African collecting locality

[Robin Leech]

Try my good buddy, Peter Kuchar, presently in Tanzania:

LSOSINGIDA at YAKO.HABARI.CO.TZ

Robin Leech

----- Original Message -----
From: "Norman F. Johnson" <nfj at IRIS.BIOSCI.OHIO-STATE.EDU>
To: <TAXACOM at USOBI.ORG>
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 9:47 AM
Subject: African collecting locality


> I hope someone can help us home in a collecting locality from the early
20th
> century in East Africa. The specimen (an insect) was collected by the
Hungarian
> big game hunter Kalman Kittenberger (Katona). The label states:
>
> Mto-ja-Kifaru, Africa or.
>
> One reference indicates that the site is in Tanzania, but the best we've
been
> able to locate is a water hole (Mtoja) in Tanzania, and the Kifaru
(Rhinoceros)
> Mountains in Kenya. Kittenberger worked widely through British East Africa
and
> even into the Belgian Congo, collecting for the Hungarian National Museum
of
> Natural History as well as hunting and guiding.
>
> If anyone might be able to help, please contact me at Johnson.2 at osu.edu.
>
> Thanks very much.
>
> --
> Norman F. Johnson           Johnson.2 at osu.edu
> Associate Professor         Phone: 614-292-6595
> Director, Ohio State Univ.  Fax: 614-292-7774
>    Insect Collection
>