Horse-flies and deer flies are true flies in the family Tabanidae in the insect order Diptera. The adults are often large and agile in flight. Only female...
44 KB (5,152 words) - 21:21, 4 July 2024
Deer fly (category Tabanidae)
Chrysopsinae is an insect subfamily in the family Tabanidae commonly known as deer flies or sheep flies and are bloodsucking insects considered pests...
15 KB (1,236 words) - 17:52, 19 August 2024
example, in the note "Diptera: Tabanidae, cf. Tabanus", the author is confident of the order and family (Diptera: Tabanidae) but can only suggest the genus...
4 KB (458 words) - 21:21, 21 August 2024
Tabanus sudeticus (category Tabanidae)
Zweyte Abtheilung". Isis (Oken's). 1842: 807–847. Oldroyd, H. (1939). Tabanidae. In Edwards, F.W., Oldroyd, H. & Smart, J., British blood-sucking flies...
4 KB (358 words) - 18:13, 9 September 2023
Tabanus (category Tabanidae)
Tabanus is a genus of biting horseflies of the family Tabanidae. Females have scissor-like mouthparts that are able to penetrate the skin of livestock...
2 KB (169 words) - 11:44, 11 August 2024
Tabanus proximus (category Tabanidae)
Tabanus proximus is a species of horse flies in the family Tabanidae. Tabanus proximus benedictus Whitney, 1904 Tabanus proximus proximus Walker, 1848...
2 KB (121 words) - 22:40, 10 July 2024
Haematopota pluvialis (category Tabanidae)
Scotland and northern parts of Ireland, is a species belonging to the family Tabanidae subfamily Tabaninae. This species is present in most of Europe, in the...
7 KB (708 words) - 17:43, 5 July 2024
Diachlorus ferrugatus (category Tabanidae)
Belize, is a species of highly aggressive biting horse-fly of the family Tabanidae native to North and Central America to Costa Rica. The yellow fly was...
4 KB (414 words) - 05:16, 25 February 2024
Tabanus fairchildi (category Tabanidae)
of horse fly in the family Tabanidae. Canada, United States. Stone, A. (1938). "The horseflies of the subfamily Tabanidae of the Nearctic Region". U.S...
1 KB (93 words) - 13:53, 10 July 2024
Chrysops (category Tabanidae)
DEET is not an effective repellent. Predators of the deer fly (and other Tabanidae) include nest-building wasps and hornets, dragonflies, and some birds...
6 KB (450 words) - 01:52, 17 January 2024