Another day, another bee fly. I have declared in my head that Friday will be Geron day. At my table, I have the genera of interest separated onto post-it notes with their respective genera on them. The Geron post-it is over flowing with tubes full of these flies. Since I have the paper that describes them, I really ought to go in, use the key, and figure out if I'm looking at any new species. The only issue is that I hate the guide, it was written in 1974, and since then the terms for the wing has changed (the author calls the R veins S veins). I cannot find out the old terms the author is using, no matter what I do. I'm also thinking that there's a possibility that he's using terms for another family of flies.
In other news, I found a family of flies that I don't have on my list of bee flies of Madagascar. The family is Afrotropical however, so there is the possibility that they some how got over to Madagascar. The only issue is that neither The Doc nor I can figure out what genus they belong to. Both are Afrotropical, but we cannot make a good match of where they belong. They don't exactly match the characteristics of either genus, but we can't think of a better match.
Other than the new family, I did my typical day to day thing. Dr. Student invited me to go out and check his insect traps, which is super cool. I went to a lab meeting today and learned more about what everyone else is doing, which was great to hear. I also found out I'm D deficient (make all the jokes you want, I am) so now I have to buy pills. And I'm scheduled to get my yellow fever shot, and my second hep A shot. My life is not incredibly exciting.
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