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Tag: Archytas

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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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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Archytas (French Guiana & Brazil)

by ChrisRPosted onSeptember 29, 2010August 6, 2011

The following is a selection of Archytas sp. from both French Guiana and Brazil showing some of the immense diversity of this genus. Despite their…

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Archytas aurifrons, Townsend (pe-taxon #24)

by ChrisRPosted onFebruary 24, 2010August 6, 2011

This is another tachinine tachinid with a slightly variable abdomenal patternation but there and many fundamental similarities between the 2 featured specimens – taking into…

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Archytas aurifrons (fg-taxon #80)

by ChrisRPosted onOctober 26, 2009August 6, 2011

This nice little tachinid looks very like a Tachininae – similar to fg-taxon #20 but with more black on the abdomen. EDIT (Monty Wood 26/9/2010):…

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fg-taxon #15 (Archytas & Jurinella sp.)

by ChrisRPosted onApril 4, 2009September 26, 2010

This is another Tachina look-alike but with a projecting mouth edge, like Linnaemya. EDIT (Monty Wood 26/9/2010): This group contains 3 spp. of Archytas and…

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