Tabanus quatuornotatus

Tabanus quatuornotatus is a species of biting horse-fly.[2]

Tabanus quatuornotatus
Female of Tabanus quatuornotatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Diptera
Family:
Tabanidae
Genus:
Tabanus
Species:
T. quatuornotatus
Binomial name
Tabanus quatuornotatus
Meigen, 1820
Synonyms

Description

This species is present in most of Europe, in the Near East and in North Africa. In particular it can be found, as well as in Europe, also in Russia, Transcaucasus, Middle Asia, Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey and in Iran.[3][1]

Description

Tabanus quatuornotatus can reach a body length of about 15–18 mm. These medium sized hairy blood-sucking horse-flies shows hairy eyes with three purple eye bands. Antennae are entirely black. Palpi are short and oval, rounded at apex. Moreover frontal callus is squared and dull black. Also the upper part of subcallus is polished black. The abdomen is black and grey coloured.[4]

References
  1. Catalogue of life
  2. Biolib
  3. Fauna europaea
  4. Rosemarie Abassian-Lintzen Tabanidae (Diptera) of Iran X. List, Keys and Distribution of Species occurring in Iran Annales de Parasitologie (Paris), t. 39, 1964
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