Thank you very much, Pascal! We will reach out to them. All the best, Angelica
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy A30S on Movistar On Sat, 26 Mar 2022, 05:22 Pascal Querner, <pascal.quer...@gmx.at> wrote: > Hi, > > > you can ask Darren Mann in the UK, but he might be hard to reach: > > https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Darren-Mann-3 > > > other option is Prof Zahradnik: > > https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Petr-Zahradnik-2 > > > > I guess you know this paper but I am not sure who did the ID > > > https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335084223_Primeros_registros_de_Tricorynus_herbarius_Gorham_Coleoptera_Ptinidae_en_Peru_y_Chile > > > you can also wirite *Tricorynus herbarius *cf = cf stands for: will be > confirmed, I did it like that before when I was not 100% sure with the ID > of a species > > > All the best with you samples, > > Pascal Querner > (Natural History Museum Vienna, Austria) > > > > *Gesendet:* Samstag, 26. März 2022 um 00:02 Uhr > *Von:* "Angelica Isa-Adaniya" <a.isa14...@gmail.com> > *An:* pestlist@googlegroups.com > *Betreff:* [PestList] T. herbarius ID corroboration > Dear everyone, > As you might remember since we presented in Pest Odyssey last year, we > have been carrying out investigations with *Tricorynus herbarius *beetles > in Lima in Peru. Our masters thesis student has run into a wall with her > final ID approval to get her thesis through. > > The insect sample that was supposedly deposited by foreign entomologists > at the local museum is nowhere to be found (possibly COVID complications) > and we don't have any local Ptinidae specialists here who could approve her > ID without a sample comparison. > > Do any of you know any Ptinidae specialists who would be willing to look > at the student's ID, maybe look through her photos so that she can have her > ID corroborated for her thesis? I am told her university will accept a > corroboration even if it's done through Zoom with high-quality photos > because sending samples out of Peru is rather bureaucratic. The only thing > required would be for the specialist to allow her to say in her thesis that > they checked her ID and agree with it. She is currently in conversations > with an entomologist in Argentina who published on *T. herbarius *before, > but since it might end up having to be online only, it would help her a lot > to have another person as well. Worst case scenario, she would be forced to > leave it as sp., which would be a sad outcome for so much work. > > Thank you very much for any information you might have on this! > > All the best from Peru, > Angelica Isa > Pachacamac Museum > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MuseumPests" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to pestlist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/CAAJvYjXRQGKm_EWrGNOirBVQPembo2zRGjDCzXr5zDDQtHH7Xw%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/CAAJvYjXRQGKm_EWrGNOirBVQPembo2zRGjDCzXr5zDDQtHH7Xw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MuseumPests" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to pestlist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/trinity-d2a7c26a-71cc-488a-bee4-a194bd63a749-1648290125998%403c-app-gmx-bap25 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/trinity-d2a7c26a-71cc-488a-bee4-a194bd63a749-1648290125998%403c-app-gmx-bap25?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MuseumPests" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pestlist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/CAAJvYjWbGWZv__ZXeg1pZtT8UNCR6dkvd0qJYeQrJnY%2BKcpgUA%40mail.gmail.com.
