Horse-flies and deer flies are true flies in the family Tabanidae in the insect order Diptera. The adults are often large and agile in flight. Only female...
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Deer fly (category Tabanidae)
Chrysopsinae is an insect subfamily in the family Tabanidae commonly known as deer flies or sheep flies and are bloodsucking insects considered pests...
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example, in the note "Diptera: Tabanidae, cf. Tabanus", the author is confident of the order and family (Diptera: Tabanidae) but can only suggest the genus...
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Tabanus sudeticus (category Tabanidae)
Zweyte Abtheilung". Isis (Oken's). 1842: 807–847. Oldroyd, H. (1939). Tabanidae. In Edwards, F.W., Oldroyd, H. & Smart, J., British blood-sucking flies...
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Tabanus (category Tabanidae)
Tabanus is a genus of biting horseflies of the family Tabanidae. Females have scissor-like mouthparts that are able to penetrate the skin of livestock...
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Genus Glutops Burgess, 1878 Genus Pseudoerinna Shiraki [sv], 1932 Family Tabanidae Subfamily Adersiinae Genus Adersia Austen, 1912 Subfamily Chrysopsinae...
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Chrysops (category Tabanidae)
DEET is not an effective repellent. Predators of the deer fly (and other Tabanidae) include nest-building wasps and hornets, dragonflies, and some birds...
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Tabanus proximus (category Tabanidae)
Tabanus proximus is a species of horse flies in the family Tabanidae. Tabanus proximus benedictus Whitney, 1904 Tabanus proximus proximus Walker, 1848...
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Diachlorus ferrugatus (category Tabanidae)
Belize, is a species of highly aggressive biting horse-fly of the family Tabanidae native to North and Central America to Costa Rica. The yellow fly was...
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Haematopota pluvialis (category Tabanidae)
Scotland and northern parts of Ireland, is a species belonging to the family Tabanidae subfamily Tabaninae. This species is present in most of Europe, in the...
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Tabanus nigrovittatus (category Tabanidae)
supplement. Paris: Roret. pp. 104 pp, 6 pls. Marten, J. (1883). "New Tabanidae". The Canadian Entomologist. 15: 110–112. Retrieved 14 October 2022. Walker...
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Tabanus sulcifrons (category Tabanidae)
Tabanus sulcifrons is a species of horse fly in the family Tabanidae, widely distributed throughout the eastern half of the United States and adjacent...
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Teskeyellus cyanommatus (category Tabanidae)
Teskeyellus cyanommatus is a species of horsefly in the family Tabanidae discovered in Manaus, Brazil in 2017. The fly's abdomen and thorax are completely...
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Tabanus fairchildi (category Tabanidae)
of horse fly in the family Tabanidae. Canada, United States. Stone, A. (1938). "The horseflies of the subfamily Tabanidae of the Nearctic Region". U.S...
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List of Tabanus species (category Tabanidae)
list of 1358 species in Tabanus, a genus of horseflies in the family Tabanidae. Contents A B C D-E F-G H-J K-L M N O P Q-R S T U-V W-Z References Tabanus...
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Tabanus stygius (category Tabanidae)
Tabanus stygius is a species of horse fly in the family Tabanidae. United States. Say, Thomas (1823). "Descriptions of dipterous insects of the United...
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Tabanus equalis (category Tabanidae)
species of horse fly in the family Tabanidae. United States. Hine, J.S. (1923). "Some notes on American Tabanidae with the description of a new species...
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by his faculty advisor, Professor Joseph Bequaert, Fairchild chose the Tabanidae, a family of insects known as "horse flies". Tabanids are worldwide, numerous...
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"true legs", but some dipteran larvae, such as species of Simuliidae, Tabanidae and Vermileonidae, have prolegs adapted to hold onto a substrate in flowing...
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Tabanus molestus (category Tabanidae)
Tabanus molestus is a species of horse fly in the family Tabanidae. United States. Say, Thomas (1823). "Descriptions of dipterous insects of the United...
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Silvius gigantulus (category Tabanidae)
Silvius gigantulus is a species of horse fly in the family Tabanidae. Canada, United States, Mexico. Loew, Hermann (1872). "Diptera Americae septentrionalis...
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refer to certain horse flies that are also known as "greenheads" (family Tabanidae), or to members of the family Ceratopogonidae. The bites usually result...
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Chrysops brunneus (category Tabanidae)
is a species of deer fly in the family Tabanidae. It is found in the United States. Hine, J.S. (1903). "Tabanidae of Ohio with a catalogue and bibliography...
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Tabanus eggeri (category Tabanidae)
ISBN 1-899935-04-5. Mikuška, A.; S. Krcmar; J. Mikuska† (2008). "Horseflies (Diptera: Tabanidae) of south-east Herzegovina (Bosnia and Herzegovina)" (pdf). Entomologia...
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Hybomitra (category Tabanidae)
Hybomitra is a genus of horse flies in the family Tabanidae. There are at least 240 described species in Hybomitra. List of Hybomitra species Stubbs,...
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Tabanus maculicornis (category Tabanidae)
nectar-feeding in adult Tabanidae (Diptera). Oecologia 46, 125-129. Krčmar, S. & Leclercq, M. (1999). Horse flies (Tabanidae) a contribution to the knowledge...
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Austroleptidae Bolbomyiidae Rhagionidae (snipe flies) Tabanoidea Athericidae (water snipe flies) Oreoleptidae Pelecorhynchidae Tabanidae (horse and deer flies)...
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Chrysops relictus (category Tabanidae)
VetenskAkad. Forh. Stockh. 5: 198–201. Goffe, E.R. (1931). "British Tabanidae (Diptera). With an account of the principal variation. With descriptions...
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Tabanus lineola (category Tabanidae)
Vol. 49. Psyche. pp. 25–40. Moucha, J. (1976). "Horse-flies (Diptera: Tabanidae) of the World. Synoptic Catalogue" (PDF). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis...
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Hybomitra distinguenda (category Tabanidae)
Hybomitra distinguenda is a Palearctic species of horse fly in the family Tabanidae. Verrall, G. H. (1909). Stratiomyidae and succeeding families of the Diptera...
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