Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tabanidae
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 30-09-2006 20:13
#1
Turkey, Side, sand dunas, 30 sept, about 12-13mm
Posted by Tony Irwin on 30-09-2006 22:28
#2
Tabanus glaucopis male?
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 30-09-2006 22:34
#3
Unusualy nice fly.
By the way I spend an hour near this camels looking for camel-attracted flies and found nothing interesting. But, today morning Dima found this male near camels, as he told me, Tabanus looked semialive.
Nikita
Posted by Tony Irwin on 01-10-2006 17:48
#4
In the light of your other tabanid
http://www.dipter...post_15888, I'm withdrawing my suggestion of
glaucopis - the colour of the hairs on the palpi, cheeks and thorax don't fit the description in Chvala
et al. I think this is the male of the beast that fed on Dima this morning (probably
T. fraseri). I expect it has been described by now, but wasn't when
The Horseflies of Europe was published in 1972.
Posted by Zeegers on 01-10-2006 18:40
#5
Well, it is clearly in the glaucopis-group, though it seems to be too slender for glaucopis itself.
My guess would be T. obsolescens, which has been recorded already from Turkey (Chvala et al. 1972 are understandably not up to date on this).
Theo Zeegers
Posted by Nikita Vikhrev on 01-10-2006 21:05
#6
Thank you Theo and Tony.