This is another tachinine tachinid with a slightly variable abdomenal patternation but there and many fundamental similarities between the 2 featured specimens – taking into consideration that one is male and the other is female. This taxon is very similar to fg-taxon #80.
Another medium-sized tachinine tachinid – this time with a white-dusted head. The body is shiny, jet black, there are Peleteria-bristles and the tip of the abdomen is slightly fuscous.
This is a lovely, tiny little tachinine tachinid – shiny, jet black all over with a yellow head and red eyes. Unusually for this subfamily it also has a petiole on the median vein. In fact the median vein has a completely remarkable shape.
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 specimens in this sample (at about 1cm) and so they are all relatively small for this group of flies.
An interesting member of the Tachininae – this time with shaded wings, which is quite an unusual feature in this subfamily.
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 I haven’t done any research yet so I could be wrong – it is certainly smaller than most Chrysotachina.
This nice little tachinid looks very like a Tachininae – similar to fg-taxon #20 but with more black on the abdomen.
This distinctive little tachinid really is beautiful, though the photos probably don’t do it justice. The thorax is dark and shiny with a slight purplish-blue sheen and yellow dusting anteriorly. The abdomen is shiny and very dark red-brown with faint grey dusting on tergite 3. The legs are all orange with 2 extremely large ad bristles on the mid tibiae.
This is another Tachina look-alike but with a projecting mouth edge, like Linnaemyia:
This taxon is very similar to taxon #45 but larger in size. Note the very broad, shallow scutellum with distinctive row of scutellar bristles, combined with golden thoracic dusting and a shiny abdomen.
They look superficially like Tachina spp. in Europe but they have a projecting mouth edge and quite a few other disimilarities.
This really is a little beauty and very similar in morphology to taxon #20 (golden dusted thorax, shiny black/red abdomen & distinctive broad, shallow scutellum with a row of scutellar bristles), but this one is much smaller and has a black abdomen with a dark, central wing patch. There are 2 specimens in this taxon, one of which is much smaller than the other (4mm vs. 7mm).
