Fly Times Issue 48, April 2012 - North American Dipterists Society

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International Atomic Energy Agency-sponsored meeting participants.
The second meeting was the 5th International Meeting on Taxonomy and Natural History of
Tephritoidea, hosted by Dr. Dick Drew and Meredith Romig of Griffith University. Twenty-one
participants attended, including several of those who attended the IAEA meeting. This group meets
about once every 4 years. Previous meetings were held in the Great Smoky Mountains, USA (2008),
Geneva, Switzerland (2004), Israel (2000), and Xalapa, Mexico (1998). The Brisbane meeting was
followed by a short collecting trip to Lamington National Park. The Park is easily accessible from
Brisbane and contains large areas of spectacular rain forest. Collecting, however, was not very fruitful.
Neither tephritoids nor any other Diptera group were found in any abundance - apparently February is
not a very good time of year for collecting.
The collecting group at Cainbable Mountain Lodge, from left to right: Kyung-Eui Ro
(South Korea), Xiao-lin Chen (China), Dick Drew (Australia), Ho-Yeon Han
(South Korea), Severin Korneyev (kneeling) (Ukraine), Masahiro Sueyoshi (Japan),
Gary Steck (USA), Valery Korneyev (Ukraine), and Denis Rodgers (Australia).