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 Australian Tachinidae?
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| Graeme Cocks |
Posted on 04-11-2010 23:32
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 Member Location: Townsville, Australia Posts: 3083 Joined: 09.09.08 |
Is this Tachinidae? Malaise trap, Townsville, Australia. Graeme Cocks attached the following image:  [114.3Kb] |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 05-11-2010 00:12
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Yes, that's a tachinid - I'd need to see the specimen for real to have a chance of keying it 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Graeme Cocks |
Posted on 05-11-2010 00:32
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Member Location: Townsville, Australia Posts: 3083 Joined: 09.09.08 |
Thanks Chris. Cheers, Graeme |
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 05-11-2010 16:35
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 19308 Joined: 21.07.04 |
Same here, I can't confirm Australian, but Tachinidae it is. Clearly somewhere in the Goniini / Eryciini vicinity Theo |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 05-11-2010 17:33
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Zeegers wrote: ... Clearly somewhere in the Goniini / Eryciini vicinity From the fact that there are 3 strong pre-alar bristles?
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 06-11-2010 18:09
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 19308 Joined: 21.07.04 |
yes, it seems to be the most important clue. Theo |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 06-11-2010 18:12
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Thanks ... I have always been most confused by the taxonomy of the Exoristinae and I am just starting to understand what to look for  Out of interest, could you recommend an article or database that gives the most up to date treatment of the genus+tribe+subfamily relationships? I am having problems finding how people in Europe are treating the Polideini
Edited by ChrisR on 06-11-2010 18:13 Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Zeegers |
Posted on 07-11-2010 11:20
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Member Location: Soest, NL Posts: 19308 Joined: 21.07.04 |
To quote Richard P. Feynman "They don't". Polideini is hardly represented in the Palaearctic, as you know, more the Nearctic thing. I think O'Hara's list of genera is the most modern thing (online on their website). Let me know if you can't find it. Theo |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 07-11-2010 11:56
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Yes, I come across quite a few in the neotropical samples but I think, as far as the UK fauna is concerned, it's just Lypha and Lydina here ... but I just wanted to make sure that it was a generally accepted tribe because I'd like to update our checklist 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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