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Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 10-09-2007 06:19

So it is one of the species absent in Stackelberg's key! Thank you Jan.
Nikita
P.S. It is second time that I found fly with name thalhammeri, last time it was Dolichopus thalhammeri from Turkey, also rare species. My search gave me following result:
J?nos Thalhammer S. J. (19 December 1847 Meggenhofen (Austria) ? 18 March 1934 P?cs): teacher monk, collector (Diptera). ? He entered the Jesuit order in 1865 and he studied theology in Bratislava and in Innsbruck. Short after his consecration (1874) he came to Hungary. He taught in the Jesuit secondary school of Kalocsa between 1875 and 1912 (descriptive geometry, mathematics, French, natural history, etc.), and then from 1912 until 1933 in the Pius Secondary School in P?cs.
He not only collected insects for the school, but he collected for scientific purposes and with ardour mainly Diptera in the vicinity of Kalocsa and P?cs. He has been to Austria, Bosnia, Serbia and Spain. Among several smaller publications he wrote the Diptera part in the Fauna Regni Hungariae. Ferenc Speiser, the coleopterist was his colleague when he taught in Kalocsa, but he had contact with other dipterologists of his era, especially with his colleague in the order at Admont, Gabriel Strobl. He described ten or little more than ten species, but 22 insect species and 15 flies among them were named after him. He left a Diptera collection of great scientific value in Kalocsa as well as in P?cs, these two contain 30.000 Diptera individuals of 4.100 species. This collection was brought to the HNHM short before 1956, where it perished with the exception of 8.000 specimens in November 1956.