Tabanos

Distribucion en Costa Rica:
Distribucion General: Panama to Brazil (Mato Grosso); Paraguay; Argentina (Chaco); Peru.

Females feed on the blood of large mammals, especially domestic animals such as cattle and horses.

Immature stages of this species have been collected from lakes and ponds in mats of water lettuce (Pistia stratiotes).

Hind tibiae without apical spurs; basicosta without strong setae; third antennal segment with a short forward pointing dorsobasal tooth that does not reach to the end of the basal flagellomere; eyes bare; not a stout, bee-like species with inflated fore tibiae; antennal scape not greatly elongated; frontal callus reduced to a small, poorly defined median bare patch or club shaped mark; maxillary palpi inflated basally; pale, unicolorous, stout yellow or orange species with greenish body color and unmarked wings.

Localidad del tipo: "Brazil"
Depositario del tipo: Holotype female lost.
Recolector del tipo:

Costa Rica appears to be the northern limit of the large geographic range of this species, and it seems to be quite uncommon.