Tabanos

Occurs in heavily forested areas with high rainfall.

Distribucion en Costa Rica:
Distribucion General: Honduras; Nicaragua; Panama.

Females feed on the blood of large mammals and occasionally on humans. A preferred host may be tapirs.

Immature stages not described.

Hind tibiae without apical spurs; basicosta with strong setae as dense as those on the adjoining costa; vertex without a tubercle; scutellum and posterior border of the mesoscutum without a black pilose spot; very large wholly black species with wing deep black; basal flagellomere of the antenna with a long curved dorsal spine.

Localidad del tipo: Panama (Pacific Coast)
Depositario del tipo: London: The Natural History Museum (syntypes)
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