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Tag: Cerotachina

My first stacks

ChrisRPosted onApril 13, 2011April 15, 2011

Yesterday Malcolm Storey (bioimages.org.uk) brought over some new equipment he had just bought for photo-stacking, along with a ‘kit’ including a spare dSLR (3MP Nikon…

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Multifissicorn tachinid faces (Pelecotheca s.g. Cerotachina & Cryptocladocera)

ChrisRPosted onFebruary 23, 2010October 4, 2010

This is a little post just to show the range of antennal branching in different multifissicorn tachinids – apologies for the poor quality of the…

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Pelecotheca (Cerotachina) sp. male (pe-taxon #14)

ChrisRPosted onFebruary 23, 2010October 4, 2010

This appears to be another new, hitherto undescribed, species closely related to Cerotachina – it has no median discals and antenna-3 is very shallowly multifissicorn.…

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Cerotachina sp. (fg-taxon #97)

ChrisRPosted onFebruary 23, 2010February 23, 2010

This little gem is another multifissicorn species with feathered antennae – similar to the other ‘featherface’ tachinids, like Borgmeiermyia and Cryptocladocera. However, after running this…

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