Tabanus bovinus Linnaeus, 1758

Müller, Günter C., Prozorov, Alexey M., Traore, Mohamed M., Revay, Edita E., Hogsette, Jerome A., Kline, Daniel, Chaskopoulou, Alexandra, Prozorova, Tatiana A., Volkova, Julia S., Diarra, Rabiatou A., Petrányi, Gergely, Schneider, Tom, Beck, Robert H. - T., Ignatev, Nikolai, Yakovlev, Roman V., Cui, Liwang & Schlein, Yosef, 2023, The Tabanidae (Diptera) of the Greek islands and Cyprus: An annotated checklist with remarks on ecology, zoogeography, and new records on the East Mediterranean fauna, Ecologica Montenegrina 67, pp. 45-65 : 51-52

16. Tabanus bovinus Linnaeus, 1758

Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, 1, 601.

Type locality. Europe.

Range. Palearctic, from Northern Africa Morocco and Algeria through all of Europe (except Ireland), from Cyprus, through Turkey and South Caucasus eastwards as far as the Altai Republic in Russia ( Leclercq, 1966a; Chvála et al., 1972).

New records. We recorded this species only once feeding on a donkey on the Andros Islands in early July 2020 (new record for Cyclades).