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 female Tabanus bovinus
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| Rupert Huber |
Posted on 07-06-2026 08:40
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 Member Location: Germany / South-East Bavaria Posts: 850 Joined: 19.07.07 |
Hi everyone! Since last year I found as many males of T. bovinus as T. sudeticus (3 each) at this very mountain, and this year one dead each about 20 km east (none yet at this mountain), so again the same amount, I don't think, Tabanus bovinus is very rare here. Also, we have good living conditions for them, mountains made of limestone and a lot of cattle grazing on meadows. This female one was caught (together with 4 other large Tabanus, three of them T. sudeticus, and one more that I consider as T. bovinus -> will be extra thread) on a large way sign in the middle of cow meadows. I'd take it as a safe one: Green eyes under natural light, only very little red at the base of third antennal segment, very much red on the abdomen and nice big concave triangles reaching almost the edges of the ones before. Dark central stripe over the sternites clearly there as well. Length 21 mm 6. June 2026, Germany, Upper Bavaria, near the village of Ruhpolding, Hocherbalm at Mt. Hochfelln, about 1020 m a.s.l., coordinates 47.77072, 12.58771 Rupert Huber attached the following image:  [171.02Kb] Edited by Rupert Huber on 07-06-2026 10:18 Best greetings Rupert |
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| Rupert Huber |
Posted on 07-06-2026 08:40
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Member Location: Germany / South-East Bavaria Posts: 850 Joined: 19.07.07 |
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Posted on 07-06-2026 08:40
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Member Location: Germany / South-East Bavaria Posts: 850 Joined: 19.07.07 |
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