FlyEvidence
A Scottish based Insect Identification and Forensic Entomology
Service
New Website
and blog
January 2007: FlyEvidence has expanded to include a subsidiary website Catch-fly.com, with associated Catch-flyBlog. Please take a
look and link
to both. The recent work on fly control stimulated this new move and
the site will be developed extensively over the next year or so.
News
The on-going nuisance fly problem
(Musca domestica Linnaeus,
1758
(Diptera, Muscidae)) experienced by residents in the southern suburbs
of Glenrothes (Fife, Scotland) have been noticed by the national media.
Comment on the problem can be read on Fife
Council's webpages and in the BBC
News.
New Book!
The Genus Syritta
Syrphidae from Africa
The Afrotropical checklist of Syrphidae (Diptera) has been to the syrphidae.com website. This
initiative started at the 1st International Syrphidae Symposium in
Stuttgart, Germany in 2001 and through the combined efforts of Bastiaan
Wakkie
and Andrew Whittington finally reached the World Wide Web in
2004.
The data is mostly focused around the Afrotropical sub-region, so
Northern Africa is largely incomplete. Mnay records are from the
literature and some may even be based on incorrect identifications. We
are working to smooth these probems over, by constant revision and
re-evaluation of the data. If you do notice something which looks out
of place please do not hesitate to send me an email.
Many genera in the Afrotropical
sub-region still require
modern revision. As these are achieved and are published, data for
those genera will be completely zero based and revised on the
distribution map. This means for example, that we have now (1 December
2005) updated Syritta for
both the Palaearctic and
Afrotropical sub-regions, based on the recent and excellent revision of
the genus byLeif Lyneborg and Werner Barkermeyer (
Apollo books, 2005).
