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Back to the NHM again …

January 30th, 2010 ChrisR No comments

Recently I had a few chances to go back to the NHM in London and work with the world Diptera collections – it was marvellous! I took along some of my larger & more spectacular specimens from North & South America and tried to identify them (with varying levels of success!). I also took lots of photos of the parts of the collection I have been working in, for future reference. Here are just some of the better ones:

Many thanks to Erica McAlister & Nigel Wyatt for hosting my visits :)

Nearctic Leschenaultia spp.

January 11th, 2010 ChrisR No comments

Just been looking at a few North American tachinids and picked out some rather nice-looking Leschenaultia - a genus of quite large, spikey tachinids with a lovely dense bristle comb on the hind tibia. One came pre-identified by Dan Hansen, so I know it is probably correct, but the other 2 just keyed to Leschenaultia in the Manual of Nearctic Diptera, which has meant that I have had to delve into Brooks’ 1947 paper on the Leschenaultia.

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