Tabanos

This species is predominantly arboreal.

Distribucion en Costa Rica:
Distribucion General: Panama.

Females feed on the blood of mammals living in the forest canopy.

Immature stages unknown.

Hind tibiae with apical spurs; antennal flagellum with 8 distinct flagellomeres; ocelli present; eyes densely pilose; cell m3 of the wing always open; cell r5 usually open, rarely closed; legs not bicolored; abdomen extensively golden pilose, but with the first tergite black pilose, the second with golden hairs forming a large median triangle and lateral patches, third with only dorsolateral anterior black patches, remainder wholly golden pilose.

Localidad del tipo: Panama: Bocas del Toro, Almirante.
Depositario del tipo: Cambridge: Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University.
Recolector del tipo: