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Tag: Masiphya

Masiphya sp. (Ecuador)

ChrisRPosted onSeptember 29, 2010October 1, 2010

This is a pair of Masiphya sp. – mantid parasitoids:

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pe-taxon #18

ChrisRPosted onFebruary 24, 2010January 4, 2011

This is an interesting taxon with a very distinctive, dark patch of bristles on the underside of tergites 4 & 5 – rather like a…

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Masiphya sp. male ??? (pe-taxon #17)

ChrisRPosted onFebruary 23, 2010October 17, 2010

This is a fairly typical tachinid but has been extracted from the others by a similar trait for a flattened abdomen with very distinctive male…

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Masiphya sp. (pe-taxon #02)

ChrisRPosted onFebruary 18, 2010October 4, 2010

This is a really interesting taxon group (genus?) where the males have very Sarcophaga-like genitalia – quite large, orange and hooked under the abdomen. They…

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fg-taxon #89 (Masiphya sp. – male)

ChrisRPosted onNovember 8, 2009September 30, 2010

A really unusual medium-sized tachinid with large curved-under genitalia. In addition to that it has widely separated T1+2 marginals, a projecting mouth edge, 2 katepisternals,…

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