Tabanus regularis Jaennicke, 1866

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 : 54

21. Tabanus regularis Jaennicke, 1866

Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift, 10, 65.

Type locality. France .

Range. Palearctic, from Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia through southern Europe (including Greece) to Cyprus, Turkey, and the Levant, towards the east to South Caucasus, Iraq, Iran and in the north through southern Russia ( Leclercq, 1966a; Chvála et al., 1972; Chvála, 2013). Variable specimens with paler brown color of the abdomen and entirely brownish antennae from Cyprus, Tunisia and Jerusalem were described by Szilády (1923) as a variety named rufus. Leclercq (1967) raised this form without justification to subspecific rank, according to Chvála (1972).

New record. We observed this species in Cyprus over several years, from late June to late August, from the coastal plain up to 1500 m a.s.l. in Malaise trap catches and feeding on donkeys and horses. We recorded two females feeding on horses in Crete, on the northern foothills of the Idi Mts, 800 m in late July 2023, and we collected several females on Naxos Island not far from a pasture with horses in early August 2016 in a Malaise Trap (new record for Crete and the Cyclades).