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Tag: Peru

Multifissicorn tachinid faces (Pelecotheca s.g. Cerotachina & Cryptocladocera)

by ChrisRPosted onFebruary 23, 2010October 4, 2010

This is a little post just to show the range of antennal branching in different multifissicorn tachinids – apologies for the poor quality of the…

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Masiphya sp. male ??? (pe-taxon #17)

by ChrisRPosted onFebruary 23, 2010October 17, 2010

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…

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Pelecotheca flavipes Thompson (Neominthoini, pe-taxon #16)

by ChrisRPosted onFebruary 23, 2010January 6, 2011

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…

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possibly Arrhinactia sp. ??? (pe-taxon #15)

by ChrisRPosted onFebruary 23, 2010October 17, 2010

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…

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Pelecotheca (Cerotachina) sp. male (pe-taxon #14)

by ChrisRPosted onFebruary 23, 2010October 4, 2010

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.…

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close to Crocinosoma ??? (pe-taxon #13)

by ChrisRPosted onFebruary 23, 2010October 17, 2010

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…

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Atacta sp. (pe-taxon #12)

by ChrisRPosted onFebruary 22, 2010October 17, 2010

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…

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pe-taxon #11 (not Stenodexia sp.)

by ChrisRPosted onFebruary 22, 2010November 5, 2010

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…

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Souzalopesmyia sp. (Muscidae, pe-taxon #10)

by ChrisRPosted onFebruary 22, 2010January 6, 2011

This is a rather dubious tachinid – with its unbent median vein and very shallow subscutellum – but something about it reminds me of a…

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Telothyria sp. (pe-taxon #09)

by ChrisRPosted onFebruary 22, 2010October 4, 2010

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…

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Beskia aelops from Peru

by ChrisRPosted onFebruary 22, 2010August 27, 2011

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…

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Belvosia sp. (pe-taxon #08)

by ChrisRPosted onFebruary 21, 2010October 4, 2010

A really rather nice species of Belvosia – a member of the Goniinae, which is shown clearly by the quite Gonia-shaped head  đŸ™‚ The genus…

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Trichophora (Diaphanomyia) aurifacies, Desvoidy (pe-taxon #07)

by ChrisRPosted onFebruary 21, 2010August 7, 2011

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…

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Deopalpus sp. (pe-taxon #06)

by ChrisRPosted onFebruary 21, 2010October 4, 2010

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):…

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possibly Xanthomelanodes (pe-taxon #05)

by ChrisRPosted onFebruary 21, 2010October 4, 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…

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Acaulona sp. (pe-taxon #04)

by ChrisRPosted onFebruary 21, 2010October 4, 2010

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.

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Chrysotachina sp. (pe-taxon #03)

by ChrisRPosted onFebruary 21, 2010October 4, 2010

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…

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I’ve run out of pins – argghhh!!!

by ChrisRPosted onFebruary 21, 2010

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…

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Masiphya sp. (pe-taxon #02)

by ChrisRPosted onFebruary 18, 2010October 4, 2010

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…

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close to Prosenoides (pe-taxon #01)

by ChrisRPosted onFebruary 18, 2010October 4, 2010

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…

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