Tabanos

Occurs in heavily forested areas with high rainfall up to 1800 mts.

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

Females feed on the blood of mammals, including humans.

Immature stages unknown.

Hind tibiae without apical spurs; basicosta with sparse strong setae less dense than on the adjoining costa; third antennal segment with at most an acute dorsobasal angle; tibiae not inflated; frontal callus present, usually narrower than the front; frontoclypeus and genae not inflated; labella unsclerotized; vestiges of ocelli present or a distinct tubercle at the vertex; mid and hind tibiae not prominently bicolored; wing with fork of veins R4 and R5 with a spur; wing with faint clouds on the fork of veins R4 and R5 and the distal end of the discal cell, cells r1 and r3 strongly brown tinted; abdomen largely black haired, at most with small median pale haired triangles; wing length usually less than 11 mm.

Localidad del tipo: Panama, Canal Zone, Rio Pequeni.
Depositario del tipo: Cambridge: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University.
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