Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Very large Tabanus --> T. autumnalis
Posted by Juergen Peters on 19-05-2007 00:46
#1
Hello!
This male
Tabanus (yesterday on a meadow, Ostwestfalen/Germany) was
really big, I think clearly over 20 mm! I have never seen such a large Tabanid. Could this be
T. sudeticus? Thanks!
Bigger pictures:
http://www.foto-u...M1_big.jpg (172 KB)
http://www.foto-u...it_big.jpg (50 KB)
Edited by Juergen Peters on 20-05-2007 01:53
Posted by Juergen Peters on 19-05-2007 00:47
#2
Another picture.
Posted by Juergen Peters on 19-05-2007 00:47
#3
Portrait #1
Posted by Juergen Peters on 19-05-2007 00:48
#4
Portrait #2
Posted by jalbala on 19-05-2007 17:37
#5
I believe that not T. sudeticus. By the drawing of thorax and abdomen it seems T. autumnalis.
Posted by Juergen Peters on 19-05-2007 18:28
#6
Hello, Jalbala
jalbala wrote:
I believe that not T. sudeticus. By the drawing of thorax and abdomen it seems T. autumnalis.
Thanks! I have had
T. autumnalis here, but it was much smaller than this one...
Posted by Susan R Walter on 19-05-2007 22:27
#7
I think the first posterior cell is closed, which would make it
T eggeri. The females I have seen in France are pretty big - about 25mm. I've also had
T autumnalis to 25mm in Essex, but again female, not males, and your beast is male.
*Edit* Changed my mind - I'll vote for T
autumnalis - the abdominal pattern is right, and I think it is a fold, not a vein, making the cell look closed.
Edited by Susan R Walter on 19-05-2007 22:32
Posted by Juergen Peters on 20-05-2007 01:52
#8
Hello, Susan!
Susan R Walter wrote:
*Edit* Changed my mind - I'll vote for T autumnalis - the abdominal pattern is right, and I think it is a fold, not a vein, making the cell look closed.
Many thanks! Anyway: It was a very impressive fly!