Tabanos

Found on or near beaches.

Distribucion en Costa Rica:
Distribucion General: Mexico (Quintana Roo) to Panama (Atlantic Coast).

Females feed on the blood of mammals including humans.

Immature stages unknown.

Hind tibiae without apical spurs; basicosta without strong setae; third antennal segment with at most an acute dorsobasal angle; wing without a dark pattern; frontal callus present, as wide as the frons; labella unsclerotized; frontal callus usually wider than high, without median callus; usually pale coast-inhabiting species; abdomen with dorsolateral pale patches; frons about 2.2 times as high as wide; antennal flagellomeres subequal to the basal flagellomere, the latter longer than wide; median abdominal stripe nearly parallel-sided and continuous, sublateral spots small and discrete.

Localidad del tipo: Guatemala, Puerto Barrios.
Depositario del tipo: Columbus: Ohio State University, Collection of Insects and Spiders.
Recolector del tipo: