Milan Chvála
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Milam Chvála is a Czech
entomologist who specialises in Diptera
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He is best known for his work on the Empidoidea
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He graduated at the Faculty of Science of the Charles University in Prague in 1960. Since 1991 he is vise dean of the Faculty of Science of the Charles University. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society in 1991.
His personal collections of Empidoidea are now in the Hope Entomological Collections at the University of Oxford
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Czech Republic
The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....
entomologist who specialises in Diptera
Diptera
Diptera , or true flies, is the order of insects possessing only a single pair of wings on the mesothorax; the metathorax bears a pair of drumstick like structures called the halteres, the remnants of the hind wings. It is a large order, containing an estimated 240,000 species, although under half...
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He is best known for his work on the Empidoidea
Empidoidea
The Empidoidea are a large monophyletic superfamily of true flies, the sister taxon to the Muscomorpha . These two groups are sometimes united in the unranked taxon Eremoneura...
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He graduated at the Faculty of Science of the Charles University in Prague in 1960. Since 1991 he is vise dean of the Faculty of Science of the Charles University. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society in 1991.
His personal collections of Empidoidea are now in the Hope Entomological Collections at the University of Oxford
Oxford
The city of Oxford is the county town of Oxfordshire, England. The city, made prominent by its medieval university, has a population of just under 165,000, with 153,900 living within the district boundary. It lies about 50 miles north-west of London. The rivers Cherwell and Thames run through...
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