Tabanus gratus Loew, 1858

Al-Talafha, Hazem A. & Amr, Zuhair S., 2024, Tabanidae Fauna (Order: Diptera) of the Arab Countries in the Middle East, Ecologica Montenegrina 71, pp. 53-85 : 74

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.37828/em.2024.71.7
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13250658
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/496A87AC-132E-FFA4-FF2F-21FB8D21FA39
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Tabanus gratus Loew, 1858
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Tabanus gratus Loew, 1858 View in CoL

Tabanus gratus View in CoL is Afrotropical species, widely distributed through Africa ( Oldroyd 1954). Moreover, the species is known from the Palearctic portion of Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, and Saudi Arabia ( Al-Dhafer et al. 2009). Tabanus gratus View in CoL shows variations in the abdomen coloration ( Abu El-Hassan et al. 2013). Mugasa et al. (2018) have found that specimens of gratus View in CoL from Kenya and Tanzania were different depending on COI barcoding, the authors mentioned that the specimens from Kenya have lighter brown color of abdomen comparing with specimens from Tanzania.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Diptera
Family	Tabanidae
Genus	Tabanus