The Society for the study of flies (Diptera)

Not all British species of Tachydromia are covered in Collin's British Flies (1961) or Chv�la's Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica (1975) monograph. The following link is to a draft key to the British species. It is very much a provisional key so you may well find mistakes in it. Confirmatory decriptions and illustrations of male genitalia of all species except edenensis can be found in Chv�la M. (1970) Revision of the Palaearctic species of the genus Tachydromia Meig. (=Tachista Loew)(Diptera, Empididae) Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 38: 415-524. Tachydromia edenensis is described and figured by Hewitt, S & Chv�la, M. (2002) Br. J. Ent. Nat. Hist 15: 65-70.
Currently Patrick Grootaert and Igor Shamshev or apparently working on a new Palaearctic revision of the genus but this is unlikely to be available for some time


Draft key to Tachydromia