Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Is it Tabanus species from Sicily?
Posted by Chalybion on 20-07-2025 10:38
#1
Hi, this is my first thread as my interest in Diptera is occasional. Because the lack of median callus (seems to me), this specimen is not easy to me to identify by my keys; palpi and general aspect are similar to
T. cordiger, but I need opinions about it. Eyes unbanded in living specimen. Collected by me in a clearing in woodland with bovids.
Locus: Sicily, Ragusa province, near Monterosso Almo, 425 m asl, on VI.03.2025. Thank's in advance for any opinion. Giorgio Pezzi.
Edited by Chalybion on 20-07-2025 10:43
Posted by Chalybion on 20-07-2025 10:41
#2
Chalybion wrote:
Hi, this is my first thread as my interest in Diptera is occasional. Because the lack of median callus (seems to me), this specimen is not easy to me to identify by my keys; palpi and general aspect are similar to T. cordiger, but I need opinions about it. Collected by me in a clearing in woodland with bovids.
Locus: Sicily, Ragusa province, near Monterosso Almo, 425 m asl, on VI.03.2025. Thank's in advance for any opinion. Giorgio Pezzi.
Posted by Chalybion on 20-07-2025 10:41
#3
Chalybion wrote:
Hi, this is my first thread as my interest in Diptera is occasional. Because the lack of median callus (seems to me), this specimen is not easy to me to identify by my keys; palpi and general aspect are similar to T. cordiger, but I need opinions about it. Collected by me in a clearing in woodland with bovids.
Locus: Sicily, Ragusa province, near Monterosso Almo, 425 m asl, on VI.03.2025. Thank's in advance for any opinion. Giorgio Pezzi.
Posted by Chalybion on 20-07-2025 10:42
#4
Chalybion wrote:
Chalybion wrote:
Hi, this is my first thread as my interest in Diptera is occasional. Because the lack of median callus (seems to me), this specimen is not easy to me to identify by my keys; palpi and general aspect are similar to T. cordiger, but I need opinions about it. Collected by me in a clearing in woodland with bovids.
Locus: Sicily, Ragusa province, near Monterosso Almo, 425 m asl, on VI.03.2025. Thank's in advance for any opinion. Giorgio Pezzi.
Posted by Zeegers on 21-07-2025 14:13
#5
It is definitely cordiger-group, the lacking medium callus is weird.
I think I see an eye band and the third antennal segment is red at base, so I am thinking T. leleani, in which the median callus can be quite unclear.
Theo