Milan Chvála (1936,

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– 2021) was a Czech

entomologist Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...

who specialised in

Diptera Flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name being derived from the Greek δι- ''di-'' "two", and πτερόν ''pteron'' "wing". Insects of this order use only a single pair of wings to fly, the hindwings having evolved into advanced ...

. He was best known for his work on the Empidoidea''. He graduated at the Faculty of Science of the

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in Prague in 1960. Since 1991 he was vice 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

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Selected works

Books: * ''The horse flies of Europe (Diptera, Tabanidae)'' (with Leif Lyneborg & Josef Moucha) Copenhagen:Entomological Society of Copenhagen, 1972, 498 pages * ''The Tachydromiinae (Diptera. Empididae) of Fennoscandia and Denmark'' Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 3, 1975, 336 pages * ''The Empidoidea of Fennoscandia and Denmark 2'', Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 12, 1983, 279 pages * ''The Empidoidea (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark III'', Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 29, 1994, 192 pages * ''The Empidoidea (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark IV: Genus

Hilara ''Hilara'' is a genus of dance flies, in the fly family Empididae. Species *'' H. aartseni'' Chvála, 1997 *'' H. abdominalis'' Zetterstedt, 1838 *'' H. aeronetha'' Mik, 1892 *'' H. albanica'' Engel, 1943 *'' H. albipennis'' von Roser, 1840 *' ...

'', Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 29, 2005, 234 pages * ''The Types of Diptera (Insecta) described by Pater Gabriel Strobl'' Studia Dipterologica Supplement 17. 2008, 281 pages * ''Monograph of the genus Hilara Meigen (Diptera: Empididae) of the Mediterranean region'' Studia Dipterologica Supplement 15. 2008, 136 pages. Articles: * ''Monograph of northern and central European species of

Platypalpus ''Platypalpus'' is a genus of hybotid flies. It is worldwide in distribution, but best represented in Europe Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the we ...

(Diptera, Hybotidae) with data on the occurrence in Czechoslovakia'' Acta Univ. Carolinae. Biologica 32. 1989, 209-376pp.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chvala, Milan 1936 births 2021 deaths Czech entomologists Dipterists Fellows of the Royal Entomological Society Charles University alumni Scientists from Prague Czechoslovak entomologists