Tabanus siccus Walker

Abu El-Hassan, Gawhara M. M., Badrawy, Haitham B. M., Fadl, Hassan H. & Mohammad, Salwa K., 2013, A review of the genus Tabanus Linnaeus, 1758 (Diptera: Tabanidae) from Egypt, Zootaxa 3691 (5), pp. 559-576 : 571

Tabanus siccus Walker

Tabanus siccus Walker, 1850: 46 .

Type locality. Egypt.

Diagnosis. Female: Red species; subcallus entirely dusted; frontal calli brown; abdomen without markings.

Local distribution. Unknown.

Geographical distribution. Egypt.

Remarks. Efflatoun (1930) listed this species among the doubtful species which were recorded in Egypt from the literature but not represented in reference collections. Ricardo (1905) and Moucha (1971) reported that the type specimen of this species was lost during the study of the type-specimens of Palaearctic Tabanidae in the British Museum (Natural History), London.