Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tabanus bromius (libor & Jorge); SW Spain

Posted by Andre Burgers on 30-08-2012 20:19
#1
A Tabanus but I do not know wheter it is possible to ID to species.
Edited by Andre Burgers on 01-09-2012 07:33

Posted by Andre Burgers on 30-08-2012 20:20
#2
2nd photo:

Posted by Andre Burgers on 30-08-2012 20:21
#3
3rd photo:

Posted by ValerioW on 31-08-2012 10:49
#4
For me it can be a Tabanus autumnalis.

Posted by Andre Burgers on 31-08-2012 17:17
#5
ValerioW wrote:
For me it can be a Tabanus autumnalis.


Valerio,

Thanks! Tabanus autumnalis it will be.

Posted by libor on 31-08-2012 18:31
#6
Sorry, Valerio, but you are wrong. T. autumnalis belongs to the Tabanus bovinus group, large animals with unbanded eyes...
This is common Tabanus bromius for me...
Libor

Posted by jorgemotalmeida on 31-08-2012 23:50
#7
female Tabanus bromius.

Posted by Andre Burgers on 01-09-2012 07:32
#8
Valerio,

I am really sorry for you but Libor & Jorge are heavyweights.

Thanks for the three of you.

T. bromius was our guess too.

André

Posted by ValerioW on 13-11-2012 11:09
#9
Yes, sorry but I mis-considered the bands as flashlight/shadow effect (as you can se from the left eye where there's kind of semicircular shape). Watching it carefully reveals that not only the right eye but also the left has a band (symmetrically oriented like the right). Is T. bromius female.