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Category: New Species

Tachina fera vs magnicornis vs tetramera

by ChrisRPosted onMarch 11, 2025June 21, 2025

The recent arrival of Tachina magnicornis in Suffolk and then later in Kent has created a quite tricky problem for us at the recording scheme.…

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Catharosia albisquama

by ChrisRPosted onFebruary 14, 2025March 11, 2025

Back at the end of Summer 2023, around the same time as Tachina magnicornis began to be found in East Suffolk, Ivan Perry spotted another…

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Post Preston Montford thoughts…

by ChrisRPosted onFebruary 18, 2024April 18, 2025

For the workshop I compiled a list of species that are new since Belshaw’s 1993 key (42 species) and then also marked onto it the…

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Distinguishing Tachina fera group species

by ChrisRPosted onSeptember 9, 2023February 12, 2024

We now have at least 2 species of the “Tachina fera group”: Tachina fera & Tachina magnicornis, and there is a suspicion that we might…

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Distinguishing Cylindromyia spp.

by ChrisRPosted onAugust 27, 2023February 12, 2024

We now have 4 species of Cylindromyia in the UK with more and more photos of them cropping upp on social media so it seemed…

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Cylindromyia bicolor new to Britain

by ChrisRPosted onJuly 24, 2023July 24, 2023

Just a quick note to say that Cylindromyia bicolor, a very distinctive tachinid, has been seen a few times this year at Rainham Marshes –…

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Carcelia iliaca, the odd one out

by ChrisRPosted onJuly 17, 2023July 17, 2023

With the spread of the invasive Oak Processionary Moth (Thaumetopoea processionea) there has been a lot of interest in its parasitoids. Both tachinid parasitoids are…

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Pales processioneae – the second OPM tachinid

by ChrisRPosted onFebruary 20, 2023July 17, 2023

Back in 2020 Andy Halstead got in touch with me to pass on some tachinids that he had reared in Surrey from tent webs of…

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Gymnocheta magna found in Scotland

by ChrisRPosted onDecember 4, 2022July 17, 2023

Exciting news this week from Steve Falk who, while examining specimens caught in Scotland this year, noticed a different-looking Gymnocheta from the Cairngorms. He ran…

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Clytiomya continua vs Eliozeta pellucens

by ChrisRPosted onDecember 11, 2021July 17, 2023

Clytiomya continua has been on the British list for quite some time and located in the North Essex / South Hertfordshire area. But it was…

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