Last night I went through a tray of tachinids with a plumose arista and was amazed to see this fly with an incredibly long, straight…
Recently I have found quite a few small, black tachinids with a very plumose arista. Some are entirely black and others are a little dusted…
While examining what I thought was a Peruvian Mesembrinella (Calliphoridae, Mesembrinellinae) I realized that I was in fact looking at a tachinid – with a normal…
As the name suggests these are dexiines that look remarkably similar to relatives of Sturmia, such as Winthemia. However these are clearly not Winthemia because…
This is a huge genus containing many superficially dissimilar species. Determination by Monty Wood.
Uramya is one of the genera where the males have very long ‘tails’ … sadly this is a female! Determination by Monty Wood.
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…
This is a small, black tachinid with plumose antennae, suggesting Dexiinae. These are photos of both the male and the female. EDIT (04/10/2010): This keys…
This is an amazing dexiine with a very Estheria-type face – small antennae, plumose arista, very deep gena, very chin-less profile and a very stretched-out…
This is a close relative of fg-taxon #98 with its rounded abdomen, large eyes and downward-pointing ovipositor. EDIT (09/10/2010): This is undoubtedly a female Calodexia sp. http://chrisraper.org.uk/blog/?p=2495
Another strange Pollenia-type tachinid (see my photos of similar taxa from French Guiana). EDIT (26/9/2010): This is clearly a Telothyria sp., with branched hairs on…
This is a lovely little dexiine tachinid found across most of the neotropics and into the southern United States – note the colouration, the hatched-shaped…
This is the first clearly different but unidentifiable taxon to be split from the peruvian sample. The deep gena and plumose arista suggest that it…
This is a really interesting group of species – all very similar in general body shape and with a curious ovipositor that appears to emerge…
This is my current favourite from Villu’s recent sample of tachinids from French Guiana – it looks very closely related to one I found in…
This is a strange little tachinid with a fluffy thorax (the hair has been matted by alcohol in the photos) similar to Pollenia (Calliphoridae). It…
This spectacular fly looks very similar in style to European Mintho spp., but it is in fact a dexiine from the tribe Sophiini. The body…
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…
This is another taxon with plumose antenna and a deep gena. This specimen isn’t in great condition but there is another with better wings and…
This is a nice little brightly-marked taxon with bright orange abdominal side patches, contrasting with a dark black body colour; shaded wings; small orange antenna…