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Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tachinidae, Jurinella sp?

Posted by Isidro on 25-10-2023 06:17

Cuenca, Ecuador
7th October 23
Size as a Tachina fera

i.ibb.co/L9qC6wX/Jurinella-3-7-10-23-Bioparque-Amaru.jpg

i.ibb.co/N3nkr56/Jurinella-2-7-10-23-Bioparque-Amaru.jpg

i.ibb.co/52Cs9td/Jurinella-1-7-10-23-Bioparque-Amaru.jpg

Posted by John Carr on 25-10-2023 10:53

Tribe Tachinini.

Are the eyes haired? Jurinella has hairy eyes.

Curran reviewed this group:

Curran, C.H. 1947. New and little known American Tachinidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 89: 45–122. https://digitalli...efee2d4af2

He noted that some species of Amicrotrichoma and Oharamyia (as Lindigia) could easily be confused with Jurinella.

Posted by Isidro on 25-10-2023 18:08

Thanks. Eyes looks like hairless in the photos. I will check these other genera.

Edit; Google don't give me any result for Amicrotrichoma. It's correctly spelled?
The very little results by Oharamyia could match.

Edited by Isidro on 25-10-2023 18:10

Posted by John Carr on 25-10-2023 22:38

I spelled the genus name wrong. Amicrotrichomma. The name comes in part from Greek ὄμμα.

Posted by John Carr on 25-10-2023 22:40

There are several tropical genera with names derived from Jurinia and several more with type species originally described in Jurinia.

Posted by Isidro on 26-10-2023 04:29

Thanks. I don't find any image of Amicrotrichomma and the few results by Jurinia looks like different. Jurinella and Oharamyia looks like better candidates.