Tabanus leleani Austen, 1920

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

20. Tabanus leleani Austen, 1920

Bulletin of Entomological Research, 10, 312.

Type locality. Palestine .

Range. Palearctic and Oriental, in the Mediterranean Basin in Morocco, Algeria, the Greek mainland, Crete, Cyprus, Turkey and the Levant, to the Middle East, in the north from Romania to southern Russia and eastwards to Mongolia and Western China, penetrating the Oriental region into Pakistan and northern India ( Leclercq, 1966a; Chvála et al., 1972; Chvála, 2013; Zhang & Yang, 2018; Evenhuis & Pape, 2023).

New records. We observed dozens of adults attacking horses in Cyprus near Káto Drys, in late July 2017; later, while leaving the place, several specimens followed the car, and two specimens entered the open window. We caught two females while feeding on a donkey on Rhodes Island, near Embonas, Mt. Attavyros, 700–800 m in mid-July 2001 (new record for Dodecanese islands).