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Tag: Ecuador

Leskia sp. (French Guiana & Ecuador)

by ChrisRPosted onSeptember 29, 2010September 30, 2010

Leskia is a diverse and quite common genus. Determinations by Monty Wood.

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Masiphya sp. (Ecuador)

by ChrisRPosted onSeptember 29, 2010October 1, 2010

This is a pair of Masiphya sp. – mantid parasitoids:

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Jurinella sp. (Costa Rica & Ecuador)

by ChrisRPosted onSeptember 29, 2010September 30, 2010

Determination by myself & Monty Wood.

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Calodexia sp. (Ecuador)

by ChrisRPosted onSeptember 29, 2010September 30, 2010

This Calodexia came from a batch of flies kindly sent to me by Eric Fisher. Monty says that Calodexia are cockroach parasitoids and their oviposition…

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Argyrophylax sp. (Ecuador)

by ChrisRPosted onSeptember 29, 2010

Determination by Monty Wood:

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Another fantastic parcel from Eric & Martin

by ChrisRPosted onApril 1, 2010November 22, 2010

Today my postman huffed & puffed his way up the driveway with another box of specimens from Eric Fisher & Martin Hauser. My parcel wasn’t…

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Euglossine bees

by ChrisRPosted onMarch 13, 2010March 15, 2010

I have just been working through some euglossine bees that I obtained over the years from various sources – French Guiana (myself & Philip Soler)…

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Xanthoepalpus bicolor (Nearctic) & Epalpus (Oxyepalpus) flavoscutellatus (Ecuador)

by ChrisRPosted onJanuary 11, 2010October 3, 2010

This is an interesting “pair” of very similar-looking tachinids. One is Xanthoepalpus bicolor, a very distinctive species from the southern United States (this one is…

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Adejeania vexatrix (Nearctic) & look-alikes from Ecuador & Argentina

by ChrisRPosted onJanuary 11, 2010January 23, 2010

Here is an absolute beauty that goes by the name of Adejeania vexatrix – note the extremely long palps protruding forwards and the long proboscis,…

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