Chrysops (Chrysops) italicus Meigen, 1804

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 : 48-49

5. Chrysops (Chrysops) italicus Meigen, 1804

Klassifikazion und Beschreibung der europäischen zweiflügligen Insekten, 1 (2), 158.

Type locality. Italy .

Range. Palearctic. Mediterranean, in Northern Africa from Morocco to Tunisia, through southern Europe eastwards to Turkey and Iran to the south to Cyprus and the Levant as far south as Lebanon ( Leclercq, 1960; Chvála et al., 1972; Müller et al., 2012a; Chvála, 2013).

New records. We observed this species in Cyprus for several years, attacking man, horses, and cattle in the salt marshes surrounding Limassol Salt Lake from late April to early September. We have not recorded this species so far in the hills and mountains towards the center of the island. On Lesvos , we caught three males by sweeping vegetation and two females attacking the collector in the area surrounding the salt pans of Kalloni and Polichnitos (at sea level) in late April 1999 (new record for Northern Aegean islands ) .