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Gonia face colour

by ChrisRPosted onJanuary 20, 2015August 1, 2020

In the keys to Gonia one of the couplets asks you to consider the shininess of the face but this can be a confusing thing…

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Linnaemya picta, tessellans & rossica confusion features

by ChrisRPosted onNovember 27, 2014August 1, 2020

For many years Linnaemya picta had been confused with rossica because early workers (e.g. Fonseca) hadn’t tried using the European keys. Since the ‘discovery’ of picta…

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Siphona urbana or geniculata?

by ChrisRPosted onSeptember 9, 2013August 1, 2020

In Andersen’s 1996 book “The Siphonini (Diptera: Tachinidae) or Europe” he made several changes to the names of Siphona spp., which have proved a bit…

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Exorista rustica vs. tubulosa

by ChrisRPosted onMarch 22, 2013August 1, 2020

I always find this species-pair really difficult to split – even when you flip out the male genitalia. The cerci are actually quite distinctive but…

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Help needed with DNA barcoding of European tachinids

by ChrisRPosted onMarch 3, 2013

Tachinid Times #26 has some very interesting articles on a few projects around the world to compile DNA phylogenies of tachinids. One such is by…

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How to find the prosternum

by ChrisRPosted onJune 16, 2012August 1, 2020

The prosternum can be quite a difficult feature to find on a tachinid – partly because many British workers, used to Belshaw’s key will never…

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Distinguishing species of Thelaira

by ChrisRPosted onJune 16, 2012August 1, 2020

In my experience a lot of people have trouble with this genus because the traditional features used in keys are quite variable. In particular it…

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Eurithia – female sternite 6

by ChrisRPosted onMay 29, 2012August 1, 2020

These are some figures from Tschorsnig & Herting (1994), showing the sternite 6 of some female Eurithia spp.: A – Eurithia consobrina (furrow along entire…

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Big Nature Day

by ChrisRPosted onMay 27, 2012August 1, 2020

Today Matt & I attended “Big Nature Day” at the Natural History Museum, in London – a day for wildlife organisations to show what they…

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Some name changes

by ChrisRPosted onMay 15, 2012May 17, 2012

Belshaw’s 1993 handbook was a great improvement over the nomenclature used in van Emden but since then many of the names have changed. This is…

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