Tabanus unicinctus Loew

Abu El-Hassan, Gawhara M. M., Badrawy, Haitham B. M., Fadl, Hassan H. & Mohammad, Salwa K., 2013, A review of the genus Tabanus Linnaeus, 1758 (Diptera: Tabanidae) from Egypt, Zootaxa 3691 (5), pp. 559-576 : 573

Tabanus unicinctus Loew

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Tabanus unicinctus Loew, 1856: 27 .

Type locality. Egypt.

Diagnosis. Length. (Female) body 15 mm, wing 12 mm.

Frons in females with sides not parallel; subcallus entirely smooth, with 3 semicircular furrows around each antenna; R4 with appendix; abdomen lilac-brown with small white triangular spot in the middle of terga 1–6, two lateral longitudinal whitish isolated spots on terga 2–6.

Local distribution. Unknown.

Geographical distribution. Egypt.

Remarks. Efflatoun (1930) identified T. unicinctus as an unrecognised species which was recorded from Egypt in the literature only.

Figures

FIGURE 3. Female frons, anterior view. A. T. albifacies Loew. B. T. arenivagus Austen. C. T. autumnalis Linnaeus. D. T. gratus Loew. E. T. leleani Austen (adapted from Chvála et al. 1972). F. T. lunatus Fabricius G. T. mordax Austen. H. T. rupinae Austen. I. T. separatus Efflatoun. J. T. sufis Jaennicke. K. T. taeniola Palisot de Beauvois. L. T. unicinctus Loew (adapted from Loew 1856). Scale line = 1 mm. (L. not scaled).