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English: Notes on Alexander Henry Haliday insect specimen in the Hermann Loew collection at Museum für Naturkunde – Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

The Loew collection and its historo-taxonomic significance Aside from Diptera collected by Loew himself, mostly from the area around Posen and Meseritz (then in Prussia but now in Poland)and elsewhere in what is now Germany. The collection contains much material collected by other, mostly anonymous German entomologists from the German States and other parts of Europe. Theres also material collected in (not by Loew) : -Brasilien, Bismark Arch [ipelago], Ralum, Bogota, Columbien, Chile, Venezuela, Cuba, Carolina, Chile, Sumatra – Soekaranda, Montivide[o], Askhaabad, Transcaspian, Amboine, Klein-Asien-Asia Minor, Arab fel., Andalusia, Griechenland, Santiago, Lapland, N. Kamerun Cameroons, Kaukkasus, Texas, Aegyptea. In these respects the collection, though impressive in most respects differs little from that of any other contemporary assemblage. The collection however contains: -

1a. Material sent by Alexander Henry Haliday which was either type (in the modern sense) or which he considered representative of his own taxa 1b. Material sent by Alexander Henry Haliday comp. exemp. Linnaeus or comp. exemp. Meigen ( following Halidays examination of these collections in London (Linnaeus) and Paris (Meigen)) 2.Material sent by Johan Wilhelm Zettersted either type or representative of Zetterstedt taxa. 3.Material sent by Carl Rasmus Staeger illustrative of Staegers’s description. 4.Material sent by Camillo Rondani ‘comparito con il tipo’. 5.Synonymic notes, either on or with pinned specimens.

Notes Geranomyia unicolor Haliday, 1833 Haliday, A. H. 1833. Catalogue of Diptera occurring about Holywood in Downshire. Ent. Mag. 1:155

The specimen has been glued to a long triangle of card by the right wing.The card is supported by a pin bearing the labels.The card with the star is Hermann Loew's, the star indicating a type specimen. The specimen was believed to be the only surviving one and was therefore labelled Holotypus.It is also the Genotype The label 8606 was not interpreted but may be the specimen number in the Loew collection.