Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Tabanidae: Tabanus tergestinus (collected)--> Ok, female

Posted by rafael_carbonell on 31-07-2014 19:31
#1
This Tabanidae was flying at the window where it was collected

Locality: Iberian peninsula: Catalonia: Girona province: Beuda: 31T DG77: 395 masl
Date: 28/06/2014
Habitat: Inside house in an stone oak wood + crops environment
Sex: Female
Size: 17.5 mm

It has three bands on eyes when hydrated
The problem is that using Fauna Iberica keys (Portillo-Rubio, 2002), the frontal index should be 1:6, and my measurements are about 1:4* (measured again in 2016, the frontal index is 102/19=5.4)

Thanks in advance,

Rafael

PD. A month later another Tabanus was seen on similar conditions:
[url]http://www.diptera.info/forum/viewthread.php?forum_id=5&thread_id=62353[url]
Edited by rafael_carbonell on 14-03-2016 23:16

Posted by libor on 31-07-2014 20:15
#2
I think no other similar Tabanus with three eyebands lives in Europe, so for me your ID is correct.
Libor

Posted by rafael_carbonell on 25-01-2023 23:01
#3
Thanks!