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 Tachinidae from Colombia
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| proctoss |
Posted on 03-04-2012 00:57
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Tachinidae from Colombia 2012 (leg. Roman; Moscow, Russia)
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Posted on 03-04-2012 01:01
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Posted on 03-04-2012 01:04
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Posted on 03-04-2012 01:04
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| ChrisR |
Posted on 03-04-2012 12:12
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Wow - they look lovely - if he can catch more then I would be very happy to have them  These are all Tachinini, of course, but getting to genus is a very "hit and miss" process. Monty Wood's key to the Central American genera (in MCAD volume 2) is about the best way to start but for material outside Central America (even a little outside) it will be less reliable. The problem is that there are too many redundant genera in the neotropics and so it is safest to say "close to" until we can get a good database of photographs of types. The orange one with long palpi is closest to Adejeania ... if the black one also has long palpi then it might be Eudejeania ... but I would have to have them in my hand to really key them properly and compare them closely to my own material  There are a lot of very similar genera outside the Tachinini that can be confused with these  Anyway, they are great to see - we just need more collecting in the neotropics and more material to study
Edited by ChrisR on 03-04-2012 12:14 Manager of the UK Species Inventory in the Angela Marmont Centre for UK Biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. |
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