Tabanus taeniola Palisot de Beauvois, 1806

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 : 56

23. Tabanus taeniola Palisot de Beauvois, 1806

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Insectes recueillis en Afrique et en Amérique, dans les Royaumes d’Oware et de Benin, à Saint-Domingue et dans les États-Unis, pendant les années 1786–1797, 56.

Type locality. Nigeria .

Range. Afrotropical and Palearctic, widespread in Africa penetrating the Palearctic to the East Mediterranean coast through Egypt and the Levant eastwards to Saudi Arabia ( Oldroyd, 1954; Leclercq, 1966a; Müller et al., 2012b; El-Hassan et al., 2013; Evenhuis & Pape, 2023).

New records. We caught a single female within a swarm of T. leleani attacking horses in Cyprus, near Káto Drys in late July 2017 (new Record for Cyprus and Europe).

Figures

Figures 1–4. Adults of Tabanidae, dorsal view. 1. Atylotus agrestis. 2. Tabanus gratus. 3. Tabanus taeniola. 4. Tabanus sufis. Scale bar – 5 mm

Figures 5–8. Adults of Tabanidae, lateral view. 5. Atylotus agrestis. 6. Tabanus gratus. 7. Tabanus taeniola. 8. Tabanus sufis. Scale bar – 5 mm.

Figures 9–12. Adults of Tabanidae, frontal view. 9. Atylotus agrestis. 10. Tabanus gratus. 11. Tabanus taeniola. 12. Tabanus sufis. Scale bar – 5 mm.