■ The Tachinid Times, Issue 39, February 2026

Jim O’Hara, editor
Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada
960 Carling Avenue
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1A 0C6
Correspondence: james.ohara@agr.gc.ca


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Contents of Issue 39

Articles

  • The importance of Natural History Collections and Taxonomy: a tachinid species collected by Johann Natterer during the Austrian scientific expedition to Brazil (1817–1835) | Get PDF |
    • by Marcelo D. de Santis
  • A visit to the Chao Tachinidae collection at IZCAS in Beijing: personal impressions and perspectives | Get PDF
    • by Pierfilippo Cerretti
  • A return to the Hengduan Mountains of China with a list of newly recorded species from Sichuan and Yunnan | Get PDF |
    by Xingyan Zhang, Junjian Li, Chuntian Zhang, Henan Li, Ruiqing Dong, Yang Tang and Xinyi Li
  • Trends in the tachinid fauna of The Netherlands over the last forty years| Get PDF |
    by Theo Zeegers
  • “Tree Tachinidae”: brief notes on bristle flies from the Life on Trees project| Get PDF |
    by John O. Stireman III
  • Istocheta aldrichi (Mesnil), a biological control agent of the Japanese beetle, Popillia japonica Newman, establishes in British Columbia| Get PDF |
    by Paul K. Abram
  • One year at the Smithsonian Tachinidae collection, and some updates on tachinids that parasite Diptera| Get PDF |
    by Rodrigo de V. P. Dios and Filipe M. Gudin
  • Opportunistic surveys of bristle flies (Tachinidae) in West Virginia (USA) revisited| Get PDF |
    by John O. Stireman III
  • Thirty-eight years of The Tachinid Times| Get PDF |
    by James E. O’Hara and Shannon J. Henderson

Announcement

  • Studia Dipterologica Supplements on Tachinidae | Get PDF |

In Memoriam

  • James G. Lumbers (1986–2025) | Get PDF |

Student News

Tachinid Bibliography


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