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Well, this was definitely the first I have ever seen - it was quite striking. :)

Last year I also bumped into 2 unusual species that seem to have been doing well recently - Stratiomys potamida and Mallota cimbiciformis. Also, many of the phasiine tachinids, like Cistogaster have been expanding their ranges :)

It's not all good news though - we still have about 90 tachinids on our list with only 1 or 0 records ... many of which used to be commoner in the past (ie. we see them in collections but hardly ever get modern records for them).