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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Fra</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">:
<a href="mailto:lasiopa@bknet.dk">lasiopa@bknet.dk</a><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Sendt</span></strong>: 16/09/2026 10.44<br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Til</span></strong>: "Syrphidae" <<a href="mailto:syrphidae-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">syrphidae-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Emne</span></strong>: Scientific names changed<br style="box-sizing: border-box">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Does anybody know why scientific names of hoverflies have been changed lately in the Catalogue of Life? Examples are Melanostoma mellinum, now M. mellina, and Dasysyrphus lenensis,
now a synonym for D. nigricornis.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Where were changes published?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Leif<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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