■ The Tachinid Times, Issue 24, February 2011
Jim O’Hara,
editor
Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada
960 Carling Avenue
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1A 0C6
Correspondence: james.ohara@agr.gc.ca
This issue of the annual newsletter The Tachinid Times
was distributed simultaneously in hardcopy and over the Internet (as a
PDF document) in February 2011. It can be viewed here or downloaded as a
searchable PDF file with the same pagination as in the original hardcopy
edition.
Contents of Issue 24
Articles
- New record of Loewia crassipes (Mesnil) from Turkey
(by Cezary Bystrowski)
- Preliminary comparison of tachinid species assemblages in three different
open habitats in south-central Finland
(by Jaakko Pohjoismäki)
- First records and other interesting finds of Tachinidae from Israel and
adjacent areas
(by Joachim Ziegler)
- Collecting and preserving tachinid legs for molecular study
(by James E. O'Hara)
- The invasive species, Trichopoda pennipes (F.) (Diptera: Tachinidae),
found in Israel
(by Amnon Freidberg, Elizabeth Morgulis and Pierfilippo Cerretti)
- Exploring a reproductive isolation mechanism in uzifly, Exorista sorbillans
(Diptera: Tachinidae)
(by Bandekodigenahalli M. Prakash and Hosagavi P. Puttaraju)
Announcements
- M.Sc. opportunity in biology and systematics of Neotropical Tachinidae
- Ph.D. thesis defended by Natália Muráriková
- M.Sc. thesis defended by Diego Javier Inclan Luna
- New book! Tachinids of Italy
- Another new book! Manual of Central American Diptera. Volume 2
- TachImage Gallery
- Abstracts from the Seventh International Congress of Dipterology
(from Abstracts Volume edited by M.A. Zumbado)
- Over 200 genera and counting – the megadiverse fauna of Afrotropical
Tachinidae
(by P. Cerretti, J.E. O'Hara, D.M.Wood and J.O. Stireman III)
- MOSCHWEB – An open access interactive key to the Palaearctic
genera of Diptera: Tachinidae
(by P. Cerretti, H.-P. Tschorsnig and M. Lopresti)
- Overview of the Neotropical Dexiinae (Tachinidae)
(by R.R. Figueiredo and S.S. Nihei)
- Importance of visual and olfactory cues for foraging in the
parasitoid Exorista japonica
(by R.T. Ichiki, Y. Kainoh, Y. Yamawaki and S. Nakamura)
- Revision of the Neotropical genus Erythromelana
(Diptera: Tachinidae)
(by D.J. Inclan and J.O. Stireman III)
- Taxonomy and phylogeny of Ormiini (Tachinidae): diversity
and evolution of cricket parasitoid flies
(by S.S. Nihei)
- Building a unified classification of the Tachinidae (Diptera) of
the world
(by J.E. O'Hara, D.M. Wood, V.A. Richter, H. Shima and S.J. Henderson)
- An overview of Afrotropical Oestroidea
(by T. Pape)
- Host-associated differentiation in Diptera: contrasting plant
parasites and insect parasitoids
(by J.O. Stireman III)
- Diversity and host use patterns of Lepidoptera attacking Tachinidae
in the Ecuadorian Andes
(by J.O. Stireman III, H.F. Greeney and L.A. Dyer)
- Response of the uzi fly Exorista sorbillans to silkworm-infested
mulberry in a wind tunnel
(by A. Tanaka, Y. Kainoh, J. Tabata, H. Sugie, R.T. Ichiki and S. Nakamura)
- New views on the taxonomy of Tachina spp. (Tachinidae):
West Palaearctic species
(by J. Vaňhara, A. Tóthová, N. Muráriková, H. Novotná and J. Havel)
- Tachinidae in the era of molecular systematics
(by D.M. Wood)
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