This is a little post just to show the range of antennal branching in different multifissicorn tachinids – apologies for the poor quality of the…
This is a fairly typical tachinid but has been extracted from the others by a similar trait for a flattened abdomen with very distinctive male…
After keying this taxon through MCAD it looks like one of the Neominthoini (it emerges on Neomintho, where most Neominthoini will end up) and the…
This is an interesting and very prolific taxon that might, on the face of it, seem to be unexceptional. But it stands out from the…
This appears to be another new, hitherto undescribed, species closely related to Cerotachina – it has no median discals and antenna-3 is very shallowly multifissicorn.…
This taxon seems very prolific and quite consistent in its morphology too, though I am not assuming that it represents a single species. This taxon…
This is another small Belvosia-type tachinid from Peru – compare this with my photos of a similar taxon from French Guiana. This is much more…
This is a really unusual tachinid with its mottled wings, shiny black body and long, curved piercing organ. EDIT (05/11/2010): This was originally keyed tentatively…
This is a rather dubious tachinid – with its unbent median vein and very shallow subscutellum – but something about it reminds me of a…
Another strange Pollenia-type tachinid (see my photos of similar taxa from French Guiana). EDIT (26/9/2010): This is clearly a Telothyria sp., with branched hairs on…
This is a lovely little dexiine tachinid found across most of the neotropics and into the southern United States – note the colouration, the hatched-shaped…
A really rather nice species of Belvosia – a member of the Goniinae, which is shown clearly by the quite Gonia-shaped headÂ đŸ™‚ The genus…
Another member of the Tachininae – presumably related to the Epalpus group because it hasn’t got any palps. This is the larger of the 3…
An interesting member of the Tachininae – this time with shaded wings, which is quite an unusual feature in this subfamily. EDIT (Monty Wood, 26/9/2010):…
Another really nice phasiine – quite large (8-10mm) – with very beautiful contrasting body & wing coloration. EDIT (04/10/2010): This keys to Xanthomelanodes but I…
An interesting little (3-5mm) phasiine taxon – quite prolific in the peruvian samples. EDIT (Monty Wood, 26/9/2010): This is a group of Acaulona sp.
This little tachinine fly (7mm) is a very beautiful blue metallic colour, which suggests to me that it might belong to the genus Chrysotachina but…
This weekend I have been mounting the peruvian samples and giving each a data label. But just short of 700 I have run out of…
This is a really interesting taxon group (genus?) where the males have very Sarcophaga-like genitalia – quite large, orange and hooked under the abdomen. They…
This is the first clearly different but unidentifiable taxon to be split from the peruvian sample. The deep gena and plumose arista suggest that it…