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Sure Tachinidae. Nice
Nikita Vikhrev
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 On tree bark of Cocoa Palm, 9 mm
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 what??? this is amazing!!!! fabulous!!! Tachinidae sure!!
 
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 Hmm, looks like a Mintho spp. Grin Nice laterally compressed abdomen - but doesn't look like the european one (rufiventris), so I'd need the African literature to go much further.
 
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 Yep, it's Mintho compressa, the North-african counterpart of rufiventris.


Well done, Nikita


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 Wow, species level!
Thank you Theo and Chris.
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