Tabanos

Lives in forest canopies and usually collected in forest canopies.

Distribucion en Costa Rica:
Distribucion General: Panama to Brazil (Sao Paulo); Peru.

Females probably feed on the blood of forest canopy mammals.

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 open or closed and petiolate; legs prominently bicolored, femora black, tibiae and tarsi yellow; beard snow-white; abdomen shiny black with small tufts of silver-white hairs in the middle of tergites 2-5 and at the sides of tergites 2,5 and 6; sternites 2-4 with white lateral hair tufts.

Localidad del tipo: Brazil: Sao Paulo, Serra da Cantareira, Cachoerinha.
Depositario del tipo: Rio de Janeiro: Fundacao Instituto Oswaldo Cruz.
Recolector del tipo: