Atylotus pulchellus ( Löw, 1858 )

Müller, Günter C., Prozorov, Alexey M., Traore, Mohamed M., Revay, Edita E., Hogsette, Jerome A., Kline, Daniel, Chaskopoulou, Alexandra, Prozorova, Tatiana A., Volkova, Julia S., Diarra, Rabiatou A., Petrányi, Gergely, Schneider, Tom, Beck, Robert H. - T., Ignatev, Nikolai, Yakovlev, Roman V., Cui, Liwang & Schlein, Yosef, 2023, The Tabanidae (Diptera) of the Greek islands and Cyprus: An annotated checklist with remarks on ecology, zoogeography, and new records on the East Mediterranean fauna, Ecologica Montenegrina 67, pp. 45-65 : 50

11. Atylotus pulchellus ( Löw, 1858)

Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 8, 597.

= Tabanus cyprianus Ricardo, 1911 , Records of the Indian Museum, 4, 248.

Type locality. Asia minor ( Turkey) .

Range. East Palearctic, in the Mediterranean Basin in Algeria, Egypt, Sardinia and Cyprus, widely distributed in the Near East from Turkey to Iran, Iraq, in the Levant known from Jordan, and from southern Russia eastwards to Central Asia as far as China ( Leclercq, 1966a; Chvála et al., 1972; Chvála, 2013; Evenhuis & Pape, 2023).

Taxonomic note. The species was described from Cyprus as Tabanus cyprianus Ricardo, 1911 (type locality: Kelopside). For several years, we observed it attacking men in May and September in Cyprus, in the salt marshes of Limassol Salt Lake .