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...
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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...
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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...
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Genus Glutops Burgess, 1878 Genus Pseudoerinna Shiraki [sv], 1932 Family Tabanidae Subfamily Adersiinae Genus Adersia Austen, 1912 Subfamily Chrysopsinae...
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Tabanus catenatus (category Tabanidae)
Tabanus catenatus is a species of horse fly in the family Tabanidae. United States. Walker, F. (1848). List of the specimens of dipterous insects in the...
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by his faculty advisor, Professor Joseph Bequaert, Fairchild chose the Tabanidae, a family of insects known as "horse flies". Tabanids are worldwide, numerous...
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"true legs", but some dipteran larvae, such as species of Simuliidae, Tabanidae and Vermileonidae, have prolegs adapted to hold onto a substrate in flowing...
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Agkistrocerus (category Tabanidae)
Agkistrocerus is a genus of horse flies in the family Tabanidae. Agkistrocerus aurantiacus (Bellardi, 1859) Agkistrocerus finitimus (Stone, 1938) Agkistrocerus...
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Gertrude Ricardo (section Diptera: Family Tabanidae)
specialised in Diptera, particularly the families Asilidae (assassin flies) and Tabanidae (horseflies and deerflies). Gertrude Ricardo was born at Gatcombe Park...
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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...
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