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Some interesting flies from Paraguay

by ChrisRPosted onAugust 10, 2011

Today I received a small parcel of Diptera from Ulf in Paraguay – many thanks Ulf! 🙂  In the mix were lots of different families…

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Trichophora (Diaphanomyia) aurifacies, Desvoidy

by ChrisRPosted onAugust 6, 2011August 7, 2011

In this post I showed a species of Trichophora determined by Monty Wood. During a visit to the BMNH I discovered that there were no…

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Jurinia notata, Bigot (Bolivia)

by ChrisRPosted onAugust 6, 2011August 7, 2011

In this post I showed a Jurinia sp. from Bolivia, determined by Monty Wood. During a visit to the BMNH I discovered a species called…

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Archytas aurifrons, Townsend

by ChrisRPosted onAugust 6, 2011August 7, 2011

Last week I spent a happy afternoon at the BMNH, courtesy of Erica & Nigel in the Diptera department. I decided to concentrate on a…

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Scarlet Tigers

by ChrisRPosted onJune 14, 2011June 14, 2011

The Scarlet Tiger is a very local species of moth, found mainly in the southern England. Normally I find them on Moor Copse, a nearby…

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More stacks

by ChrisRPosted onJune 7, 2011June 7, 2011

Here are a few stacks of European tachinids make by Dave Dare the other day. The specimens are all on loan from the NHML (Armenian…

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A really puzzling black tachinid

by ChrisRPosted onMay 29, 2011June 23, 2011

This weekend I have been having another look at the Armenian and Russian samples and hit the same problem … a really puzzling but very…

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Cogden by the sea

by ChrisRPosted onApril 24, 2011April 26, 2011

(updated, now that I have seen the specimens under a microscope! ;)) Today’s jaunt was to Cogden beach (Dorset, SY502881) to pick up a bit of…

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My first stacks

by ChrisRPosted onApril 13, 2011April 15, 2011

Yesterday Malcolm Storey (bioimages.org.uk) brought over some new equipment he had just bought for photo-stacking, along with a ‘kit’ including a spare dSLR (3MP Nikon…

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Last year’s tachinids all identified – finally!

by ChrisRPosted onApril 6, 2011April 6, 2011

I have finally finished going through the tachinids that I caught last year and putting names to them. It wasn’t as hard as it might…

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Pantophthalmus little & large

by ChrisRPosted onMarch 31, 2011March 31, 2011

Here are a couple of French Guianan Pantophthalmus spp. that I picked up from Erica’s volunteers at the NHM today (Pantophthalmus indet. on the left…

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Some more Pantophthalmus from French Guiana

by ChrisRPosted onFebruary 3, 2011February 3, 2011

On Tuesday Erica McAlister lent me some pantophthalmids from a sample she had been sent by SEAG in French Guiana. Today I went through them…

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pe-taxon #32 (Peru)

by ChrisRPosted onJanuary 5, 2011

This is a lovely little taxon, with matt-black ground colour and bright pale-grey bands of dusting on the thorax and abdomen. It fails to achieve…

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possibly Hyphantrophaga sp. (Peru)

by ChrisRPosted onJanuary 5, 2011January 6, 2011

This keys to Hyphantrophaga sp. but it needs confirming. EDIT (6/01/2011): Monty has said that this genus is quite anonymous and difficult to split ……

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3x Mystacella sp. (Peru)

by ChrisRPosted onJanuary 4, 2011January 5, 2011

These photos illustrate 3 species of Mystacella – a tachinid that, like Chrysoexorista, is a beautiful metallic green (sometimes across the whole body, but at…

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Austrophorocera cf. yahuarphrynoides (Townsend) (French Guiana)

by ChrisRPosted onJanuary 3, 2011January 6, 2011

This one keys out nicely to Austrophorocera but this determination will need confirming. The abdomen has a fascinating and highly distinctive tuft of orange hair…

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French Guianan evanioids

by ChrisRPosted onDecember 4, 2010May 21, 2012

Today I had a request for some specimens of Evaniidae from Ricardo Kawada, a PhD student and researcher in Sao Paulo. This forced me to…

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Finnish tachinids 2010

by ChrisRPosted onNovember 15, 2010November 20, 2010

A week ago I received a really nice parcel of tachinids from Jari Flinck in Finland and today I had time to sort over them…

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Calolydella geminata complex (Costa Rica)

by ChrisRPosted onNovember 3, 2010November 25, 2010

Adrian Pont gave me this rather beautiful Costa Rican tachinid recently and it instantly reminded me of the Eucelatoria sp. that I had been working…

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Atactosturmia ??? (Surinam)

by ChrisRPosted onOctober 24, 2010

Yet another fly that keys to Atactosturmia … would be nice one day to know which of them really are Atactosturmia 😉

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