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…
An interesting taxon with bare eyes, bare arista, hairy r4+5 and a hugely concave post-angular vein with a quite large appendix. Also has other distinctive…
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…
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…
A light brown tachinid with a slight similarity (in my eyes) to the sarcophagid subfamily Miltogramminae … and yes, it does have a strong subscutellum!…
This is an elegant, slim tachinid – at first appearing very average but on closer inspection quite distinctive.
This taxon is a fairly common, brown and quite boring-looking “species” but it seems quite distinctive, nonetheless. I have found it in good numbers and…