Tabanus sufis Jaennicke, 1867

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 : 55

22. Tabanus sufis Jaennicke, 1867

( Figs 4 , 8 , 12 )

Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft, 6, 332.

Type locality. Sudan .

Range. Afrotropical and Palearctic, widespread in Africa penetrating the Palearctic realm through the East Mediterranean from Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the Levant north and eastwards to Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and India, the species is absent from Turkey ( Oldroyd, 1954; Leclercq, 1966a; Burger, 1984; Müller et al., 2012b; El-Hassan et al., 2013; Evenhuis & Pape, 2023).

New records. In the Levant the most northern record is from northern Lebanon, a female caught 10 km east of Tripoli in a Malaise trap in mid-June 2015. The specimen is deposited in the collection of G. Müller (new record for Lebanon). We collected three females feeding on a donkey in Cyprus, 10 km NW from Larnaca, in late May 2019 (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.