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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.