Dick,

Thanks for the notice below.

I have posted a notice about the availability of this important Simulium
publication on the BLACKFLIES web site which can be seen at

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It also contains a link to your download location.

Hope this is in order.

Sincerely,
John Davies

On 30 Mar 2004 at 13:36, Dick Vane-Wright, Keeper of E wrote:

> INVENTORY OF WORLD BLACKFLIES
>
> The Natural History Museum is pleased to announce the internet
> publication on 13th February 2004 of:
>
> A Revised Taxonomic and Geographical Inventory of World Blackflies
> (Diptera: Simuliidae) by Roger W Crosskey and Theresa M Howard.
>
> http://www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology/projects/blackflies/index.html
>
> This work, currently only available as a downloadable Adobe Acrobat
> portable document format (pdf) file, is a revised taxonomic and faunal
> inventory of world blackflies that updates and supersedes the main
> text of an earlier such inventory published over six years ago by The
> Natural History Museum in London (Crosskey & Howard, 1997). That work
> contained information published before 1 November 1996 and was issued
> as a print product from the electronic database. The present inventory
> on the Web is essentially a completely new edition and covers
> information known to have been published prior to 1 November 2003. The
> prime purpose of the work remains the same as for the previous printed
> inventory, i.e. to provide a user-friendly systematic aid to a wide
> audience involved with almost any aspect of simuliid research,
> particularly in relation to biodiversity studies. A total of 1809
> formally named species are listed as valid on present knowledge (1798
> living and 11 fossil). For each species a geographical statement is
> provided to show the countries from which it has been reported, with
> specification of the type locality country for synonyms as well as
> nominal species considered valid; more refined distributional data -
> region, state, province, island - are given for large countries,
> especially those covering diverse biomes or having island
> constituents. Taxonomic information includes the listing of many
> 'cytoforms', i.e. entities that are informally named in the literature
> (e.g. by chromosomal inversion formulae, numbers, letters or place
> names) and might prove to be valid species in nature. Significant
> misidentifications and some persistent misspellings of names are
> recorded.
>
> There is no index because it is easy to search electronic documents
> using the search facilities within the software.  For those of you
> unfamiliar with pdf files, the search facility is accessed by clicking
> on the binocular icon ("find") on the toolbar near the top of the
> scrren.
>
> The Natural History Museum, which created the simuliid inventory and
> has maintained it as a current work for several years, is bowing out
> from this project - but luckily not without a successor.  It is hoped
> that the project will continue under the wing of Professor Peter Adler
> at the Department of Entomology, Clemson University, South Carolina
> (e-mail: [log in to unmask]).

John B. Davies
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
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Have you looked at the "Blackflies" web pages at: entomologist.free-
online.co.uk