Thread subject: Diptera.info :: big eyes - Tabanidae? ID?

Posted by brigitteu on 01-08-2009 21:51
#1

location: switzerland, highmoor, near like zurich
date: today
size: about 12 mm

I dont know, where I have to search in the gallery . . .
Thanks for your help, Brigitte

Posted by brigitteu on 01-08-2009 21:51
#2

pic 2

Posted by Tony T on 01-08-2009 22:46
#3

Correct, it's a Tabanid. A male Atylotus sp. These are tough to get any further but . . . .

Posted by brigitteu on 02-08-2009 02:13
#4

Thank you. I overlooked the pic in the gallery - for me not similar enough to be sure . . .

Posted by Zeegers on 02-08-2009 14:17
#5

I'd go for male Tabanus maculicornis, you can see the long hairs on the occiput.
In Atylotus, only sublunaticornis has these, which is smaller and without reddish sidemarks on the abdomen.


Theo