Leskia is a diverse and quite common genus. Determinations by Monty Wood.
This is a pair of Masiphya sp. – mantid parasitoids:
Determination by myself & 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…
Determination by Monty Wood:
Today my postman huffed & puffed his way up the driveway with another box of specimens from Eric Fisher & Martin Hauser. My parcel wasn’t…
I have just been working through some euglossine bees that I obtained over the years from various sources – French Guiana (myself & Philip Soler)…
This is an interesting “pair” of very similar-looking tachinids. One is Xanthoepalpus bicolor, a very distinctive species from the southern United States (this one is…
Here is an absolute beauty that goes by the name of Adejeania vexatrix – note the extremely long palps protruding forwards and the long proboscis,…