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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
These are some figures from Tschorsnig & Herting (1994), showing the sternite 6 of some female Eurithia spp.: A – Eurithia consobrina (furrow along entire…
Today Matt & I attended “Big Nature Day” at the Natural History Museum, in London – a day for wildlife organisations to show what they…
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…
This is a reprint of the genitalia figures from van Emden’s 1957 handbook – out of print for many years. I find them quite useful…
Botria (=Bothria) subalpina is a Spring species previously thought to be found in northern & eastern Europe – I have specimens from Finland and Bavaria.…