---

Can anyone identify this green eyed horsefly from Lesbos. Common and very ready to bite painfully as I know to my cost...

I canot match it to any images I've flound.

To my amateur eye it looks quite similar to Tabanus bromius, but that isn't recorded in the Mediterranean region as far as i know.

It looks a bit like a Philipomyia to me but I can't find any with banded eyes like this.

It looks a bit like a Silvius sp. to me but is much smaller than the S. alpinus i photographed in the Pyrenees a couple of years ago and that genus has spotted not banded green eyes as far as i know.

I'm probably looking at all the wrong characters, and may have overlooked an obvious candidate, so any ID help would be gratefully received!

31.5.11 c9mm Resting on car roof (they love to nip into cars as you get in and then try to you while you are driving..) and feeding on an umbel, Lesbos, Greece.