Tabanos

Nocturnal or crepuscular species.

Distribucion en Costa Rica:
Distribucion General: Mexico to eastern Peru and Venezuela.

Females feed on the blood of large mammals including humans.

Immature stages unknown.

Hind tibiae with apical spurs; antennal flagellum with 8 distinct flagellomeres; ocelli present; eyes densely pilose; cell m3 always open; cell r5 open or closed and petiolate; legs prominently bicolored; beard black or dark brown; abdomen shiny black or deep brown, with segments 4 or 5-7 clothed with pale straw yellow, rufous orange, brown or black hairs; sides of the mesoscutum without pale contrasting hairs.

Localidad del tipo: "Mexico"
Depositario del tipo: Turin: Instituto di Entomologia Agraria della Universita di Torino.
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