{"id":1572,"date":"2023-07-17T12:38:52","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T12:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1572"},"modified":"2023-07-17T12:39:47","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T12:39:47","slug":"myxexoristops-blondeli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tachinidae.org.uk\/blog\/myxexoristops-blondeli\/","title":{"rendered":"Myxexoristops blondeli"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Myxexoristops blondeli<\/em>, <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Recently I had the very great pleasure of keying out some odd little tachinids that had been reared from sawfly larvae by John Petyt [collected from Rowan, Sorbus aucuparia<\/em>, 7th August 2021, from Tuttoes Wood, Laughton Forest, SE845010]. Now, anything reared from sawflies tends to be interesting because so few people rear them so I was very interested to see what they were. I knew the Exorista rustica<\/em> group attack sawflies and odd-looking species like Elodia morio<\/em> (below), but the basic appearance of these flies looked very confusing … very average … a bit like Meigenia mutabilis<\/em> males, but not quite. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On keying them though I was struct by how they appeared to follow the “bristles in a roughly equilateral triangle” couplet btu it was quite fiddly to get them all to fit as the bristles were a bit variable. See below, where one bristle is missing and we must rely on a socket. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anyway, once I had proved to myself that they really did go down that route they quickly came to Myxexoristops blondeli<\/em>, which is an incredibly rare genus. In fact, in recent years, have only ever seen wrongly identified flies labelled “Myxexoristops<\/em>“. There are very few correctly identified photos online so I thought I’d at least get these out there for everyone to see what the real thing looks like!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Elodia morio<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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