A lovely blue-green tinged soldier-fly. This specimen has been donated to Martin Hauser – many thanks to him for the name suggestion.
A soldier-fly with strongly shaded wings. This specimen has been donated to Martin Hauser – many thanks to him for the identification.
A lovely blue-tinged soldier-fly. This specimen has been donated to Martin Hauser.
This is the first bombylid from the second batch of French Guianan flies. It is most remarkable for being covered in scales and at first…
This is a bombylid taken from the first French Guianan batch. This specimen has been donated to David Gibbs.
This one is a really nice, classic Pangoniinae with the long proboscis from the first batch of French Guianan flies. Keith Bayless has suggested that…
This is the third in my recent series of acrocerids – a smaller taxon with shaded wings – 6mm body length hunched over. Jorge Almeida…
Here is the largest and grandest tabanid I have found so far in the French Guianan samples. The body length is about 18mm. This one…
I originally thought that this fly was from the family Nemestrinidae but Eric Fisher has kindly corrected my and it is in fact an acrocerid…
Not a tachinid this time but a really lovely fly, which I think is from the family Acroceridae. The body length is about 11mm. Apparently…
This is possibly the most beautiful tachinid I have ever seen. The photos say it all! 🙂 In this taxon the irredescent green colour comes…
I have just received the second, long awaited batch of flies from Jean Cerda in French Guiana. Six tubes of mixed familes, all collected between…
A large brown taxon with: plumose antennae; bare eyes; slightly protruding mouth edge; brown thorax and abdomen with ornge side patches; wing with rounded bend…
A large taxon that looks quite sarcophaga-like with: pluomse antennae; bare eyes; wide parafacial; no parafacial bristles and parafrontal restricted to the top of the…
A small dark taxon with plumose arista and hairy eyes; facial ridges with varying numbers of bristles – females with much weaker bristles than males;…
A really interesting tachinid with a very deep gena (2.5x); bare arista; densely hairy eyes; thorax white dusted with 2 pairs of black vittae; 3…
(pictures to follow) This is another small black & grey-dusted species but with a few quite distictive features: hairy arista; bare eyes; strong facial-ridge bristles…
In 2000 I was lucky enough to visit French Guiana with a few entomological friends. The experience was fantastic and left me with many happy…
(photographs to follow) At first glance just a small, black & grey-dusted tachinid but this taxon has hidden depth. The most distinctive feature when sorting…
This is one of my favourite tachinids – an absolute beauty. The photos don’t do it justice but this taxon is incredibly shiny and deep…