill and he probably knew that his lifetime was near the end. He was in hurry to finish his projects on Syrphidae as soon as possible. But computer world was unearthly for him (as other older people) to live with computer world in full fruitful friendship. It is pity, that last years I had not enought time to work up all Pavel´s requests on Syrphidae work and to finish all his project and plans on Syrphidae as he wanted. I had to visit him in hospital or at his home for many times last weeks to work on our Syrphidae project and his intelect was always in excelent condition. But w</span></font>hen I visited him in hospital in Friday to ask for some about Eupeodes, it was the first time in my life (and probably also in his) when his interest in Syrphidae was limited by his health.</div></div><div><div class="yiv5548277299MsoNormal" style=""><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"> </span></font></div></div><div><div class="yiv5548277299MsoNormal" style=""><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">Libor Mazánek</span></font></div></div><div><div class="yiv5548277299MsoNormal" style=""><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"> </span></font></div></div><div><div class="yiv5548277299MsoNormal" style=""><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"> </span></font></div></div><div><div class="yiv5548277299MsoNormal" style=""><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"> </span></font></div></div><div class="yiv5548277299MsoNormal" style=""><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;"> </span></font></div><div><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. 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