Tabanus autumnalis Linnaeus, 1761

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15. Tabanus autumnalis Linnaeus, 1761

Fauna Svecica sistens animalia Sveciae regni: mammalia, aves, amphibia, pisces, insecta, vermes, 462.

Type locality. Sweden .

Range. Palearctic, from Northern Africa known from Morocco and Egypt, widespread in most of Europe, the Baleares, Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, Corfu and Cyprus, towards the east through southern Russia (southern Siberia), Greece, Turkey, Iran and Iraq to Central Asia, absent from Ireland, Finland and northern Russia ( Leclercq, 1966a; Chvála et al., 1972; Chvála, 2013).

New records. We caught one female in central Lesvos in late May 2003 (new record for Northern Aegean islands), and two females in a Malaise trap and one male in an automatic light trap in Naxos in late June 2016 (new record for Cyclades) .