lördag 31 oktober 2009

Back to reality.

So, this week I have sequenced more specimens and the results will come in the beginning of next week. I have also made descriptions of som Russian species (already described) just to fit them into my key of European Meteorus.

We at the Entomological department are currently doing a pest controll of our collections and to my surprice I found a little box of Meteorus just amongst a drawer of undetermined Coleoptera. They were from Irkutsk and collected by Leiler. I identified them as Meteorus cis, the host, a coleoptera of the genera Cis, was glued underneath!
But when I compared it with the M. cis in the collection I noticed that the wingvenetion was different. The recurrent vein was interstitial in those already identified material and distinctly postfurcal in the new from Irkutsk. And there is no litterature at all showing wingvenetion of M. cis! I'm going to sequence this new one and also ask around for pictures of a wing. Unfortunately the Holotype is lost and there seems not to be any types left either... One of my identifications is evidently wrong but which one?

I'm also going to install Ubuntu on my PC, got a mail from our Computer support that I'll have to do it myself, but they will rescue me with the backup if necessary... Help???

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