Tabanos

Distribucion en Costa Rica:
Distribucion General: Panama to Brazil.

Females feed on the blood of large mammals, particularly horses and cattle.

Immature stages unknown.

Hind tibiae without apical spurs; basicosta with strong setae as dense as those on the adjoining costa; vertex without a tubercle; posterior margin of the mesoscutum but not the scutellum with a a black pilose spot; species not wholly black; wing not heavily spotted; abdomen patterned; fork of veins R4 and R5 without a spur; maxillary palpi unusually short and inflated; abdomen yellowish brown in ground color, often with an indistinct dark median stripe; wing generally with a small dark area below the stigma and clouds around the basal crossveins and fork of veins R4 and R5. This species is extremely difficult to distinguish from Tabanus nebulosus DeGeer.

Localidad del tipo: "Brazil"
Depositario del tipo: Berlin: Museum fur Naturkunde der Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin, Bereich Zoologischer Museum.
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