Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tabanus bovinus? -> sudeticus m
Posted by dipdip on 11-06-2008 15:10
#1
Hello
This Fly is about 25mm long. Doesn't it loock like Tabanus bovinus?
At Lake Thun Switzerland 11.06.2008
With regards Maja
Edited by dipdip on 12-06-2008 10:27
Posted by Zeegers on 11-06-2008 19:42
#2
Strong dorsal antennal tooth, third antennal segment clearly orange and abdominal triangles are short, so it looks like a male sudeticus to me.
Upper facets in eye should be strongly enlarged in that case.
Theo
Posted by dipdip on 12-06-2008 10:24
#3
Thank you Theo!
Trying hard to see myself what you explained, I went back to the place where I had found the Tabanus. It was there. It is 14?C here and first I thought it was sleeping, but it was partly eaten. Unfortunately the Antennae are broken. But the eyes show facets of different size
With regards from Switzerland
Maja
Edited by dipdip on 12-06-2008 10:25
Posted by Zeegers on 13-06-2008 09:50
#4
Yeap, clearly enlarged upper facets. SO no bovinus, but sudeticus.
THeo
Posted by dipdip on 27-06-2008 17:46
#5
Thank you!