This is another tachinine tachinid with a slightly variable abdomenal patternation but there and many fundamental similarities between the 2 featured specimens – taking into…
Another medium-sized tachinine tachinid – this time with a white-dusted head. The body is shiny, jet black, there are Peleteria-bristles and the tip of the…
This is a lovely, tiny little tachinine tachinid – shiny, jet black all over with a yellow head and red eyes. Unusually for this subfamily…
Another member of the Tachininae – presumably related to the Epalpus group because it hasn’t got any palps. This is the larger of the 3…
An interesting member of the Tachininae – this time with shaded wings, which is quite an unusual feature in this subfamily. EDIT (Monty Wood, 26/9/2010):…
This little tachinine fly (7mm) is a very beautiful blue metallic colour, which suggests to me that it might belong to the genus Chrysotachina but…
EDIT (Monty Wood 26/9/2010): This is a Jurinia sp.
EDIT (Monty Wood 26/9/2010): This is Myothyriopsis poss. bivittata – the broad black vittae are quite distinctive. This genus has been reared from Heliconius butterflies.
EDIT (Monty Wood 26/9/2010): This is Myothyriopsis sp. – this genus has been reared from Heliconius butterflies.
This nice little tachinid looks very like a Tachininae – similar to fg-taxon #20 but with more black on the abdomen. EDIT (Monty Wood 26/9/2010):…
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…
(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 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…
This is the other half of a pair of very similar taxa (see also fg-taxon #53). This one has a much longer antennal segment 3…
This is one of a pair of very similar taxa (the other is fg-taxon #52) – very small in size (3-5mm), with black body, orange…
This is another Tachina look-alike but with a projecting mouth edge, like Linnaemya. EDIT (Monty Wood 26/9/2010): This group contains 3 spp. of Archytas and…
This taxon is very similar to taxon #45 but larger in size. Note the very broad, shallow scutellum with distinctive row of scutellar bristles, combined…
The specimens in this taxon group are all metallic tachinids and almost certainly comprise at least 2 taxa. The first is relatively undusted and looks…
This really is a little beauty and very similar in morphology to taxon #20 (golden dusted thorax, shiny black/red abdomen & distinctive broad, shallow scutellum…
This is a male of the second taxon to exhibit the highly modified antenna-3, shaped like a feather. All specimens of this taxon are between 4-5mm…