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 Tachinid from French Guiana
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| Stephen |
Posted on 19-06-2011 16:39
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 Member Location: West Virginia USA Posts: 1322 Joined: 12.04.05 |
Is this Cylindromyia? Réserve naturelle Trésor, 2 June 2011. Length: 9.1 mm to apex of abdomen.
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| Stephen |
Posted on 19-06-2011 16:40
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Member Location: West Virginia USA Posts: 1322 Joined: 12.04.05 |
Réserve naturelle Trésor, French Guiana, 2 June 2011.
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 19-06-2011 17:35
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 Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
Wow! No - it doesn't look phasiine - but I have no idea what it is and I haven't seen anything like it before in the material I have from French Guiana. Did you take a specimen? 
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Stephen |
Posted on 19-06-2011 17:43
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Member Location: West Virginia USA Posts: 1322 Joined: 12.04.05 |
No, didn't do any collecting. I wonder if I have any other views? I'll look!
--Stephen Stephen Cresswell www.americaninsects.net |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 19-06-2011 18:10
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
I have a feeling that it will be one of the Blondeliini - a very difficult group to work on in the neotropics. Specimens are really mandatory anywhere south of Mexico and most material you find will not be identifiable because there are so few keys and so many undescribed species. Saying that, this one is very striking so it is possible that if you showed it to Monty Wood he might know whether it reminds him of anything he has come across
Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| Sara21392 |
Posted on 19-06-2011 18:54
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Wow, what a pretty...!!!! 
Sincerely yours Sara |
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| Stephen |
Posted on 20-06-2011 00:37
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Member Location: West Virginia USA Posts: 1322 Joined: 12.04.05 |
Thanks, Chris, I'll get in touch with Monty Wood, to see if this fly "rings a bell" with him. I'm posting one more image. I'm not sure it adds much, but it was the only other angle I got.
Stephen attached the following image:  [117.36Kb] --Stephen Stephen Cresswell www.americaninsects.net |
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 20-06-2011 08:06
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Super Administrator Location: Reading, England Posts: 7706 Joined: 12.07.04 |
It's a really exciting fly so I hope Monty might have seen something similar - but I would approach him assuming that an identification is impossible and just see if he has seen anything *like* it I'll have a think and see if I have anything similar here ... I am pretty sure I don't but that gold strip on the front of the thorax rings bells. Edited by ChrisR on 20-06-2011 08:07 Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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| rvanderweele |
Posted on 20-06-2011 08:49
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Member Location: Leiden, the Netherlands Posts: 1988 Joined: 01.11.06 |
Very fascinating looking fly!
ruud van der weele rvanderweele@gmail.com |
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