Haematopota graeca Szilády, 1923

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

26. Haematopota graeca Szilády, 1923

Biologica Hungarica, 1 (1), 35.

Type locality. Greece, Poros Island .

Range. Palearctic, East Mediterranean. Known from the Greek mainland and Cyclades Islands (Chvála, 2013).

New records. We observed this species on Naxos and Tinos Islands readily attacking man in the late afternoon in shady ravines with some water puddles surrounded by oleander and willow thickets during early June 2016. The species was rather local and was not observed in nearby xeric habitats.