{"id":1096,"date":"2013-03-22T20:45:35","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T20:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2020-08-01T16:37:46","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T16:37:46","slug":"exorista-rustica-vs-tubulosa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/exorista-rustica-vs-tubulosa\/","title":{"rendered":"Exorista rustica vs. tubulosa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I always find this species-pair really difficult to split &#8211; even when you flip out the male genitalia. The cerci are actually quite distinctive but without good photos you can try to convince yourself that a <em>rustica<\/em> (the common one) is a <em>tubulosa<\/em> (the uncommon one). The key is that <em>tubulosa<\/em> should be really very parallel-sided while <em>rustica<\/em> is rounded and then the tip is quite pronounced.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1096 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/resized-13-03-04_155035_MB_R8_S4.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/resized-13-03-04_155035_MB_R8_S4-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1097\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1097'>\n\t\t\t\tExorista rustica\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/resized-2013-03-04-15.39.25-ZS-PMax.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/resized-2013-03-04-15.39.25-ZS-PMax-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1098\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1098'>\n\t\t\t\tExorista tubulosa\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always find this species-pair really difficult to split &#8211; even when you flip out the male genitalia. The cerci are actually quite distinctive but&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[322],"tags":[369,383],"class_list":["post-1096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tutorials","tag-exorista-rustica","tag-exorista-tubulosa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1362,"href":"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions\/1362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}