This year we have been lucky enough to receive records for 2 new species to the UK – Ectophasia crassipennis & Phasia aurigera. These both…
Recently I have been working on adding a new species to the British list to our key. Thelyconychia solivaga is a small tachinid that seems…
Botria (=Bothria) subalpina is a Spring species previously thought to be found in northern & eastern Europe – I have specimens from Finland and Bavaria.…
Leucostoma are little black tachinids with very large white calyptrae – usually found in southern Europe this is a very rare genus in the UK.…
This species is still only known in the UK from the 2 specimens Steve Falk picked up in the South Downs (I think!), though it…
This is another of Ivan Perry’s discoveries and is really rather exciting – a bit more than your average ‘new to the UK’ species because…
These were both discovered by Ivan Perry. Both species are very rare at the time of writing – minutissima coming from the west of England…
This one was discovered by Ivan Perry amongst some normal Eumea linearicornis. The two species are quite hard to split but from what we have…
Linnaemya picta was added to the British list after Howard Bentley got in touch with me with some dubious records for L.rossica, in Kent. L.rossica…